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“V‘MEGHBHTK. at" _ I , . d ‘ A ‘1‘", (I‘- l d- 5 i! .lll. You; n;qu!) U' the cum mat to tie; door! My father. l A sin-‘1 leak git) sink a great ship and: . n. .“iml it"hh up a our: ship 8m . " €10 ’uu pfrlri! «I Wm 5",; ate. " ‘ us: l'. V1... The my who turns a change of some um I“; it cheap should go to the titer Uta. A 1.318 girl, on seeing a prst fur . _ . , _ _.,_ the fir. time. ltumlofl 'lrlst is Dc‘uhlul bustl’” m- gpropmte hymn for an evening meet-T 1,”... colored people: "tibadesui ever.“ 'u darkly gsthc r. ' FENL‘LUN FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1885 NO 4. CHOICE REC] PBS. . .â€" ROFND TIE WORLD- l‘bhvrry is: Mâ€" Doctors in Bull-kl den‘s Penceâ€"m Island oil-dam rte” the. Slavcry dies hard in BraaiL The pm vinee of Per-nambueo has still 83,0W slaves. Abolitionists are not in favor in that province. The new English PustmssfchonorI-L having gone down tohis office and 1st himself in with a lstchkey, was promptly arrested by s detective and held until identified as s non~dvnamitch A stage was upset in Aphlegste Creek. in southern Oregon, the other day, by a rush of salmon. The horses were cut loose, and the driver escaped on their backs. Thd salmon crowded the river from bank to bank, and the school was y. H A large proportion of the English army i great temples bear witness in these far ' upon Khartoum are as good asgoodssgold A lily] [l BY GIBL'S CHOICE“ a now Scents, yet they do not mvo-l " regions to the extent of the nonunion or” in Cairo and Alexandria. and rice mad. ' no, dyvrgâ€"sqmm, 3 _ ! ancient Egypt. Fr. m l hiuial sources I lrlflneu that the , I The r-ader w'li be interested in know- » ‘ - ' . . .i . ' . whammy h” minced “n, ,he mum“, ml ~ l 3 AL Barrack, near the third cataract, city eclitaureu three thctsai.d and any who atlases the rim-rural. on the sidewalk over a mile long. Russia has 15,231 doctors, and calm taining universities at Kazan, Kiel. Char- kow, Moscow, Warsaw, Helsingfors, and ,Dorpst. The professional men flock to e ' l __ lilo in with one lover and their Sens“ r p “ “I Pizuur Csamâ€"Oue-half cup butter for and Marrying Another. . I M. E V L H . f H k, lone and one-half cups milk, two and one- !” 1111‘ ~ 9110*“03 0 0P "1"} half cups flour, whites of four rggs, one- l‘“"'l"c'sc “i ll", 501455“ kWh-“1 “bu” hel the begin of two or three hundred feet having irom ten to one hundred and fifty ville, Ky , a bright girl of good family, 1 w wawmuycm m' 0,,qu .1 i 2 l l " fills the public eye." A Ull.0lillI-sll claims to have a wife so hot tempered Just be can light his cigar irom the duh of her ey es. “ Null or nothii g," remsrked the lsmlisoy as she handed tiist part of _Lhc chicken to the isle boarder. The latest. thing in floral pillowsfor the dl parted is r.o:. "Rest," but " W. 5. Y. . â€"" Will see you later.” Mr. Hayes tirinksi i starting a hen farm in Montana. Eggs up there are 10 cents apiece and con i. have to tell their age. The dress cost is generally worn by the groom at. flit. city weeding , but. for Lin: eiopment there's nothing like the cut- away. " information wanted by the editor ol this paper," is its suggestive heading of an navcflucmeut in an Arkansas ex- change. sz Gould is not in the ice business, but. he is next thing to it. his handles blocks of stocks which are principally con- solidated water. “ Remember the porter," said the hotel highway man Lorne cepurting guest. “ l shsll,“ said the other; " it was Worse than the ale." A burglar got into the house of a law- year the other day. By BUpCIliulLlnli «run he encirth without loosing any- tnirlg but his time. Out West. it is proper to speak of a party as " a great occasion," but Chicsgo ladies look i lfended if you say any thillg about " a big role.” No matter how bad and destructive a buy may be he never becomes so degrad- ed or loses his self respect so greatly as to throw mud on a circus poster. “ This is 3 him: time to come home and a nice state you’re in," she said. " Nice time l nice suite 1 Thanks, lovey. i thought you Were going to scold one." A man died in New Haven a few days while buying a cigar. The dealer plo- bsoiy told him it. was not. imported, and the shock was too Violent. ‘ Mrs. A. z “1 do love to hear Mrs. Alto sing ; her swell is vcry hne.’ Mrs. 15. : “ Whas are you talking about? That is no sWell ; he's her husband." Young ladies who had just. returneo from a court of justice Wished they were Bibles because they saw so mar-y fine looking witnesses kiss the book. “All i you flatter .nc," lispod a dude to a pretty girl with whom he was con verslog. "No, 1 don't," was the reply; "you oouldn t. be any flatter than you are." “What is the matter with you, my friend i You look ill." “ k'os, l’iu gut. 