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.v‘ LATE FOREIGN NEWS. Two colored delinquents in Raleigh, N.C., were recently condemned to receive thirty- ninc lashes each, and spectators were ad- mitted to witneu the whipping at 25 cents a head. The gate receipts went to the rilfpners, as a salve for their wounds pro. 3'- A law is to be passed in Costa Rica making the sale to foreigners of Indian antiquities collected in the republic a crime punishable with severe penalties. A similar law is to be passed in Ecuador. Senor Mots, a moral reformer who is Mayor of Mosqucm, a. town in the United States of Colombia, has decreed that women arrested for disorderly conduct in his baili- wick shall have their heads shaven before they are set at liberty again. The official figures for the French vintage show 30,000,000 hectolitres, nearly 3,000,030 more than in 1890. The cider crop was 2,- 000,000 less than in 1890. The gold medal given to Virchow on his seventieth birthday is the largest ever made. It weighs nearly six pounds, and the metal alone is worth $1,750. Mountains, on the roads, snow has drifted tos depth of thirty-five feet and more. Snowslides, with loss of life, have been numerous. The Minister of the Interior has detailed a special Tchiiiovnik to enquire into the affairs of the Mohammedan confession ‘among the Tatars of the Crimea. He pro- lposes to enforce there the same law by which the Mohammedans of Orenhurg are govern- ed, according towhich every mulls, kadi, katin and other dignitary of the Mohamme- I dun profession must be a scholar of the Bus- rsian language and make his reports to the ' Government in that tongue. Berlin is to have shortly a crematory er- ected at the city’s cost in the Friedrichsfeld Cemetery, where bodies of the poor and un- known and of the subjects of anatomical in- vestigation at clinics and hospitals will be reduced to ashes. The bodies from the anatomists, tables alone number about 1,000 annually. To further this practice the Ber- lin Society for Cremation has petitioned the Parliamentary Commission on Civil Code that the choice between burial and burning granted hereafter to every German citizen. A late census of the city of Lima. Peru, shows it to have a population of 103,956, of which 49,350 are males and 54,106 are females ; 70,961 of the inhabitants can read There is to be a new Prussian throne. and 32,995 can neither read nor write. A F r ederiek 1- had 0118, bl", NEPOIGOD t00k if: singular reversal of the relative proportion °fi and melted it. and there are only now in numbers of the sexes is shown by compari- tw0 small chairs of small value. son with previous enumerations. In 1866 Several large Vienna bankers and manu- the census showed the city. to have 4,422 lecturers announce that they will prohibit more males than females While the present all their employees from going to the races census shows that the females outnumber during the coming spring season. the males by 4:706- The high priests of Persia who forbade A missionary, who has 8131‘in on the smokin in order to break up the tobacco coast from the interior of Africa, says that monopo y, have triumphed. The monopoly one of the Europeans who took pirt m the has been otficially abolished. disastrous battle betwetim the Zarewsky ex- - . . - . pedition and the \Vahe ie natives is now a. bid-1;;ifisdgdfiifialfilizgfsglgd ligtggso prisoner in the hands of the lVahehe. Sea t- “ ils This ear the numbe’r of schools is tered through Africa are WlllJe men who are 86’? “Ed the humber of attending pupils inbondageor have voluntarily taken up their 0 . - - 0 residence there. Dr. Nachtigal’s servant is 3,22%;11 atltthsddhih‘gfz 3.63 female schools, an example. He deserted his master in the , . Soudan, and at last accounts he was living .The conductors Of all the street ears, om- near lake Tchad, the only white man in that nibuses, and other vehicles for public accom- part of Africa“ modation in Warsaw, in that part of the cit between Novaya Praga and the suburb of rudno are women, and fulfil their duties more accurately and to the better satisfac- ordered in Paris three umbrellas for him tion 0‘ the public ”.13" men. and his family. Each umbrella was to ,0" Dec. 21 at midnight, by 9' new law: have asolid gold handle, and was to cost Vienna suddenly expanded from an acre of $300, All three were shipped in August, 55 square