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,_ y‘ . 'P .. l 11 wwa - -_â€"w‘ _ Lfi ‘ F_ ‘» HOUSEHOLD. Hy Baby- ly baby must have gone away: Here, in my arms but yesterday, 0r scam: so long ago. His golden head upon my breast. His weary little limb: at rest. 1 rocked him to and fro, The little darling's rogulsh eyes Arc bright and blue as summer skies. 0r SQottish bells so fair. But. sleep docs veil with lids like snow, And like the summer's sunshine glow His waves of golden hair. And so in .baby sleeps. and I Am guardms' o'cr with watchful eye My foul of pride and Joy. But changes came and baby grow 30 fast and stron , that e'er I know My baby was a oy. A child. in boyish blouse and skirt, Who rides a broom‘aud delves in dirt. Whose checks are dark with tan. Comes romping in with noisy shout, To see what momma is about, My sturdy little man. But oh, with head upon my breast, No baby nestles close to rest; I have him still. I know. My boy fills all my heart. but I. on how my head, and murmuring sigh “I miss my baby so." â€"â€" Don't be Ill-natured- An ill-natured word spoken without re- flection fastens the charge of impropriety on a pretty woman guilty of nothing worse than high spirits of youth, and that want of caution which -so often accompanies these hi h spirits mated with innocence. Want 0 reflection is the undoing on her side, as well as on that of the ill-nature which destroys her for want of thought rath- er than for overplus of malice. Because she is brisk and bright, she is, therefore, assum- ed to be light and fast. Her frankness is made to look like impudencc, her gayety like immodesty. When she is good tempered she is coarse; and her very courage is insensr- tive rather than brave. As for her manners to men, they are shameless, and no other word is to be said. From all which the poor young woman, whose worse crime is a cer- tain heedlessncssâ€"a certain want of prcvzs- siou as to where appearances are against her and leave her reputation vulneableâ€"is con- kisaable have never been ted a other than pink and perfect. No other portion of the face, however, so quickly responds to symptoms of ill health in the body as do the lips. Fever blisters are the disfiguring reminders of a cold; dry, broken, or bloodless lips show that one is out of sorts, even more certainly than heavy eyes or dejected mien, and it is a woman’s duty to endeavor to restore them to their soft, rich redness, which is the outward and visible sign of good health. To do this the general system must be toned up, diet regulated, and a regular house-cleaning gone into ; but there are cer- tain defects of the lips that can be overcome without all this trouble, because they arise from a woman's own fault. Many of us, from nervousness or habit, have away of biting our lips which will surely result in swelling, bruise or dryness that is both un- comfortable and unpleasant to look at. Therefore, the first step is, to break off so pernicious a practice by watching oneself very carefully. Next, anoint the poor, bruised members with some healing salve of a pure make. Do not, however, think to cure chapped lips by anointing them after being out in the air. The time for treatment is before the mischief is done, putting on a little cold cream every time you start out for a walk which you will find highly beneficial and will keep your lips in winter just as sweet and rosyas when the milder zephyrs of summer rule the air. A writer whose knowledge of such sub- jects is beyond question says that glycerine and rose water should never be used to soften the lips, as this remedy has one great drawback, namely, that it induces the growth of superfluous hair, a . warning which all women will gladly heed, for no one desires to pose as abearded lady. When cold sores appear rub them with cold cream, being careful not to break them, and they will soon disappear. The reason that they usually cling so long is, that they are tam- pered with by rubbing or biting, and there- fore cannot liuve a chance to heal properly, as they would if left alone. The same writer who warns us a ainst glycerine and rose water is a strange. vacate of hot water, and afiirms that there is scarcely any ailf ment that will not succumb to its healing virtues. Therefore, with cold cream and Vial-ed by 14899?