'kleptomalria." " Taking anything l' " 04, yes; taking eVerytnulg 1 Can my hands on." “ How dare you, sir, go about calling yourself my brotlier-iu-law l" “l didrl t ' " i said 1 wash t your blotl Bl'lli'lnw i-x- sctiy." " What do you mean, sir-l You are not. uiy brothel-lil-latv at all! keu never married my sister I ' “No; but. I wanted to do so." " b‘uaiu, darling," said a mother to her little daughter oi two surr.m.r., “What would you downllout your uiaiuillsl' “ I'd put on jus'. such across as l pleased - every day," was fhc t-ubcLlkau reply. A woman can look a man lquare in tho oye, blink and talk to him by the hour, while all the time she is pulling Mrs Pullman a new bonnet. to picccs mentally and It corating her own. Nu mortal man can do it. A German histologist states that we hsvoa LtiW brain UVury sixty days. We picsun e ceieildehts in March or primal: suits will take advantage of this screntlhc fact and cause a “ change of mind " act to be pulsed. N Julillily, what wrulii you do if you were lo fits: a Dad boy stealing some fruit'l‘ asked a Sunday-school teacher of the best boy in tho clots, " would you not tell him he has doing wrong i " “ Yes, ind ed, 1 wuulsl, and if he didn‘t make a fur divide, 1's teli the storcllsepor.” ill-shins until the lives of a great many peopleâ€"Ly their not eating it flash is airouil, commonâ€"iii boarding housesâ€"dish parsed std Illilueliuy de clinic, hes-lot geiAlcr. singular case. blishisptsalc linu ll. lli_ mind when lit. wrote of "mincilig matters." flash is like a good n-lsuy utbcl' lllll gsâ€"it has to be taken largely on faith. Marry poi pit object to it, whtll they are not in reality “dammed so anythilg better. This. who sro continually clamoring :or better fare should tat sawdust, which is really his beard. _ _-.. ‘ny-O. â€"...._____. lloues’ Memories. Aeoliple of years ago a gentleman in Providence owned a little grsv horse Lust wasuscd in that-wily by nun-cit, hit wire, and children. 1:. was made quite a pot of. i-‘iliulug ins: it coind spew quut shirp, he euierui it ill a number of cuuh‘ try rows. in the end getuag a record ul "3;. for it. Then he sold it. Later on. the Guildhall missed it so much that he endeavored to get. track of it, and sent to a number of places. but la-lcd to find it. A couple of days ago ho was on Washing. ton street, and his attention was attract- od by a little gray pear that came whirl lug down. lie had nevtr seen his gray page, but no sas sum this was his Ulu pa , and when o,portunlty l XIch ht- drove alongside and called it by name. Tau p..ny show him at once. and gate unmistuame or iii-sow of recognition. another instance showing the memory 01 the iii no i. that of the pacer pinch-s..- ed by Mi. Lil-yd. last year oi as W first,» gentleman .\ lirt lruss ago the foru.‘ sruwntr was in town and went up u! an illegal. Tire hoist; s protocol. shoal.ch was in tile box “All putiog trim soon hisl old masts: ka‘wd in and called him by wt}. voice Law lie hale his views... u... showed his delight us muting ma tornui outlet in fads-ix lean, w- us other urcasguig tutu his 9 ct wants tor the delicacies that he news! so and there. The gondola-ii asked min to ‘ mil our ' for tour. :1” as not down upon in. straw willqu use mutant. Hr. Lluyd s health ,rswnls his snowing Um." arisen this winter. but is is gammy a husth that is. W liin it use mutating for m at in. tugs-law [More Wares; alone, sometimes on both, are rich har- l‘he hone no sooner Learn Lis'lhe native! Alum tunarus muck. was an ulcer on tile galleral staff of the Egyptian irmy, in the service if which he commanded tw-n expeditions of exploratii n in the douuan, travellir g on all the principal caravan routes, and spending two years in the towns and smoig the. tribes which ire frrqnently menttomd in connection with El Blakdr'a rubellth j In this pap»r I have endeavored to de- scribe the Nile route which the British hsVe selected for their line of advance, the Country m which their optiutlohs must be carried on. and the warlike race they havu to encounter. The Souccn, as any one may see by referring to the map, is an immense region extending on in to sides of the rqurltor and across the entire. continent of Africa. its Lame is derived from the Arabic “small, plural sudu, black, and fistula-Norman, as iLe Arabs call it, means literally the Land of the blacks. Uri the east or the Nile ltrxtemis to the Red Sea, and on the West. it embraces Kornoisn and Darfour. Its capital is Khartoum, at the junction of the White with the Blue Nile. South of Khartoum ls Sentient, bounded on the West by the White Nile tint! on the east by Abyaaium. When General Gordon was Governor- Ucnetal of the Solidaii in 1873-78. is drain of Egyptian garrisoiis, if which Gilx.do- lioro was the principal, reached as far as the great. lakes Egypt proper: extends only from the Mediterranean to the first cataract. The Nile, issuing from the lakes near the equator, is the only source of life for the or tire Itgioil No Wuhdcr the ancient. Egyptians w- whipped the Nile as a god, lor Without lb their country would have been a desolate, study waste. like the dcseria to the east and west of it. After a course of 3,1)UU 11111th (the last 1 700 without a single i flluent or tributary) the Nile separates into me main brill-whee at the head of the Delta, finally discharging the greatly dlrrliiiisllcd Volume of Walter into the Mealteirsnean iLrohgh the Ros- etta and Uoltietm Let. us imagine ourselves ascending the stream when it is at its full, in only Sep- tember. Twelve miles above the apex of the Delia we arrive in sight of the city of Cairo. Oil the eastern bank. on a plain extending i; irce miles back to the Moral.