kilpmetresto 178 square kilomtres, that they might be presented this Christmas. or half the size of . London and three times When they arrived at Santiago with about 9'5 large 9'3 Beth“; With 9- population 0f $500 in freight and tariff charges due on 1,3000,000. . , . , them, Balmaceda’s star had faded, so that Germanuuthorshave petitionedthe Belch- his three friends decrded to make no pre- stug to afford them theprotection "1 the sents to his family and refused to pay the Ullllfed States DOW 8'1193’031 by French, bill. The manuracturer will sue for SL400. British, Belgian, and Swrss authors. The The newspapei'war between Bavaria and $231,011: gsegfggggngg $32); 1;: tphrgiaélie at and Prussia is not without cause, and looks right law that herefifte‘i- Amcrdiin authpl’s ominous for the empire. It 18 very bitter, ‘ ’ O and shows how much jealousy and discon- wrll enjoy the same rights m Germany as tent is rankling in the second largest Fed-, Germanauthors. . , _ eral State. It is now declared that the re- The higher education 0‘ women 15 making ' port that the Inspector-Generalship of the great progress inOSweden. , Th? number 0f army was offered to a Bavarian Prince and women students in the universities there is ’ dpclined for him by the Regent is untrue. now IVE? {l-“d is constantly increasing. The controversy over this affair will scarce- There are eighteen women students "1 the ly encourage the Kaiser to offer the two UPSD-hl' University, thirteen in. Dund, and susceptible Buvarians anything. The con- eight_women are studying medicme 11‘ the ditions he might have to impose would only Carolinake. arouse the dormant passions of 1866. London 1? ”the” 510W ‘9 841°ng improve- The primary public schools of Moscow merits. It ‘5 only recently that extensuve are more favorably situated than those of 1136*!” bee? {Dede of the telephone, The: the other cities of Russia. While in the CItY.C°“h°11 1? now considering the intro- other cities, and especially in the villages, ductiou Pf police patrol “”130": 30 well one teacher has sometimes to instruct in known in 8'9“ Canadian and American two or in three classes of various degrees of 015.193: and there 13 a 800d prospect that scholarship, in the Moscow schools every this summary method of removmg drunken degree has its own teacher. The develop- and disorderly P9130115 ““11 be adopted. ment of the Moscow school, however, is not The North German Gazette semi-officially adequate to the increase of the population denies the rumor that a conference is, to be of the city, and many pupils have to be re- held here with a view to negotiating a com- fused admission into the schools for want of mercial treaty with Russia. It declares accomodation. Every school has three that no delegates have arrived, and that no grades. 0n the average, 69 per cent. of the project of the kind has been put forth from number of pupils attending graduate in the any responsible quarter. third grade ; the others quit school before The project for a vast national exhibition they attain it- Taking. into COMMON-“0n to be held in Berlin is not approved by the the entire number of children of the lower provinces, where nothing but an internat- classes Obscenity for whom these “11°05 icnal f Jr is in favor. The committee on are established, only about 50 per cent. 0f the subject, with one opposing vote, has ac- them 991°? the advantages 0‘ 9' anhl‘)’ cordingly resolved that the exhibition shall 0‘1““le- be international in scope, if possible, and be A private belonging to the garrison of held probably in 1896. Morcliingen, Germany, near the French A movement to abolish the “annoying frontier, recently stole the treasury of his anachronisni ” of church-bell ringing is talk- regiment and escaped With It to Nancy. ed of in San Francisco. The report of that There 11° made on 0P9“, and refuse city contends that the theatres have as d_lSPhl-Y 051313 ill-gotteugams, an lived good a right to use steam whistles, as the riotously w1thout_ disguise: _ Demand has churches have to use bells, more especially been made for ma extradition, but the as the theatres would not, in announcing “hthflltles 0f Nancy profane-‘1 to anW their performances, awake people before nothing 0f the {hg‘tlver and refuses 35° fa‘cd- daylight in the morning. itate \t‘llie egradizion procepdiiig. ’lhe (251-. A Methodist bur h . . man at .cpar men is urions over ie Vienna because ccue cof 1th: Exitldlohfdil: affair, fearing that the example Will-have belief denounces masses as “blasphemous adcmoralizmg effect on frontier garrisous. “mews deems-T These words ll.