“ 80‘511’ 55” 830°" by one ‘ hot water one should be able to present to thoughtlesst ill-natured chatterer and for the world a, pair of may lips free from any ever after goes through life with a mildewed unsightly blemishes, name and a rusted character. All small societies are infested by this kind of plague. Human nature has its imperative instincts, whatever the theatre on which they are enacted. The stage may be as wide as the world’s greatest tragedies, or as narrow as the enmities in the old woman’s ward of a workhousc, but the in- stincts are the same ; and this of unfriendly interpretation is one of them. It is a kind of inverted form of the dramatic instinct as well as that curious combativeuess which seeks to destroy for the mere pleasure of destroyingâ€"even as a man will shoot gulls on the sea, for no good to anyone but the fishes which feed on flesh, and the gratihcation of his own pride as :1. marks- man. The moral world is an analogue of the material ;and in this careless ill-nature we see the thoughtless marksman who‘ shoots seagulls, which he can neither bag nor eat. for the mere pleasure of the sport. And in restricted societies, whore big events are rare and heroic tragedies almost impos- sible, the dramatic instinctgets its gratifi- cation out of mean and petty quarrels, mean and petty slanders, and the wildfire flung about by substantially good-natured. but also mentally blind and thoughtless chatterers. A death, with the will to follow, is fertile ground for this kind of thoughtless: i11- nature ; and subordination, perjury, undue influences, a later will destroyed, frustrated intentions, and all the rest of it, wander about the talk of the place like so many sooty little imps wandering through an en- chanted wood wherein they are set fast, and whence they cannot get loose into the open day. These imps of speech and foul surmise never reach the light of open accusa- tion. They wander hither and thither, and are handed on in whispers from one to an- other, and no one pauses to take heed of the words which imply so much more than is known, and accuse of crimes no one could verify under pain of his life. Even relatives will say these terrible things of one another; and a foolish, irresponsible chatterer of this kind did not hesitate to charge her sisters and brothers with the crime of undue in- fluence, because she was dissatisfied with the father’s will, which was simply just in its impartiality, and did not make specializ~ ed provision for her. Here, her charges were thou htless, only inasmuch as, being a fool, she id not realize the magnitude of the offense she assumed had been committed. But there was none of the carelessness we have spoken of above ; and what she said, she meant, and the arrows she let fly she wished and intended should stick. In some houses gossip of this kind abounds. The talk is all of people, never of things: and when you get into the habit of talking about people, you necessarily slip into that of ill-nature and slanderous in- sinuation. it is so much easier to dispraise than to praise ; and ill-natured criticism can be made umusinz, while encomiums are apt to be heavy when not cloying. Besides, ill- nature reacts in a kind of reflected light on oue‘s own crsou. When we condemn our dear frien Jor this‘fault and that,uaturally the corollary is that we ourselves are free of that special sin, and look at the world so far with clear eyes. The pot calling the kettle black is a very sill performance :and when Satan and Sin fall out, the little demons laugh for joy. So that, unless we think to hide our own ill-doing by exaggeratiu that of another, we are supposed to stun free from those moral troubles by which We say our neighbours have been scored and scratch- ed. And even the careless and good-natur- ed, ,who give themselves up to the (“‘1 habit of slanderous insinuation and ill-aster. ed commentary, are not quite without, . conception of self in their lives, no not, quite ignorant of that inner glow which ac. companies the sharp against another 40 not disdain the thankfulness of the Men anal-1.9;:- Ideals. The notion that men have of their own worth, says George Mc Donald, and of claims founded thereon, is amazing ; most 1 inning of all is what a man will set up to himself as the standard of the woman he will marry. What the woman may have a right to claim never enters his thought. He never doubts the right or righteousness of aspiring towed a woman between whose nature and his lies a golf, wide as between an angel praising God and a devil taking refuge from him in a swine. Never a shadow of compunction crosses the leprous soul as he stretches forth his arms to enfold the clean woman. Ah, white dove, thou mustlie for a while among the pots ! If only thy mother he not more to blame than the wretch that but not8 after his kind. He does not die of self loathing ! how, then, could he imagine the horror of disgust with which a. glimpse of him such as he is would blast the soul of the Woman? Yet hasheâ€"what is it, the virtue, the pride, or the cruel insolence ?