- tau hriiv, stands the vest Arab City of nearly half a million of people, with the Lfiuunslifl roiilarets of its four hundred liltiequos, its palaCes, and its gardens or wavrrlg palm-trees. Ur: one of the first spurs oi the Mokattsir, three hundred lest. above the plain, rzaea thn great. cita- del rounded by baladiu. On the west bank Lower those wonders oi the World, rho great pyramids of GlZnh, and beyond thr in the Libyan desert stretches without. limits until it. merges into the Great oanara. As we advance, the over-shifting kaloldescope of the Nile unfolds itself be- fore our eyes. We pass the site of ancient Memphis and the eleven pyramids of Sak- kars. ill the narrow valley, rarely three miles in width, and ge' orally much less. is contained all the cultivable land of Egypt. Exceptiog a few cases, all the itst is the (insert. Al: many points the utterly barren hills of the Arabian and Libyan chains come down to the river’s ouge, and nothing is seen but the rugged red and yeltow Cllll‘d, with the heated air visibly quivering under the fierce African sun. Then, again, as the hills rucede for a mile or less, sometimes on one shore v sis, whitening cotton. green sugar-cane, laden palms, and native Villages with their quiinz pigeon-houses and solitary llllufll'titl ; whue here and there under the orange and fig trees may be seen the white dome over the tomb of some Mus» aulman saint. As sunrise and sunset long tiles of veiled women in loose blue robes come down to the rivers brim; then, with their water-jugs carefully poised on their heads, Willi a way with stately stride We pass Denderah, Kai-hair, Loxor, l‘hebss, Wltll thuir temples, sphinxcs. obeliska. and majestic rums, before we reach the first cataract. Uur boat, flawed by some five hundred Laked Nubraris, yelling like so many black demons, is dragged up show the rapids between great. rocks of glistening basalt, and re- sumes i.s course up the river. Passing the island of Elephsiltino and the great l‘tulcinatc temple of Isis at I‘hiila, the most picturuquo rum in Egypt, in. hundred miles more of uninterrupted navagatiou brings us to the woiidertui cliff-excavated temple of Anon-bimbo. and to the second cataract st Wady tialfa. kit-re we must leave our boat, which has carried us nine hundrid miles from the sea. Five great cataracts and many rapi. s several miles in length make navr- gallon impracticable, if not quite impos- sioie, to Berber, a lumber distance of seven hundred and titty mill-s by water. if. last and beyond “my Haifa that the liver | Xpucllloli Will cnmuntcr its great- est ulthculuu ;yet there is uothiu With- in the llullil or p‘L-Blblllly that irrtlsh gold, skill, and pluck may not W‘lllpllan. lint too much time has been lus;, for the Nile is as regular as the course of the seasons. it begins to use at Khartoum soon. June 21st, is at its fullest by eup- :ombcr 1st, and decreases steadily and re- izularly from Member lst until the next sdiiiuler solstice. instead of wasting months in vacrlatlug about impossible desert routes, the British suihonties should have understood from the first iii-ti .he expedition mm: follow the Nile. which alone can use it from pctlsbllig of thirst. The army should have let: Calm in August, and have rescind Khar» nouns in December. New it is impededl by low esterâ€"the hot srason begins ml March, and ssummer in ihu Soucsri will! (II! in .re lm-s than the cntmy. : At W's-ly Hall's ordinary expeditions} in. out the arse". shipâ€"41m camel-std. follow the western bank of the n er. As we amend the Nile, the complexiona of T c .fellsh of bllrl' Egypt, on darker than a lcrwule, mm‘. of a deeper line Irzth lately day‘s journey. The Nubian: abovs' gins an: cataract us circulate in color. é ha; with straight hair and profile. Next, ltne Dungolsweu. more onus mixed ,snii i sits: them, the endless valley of Central lAri-ican types begins to prevail. the cun- l plsxion growing cuter, the profile more ‘pmguzheum the hair more kinky, yet ale [uthsflume‘m wwlly headed nt‘:0 ’01 the Guinea coast, the parsntstocx of WWW population. Ruins of labovc the bed of the river. Most of these "aie crowned With the ruins of large and imposing castles with loity lovers and parliaments, erected nine or ten hundred years ago by the dwellers of theere Val- ley as a refuge against the ruzzlus of the I robber ulbsli. '1 base ruins, especrahy at .bsrias, are strikingly like those of the feudal castles on the Rhine. Above the third cataract we pass the large and fer- tile island of Argo on our way to New Dongols, the place so frequently men- tioned in the daily dispatches. It is the center of a turbulent and adVenturc us population, in great part descended from the old Mennoyk: who escaped Moham- nled Ali’s massacre in 1811 and flea. hero ior refuge. Among these peeple, slave hunters always and a number of willing recruits ‘ Parsing Old Dongola, an almost. aban- doned town on the eastern bend, we reach Debbch just at the elbow where .he Nile resumes its northern course after its sharp bend to the south-west at Abou- riamed, nearly two hundred miles above. At Debbeh the great caravan route to El (lucid and Darrour ieavre the Nile auu strikes t-li'to the south-west through deso- late decerts. Half way between Debbeh and Abou-Hsmed is the fourth cataract, near Malawi, which acquired a tragic celebrity as the scene of the massacre of Colonel Stewart in October last. Abou- Harned is a miserable Nile town, memor- able for the destruction of a body of eight hundred Turkish Bashr-Bazouks (irregu- lur cavalry), who were surprised by the Bialiareens, in 1820. All who escaped from Bedouin swords and. spears were driven into the river and drov. ned in the cataracts below. It derives its only im- portance from being the southern termi- nus of the great. Kurosko caravan route. On the way between Abou-Harned and Berber is the fifth cataract, one of the most picturesque as well as difficult on the Nile. From several days' observa- tion at. two different. times, I believe this cataract. to be impossible for ascending boats on account of the rocks and the or trcme velocity of the water. The crocodt e and hippopotamusabound there, andsqua- tic birds are found in great numbers. One hundred and thirty-three miles above Abou»l:lained is Berber, a town of ten thousand people, recently shelled and temporarily recaptured by