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 Pc^eed the; *^ A^e question of' P which "'^^tee llv to ?? ^onntrie, \°^'d improve on, r B-verai fold J«^nt,nualaiea^e I; the States *u ' h^bette;;^,*^^ f I T J â-  " « by tn*ny years have [ommercial treatfa, r*"y "markets now robability. that 0* depend on the at. fumed towards ns. IXEXATION, W monetary ad- ^e should lose 'g the half of North *ve tbe certainty |ai.*te voice in the "e should gab e possession of a assemblvon mat- [inies. Weshould -knada much more y the free inter- 'tes. As for their ose who thmk so vacta^ies our iand important articles r more likely start 1 mere than hold hand, we must mcrican inflaence e common aflFairs, eat we may with cr their national a aa divorce laws, In. Who can tell Oir ajsociation We are moral, reads our psp^rs 1.' of u3 are very slightly disagree ie onief American lesser ones, is her ght la-AT to bstab- Differeut here, of 3oks, do we Let rof FCTrp.ES, not over-respect ?nd insult to Brit- inger of a violent rial Federation, it has yjrovvn beyond Id have peaceably »a prwer to grow 1 border and Fed- wouM add com- f quarrel. As for ipois'b'o -without ,â- â- 1 will haruly as- o p-.-event them- lent. Individuals .:: Want more ter- liffcr? from what id men will be as ra seema little cing it. DiSF^jrent i to advocate â€" its present shape), the rapid settle- others â€" all were in averting this, naged or delayed nfair to blame in- ns, apparently, c-f sufficient capa- ound them with ipiomacy, either manifest none. ler expedients, if e same sinister rer higher and o break all bar- e Republic dash 1, and this even â-  us take to scold orthy of a third- ere anything in itry more omin sickly with pre- ffairs long since continumce of nd Governments 7 course now re- •hieh eaoh shall ing the material â- itory, such, for iffic andrecipro- yays, and so oOi lich commercial oliticikl relations and it would be ;hat thev were. )f course, by the which may re- cal one. Came In- 1 the care of a his pupiJ" f ® Ititnde," but by ed the numbers, thousand lo»v- en. padre " eager- once caught hw joBt in tiiB«» jame in ifort. )otT-dal^ ti ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." CHAPTER XVIâ€" (CoxTiifUED.) Off then, we went, with the "ould Vrra- â- rtcn" skipping and bounding on be'or3 us. rjfff no« ..,„ fallen trees and mossy Lking under the low, targ'e I br-o ches cf le white cedar, then carelui y pilo:ina; us jng roittn logs, covered v'v.t: gcsfn m ss, gave us from the discomfort i.r we: feet. J this time he kept one of hi* 'eefc en'con- in the boot, while the other seen ed to unriate in the v, ater, at if there was some ^jiDg amphibious in his nature. We soon reached the beaver -meadow, .hich extended two or three miles some- ines contracting into a narrow ^orge, be- 'iveen the wooded heights, then spreading 'jot again into an ample field of verdure, and presenting everywhere the same unvarying level surface, surrounded with rising grounds, :overed with the dt nse unbroken forest, as |if its surface had formerly been covered by he waters of a lake, which in all probability sad bem the case at some not very remote period. In many places the meadow was 10 wet that it required a very large share of iait'i to support Us in pa-sing ever its sur- Ve I'Jt our friend, ihe dragoon, soon brought us tbroi. gh all dangers to a deep iirch, which he had du? to carry off the inpeifliioua water frora the part of the aieydcw. which he owned. When we had lainfd firm footing on the oiiposite side, ife sat down to rest ourselves before com- mencing the operation of " blazing," or marking the treei with our axes, along the side-line of my lot. Here the mystery of he boot wad explained. Simpson very coolly took it off from the hitherto favoured oot, uru drew i: on the other. He wa.i not a bit ashi-med of his poverty, and candidly ov.-neu that this was the only boot he possessed, and he was desirous of giving each of his feet fair play. Nearly the whole aay was occupied in completing cur job, in which the "dhragoon" assisted us, with the most hearty goodwill, enlivening us with his inf xnanstible fund of good-humor and drclery. It was nearly dark wiien we got biick to his " -ihanty," where the kind-hearted Judy was preparing a hui'e pot of potatoes and other " combu^.t- Mes," as Simpson called the other eatables, for our entertainment. Previous to startice on our surveying ex- peditiou, we had observed Judy very earn- estly giving some important instructions to one of her little boys, on whom she seemed to be most seriously impressing the necessity of using the utmost diligence. The happy contentment which now beamed in poor Judy's still comely CDuntenance bespoke the success of the messenger. She could not " call up