â€" to shrink with rudest abhorrence from one who is, in nature and history and ruin, his fitting and proper mate ! To see only how a man will be content to he himself what he acorns another for being, might well be enough to send anyone crying to the God there may be to come between him and himself. Lord, what a turning of things upside down there will be one dayl What a setting of lasts first and firsts last. Tested Recipes. RIBBON CAKE. -â€"-Crcam one cup butter,add gradually two cups of sugar and beat well, 1 then add four eggs Well beaten; mix to- gether three and one-half cups flour and three teaspoonfuls baking powder, add this to the first mixture alternately with one cup milk. To half of the batter add one on raisins stoned, cut and floured, one haf pound figs choppedvery fine and floured, one tablespoonful of molasses, one-half tea- spoon of cinnamon and one-half teaspoon of clove, mace and allspice mixed equally, one-quarter of a grated nutmeg, the s ices to be mixed with one tablespoonful of our. Bake in buttered pans in a moderate oven about thirty minutes and put together with a thin layer of jelly. This is a good recipe for general use, and the rule makes two cakes each of dark and white cake. Spread the jelly on while the cake is yet warm. t may be put together with frosting if liked but this makes it too swaet for some tastes. Apple jelly is a good kind to use as it has less flavour and detracts less from the fine flavour of the cake. In making this cake about eight spoon- fuls of the batter will make one of the layers. Frost with a boiled icing. Boil together until it threads one cup sugar and one-third cup water; beat the white of one egg to a froth, pour on the hot syrup and. best five minutes or until cool enough to spread. Flavor with one-half teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir the sugar and water together until they are mixed then do not stir again. After a few minutes try the syrup to see if it will thread; use a cold spoon and do not leave it in the hot sugar and then ex 1: to make an accurate test. Do not best the white of the egg too much for this kind of frosting. GOLD LEAF Cansâ€"Cream one scant half cup of butter, add one cup sugar and cream together ; beat the yolks of eight eggs to a cream and add to the first mixture. To this add one-half cup milk and one and one- balf cups flour mixed with two teaspoonfuls baking powder ; flavor with one teaspoon- fal orange extract and bake in a moderate even about forty-five minutes. This is a good rule for using the yolks of eggs and makes a cakefiof tine texture. Bake it in a cleanlydiviug Pharisee that he wasnot as that ' “‘81, loaf “a fro“. sinful Publican yonder, whose living was madebutof the sufi‘erings of others and whose soul was therefore spotted with guilt. even as a leopard’s skin is spotted with stains un- changeable. was the Lips Tell. The rosy lips of lovely woman have been sung about by ports of all ages. The Cu. pid‘s bow in dainty curves has always been avg-holinjl of a Mikaela-math- and lips most' Gasser. Imamâ€"To the grated rind of one area e add two tablespooufuls of orange juice an one teaspoonful of lemon juice, let stand one hour, strain and add to the un- beaten yolk of one egg. To this add con- fcctioners’ sugar to make it still enough to spread. Be careful to grate the yellow out side rind without taking any of the white peel. The flavor of the orange lies in the rind and not in the juice, and the rind also gives color. This is one of the easiest kind i supposed it was an inconsequential part of be used instead of the orange juice and any flavor preferred. But be sure to use xxxx confectioners' sugar. This frostin may be thinned if it is too thick to spree easily. but these quickly made frosting: state be spread, not ured on a cake like a boiled icing. Anot er frosting is made with the white of an egg and confectioners’ sugar or with the white of an egg. a toblcspoonful of water and the sugar. Sroxus Cansâ€"In making this kind of cake always start with the yolks of the eggs ; beat them until light, add the pow- dered sugar gradually and continue beating. Now add the flavoring, after that the whites of the eggs beaten stifi. Add a part of the eggs at a time cutting and folding them in as in making an omelet. Now add a part of the flour in the same way and then the rest of the egg and finally the last of the flour. Remember not to stir but to fold it over. Bake in a moderate oven. Five eggs, one cup of powdered sugar, one cup of flour is a good rule. Paper the pan and butter it very slightly ; to remove the cake turn the pan on one side then on the other and let the weight of the cake assist in its removal. Turn out on to a napkin or a wire cooler but as a delicate cake sometimes takes the im- pression of the wires the napkin is to be preferred. Sorr GISGBKBREAD.