General Gor- don. 1t. owes its importance to its posiâ€" tiuri, being the great eilfrepol of almost all the b‘oudan export trade, which hero leaves the no longer navigable upper l‘chl‘ and finds its way by the great caravan route to Suakim on the Rt d Sea. Here the ascending traveller may take to the river once more, embarking on one of the small side-Weel steamers brought in sections on camel’s-back many years ago and put. together at this point. Not over seventy feet in length, drawing very little wateryyet frequently gettingagrouild on sand-banks, rh-y seem to have b.8l u‘ordons chief reliance. Thirty miles above Berber we pass the mouth of .he Atbara, the last effluent. of the Nile, coming down from Abyseiuill and liming only during the rainy season. in the peninsula formed by the Nile and the Atbara, called by Strabo the island of Miroe, and just above the sixth cataract, are wonderful vestiges of Ethiopian civili zation. Bt'fildOI sphrnxea and ruined tem- ples, I counted no less than forty-tWo pyramids, which, though for smaller than those of Gizeh, Would be considered gigan tie in any other land. A few miles above these ruins is Shandy, an important market-town, the terminus of the caravan route from Kas- sa-a and Abyssinia, and also of the in- tended Soudan railway, surveyed and mapped out for the ex-Khedive lsmarl P Pasha by the English engineer Fowler, of which only thirty miles (on: of fivi, hundred and fifty-live) above Wada Haifa are constructed. Steaming one hundred miles above Shandy, we reach the point where the Blue Nile, flowmg from the mountains of Abyssinla, merges its limpfd atrium with the turbid waters of the White Nile. Just above the angle fonlied by the two rivers lies the city of Khartoum, the capi» tal of the Sotidan. it was founded by Mohammad Ah, a man of grief. genius and iron will, who originated all those re‘ fol-ms, both civrl and military, that placed Egypt far ahead of all other Muss inlai- countriea. When he had oomplet the conquest of Kordofan and the submission of the Bedouin tribes in 1820, he at once recognized the importance of the com- mercal and strategic poaltion of Khar- toum. A palace for the governor, bar- racks fur a garrison, an arsenal and a shipyard Were Constructed in substantial style, and the new city soon became the Center of a vas: trade in ivory, ostrich leathers, gum arable, grain, cattle, anc last, though far from least, slaves. in fact, italways was the court where slave. traders fitted out their expeditions ob- tained tholr recruits, and found a markui for their human cattle. I was there wtn-ri Ubnerai Gordan was Governor-General ol the Soudau. He had received fir-m the Hindus Ismail Pasha the most sliin~ gent orders to suppress the slave-trade by tile stcrncst exercise of military power, and the native governors dared not show any remusness in wounding him ; but me trade was so interwoven with the ideas and customs of the people, that very little tffoct was produced beyond forcing it to seek conroalmeut by gomg around the city instead of through it. [he Ads. til'sii Consul, Mr. Roasett. a very intelli- gent gentleman, mid me a: the time that the slave-Lula" were closed, it was true, but if any one wanted one hundred boys or girls, they wold be procured quietly, litllln twu hours, a: the rate of thirty-live to hfzy dollars a head. Khsruuin is a city numberlrg biwecu fifty and sixty" thousand pwple. bevursl European consuls reside here The Aim-nan aiuvul was Axsr A'od-el M-dek. s Christian va'. from Bitch, and one of its principal merchants. The European colony is small and continually changing ; for Khartoum is s pvrlect graveyard tor Erropeans, and in the rainy suamlor nattves aim. the mortality averaging their from mil?) to forty per day, which implies three to four thon for the season. Khartoum is the .ornmercrsl cequ of the Simian trade, amounting Alhagutl-of to sixty-tins million dollars a year, and carried on by one thousand. Kanpur: and three thousand Egyptian commercial bosses. Drillsasd billaof mung.‘ occupants. Stone and lime are found in abuucaoce, in d the bullClngs are. alter a fashion, substantial, the houses belonging to rich merchants being very apt. clone and comfortable. There are large brzai‘a, in which is found a much greater variety of European and Asiatic goods than would be expected in such distant regions. In the spacious market-place a brisk trade is carried on in cattle. horsrs, camels, asses, ‘sird shup, as well as grain. fruit, and s “M- UEU'N‘ CUMZUU “lice UUL bf MB l numerous islands of basaltic rock rise Lolhouses many of them twu-sioried, each] other agricultural produce. Many years ago an Austrian Roman Catholic mission Was established and libeially supported by the Emperor of Austria aLd by contribu- tions irom the entire Catholic world. it occupiis a large parallelogram surrounded by a solid wall. Within this incloaure, in beautiful gardens of palm, fig, pome- granate, orange. and banana, stands a massive cathedral, a hospital, and other substantial buildings. Before the people of Egypt and the Suudsrr had been irri- taied by foreign interference, such was their perfect tolemtion and good temper that. the priests and nuns, in their distinc- tivc costumes, Were always safe from molestation, not. only at hhartuum, but even at El Ubeid and the neighborhood, where the majority are Musaulnl ns and the rest heatheiia. It was stated some months ago that Gordon had. abaiidotned the Governor’s palace and transformed the Catholic mission into a fortress, its surrounding wall and massive buildings rendering it capable of strong