“1%':§.§‘§f‘”é‘SEZtitlti‘lf‘ 3mm? constitute an insult to “ one of the religious ‘ ’ - that France is strongly confident in her recognized by the state.” These words, how- - v , - ever, come from the articles of the Church own strength or m bermany s worship cf of England. peace. . ‘ (iiuseppina Rabbis, considered to be the Dnermk of Saratov says that the Govern- most beautiful ballet dancers in Italy, fell merit will requisition “11 the stores 0f grain unconscious during her appearance at the “‘“hhclfl from the market produced 8‘ salu- Theutro Savigliano in Turin abouttwo weeks tary eiiect “Po” the price 0f grain. 'lhe ago. Two doctors in the audience hurried b’g firms are aiiuious to sell 0““ the" stores to her aid, but she died in the glare of the 0f gram, “hd “'1“ “0‘ buy any new parties footlights. In the confusion nobody thought from the middlemen. 1h" activity 0f the to lower the curtain, so the whole house latter is consequently checked, and the witnessed the scene. landowners having grain in store must bring Odessa is overflocded this year with it directly to the market. But Dammit Chinese tea. The reason thereof is that the doubts whether this Wilhbe productive of Russian tea merchants will no longer buy permanent SOGd- It belieyes that “103""; their ware through the English hrms in mentary “3110f “'thh th‘} ‘ sequestration China, and import it directly. The English rumor afford W th° grain market “"11 .be merchants on the other hand, losing the fraught ‘l'lth,°"ll consequences: “19 Imd' Russiuutracic, have centered their activity dlcmeu, lopsing the“ trade, Will be added in Ceylon teas, which are not used in Russia. to ‘h? “"1“”st thestarving 3 the will?“ The greater part of the Chinese tea crop now invested in grain Wlll seek activity this year, therefcre, is accumulated in elsewhere, crhaps in forcignitrade ; and Odessa. on the who e, the money that is now saved Paris courts are likely soon to hear the echo of the recent conflict in Chili. Last February three admirers of Bulmaccda s A bottle filled with whiskey by a New York liquor dealer and carried to sea New Yorker bound for Europe has reac ed by the cheapening of grain will be lost be- cause a large proportion of the stores of a farmers who know not how or have not the means to bring their wares into the market the liquor dealer gain after many months ~ and through a strap channel. A friend must get- spOilt and mted‘ of the traveller rms that the bottle, , emptied of its contents, \vas thrown over 93398! 0f Realism. board while the ship was still far from shore, Critic-“ I have not seen Strutstage this but the liquor dealer is equally positive that season. " the bottle came back to him inacase of rum Actorâ€"~“ My goodness 3 ‘Haven’t you imported from the West Indies. heard! Poor Strutstage! You know he The cold weather and heavy snow storms went out With the ‘ Villain Still Pursued in New Mexico this winter have been Her‘ Company. and in the last act there isa unprecedented. Many ponds in Grant lynching scene." County have been frozen over, something “Yes, Strutstage played the villain. which has not happened'certainly in nine or Gets strung up in the last act." unyears. Many fat antelope have been! “That’s it. Poor Fellow! He played it killed near Maxwell City, themimals being, so well that one night in a Western town, unable toget away on account of the deep 3 the audience got so excited that when the snow. Heavy snow stormshavs been eneral ; 1 nching scene came on they jumped up in in the West In some carts of the y' eir seats and shot him full of holes." m ITEMS OF INTEREST. It is said that fourdifths of all the bail- storms occur in the day-time. - Consumption is more prevalent in Ireland than in either England or Wales. The thinnest tissue paper measures 1-1200 of an inch in thickness. The provinces contain twenty-one pro. perly-qualified lady doctors. The British horses were famous when Julius Caesar invaded this country, and some of them were carried by him as trophies to Rome. Monday is the day of the week upon which most letters are delivered in London. The reason for this is because there is no Sunday delivery in London. The average