spirits from the vasty def p " of the cellar, but she had procured some whis- key from her next-door neighl or â€" some five or six miles cfiF and there it stood some- what ostentatiously on *he table in a "grey- beard," with a " corn-cob," or ear of Indian corn stripped of its grain, for a cork, smiling most benevolently on the family circle, and looking a hundred welcomes to the strang- ers. ' An indescribable enlivening influence seemed to exude from every pore of that homely earthen vessel, diffusing mirth and good -humor in all directions-. The old man jumped and danced about on the ron^h floor of the " shanty " and the children sat gig- gling and uui^ging each other in a corner, i;astiig a timid look, from time to time, at their mother, for fear s-he might chsck them for being " over bould." " Is it crazy ye are intirely, ye ould omad- hawn 1" said Judy whose notions of pripriety ' wsre somewhat sbocked with the undigni- fied levity of her partner " The likea of you e I never seed ye are too foolidge irtirely. fi Done now wid your diviltries, and set the ' stools for the gintlemens, while I get the sapper for yees." Qor plentiful thongh homely meal was soon discussed, for hunger like a good con- f science, can laugh at luxury and the I " greybeard" made its appearance, with the I usual accompaniments of hot water and maple sugar, which Judy had scraped from the cake, and placed in a saucer on the table before us. The " ould dhragoon," despising his wife's admonitions, gave way freely to his feelings, and knew no bounds to his hilarity. He laughed and joked, and san$r snatches of old scngs picked up in the course of his service at home and abroad. At length Judy; who looked en him as a ' °ra»l j anius, " begged him to " sing the gintlemens the song he had made when he first came to the counthry." Of Course we ardently seconded the motion, and nothing loth, the eld man throwing ' himself back on his stool, and stretching out his long neck, poured forth the following ditty, with which I shall conclude my has^^y sketch of the " ould dhraeoon." Och I it's here I m mtirely continted, In the wild woods of swate 'Mericay God's blessing on him that invinted Big ships for our crossing the aay Here, praties grow bigger nor turnips And though cruel and hard is our work. In ould Ireland wo'd nothing but praties, Bit here we have praties and poik. I live on ihe banks of a meadow. Now see that my maning you take It bates all the bogs of ould Ireland â€" Six months in the year its a lake. Bad luck to the beavers that dammed it, I wish them all kilt for their pains For shure thongh the craters are clever, 'Tis sartin they've drown'd my domains.' I've built a log hut of the timber That grows on my charmin' estate And an illegant root-house erected. Just facing the front of my gate. And I've made me an illegant pig-sty. Well litter'd with straw and wid hay And it's there, free from noise of the chilther, I sleep in the heat of the day. It's there I'm intirely at aise. Sir, And enjoy all the oomforta of home I stretch oat my legs as I pl^ae, tir. And dhrame of the pleaaorea to coma. Shure, it's pleasant to hear the frogs croak- Yrrt mnst quit !hs fuld counthry intirely, .^iid fctart in ;he middle of May. J. W. D. M. J Wi( m' When the san's going down in the sky, ad my Judy aits qaietly smokin' While the praties are boil'd till they're dhry. Och 1 thin, If yon Ipve indepindence, And have money your passage to pay. CHAPTER XVII.â€" DisAPOiSTED Hopes. Stem Disappointment, in thy iron graap Thy Bcul lies stricken. So the timid deer. Who feels the foul fangs of the felon wolf Clench'd in his tliroat, grown desperate for life. Tarns on his foes, and battles with the fate That hems him in â€" and only yields m death. The sammer of 35 va very wet a cir- enmstance so annsnal in Canada that I have Been no season like it daring ny sojoam in the country. Oar wheat crop promised to be both excellent and abundant; and the clearing and seeding sixteen acres, one way or another, had cost as more than fifty pounds still we hoped to realize something handsome by the sale of the produce and, as far as appearances went, all looked fair. The rain commenced about a week before the crop was fit for the sickle, and from that time until nearly the end of September was a mere succession of thunder clouds days of intense heat, eacceedcd by floods of rain. Our fine crop shared the fate of all other fine crops in the country it was totally spoiled the wheat prew in the sheaf, and we conld scarcely save enough to supply as with bad sickly bread the rest was ex- changed at the distillery for whiskey, which was the only produce which could be obtain- ed for it. The storekeepers would not look at it, or give either money