resistance. From Khartoum the Nile is navigable nearly to the great lakes. Sennaur on the east. and Kordoian on the west of the White Nile are the most. southern pro- vinces of the Egyptian Saddam, and ex- tend to about the twelfth degree of lati- tude, which is also the limit of Moslem predominance. Beyond are the heathen tribes known as Shillooks. Dcnkas, Doo- wairs, etc. A little south of the tenth degree the b‘obat falls into the Nile on the east and the Bahr-el-Gasal on the west. A few miles above, the Nile Val- ley expands into an immense net-work of almost inextricable marshes, over one hundred miles in breadth. There is no river that presents more sudden and enor- mona variations than the Nile. On one of the little steamers which have been dorng Gordon such good service, I passed through fl narrow gorge of basaltic cliffs, at Jebel Rovvyan, about fifty miles below Khartoum. There the whole volume of the Nile flows through a canon just forty yards in width, but the stream is one hundred and fifty feet deep at. low water. A mile below, the river is three miles wide, full of islands, and becomes so shallow that my steamer grounded five or six times a day. From Khartoum to the lakes, crocodiles and hippopotami become more and. more plentiful. On a cool day, to December or January, crocodiles of all sizesare seen sullrrmg themselves on every srnd- bank, as thick as loge after a freahet. Horde of wild buffaloes and gigantic airw- lopcs, elephants, and girali‘ss come to stake their thirst. at the water’s edge, and the night. is made lively, if not. hideous, by the lion's roar on toe land, and the continual bellowing of the hippopotamus in every pool. Agriculture is carried on industriou-lly enough all over the narrow valley of the Nile, winch, from Seuuaar to the Meni- terraiican, including the few cases, con- taining only ten thousand square miles of arable land, inhabited by seven or eight millions of people cultivating the soil and living in towns and permanent settle- uiclila. Even where the cliffs come down by the river, if astrip of cultivable ground only ayard or two in breadth is left ex- osed at low Nile. it is made to bear its tribute of a few rows of beans. onions, or doura. Wherever water can be elevated, the land exhibits wonderful fertility ; and the amount. of labor expended upon merely lifting water to the highest at- tainable level, by means of the most pri- mitive machines, is absolutely prodigious as well as continual, for a few hours‘ in- termtaslon would result in the burning up of the crop. At the line where the irrigating waters halt the desert begins. and its limit is as sharply marked asa cavel Walk acrossa grceusward. Ancient. Egypt was the granary of the Roman Empire, and the soil has lost none of its fertility. It is impossible to form an accurate estimate of the savage tribes along the Nile between the tenth degree and the lakes, but they probably number two or three millions. They cultivate only a little land, and are hcrusmerr, hunters. and rotlbers. Such is the valley of the Nile, that mysterious rIVer which, the reverse of all others, steadily dicroases ill Volume by irrigation and enormous evaporation for the last 1700 miles of its course, and whose fountain-heads south of the great lakes have never yet. beril ascertained. (1-0 as com-moan ) M<-P" A lorry Day in Russia. ReCelltly over W,UUO,LOU Russian peasants, assembled in all the churches of the chipll'e, offer th lllksgiving to God for their liberation from serfdom. On March 3, or Feb. 11! 0. 5., 1601. the late Czar, in his famous ukase, used these words : “Cross yourselves, orthodox peo. ple, and ask God s blessing for a new life. " And on that day a new era was inaugu- rated in Russia. Chattsls became free- man. Uli the anniversary of this day the freed serfs of Russia vulnn‘ailly abstain from work and dedicate the day to thanks- giving and prayers. In the last year of his reign the Czar liberawr ordered. and the Holy Synod sanctioned the decree, that hencef: rib the 19th day of February flinch 3) should be observed throughout Russia as a legal and church holiday. In Russia they have about two score church holidays, and about a dozen L’xar's hou- days, but this Ll the only holiday of the pcefllnfl. over Rcisiauli the 5:!“ lost. § WW With another. TV. H. Martin of Crofton and O. S. Ste- vens. terms with each other. On Saturday morning Martin and Miss Henderson, by the invitation of the young lady, took a train for Sprii’gfield to be married. Miss Henderson wept occasionally as they travelled along. Having arrived at Springfield, Martin lost no time in pro- curitg a license. W11. n he returned to the hotel Miss Henderson demanded that « the ceremony should be postponed a few hours. She then returned to the privacy of her room and took the landlord into her confidence. She told him all, and said she loved both, but preferred Ste- vens, the man she had left behind. The landlord volunteered his services, and she handed him the following telegram to send : Afr-.30. S. Slerers : ‘ Corrie ioEprli giield first. train. I all] waiting for you. 1-. slits L. Ilasnanson. Stevens received the telegram aid left on the 12:26 train. Martin had again asked for the marriage to be solemnrzed, and had been put off until 3 P. M., at which time the train would arrive with Stevens. The young lady gave as a reason that she wanted to wart for her brother. who would come on the 3 o'clock train. At that 'hour Stevens, accompanied by her brother, arrived and went to the hotel. The girl then had an interview with each of her lovers, and each of them also talked with