amount of each life insurance policy in the United Kingdom is £460. Nearly forty thousand men desert from the German army every twelve months. “Llan” is the prefix to the names of upwards of four hundred and fifty places in Wales. There are 3,064 languages in the world, and its inhabitants profess more than 1,000 religions. Japan has now two thousand newspapers, where twenty-five years ago not a single journal existed. Edward I., who was the father of seven sons and eleven daughters, had more chil- dren than any other of our sovereigns. Collectors of postage stamps will be glad to learn that orders have been issued throughout Prussia for the prosecution of all who are found manufacturing forged stamps. The prettiest royal girl in Eastern Europe is said to be the Princess Helene of Montene- gro, who, it is reported, is the chosen bride of the Heir Apparent to the Russian throne, Meteors of various sizes reach the earth in many places. A recent calculation shows that the increase of the earth’s weight nu- nually from meteoric sources is about 99,000 tons. An autograph letter from the Queen, written to the late Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, on the occasion of her jubilee, was, in accordance with the Prince’s Wish, placed in the breast pocket of his cost before his interment. The custozn of keeping birthdays is many years old. It is recorded in the 40th chapter of Genesis, 20th verse : “And it came to use the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a. feast unto all his servants." In prosecuting a. case recently, in which a man was charged with riding without a. ticket, it was stated that in the course of a. year nearly 30,000 people are detected at- tempting to defraud the Great Northern Railway Company. ‘ A few drops of oil dropped into the water will, it is claimed, prevent the evaporation of water from fire buckets by forming a sufficient coating on the water to overcome the difficulty. The average age of English soldiers is twenty-seven years; their death-rate is nine per thousand; and of every hundred men seventy are English, twenty Irish, eight Scotch, and two Colonial. The Parliamentary cry of “Who oes home '2” originated in the days when ink boys lighted the members home, and those living in the same neighborhood went to~ gather in a body. More railway trains pass Clapham J unc- tion, London, than any other station in the world. Between 7 a. m. and 10 p. m. fully 1,000 trains passâ€"an average of one. in every fifty-four seconds. The Czar is one of the few living banquet- ers, it is said, who can “drink a toast" according to the old style, swallowing the toasted apple, liquor and all, from the brimming cup. The number of landowners in the United Kingdom is estimated by Sir James Caird, our Chief Land Commissioner, at 180,000 persons, who possess between them the whole of the agricultural land from ten acres upwards. The Eiffel Tower is evidently a financial success. Over £50,000 has been paid for admission to it by Visitors since March 22 last, when this year’s season commenced; During August, when Paris is always crowd- ed with tourists, the receipts exceeded £4,- 000. A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated bv facts and figures, what most people havh always believed, that colds are oftencr caught by those who wrap themselves up and avoid the severity of weather than by those who dareto brave the elements. 400 hairs of average thickness would cover an inch of surface. The blonde belle has about 140,000 filaments to comb and brush, while the red-haired beauty has to be satis- fied with 88,000; the brown-haired damsel may have 109,000; the black-haired but 102,000. A great many people are of the opinion that attles are generally followed by rain. It may surprise them, therefore, to be told that a distinguished writer in “Science” proves that out of the 2,200 battles of the American Civil \Var, only 158 were follow- ed by any rain at all, and that, often, was little more than a shower. It is well known that horses hear deep sounds which we cannot. For days pre- vious to the earthquake in the Riviera, the horses there shOWed every symptom of ab- jcct fear, which continued without any change of character till the fury of the con- vulsion broke forth. Butnottillufcw seconds before the earth began to quake did human beings hear any sounds, while it is extreme- ly