or goods for such a damaged article. My husband and I had worked hard in the field it was the first time I hud ever tried my hand at field- labour, but oar ready money was exhausted, and the steamboat stock had not paid us one farthing we could not hire, and there was no help for it. I had a hard struggle with my pride before I would consent to render the least assistance on the farm, but reflection convinced me that I was wrong â€" that Providence bad placed me in a situation where I was called upon to work â€" that it was not only my duty to obey that call, but to exert myself to the utmost to assist my husband, and help to maintain my family. Ah, poverty thou art a hard tafckmaster, but in thy soul-ennobling school I have re- ceived more godlike lessons, have learnt more .sublime truths, than ever I acquired in the smooth highways of the world I The independent in soul can rise above the seeming disgrace of poverty, and hold fast their integrity, in defiance of the world and its selfish and unwise maxims. To them, no labour is too great, no trial too severe ' they will unflinchingly exert every faculty of mind ano body, before they will submit to become a Durden to others. The misfortunes that now crowded apon as were the result of no mioconduct or ex- travagance on our part, bat arose out of circumstances which we could not avert nor control. Finding too late the error into which we had fallen, in suffering ourselves to be cajoled and plundered out of our pro- perty by interested speculators, we braced our minds to bear the worst, and determined to meet our difficulties calmly and firmly, nor suffer our spirits to sink under calamities which energy and industry might eTentually repair. Having once come to this resolution, we cheerfully shared together the labours of the field. One in heart and purpose, we dared remain trae to ourselves, true to oar high destiny as immortal creattires, in oar conflict with temporal and physioiJ wants. We foand that manual toll, however dis- tastefal to those nnaccnstomed to it, was not fkfter all such a dreadful hardship that the wilderness was not without its rose, the hard face of poverty without its smile. If we occasionally suffered severe pain, we as often experienced great pleasore, and I have o'-ntemplated a well-hoed ridge of potatoes on that bush farm, with as much delight as in years long past I had experienced in ex- amining a fine painting in some well-appoint- ed drawing-room. I can now look back with calm thankful- ness on that long period ot trial and exertion â€" with thankfulness that the dark clouds that hung over us, threatening to blot us from existence, wben they did burst iipon us, were full of blessings. When our sitaa- tion appeared perfectly desperate, then were we on the threshold of a new state, of things, which was born out of that very distress. In order more fully to illustrate the neces- sity of a perfect and childlike reliance upon the mercies of God â€" who, I most firmly be- lieve, never deserts thosewhohaveplaced their trust in Himâ€" I will give a brief sketch of onr lives daring the years 1836 and 1837. Still confidently expecting to realize an in- come, however small, from the steamboat stock, we involved ourselves considerably in debt, in order to pay oar servants and obtain the common necessaries of life and we owed a large sum to two Englishmen in Drummer for clearing ten acres upon the farm. Our inability to meet these demafads weighed very heavUy upon my husband's mind. All snperflaities in the way of gro- ceries were now siven np, and we were com- pelled to rest satufied upon the produce of the farm. Milk, bread, and potatoes daring the sammer became oar chief, and often, for months, oar only fare. As to tea ^nd sugar, they were loxnries we would not think of, although I missed the tea very much we rang the changes upon peppermint and sage, taking the one herb at onr breakfast, the other at oar tea, until I found an excellent snbstitate for both in the root of the dande- lion. The first year we came to this country, I met with an account of dandelion coffee, published in the New York Albion, given by a Dr. Harrison, of Edinburgh, who earnest- ly recommended it as an article of general use. "It pcsseesses," he says, "all the fine flavour and exhilarating properties of coffee, withontanyof its delcterioas effects. The plant being of a soporific natnre, the coffee made tiom it what dmnk at alght pxodnoea a tendency to sle^, instead of exoitiBg wakefofaMH, and may be safely naed aa « cheap and wholesome sabttitnte for the Arabian berry, being eqnal in snbstanoe ud flaTonr to tiie best Mocha ooffee." I was mnoh steuok with this paragrafA at the time, and for several years felt a great inclination to try