her brother. Stevens was the prize, and the news was broken to Martin as gently as possible. He declared that he loved the girl, but accepted her decision inanfnlly and was present at the wedding. He shook hands With his old enemy, and congratulated his bride with a kiss. The whole party then returned on the evening train, Martin dividing time with Stevens in talking to the bride on: the return trip. The train arrived at 8:30 p.m., and the engineer blew his whistle for five minutes while entering the city. Stevens'a father has denied him his house for the part he took iii the trausbcrion. The bridal couple are~at Mr. Henderson’s. Young Henderson hae obtained parental forgive- ness for his sister. Martin has in his possession a marriage license as a mo- menta. ‘ .. Generals killed in Battle. The-death of Gen. Earle calls to mind how few: instances there are of British generals being killed on the field of battle. Since Plcton fell in the hour of victory at Waterloo, the cases have been very few and far between, no instance occuring until Sobraon, when that fine soldier, Maj. Gen. Sir Robert Dick, was slain at the head of his division. Some of the old school-of officers will no doubt recs-l Gen. Dick, a hero of countless escapes in his day, who had been Wounded at Maids, severely before Rosoetta in the Egyptian campaign of 1801, again in the peninsula, and a fourzh time at Quitre Bras, when he had command of the Black Watch. The only remaining instances are three of Lieut. Gan. Sir George Catioart, “blast,” to quote Kingiake, “Wth a soldier‘s death in action,” at the head of the Fourth division on the field of lnkerman; Maj. G011. Sir George Culley, shot through the head on that. awful day at. Majuba hill â€"aa yet. unavenged ; and Ma'j Gen. William Earle, ktllod'in action at. Dulka. l‘liat fine old horse-artilleryman, Fox- Strangways, also killed at lnkerman. held onlp brigadier general's rank. The three general officers killed in the Indian mn- tiny campaignâ€"viz, Sir Henry Law- rence, Neill, and Pennyâ€"belonged to the Indian army, as did Sir Hugh Wheel- er, slain in his old age in the massacre of Cawnpore. Havelock, Anson, and Barn- ardâ€"all three lamented victims to the dark days of 1857â€"were not killed in ac- tion. but died of illness contracted dur- ing the campaign. -â€"-â€" .004.‘ Dr. Blowilz. M. Birtwitz gave me a lecture of about an hour's duration on all manner of poll- tical topics. his intellect, like others of his race, is sharp, and hill method of explication lucid enough. I may mention two of M. Blowitz's journalistic feats which stamp him as the correspondent par excellence of his age. At the time of the ever-memorable Berlin congress, M. Blowits applied to the German chancellor for an early copy of the treaty, which was to be signed on a certain Saturday morning, but, although the rrquesl was made through the medium of two ambas~ sadors, Bismarck refused to entertainlt. To the intense surprise of all the other correspondents, M Blowitx, in a "huff," announc' (1 his intention of leaving Berlin forthwith. and he did so, but with the treaty in his pocket! That pracinus document nchr left. Herr Blowiiz's letter-case until Bruisels was reached, and there i‘ was put. on the win: and pair lulu-(i by The 'l'imu in a. second edition on the Saturday. at. the very moment that the prehipoteiiiaiies in Berlin were signing it 2 needless to say that no other paper had it until the following Monday, nor to describe the wsnirg and gnashirrg of teeth in Berlin and Col: glue, and the other great newspaper centers in Ger- many. The second great feat of hi. Biowiis was that of interviewing the Sultan! Such a thing had never been previously dreampt of, and, as Herr Blowiiz rightly says. no one will ever do it again. 1 left thc journalist rrgretfully, feeling that I had been in the company of a giant, compared with whom nous autru “s ials” are for the most part dwufs mention Life. .........- Air Inherited Infllction. If any one dues not believe that pun- MNNI’Y W‘lcd m” “u. ‘1‘ l hing is inherited, let them read this: 0d man Colisrbutmn took his little .boy, who has just. wjuired the arth was the heroine recently of an eiopement one lovter and a marriage with For over two years she has divided her heart about equally letween The lovers were not on speaking teaspoon soda; just before putting into oven sprinkle over the top one cup pea- nuts broken into pieces. Raisin Tatumâ€"One heaping coffee- ]cup stoned and chopped raisins, small cups powdered sugar, the grated rind and juice of two lemons. Put all together his bowl and set in the tea- kettle till the sugar is dissolved; when cool fill the shells. Iosi' Csxs.â€"Three cups of light dough; work in one cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup molasses, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of milk or cream, one tea~ cup of chopped raisins ; spioeto the taste. and let it get quite light before baking. BLACK Balm SOURâ€"Three pounds of beef shin-bone. one quart of black beans, soaked all night. Chop an onion and boil with the beans and bone for live or six hours; then strain and season with salt, pepper, one tablespoonful cstchup and two of hard cider. This is a soup much fancied by city epicures, but seen less often than it deserves upon farmers' tables LYONNsIsE Formosaâ€"Slices pound of cold boiled potawes. Put two tabla- spoonfuls of butter into a saucepan with a small onion chopped fine. Set. the pan over the fire, and when the onion has fried to a delicate brown add the potatoes and turn and toss them till they begin to color, then stir