probable that the horses heard the sub- terranean noises for two or three days pre viously. It is generally admitted that women are better letter writers than men. “’riting a letter is thought to cost them very little trouble; they are sup used to drop into a chair before a desk, ip a pen in the ink- stand, and scribble ofi'any number of bright, chatty pages almost as readil asthey could relate t e same news by war of mouth. An impecunious Benedict in Scotland gave a sealed envelope to the cler an who had just married him. When e happy couple had departed, the clergyman was curious to ascertain the amount of his fee, and he found in the envelope, instead of the expected banknote, an apology from the groom. regretting the writer's inability to rewrird the divine, but promising to remem- ber him when fortune smiled upon him. The Land of Fancy. BY WM. GRKIO. Ker human was!) nor passion Is ever brea: lied abroad In. the happy Land where Fancy Extends her rr a1 rod. For the dreams 0 the airy soul __\rc gentle as Zephyr’so es “ hen he steals in his cl. ot azure To hearkcn a lover's Signs Ah. could I live with Fancy For over and for aye. In the golden [and of Beauty. Vllow should I weave the lay! .Not a dream of the dusky world Should ever annoy my sight. And the sound of a song supernal \\ ould banish the shades of night. Where the Day Begins. Where does the day begin? where may itbc 1 Not on the mountain tom not on the seal Soine-vherc beyond them, somewhere before them, Shines the sweet light, are the morning breaks o'er them. ' Peak that is highest. island that llcst Fgrthest away in the purple-rimmed sea. W here does t a day begin l where may it be! Out of the bosom of God comes the day, Flood of his tenderness, nothing can stu ! Love .that, cut-springing, sets the worl lugs Steeplcs ablaze. and the silver bells ringing! Infinite motion of infinite oceanâ€" Light but the symbol that broadens for aye, Out of the bosom of God comes the day. ~[Youth‘s Companion. sing~ Ellen After- Thoughts. And thou art dead! Then, too, hast passed away Into the night that borders on our day ; The nmsy world that shall be still at. last, Has loft thee silent in the silent post. How can I grieve? So little than and I Saw of each other in the time gone by, I scarcely miss thee ; yet I wish, somehow. That I loved thee then, and missed thee now I know I never loved thee as I ought : I fear I wronged thee many times in than ght It I enough had loved thee to contest Tliosqltihoilights to thee, I might have wronged ee ess. Two oceans roll between us now, the sea known and unknown : the last sun set for thee There din New England; Time, for thee, was one And a world ended, and a world begun, Hercfil‘iere at home was sure, slow death ; but ere OVcr these’us. life smiled with promise fair, And. fleeing from the Shadow that men fear. Thou didst but meet there what thou fled'st from here. Thclre‘i at the last, no heart that loved thee fil- c With anguish, no familiar accents thrilled With thou htof home thy spirit’s dark eclipse; No kiss of ovmg lips was on thy lips. Strangtc voices spoke to thee, and eyes as 8 ran 0 Watched t y wan features changeâ€"till the last change Fixed them in one long look of quiet blest: And strange hands bore thee to thy lonely rest, Out girough the night, across the pathless cep My spirit passes to thy place of sleep, And spa with thought of things that may not 0. Yearns for a voice that might awaken thee. 0 vain desire lâ€"I never loved thee, yet To-night my heart is shadowed with regret; O vain regret! new earth is closed above thee, My grief is only that I did not love thee! A. St. J. ADcoorr. The Rider’s Sermon. Our eltdelr told us yesterday we had not learned 0 we Until we learned how blessed 'tis to pardon and forgive; The door, sweet, precious words he spake like heavenly manna fell ; The pcrfeci peace they brought our hearts no human words can tell. "Love brings millcninl pence.” he said; and . though my lips were dumb. I still kept shouting in my soul, "Amen, and lot it. come !" “ When men forgive all other men, the year of Jubilee Will dawn upm the world," he said : and I, ' “So let it be." “So, love your neighbor as yourself," be then began again, Bud Silgs Fitrl. . across the aisle, he shouted out; (I men I! What rig-ht had he to Yell Amen. the low-toned, measly hound Who took my cow, my new inilch cow, and locked