the Deotor's ooffee bot something or other always came in the way, and it was put off till another opportonity. Dnring the fall of "SS, I wsa assisting my huband in taking op a orop of potatMS in the field, and obaerving a vast number of fine dandelion roots among ^e potatoes, it brought the dandelion coffee back to my memory, and I determined to try some for our sapper. Without saying anytluni; to my hasband, I threw aside some of the roots, and when we left work, collecting a sufficient quantity for the experiment, I carefully washed the roots quite clean, without de- priving them of the fine brown skin which covers them, and which contains the aro- matic flavour, which so nearly resembles coffee that it is difficult to distinguish it from it while roasting. I cut,my roots into small pieces, the size of a kidney-bean, and roasted them on an iron baking-pan i|i the stove- oven, until they were as Drown and crisp aa coffee. I then ground and transferred a amall cupful of the powder to the coffee-pot, pouring upon it acalding water and then boiling it briskly over the fire. The result was beyond my expeotationa. The coffee proved excellent â€" far superior to the common coffee we pro- cured at the stores. To persons residing in the bush, and to whom tea and soffee are very expensive articles of luxury, the knowledge of this valuable property in a plant scattered ao abuodantly through their' fielda, would prove highly beneficial. For years we used no other article and my Indian friends who frequented the house gladly adopted the root, and made me show them the whole procesa of manufacturing it into coffee. Experience taught met that the root of the dandelion b not so good when applied to thia purpoae in the spring aa it is in the fall. I tried it in the apring, but the juice of the plant, having contributed to the production of leavea and flowers, was weak, and desti- tute of the fine bitter flavour so peculiar to coffee. The time of gathering in the p}ta to crop ia the beat suited for collecting the roots of the dandelion and aa they always abound in the same hills, both may be lic- complished at the same time. Those who want to keep a quantity for winter use m«-y wash and cut up the roots, and dry them on boards in the sun. They will keep for years, and can be roasced when required. Few of our colonists are acq sainted with the many usee to w hicb this neglected but moat valuable plant may be applied. I will point out a few which have come under my own observation, convinced aa I am that the time will come when this hardy weed, with ita golden flowera and curioua seed-veaselsi which form a constant plaything to the little children rolling about and luxuriating among the grass, in the sunny month ot May, will be transplanted into our gardens, and tecded with due care. The dandelion planted in trenches, and blanched to a beautiful cream eiolonr with straw, makes an excellent salad, quite equal to endive, and is more hardy and re quires leaa care. In many parte of the United Statea, par- ticularly in new diatricta where vegetablea are scarce, it ia used early in the apring, and boiled with pork aa a substitute for cabbage. Durine our residence in the bush we found it, in the early part of May, a great addition to the dinner-table. In the township of Dummer, the settlers boil tbe tops, and add nopa to the liquor, which they ferment, and from which they obtain excellent beer. I have ne 7er tasted this simple beverage, but I have been told by those who nse it that it ia equal to the table-beer uaed at home. Ncceaaity has truly been termed the mother of invention, for I contrived to manufacture a variety of dishes almost out of nothing, while living in her school. When entirely destitute of animal food, the differ- ent varieties of squirrels supplied us with pies, stews, and roaata. Our barn atood at the top of the hill near the buah, and in a trap set for such " small deer," we often caught from ten to twelve a day. The flesh of tbe black squirrel is eqnal to that of the rabbit, and the red, and even the little chipmunk, is palatable when niaely cooked. But from the lake, dnring die summer, we derived the largei pordon of our food. The children called this piece of water " Mamma's pantry " and many a good meal has the munificent Father given te his poor dependent children from ita well-stored depths. Moodie and I used to rise by daybreak, and fish for an hour after suntise, when we returned, he to the field, and I to dreaa the little onea, clean up Idie house, aaeist with the milk, and prepare the breakfast. O'n, how I enjoyed these excuraionaon the lake the very idea of our dinner depend- ing upon our tuscesa added doable zeat to our aport One morning we atarted as usual before