â€"Put one cup of molassesand one-quarter cup butter into a saucepan, place over the fire and remove as soon as it reaches the boiling point. Add one and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda and beat well; add one beaten egg with one-half cup of sour milk and two cups of flour mix- ed with'one teaspoonful each of ginger and salt ; beat again, turn into buttered pans and bake in a rather quick oven twenty minutes. This gingerbread bakes well in a large sheet- but better in individual pans. As the soda is added to the hot molasses the efi'ervescence must be caught quickly and hence better results With small cakes that are baked quickly. . ON E EN GIN EBR’S EXPERIENCES. lle Ens Killed Twenlyvtwo‘ Persons, But Is Regarded as a Safe Elan. “Lafayette Truman, engineer of the Eric train that ran into the Eastern -Illinois train Friday night, has killed twenty-two men.” said C. R. McCullough, a brother engineer of the Chicago and Eric road, at the Clifton last night. “ But,” he continued, “in no case was he to blame, and in every case he has been exonerated by the jury. Most of these killings were at railroad crossings and in other similar accidents where the engin- eer could not be held responsible. He is only a young man, but I want to relate two experiences of his which show him to he possessed of a marvellous presence of mind. “ In October, 1890, he was engineer of a train that was dashing through burning forests near Lima, 0., at the rate of sixty miles an hour. That night the sky was con- cealed by black storm clouds, and before the burning district was reached the dark- ness from the windows of the cars seemed impenetrable. Then, as the train proceeded, the horizon became hazily red. As the train sped on nearer, the blood-red clouds appeared to he tumbling about tumultuous- ly as if it were a sea of fire buffeted by angry winds. At lengh the train seemingly plunged into the heart of this forest of fire. A“ There was a straight stretch of track continuing for seven miles. As the train dashed along the fire sprang up in sheets from crackling, falling trees on either side, and above was a canopy of sliifting,eddying, red smoke. Down the track, beyond the reach of the headlight, there was onlya red blur. A bridge spanning a deep river was ahead somewhere. Suddenly, immediately in front, Truman saw a shower of big sparks fly upward. In an instanthe was reversing his engine, and the train was brought to a standstill just on the edge of the river. It had flashed over him when he saw the sparks that the bridge was burning, and that a Spar had fallen, sending up, as it went down, a show of light. He saved the train and the lives of 300 passengers. There is not one engineer in a thousand who would have arrived at the conclusion so quickly that the additional transitory light was from the bridge burning. Ttey wordd have the phenomena, and plunged on to destruc- tion. 4‘ The other incident, while not surround- cd by the popular hero-like aspect lent by the forest fire and the run through it, was no less heroic, and showed a far greater pres- ence of mind. This was in Ohio too, near Hepburn. His train this time was running at about the same rate, sixty miles an hour, when the rods on each side of the engine broke, instantly killing the fireman and wrecking the cab. Truman, to save him- self, jamped into the tender. And there he was isolated, and it were, for the train was going sixty miles an hour, and the broken rods were flying madly and beating deafen- ingly, and it was impossible for him to reach an airbrake with the train going at that speed. He is only a young man, but he did something then that many old engineers have sings told me they Would never have thought of. He got out his pocket knife and cut the hose,thcreby applying the automatic brake, and succeeded in stopping the train. I would rather ride behind that man,” con- cluded Mr. McCullough, “than any engineer in the United States.” 