her in the pound! The low-down. raw-boned, homely crank, it lunkhead and a lout. Whose love and grace and heart and soul have - all been rusted out, To sit there in the sanctuary and holler out Amen! IfI could choke the rascal once he'd never about again! One day his .dog came by my house, I'called the brute inside, Gave him a chunk of meat to out, and he crawled off and died. He just crawled oil’ and died right then: Says I, “ I'll let him see, No long-legged simpleton like him can get the best of me." But. oh. that sermon! I would love to hear i preached again. About forgiveness, charity, and love of fellow men. I should have felt as if I bashed in Heaven's es- pecial smile If that blamed villain. Silas Fitz. hadn't not across the aisle. S. \V. Foss. An Enigma to Physicians. May Cross, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Edward Cross, a carpenter in Jordan, a village seventeen miles from Syracuse, N. Y., is an enigma, to physicians. She has lived sixty-seven days without apparent nourishment, and yet she weighs about 110 pounds and was strong enough to sing at her grandfather’s funeral three weeks ago. She was under Dr. Van Duyn’s care in Syracuse for six weeks in June and July, but little could he done for her, and she was sent home. Her peculiar condition has been coming on for two years, when she had the grip. During all the time she was in Syra- cuse her mother says she had only a teach of nourishment. She began her long fast immediately upon her return home. She was unconscious much of the time, and had hysteria toward the end of the sixty-seven days. She suddenly regained consciousness and some strength. At that time the doc- tor tried to 've her milk, but it curdled in her mouth fore it could be swallowed. Food in any form would remain on her stomach an instant only. Then the hysi- cians moistened cloths on her stomacl‘i), and the nutrition was absorbed by contact. Another peculiar phase of the also is that she does not sleep, with the exception of an hour in the morning. Opiates and chorals are used only as stimulants. She talks with her mother about dying, but she has gener- ally a happy temperament. Her physicians and friends are anxious to know what keeps her alive. QUEER THINGS IN HORNS. As Intel-eat min Cows‘anil Other Mir or: Horas as hen the “bled Unicorn. “ There are a good many queer things to be told about horns," says Osteologist Lucas " Take the horn of the rhinoceros, for ex- ample. It is nothing more than a protubsn ance composed of agglutinated hair. You cut it in two, and, examining its structure under the microscope, and, exa‘minin its structure, you find it is made up euti ' of little tubes resembling hair tubes. Of course these are not themselves hairs, but the structure is the same. The horns of the African rhinoceros sometimes grow to the length of four feet. From them the Dutch Boers make ramrods and other articles. You may remember that the handle of the a! used by Umslopogaas in ‘ Allen Quater- main ’ was a rhinoceros born. In old times rhinoceros horns were employed for drink- ing cups by royal personages, the notion: below that poison put into them would show itself by bubbling. There may have been some truth in the idea, inasmuch as many of the ancient poisons were acids and they would decompose the horny material very- quickly. “ Several species of rhinoceroses, now ex-- tinct and only found in a fossil state, used to exist which had no horns at all. The name meaning as it does ‘horned nose,’ is ratliera misnomer in their case. Several kinds of rhinoceros in Africa have two horns, one be- hind the other, but the extinct rhinoceros, known as the dyceratherium, had a pair of horns on its nose side by side. Many of the giant reptiles of long ago had enormous horns. be great lizard known as the trio- eratops had a big horn over each eye and a little one on its nose. The dinoceras and the tinoceras, igantic mammots of the tel-1T iary epoch, ha three pairs of prominenccs on their bonds which are believed to have supported horns. However, the material of which horn is composed of quickly decays. being largely composed of gelatine and other animal matter, so that these appendages are apt to he found absent when the fosssl bones of beasts which had them are found. “ Some fishes have horns, which are actu- ally outgrowths of bone on their heads. The box-fish, which inhabits