sunrise a thick mist stiQ hung like a fine veil upon the water when we pushed off, and anchored at our ascnatomed place. Juafc aa the aun rose, and the haze parted and drew np like a golden sheet of transparent gauze, through which the dark woods loomed out like giants, a noble buck dashed into the water, followed by four Indian hounds. We then discovered a canoe, full of In- dians jnst below the rapids, and another.not many yards from us, that had bees concealed by the fog; it was a noble sight, that gallant deer exerting all h\a energy, and stemming the water with such matdiless grace, his branching horns held proudly aloft, his broad nostrils distended, and his fine eye fixed intently upon the opposite shore. Sev- e.'al rifleballs whizzed past him, the dogs followed hard upon his track, but my very heart leaped for joy when, in spite of all his foes, his glassy hoofs spumed the oppos- ite bank and he plunged headlong into the forest. My beloved partner was most skillful in trolling for baas and maskinonge. His line he generally fastened to the paddle, and the motion of the oar gave a life-like vibration to the queer looking mice and dragon- flies I used to manafacture from squirrel fur, or aculet and white cloth, to tempt the fuiny wanderers of the wave. When too busy himself to fish for onr meals, little Katie and I ventured out alone in the canoe, which we anchored in any promising fishing spot, by fastening a har- row tooth to a piece of rope, and letting it drop from the side ot the uttle vesseL By the time she was five years old, my littb mermaid oonld both steer and padale the light veeael, and oateh small fish, whicb were naefnl for soup. (TO Bl OOJNTUIUU).) Gtafauboogh and DIraotoire hats of darik velvet are xeoaiving a largo share of pbpa larfav»; â- â- :... ;...^^ â- :";â- ;;.;.â- " It is aa ordinary ^tiag, nsf* The Ptih- delidda limea, to see two and three ladles ooinc homefirom tiie t h e a tre in a group aH m fiul dress, with wraps, but without bon- nets. They never think of being niolested. GOLDEH OSAISS. Knowledge of our duties is the most use- ful part oi philosophy. â€" Whately. We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.â€" [Seneca. In expectation of a better, I can with pis tience embrace this life.â€" [Sir Thoma Browne. i A crowd is not company, and faces are bat a gallery of pictures where, there is no love. -[Lord Bacon. Webster truly concluded that it ia what a man does for others, not what they do for him, that gives him immortality. He that would live clear of envy mast lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hard nt of the ink pot.â€" [L'E^trange. You may depend upon it that he ia a good man, whose intimate frienda are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. â€" [Levator. If I am asked who .ia the greateat man^ I anawer, the best, and if I am to say who ia best, I reply, he that has deserved moat of hia fellow creaturea.â€" [Sir William Jonea. Daniel VYebstor once aaid " The longer I live the more convinced I am that ic is employment that makes people happy." Employment alone may no: fill a person chuck full of happineaa, but one thing sure â€" constant employment will keep hens cut of mischief. delicate and refined tsiste is of inestim- able value to its poaseasor. A man with his mouth saturated with tobacco juice, or throat parched with apiritnous li'qdora, doea not know anything of tbe delicacies of taatc. He loaea very much of the enjoyment of eat- ing and drinking. Jcah Billinga aaid, in his quaint way, many people spend their time trying to find the hole where ain got into the world. If two men break through the ice in a mill pond, they had better hunt for some good hole tew get out, rather than get into a long argument about the hole they cum to fall in. There is an old atory of a Scotch dominie, who after relating to hia acholars the story of Annanias and Sapphira, aaked them " Why God did not atrike everybody dead who told a lie." After a long silence, one little fellow got to his feet and exclaimed " Because, aur, there wadna be onybody left." De Lesseps and tbe Fanama Canal. Their is probably no more pioturecqne figure in the whole world than M. de Lesaepa. At an age when moat men would be either chair-ridden, or bed-ridden â€" for he ia now in hia eighty-fifth year â€" thia old-young Frenchman ia as light of step and heart as a boy. "Time has forgotten me," ia one of hia favorite expressions. Bat the other day he stood before the people of Lyons and declared to them that the Panama Canal would be opened for business in July, 1890. In this, opinion, undoubtedly honest and sincere to ita very fulleat, no other engineer ahares, still leas those engineera who have gone over the ground and looked into