in a little minced parsley and serve immediately. Bazvs'rilsx Bluntâ€"Broil very slightly two pounds of lean steak from the round. Chop it very fine, add one tableapoonful of flour, two of milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Fry in hot fat. serve hot. with mashed potato. Eormv Futurismâ€"Three pints thinly sliced apples, one pint honey, one pint flour, one pint cornmeal, small piece butter, one tablespooniul soda, the juice of two lemons. and three grated lemon rinds. Stir the dry soda into the honey, then add the apples, melted butter, and a little salt. N ow add the other ingredients and stir in the flour. Bake one hour and serve with sauce. OATMEAL’ Minimumâ€"One cup of oat- meal, one and a hali‘ pints of flour, one teaspoouful of salt, two of baking powder, one tableapoorrful of lard, two eggs, one pint of milk. Silt together meal, flour, salt, and baking powder; rub the lard in cold, and then add beaten eggs and milk. PARSNIP Farm:st â€"â€"Sorape the pars- nips, and, if large. put nhem into boiling water and boil. with salt enough to season them nicely, till quite tender ; then mash them, adding to four or five psrsnipsa heaping tableapoonful of flour, one or two beaten eggs, and pepper and salt to taste. Make up into cakes and fry in hot pork fat, Even those who have is rooted pre- judice against parsnipa will generally like them in this form. HINT’S_F,08 Tin: notice. If fisnnel dresses of tho children are rorled and at all greasy, adgi borax to the water in which they are washed. Dis- solves large tablespoonful of borax in a pint of boiling water, put about a third of it in the first suds in which the garment isto be washed, another third in the next water, and the rest of it in the rinsing water ; shake the garments thoroughly before hanging them up to dry. _ The onion is said to be sspecific for the sting of poisonous insects of all kinds. The application of onion-juice instantly allays the pain caused by the stinging of hornets, yellow-jackets, wasps, bees. etc. Rough iron pots look well painted dull red, pale blue, or sage green, with a large Bower-such as a lily or a sunflowerâ€" pa'uited on them. They are a good size, and will take a large plant well. A new way of deooratin the glass lamp shade is to :ie a bow of ri hon round the shade, with a fall of coffee-colored lace from the ribbon. Rooms get darker and darker, the light is so much shaded. A pretty counterparts for summer can be made of twill calico of a good sub- stance, bordered with furniture lace and covered with detached sprays of embroid- ery, or squares of guipure d'art and linen alternately, with s. giiipure edging. Tho lace and squares are now sold cheap. For hospitals either plain white are used, or the text quilts, the texts being printed on calico. M. S. T. writes: “I hsvc‘at last gut. the art of washing dishes down to a fine point, and I send the results of my ex- perience for the benefit. of your readers When I begln to clear the table, 1 scraps out. the largest. pistes first and set them into a large, deep dishpaii, on these I put the smaller plates, the cups, saucers, knives, forks, and spoons, butter-dishes, etc, and on mp of all a bowl or nappy with a cake of soap in it. On thisl pour hot water till the dlshpan is nearly full, then take out the soap and in the bowl rinse ofl'the glasses and wipe them. Then with a dishâ€"cloth wi-h a handle I wash the dishes as they ctme, putting them to drain on an old shirt of one of the boys that is past wear. When the pan is empty of dishes I put others to soak while I Wipe what i have washed. separating them as I wipe, putting plates of s also together, spools together. krives ditto, and so on, all on a large tray, so with one handling they can be set. away into the closet. Proceeding in this wsy i very , soon get. through and have no waste I movements steal away my time." ._.....-_..-â€"- “c- g._ At his own request a Georgia farmer who died recently was buried in a plain lpins coffin, not even painted, and a pocket knife that he had carried for twenty ears, tr other witha toothpick andpocei com, were pissed inhis ' pockets. 3 Pointing to s ragged scar on his cheek, ‘strsinpsaid to a pal: “How do you think it hsppeardl" “ Bulldog!" D,_ J, u_ R men. ".1... (gm unmgulking. to the circus last summer, and N Nope." “Tomcat 1 ' “ Nixey." “tht to the 15‘s....“ .‘loli'all and .‘urgiaif Jum- ml that he is convinced the medical herbs jgrown in certain climates are especially adapted for the cure of diseases which iprevail in them, though they may be use less elsewhere. fie finds the plants of I Loorla much more successful in African fever than the best of drugs prepared in more highly civilised countries. whcn the performance was about ball than i" ” I slept with in face an the lover the boy says : I : edges! a poorhouss pillow. ' " Y‘P‘i ‘0'” 0° mu”: i A lady whose bang was destroyed by a “ Why, Frankie, this is the best part of the show. Ain't on satisfied 1” "Es," said Fran is, “ l‘se satisfied. I'sc ‘ saw dust ' enufl." ’mst explosion of natural gas ghsny county. Ps.. has sued thecompsny whose pipes lead to the disaster, placing the value of tbs hirsute ornament st 8100; two P3 the cities. In the country thousands of people die for want. of medical and surgi- cal attendance. Arsenical floors, in addition to wall pers of that kind, are threatened in England. A correspondent writes to one of the London papers, showing that an architect directs the washing of joists for cellar floors with an arsenical solution. to prevent dry rot. According to a careful report in Camp- tu Kendra, coffee