0 "W Cat's Objection to India- A good cat story, comes from Bombay. In August a Liverpool resident proceeding to Bombay took out with hima cat, which he in- tended to present to a friend in India. Some days after the arrival of the steamer in Bom- bay pussy was missed, and though she was searched for high and low she was nowhere to be found. Her owner had quite given her up for lost when he received intelligence from England that the cat had made her ap- pearance at her old Liverpool home on the 25th October, as calm and collected as though a trip to India and back was quite in the ordinary course of her life. The facts are vouched for by a Bombay pa er, and there is no reason to doubt their su stantial accuracy, but it is not made clear whether the cat was stowed away in the steamer in which she went out to India, and carried back on its return voyage in the ordinary course. _ -W Emin Pasha is not dead, if latest reports be true, and it is beginning to be felt that all future rumors of his decease will need discounting unless he comes to the front and confirms them. The City of St. Petersburg is preparing to build a bridge over the Nova to cost 814,- 000,000. The plans and specifications were required to do, _ 1 Al. Eiffel, the distinguished wholly disabuse itself or the idea, favored drawn by of frostings to make. Water or cream may French "chime; .nd ...aineen Baptist minister, he remembered, with an ONE OF THE OLD SONGS- Iew the ludispesed Singer Conquered. i The immense hall was crowded with " all sorts and conditions of men,” all impatient and eager to hear the much advertised new singer. The orchestra had played nearly all its repertoire, in order to prevent the audience from noticing the long wait, and still she did not come. When at last she did appear she was accompanied by her manager, who explained that the artist was suffering from a very unpleasant sore throat, and that, though rather than disappoint her kind friends she would try to sing, her selection would not be the brilliant aria on the rogrammc, but a simple, old ballad. Wit a sweeping how he retired, and the prelude began. A moment later the singer’s voice fully proved that the sore throat was a stern reality, and not a deep-laid adver- tisinglschemc, as the wise ones of the audi- once ad begun to suspect. She was quite hoarse, and when she reached the high note her voice almost "cracked," but still the worse she sung and the more nervous she became the more intently the people lists.» ed and the more interested they seemed. But in truth, the majority of her bearers were far away in mind, though present in the flesh, and the sounds they board were distant ones. The fat man in the corner who looked so intently at the singer’s feet was thinking of the far away time when somebody had sung the very song to him, and the face at which be mentally gazed was a very difl'erent one from that of his wife, new sound asleep at home. The old maid by his side had a pleasant memory connected with that song, too, and the thought of it brightened her face and made her look so young and pretty that her old admirer across the aisle lost his heart allover again, and the “wedding bells ” in his left ear came true soon after. ‘ i The servant girl sitting with her “feller ” in the “nigger-heaven ” grinned and tossed her head when the refrain began and hum- med it softly to herself. "Sure, yer vice is sweeter'n her'n,” whispered the “feller,” and two people were in a state of blissful enjoyment for the next half hour. The gray-haired wrinkled old singin teacher in the parquette sighed and groanet and laugh- ed all at once as he recalled his varied ex- periences with the wall-worn music, and in front of him two pretty vocal students thought cxultantly how beautifully they would be able to sing that song “next term." Alas ! their teacher, might have told a difi'erent story, and that kindly old tyrant Time did so eventually, for one of them.cntcred the heavenly college ver soon and the other married a. plumber. I’lp in the gallery two shabbin dressed women glanced sadly at one another, and one wiped away a tear, while not far from them the angry frown on ope face and the bitter ex. pression of the other told as plainly as words of a domestic tragedy. MUSIC AND THE MUSICIANS Down in the orchestra seats the first violinist’s face lighted up with a heavenly smile as he listened to the tender tune, for it was associated in his mind with a happy courtship, a merry wedding day, and thirty- five years of perfect married life. In the first row a young man leaned back in his seat, and softly, unconsciously whis~ pered : “ Good-night, mother.” as he thought of the long-dead woman who'had so often sung him to sleep with that Very air. She had intended him to become a amusing smile, and last night he had been sent to interview a gambling-house keeper, tonight he sat in the music hall (she had regarded all such places with holy horror, as wiles of the evil one,) and he blushed to think of where to-morrow might see him. Beside him another journalist satsmiling in a half-sad,ha1f-happy wayâ€"a bright youn woman about to give up the work she loved for the sake of the chubby little urchin whose golden head had nestled-in her lov- ing arms the last time she had heard that ballad. ' And so, the song went on, the theatre was crowded with ghosts