the entire field of probabilities and poaaibilitiea narrowly. The outlook to some of the more cautious or conaervative of theae ia more than gloomy â€" it u appall- ing. True, they have spoken of it but very little, but still that little baa been enough to reveal a state of affaira entirely different from M, de Lesseps' Utopian state. The Panama Canal is there as far as there is any Panama Canal, but its coahur de. rose haws all been extinguished. The French people have already put into that enterprise a little over S200,00C,000, virtually thrown away unless such enterprise is completed. At the rate of progress hitherto made in catting the canal, it is estimated that it wiU require twenty years more ot time and' $600,000,000 more of money to finish it. These estimates appear as if they might well be incredible, and yet they have been msde and insisted upon, and are still beiuK made and inaiated upon. Others regard it as the old Mississippi bubble over again, and juat as certain to end in a like series of almost overwhelm- ing disasters. Over one hundred and fifty years ago somewhat, John Law went to Paria and laid before the people a visionary project of colonizing ana cultivating the country wateied by the Miaaiaaippi River. He sold shares in the scheme by the million, and organizad the Bank of France. Paris went m*d. All Fruice ruahed in a aort of frenzied delirium to buy stock at fabulous prices. Gigantic fortunes were made on paper in a single day. The babble laated a year, burst, and then to almoat every house- hold there came cruel suffering and untold misery. Law escaped barely with his Ufe. It would be a perverted use of terms certain- ly to call Panama Canal entorprise a bubble, and yet it is difficult to see how it csn ever be made suocesaf ul, thejway it is being con- ducted. It is charitable at least to suppose that M. De Lesseps ia himaelf ignorant of the real situation on the isthmus. He haa been there but once, and to remain but a few daya. His agenta have all been at odds and ends, and no v his sole remaining finan- cial resource is a public lottery. It appears to be scarcely anything more than a make- shift, and an extremely poor one at that. The money from it comes in slowly and gradgir gly. A "Morohiaon" Aelic. At the auction sale of the personal effscta of Lard Sackville yesterday a funny incident occurred. A writing-desk was put up, a handsome piece of carved wood, but the bid- dug on it waa very alow. The auctioneer did hia beat to raise the figure te a respect- aUe sum. Pretty soon he whispered to his assiatanc, who diaappeared. In a moment the rumour, started in aome myaterio-ia way, ran through the crowd that it was upon thia deak that Lord Sackville psnned bis famous letter to Marchison. At once a large price was offered fc^ the desk, and bid after bid followed in qaick succession, until the article finally sold at an exorbitenO figure. The newly elected Vioe-Presidents of the Nineteenth ^enturyClubare a striking-look- ing group. They are Messrs. Courtlandt Palmer, Parke Godwin, Monoure D. Con- way and Brander' Matthews. Mr. Matt- hews has a specially charming faoe â€" charm- ing in ite expression of fine literary taste and refinements He is not more than thurty-five or thirty-six. He has thick iMown hair and very thin brown side-whis- en, which he evidently enoourages to grow with the idea that they may do better by and by. His forehead is olear and broad, his nose tile least bit aquiline and his eye â- ad month fall of charaoter. The UJunese Emperor's Wedding. The greatest event in China for the last sixteen years will be the marriage of the young Emperor, Kwang Sas, who is just 17 years of age. Marriagea and funerals are the prime extravKgances of the Chinese race, aun Kwang Su'o marriage day will be a ban- ner one for all China, prince and coolie alike. At tbe least calculation the wedding will cost $15,000,000. which ia a few milUon less than the orif'inal plan, owing to the very low exchequer of the Chinese Government thi j year. At high noon on the coming New Year's Day, which will be about Feb- urary 25, the young Emperor will be array- ed in the finest of ailk and a purgatory col- lar, and will be anxiously awaiting the arri- val of the royal cortege and the Princeas Kang Sing. She wi!! be conveyed from her palace in a y ello w(the royal color )aedan chair her pretty features being concealea under a yellow aatin aacque fastened at the waist. Along the line of the bridal pro:ession the hoosea and atorea will be cloaed, and if a Chinaman ventured upon the street his life will be in peril. On the arrival at the palace the ceremony will be performed, the royal family and high cfficer* beinsr tht only witnesses. After the ceremonies Kwang Su will