is a complex ailment which acts mainly by modifying the phan- omena of nutrition and the general func- tions. it renders the organism capable of consuming and destroying larger pian- tities of nitrogenous substances, and may consequently be regarded as an indirect source of available energy. By far the best-looking menin London tic-day are tho police. The soldiers can't compare With them. The hard times havu evidently induced many farmers' sons and others of superior calibre to en- ter the police force who are persons of education and have excellent manners. Yet a London policeman receives only 86 a week. He has a pension, though, if he stays on. The descriptive terms used for neuro- logical cunditioris are rapidly increasing in number, and bid fair to make an inter- esting vocabulary. Some of the compari- tively recent terms are used by Dr. 0. '1. Hughes in the St. Louis Medical Journal, where he describes a patient who "has anthrophobia, teing afraid to meet. any one about the house," and polyphobia, “afraid of everything, sometimes ;" he has also phobophobia, being “afraid some- thing is going to happen to frighten him." A recent work, “The London and Pro- vincial Water Supplies," gives the daily consumption of water in London at 144p 592,772 gallons, or nearly 30 gallons per head of population. Glasgow is fortun- nate in her supply, receiving 60 gallons per head per drum from the pure waters of Lock Katrine. The writer says that the population of London is now increas- ing at the rate of 100,000 per year. If this rat-e coiitinui s until 191‘.) London will: have a p .pulation of about. 10,000,000.- and the water problem will be a very serious one. A writer in a London paper says: “The most attractive show at the Jap- aneseries-«at least for the lady visitorsâ€"- is the hairdressur’s shop ; and the first result of the visit of this little colony is a development in the fashion of tonsorial art. Already I have noticed half a dozen ladies with heads trimmed a la Japanese; and now i am assured on the best. author- ity that. artists in hair are on their way from Japan, under engagement with two of our best known fashionable West End hairdressers." The Japan village hag proved a great success. ’ A writer in the [Medical Times describes the island of Madeira as presenting the curious anomaly of acountry which is dcstltue of any wheclud vehicle what- ever, a fact due to the almost complete absence of roads. People travel in ham- mocks, and, with three bearers only, they may journey all day with hardly a halt. The highest temperature of the island in 1885 was 90° , and the lowest 46° ; the mean temperature of the months of the whole year varied but twelve degrees. Thus, for the winter months, it was 61, 60, 60 ; spring, 60, G3, 64 ; summer, 68, 71, 72, and autumn, '10, 69, 64. The French Academy of Sciences rs- ceives innumerable letters from people who imagine they have made some bril- liant discovery. A lady wrote lately that having boeii suddenly seized with the early symptoms of cholera, she entered a cafe and ordered a glass of absinthe, which she drank. Tire cholera disap- peared at once. The Secretary was com- plimented for his gallantry in reading the ady's very important communication, but was reminded that people attacked by cholera do not generally enter cafes, but if forced to do so, do not usually call we absinthe. A Novri. limo Lfflll‘f'.â€"â€"Tflo electric light is beginning to l)» utilized in a hurt. cred ways not at first. even thought of. The Scientific American thus describes a new scarf pin. Surely a fsshionablo gentleman, thus atlireed with one of these, will shine in society as he never shone before. A couple of fine wiros lead from the lamp to s small battery. made in the form of a book and carried in the pocket. By touching shutton, also arranged in ono's pi chat. the neck- tie lamp is instantly lighted and coil- tlilues as long astho button is pressed. The battery becomes exhausted after con- siderable use, bu iilay v-asily he replenish- ed. This is a device of genuine excellence. and well illustrates the progress of practical electricity. . __.__.-‘.o4-.'-> “M linntire Air In Schools. An incident told by an inspector of schools snows the iinplrtsnce of a careful oversight of the ventilating apparatus. Upon Vlllitlfl.{ s rchl'ml house the inspec- wr noticed the impure air of the rooms and questioned the janitor on the cause, but was unable u: disctiver' the exact rea‘ son. The janitor took him to the base- menf, where he saw four furnaces in op- erstiun and where he also noticed tllcodor of chickens. The peculiarity o' the cir- cumstances caused film to investigate fur- ther, and he found that the sir~box had been converted into a chicken carp, care- fully b-srded up. The hens were having a snug little time, but the inspector , thought he had found foul air. indeed.â€" , [Boston Journal. -.. “no-9” Lotteries in France. The French are fond of lotteries. When the city of Paris issues a loan there is s lotury attached. by which the purchmrnf a bond of 1,000 fruit: may draw 100.000 francs. The lottery pris- ciple is to be ingrsftcduponthc approach- ing salon of 1585. There are to be 160,- 000 tickets sold at 1 frsns each. Of this amount 136,000 are to be distributed in eleven lots of different sums. Tho pas- scsor of a prize so than purchsse of the artist any painting in the exhibition valu- ed st the amount which hls ticket repro- seofs. _. ~______ Home should be made the dwelling memmmnmiflmsss thavaluc of abang is to b. jsdl- plaeeforsoulslstharthansnsrslodging fever. sully determined. plusforbodus.