the warm waters of the globeâ€"a. little fellow 6 or 8 inches longâ€"hashorns aiiiuchinlength. Birdshavs horns also sometimes. The horned scream- er (which is related to the duck) has a single horn attached to its skull, springing from u cartilaginous base and curving upward. It is really a modified feather, though a true horn. “ Plenty of reptiles have horns. Lizards are very commonly provided with them. There are chameleons with three horns like the ancient triceratops. Horned toads have a sort of crest of four horns on the back of their heads. There is a small African sucks which has two horns. No horned tortoise now exists, but a fossil specimen was found a while ago on Lord How’s Island, in the Smith ern'Pucific, which had four horns on its crest, and resembles a cross between ii horned toad and asnapping turtle. Doubt- less you have often heard of human beings with horns. Such appendages in their case are abnormal developments of bone.” ____._.____._ French Generals and Soldiers Fare Alike. Having accompanied German forces, as we‘ll as French, during the war of 1870. I know that, us a rule, Prussian officers of dis- tinction keep up some sort of comfort. Food is sometimes short, as it must be with all ranks in war, but the forms of military civâ€" ilization are observed. The French Gener- als of armies, Generals of the special arms attached to the Generals of armies, and (len- cruls of army corps, with their staffs, do not attempt to live in even that semi-luxury which is possible by the expenditure of much trouble on the part of the younger staff officers on such occasions. The hospi- tality with which I met was met, because where there is courtesy and indness and forethought it is impossible not to see the fullest hospitality, though the fare be rough. ' In peace mameuvrcs, even under difficult circumstances, English officers expect their comforts, and would be somewhat disconw certcd if quartered in peasants’ houses where vermin was not unknown, and where the floors were often composed of mud, and Wild plentifully lardcd with the fat and onions of the canteens of the advanced troops or of the enemy of the previous night. English officers in peace would be somewhat inclined many of them, to expect at the General’s dinner or at the mess the presence of many servants and of good wine and food, where- :is the French Generals of armies with their brilliant staffs lake nothing “’lhll them, and drink the roughest country wine or the com- mon brandy made by the peasants from the skins and stalks of the grapes in places where as is general in Champagne, water is scarce and bad and content themselves with the mutton of the previous week and the beam of the previous year. The example for the private soldier is perhaps the better, and there is much dem- ocratic wisdom about the attitude of the French Generals toward their men. A com, niander of armies, when a private soldier with a letter from an army corps command- er comes to him during dinner, pours on! wine for him with his own hand, and some- times, I havc heard, in his own glass ; and the roservist from the towns (perhaps a hotel keeper, a lawyer, or journalist.) who is sei'vin in the ranks, and who, while re- taining t is gold-rimmed eyeglass of civil life, is paddling about with bare feet and bare back in a courtyard full of filth, feels less aggrieved if he knows that the brilliant (lencrul is not much better lullâ€"[Sir Charles W. Dilkc. ' A Slight Mistake. The editor of a weekly journal lately lost two of his subscribers through accidentally departing from the beaten track in his uns- wcrs to correspondents. Two of his unb- scribcrs wrote to ask him his remedy for their respective troubles. No. l, a he py father of twins, wrote to inquire the st way to let them carefully over their teeth- ing, am N02 wanted to know how to pro- tect his orchard from the myriads of grues- hop era. '1‘ re editor framed his answers upon the orthodox lines, but unfortunately transpos- ed their twonarnes, with the rcsultthat No. 1, who was blessed with the twins, read, in reply to his query : “Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to them, and the little pests after jumping aboutin the flames afew minutes will speedily be settled." Whilst No. ‘2 plagued with grasshoppers. was told to “Give a little caster oil 9:4 . _ . . . . rub their gums gently .Vith a bone ring