marry four other wivc's. and beaides theae will take 75 concubines to his palace. His first, or called by the Ciiinese hia prin- cipal, wife is on the same par with bis other conso«8, save that she has the precedence in the family, but it does not follow that her son will be the next Emperor. The Emperor ia supposed to study the character of all hia sons, and the one whom he deems the most able will be the next ruler. Tea and Coffee. Tea is a nerve stimulant, pure and simple, acting like alcohol in' this respect, without any value that the latter may possess as a retarder of waste. It has a special influ- ence upon those nerve centres that supply will power, exa!t'mg their sensibility beyond normal activity, and may even produce hyaterical aymptoms, if carried far enough. Ita active principle, theine. is an exceeding- ly powerful drug, chiefly employed by nerve specialists as a pain destroyer, pos- sessing the singular quality of working to- ward the surface. That is to say, when a does is administered hypodermically for aciatica, for example, tbe narcotic influence procee.^s outward from the point of icject- ion, instead of inward towards the centres, as does that of morphia, atropia, etc. Tea ia totally devoid of nutritive value, and the habit of drinking it to exceaa, which so many American women indulge in, putic- ularly in the country, ia to be deplored as a cause of our American nervousness. Coffee, on the contrary, is a nerve food. Like other concentrated foods of its claea, it operatea as a stimulant also but upon a different set of nerves from tea. Taken strong in the morning, it often produces dtzzineaa and that peculiar visual hymptom ' of over admulua that ia musise volitantes â€" dancing flies. Bat thia ia an improper way to take it and risihtly used, it is, perhaps,, the moat valuable liquid addition to tW momiag meal. It ahould be made as strong as ptossible at first in a drip bag, and a. tablespoonful or two of the b'quid added slowly to a large cupful of equal parte of hot milk and cream, in whijh have been previoualy diaaolved two or three lumps of sugar. Its active principle, caffeine, differs in all physiological respects from theine, while it is chemically very closely allied, and its liniited consumptioD, as compared with tea, makes it impotent for h^rm. A Disappointing Fish Story. The Fish Commiasioner, after much per- suasion, consented to tell something of what he knew about fish. " I waa fiahiQg op the Miaaiaaippi river sometime sgo," aaid he, "when there occur- red a moat remdurkable event. I caught a amall catfish about twenty inchea long, and running a strong cord through his gill threw him into the water, tying one end of the cord to a hickory sapling. Now, you gentlemen have often heard of a large fish co.ning up and swallowing a amaller one. I have heard of it many a time, bat confeaa that I had my doubte, for fih are pretty ahrewd, you know. W ell, I saw a number of large fish jumping close to the place where I had tied my catfish, but I'll pledge yoa my word that I did not think â€" well, when I went to draw up my fiah, what do you suppose I found?' " A monster " some one yelled. " Oh, no 1 drew in the fish I had thrown out. No other fiah had swallow- ed-" The Fiah Commissioner looked np and saw the members of the Bass and Bull- head Association silently filing put of the ruora. Why He flated Eissinsc. Yuuns; Wife (peutingly to her husband) â€" " Ton don't seem to be very fond of kias- ing." Husbandâ€"" What makes you think so, love?" Wife â€" " We've been man led almost two weeks and you've only kissed me once in all that time." Husbandâ€"" Well, the fact is, loveyâ€" I may as well tell you â€" I was once professor in a school that taught actresses how to kiss on the stage, and you see my stomach has sort o' tomed against kissing ever since." V\ ife (coldly) â€" " You're excusable." Died too Soon. ' Insurance Superintendent â€" Well, did you succeed in persuading Mr. Samson te insure his life 7 Agent (sadly) â€" No, I talked to him for six hoara, but before I got in all my argu menta he died. Easy Payments- ' An Irishman entered a store where furni- ture was sold on the " easy payment plan." " And how much ia thim chairs and that bedstead " he asked, designatbig the arti- cles he desired. " Thirty dollars." "How will it be on the aiiy payment plan?" " Ten dollars down and ten dollars a week till the amount is paid up." ' "Thedivilandalll Di you call ten dol lars down and tin dollars a wake and 'aisy payment plan' when I haven't bntseventy- five oints m me pocket 7 Bedad, and I don't get but six dollars a week for me warrok, annyhow." And the diunsted man abandoned the. ea^ payment plaaand went his way. l,..-^S.2:;iv: w'lfiri^. (T'j. II lIMSl mm