and'spirits, ghast- ly skeletons, and pleasant visions. Wedding marches and merry dance tunes, funeral dirges jangled in soundless melody ; people and dreams and hopes long dead came back to life again ; babies that had never lived were cradled in loving, lonely arms; gold mines were discovered, difliculties sur- mounted, disagreements settled, mountains climbed, and oceans crossed. To some it murmured of still, pleasant country places ; to others of the meaning sea, while not a few felt for the moment a breath of the fresh wind, which, in childhood, had seem- ed to blow all troubles away. In some cars and hearts it sung a psslm of thanksgiving, in others it walled a dreary despairing dirge: to others again it was the stirring call of a battle trumpet, but more than all it whispered of the hope and cheer which underlie all human sorrow. And so it came to pass that when the song was ended the applause was deafening and the singer felt obliged to return. Her next selection, a brilliant gavottc, was very well rendered, but the applause was faint and perfunctory, and the astonished artiste wondered why such a musical audience should show so little discrimination. If for a moment she could have looked back of the flowers and congratulations she reâ€" cicvcd,tlicmanager’sdelightfulapprobation, and the faces of her many new made friends she would have seen that the mem- ories awakened, had pleased all hearts. wâ€" The Kangaroo as a Prize Fighter. Among the recent developments in the world of sports, in Australia, is the train- ‘ ing of a kangaroo to stand up and spar or box with a human antagonist. An exhibi- tion of this curious kind of combat nowl takes place regularly at the Royal Aquar- I ium, London, and it attracts many" spectators. The way in which the natural kangaroo s are in the bush, his birthplace, is peculiar. 1 c places his front paws gentlyâ€"almost lovmglyâ€"upon the shoulders of his anta- gonist, and then proceeds to discmbowel him with a sudden and energetic movement of one of his bind feet. From this ingenious method of practicing the noble art of self-defense the kangaroo at the Royal Aquarium has been weaned. The clever instructor of this ingenious marsupial has trained it to conduct a contest under the conditions known as the Marquis of Queeusberry’s rules. It cannot be said that it adheres to these regulations quite so rigidly as the combataan who pummel one the English, that those whoare up; have as good a right, to defend the i" with their facts: with their fista 1‘ (a corals in p‘reference to Ir bore, a predi- lection whic , considering the force with which a kangaroo can luck, might quite conceivably cause an injury to his antagon- ist. However, no harm, has as yet been done, and the encounter between human and marsurpial is spirited and novel, and admirably illustrates the war of man to bend the brute creation to 's will. A writer in a. recent number of the Dvor- land oblatth advocates the importation and domestication of the kangaroo in this eouu- tr . He ives authorities showing the feasi- bi ity of t e project, and believesthe animal could be introduced and raised here with profit. The flesh of the kangaroo is highly esteemed as a food, and from the hides a valuable leather is made. These are legiti- mate uses of the animal. But it is shock- ing to think of degrading so useful a cron- ture down to the level and equal of abrutal human prize fighter. m- -...h- ..â€" IMPOBTS AND EXPORTS. Trade With the Old Country ls Grov‘ Rapidly. ' An interesting and encouraging series of tables showing the trend mmlume of Canadian trade has been issued by Mr. N. Clarke Wallace, Controller of Customs, and submitted to his Excellency. Exports show an increase of $15,500,000, and imports in- creased $S,500,000. The year 1882 was, up to the past year the “ high water mark ” of our exportsâ€"Abe value being $102,137,203. In 1892, however, they were $113,983,375. The excess of imports over exports since Confederation is $511,118,931, or a yearly average of $20,444,759. . The course of trade has changed during the past yearâ€"it has trcnded steadily from the United States to the Mother-landâ€"but at the same time it has grown to agratif ing degree with the West Indies,.Chijia an Ja‘ pun, showxng that the-Government's efforts in these directions to find markets are meet- ing with success. The following table shows the imports by provinces with the amount of duty collected thereon :â€" \’a1uc. Duty. Ontario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,962,291 $8,295,788 79 Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,2:{1369 7,691,866 46 bova Scotia . . . . . . . . . . . 9,788,601) 1,293,614 67 New Brunswick ...... 5.542.551 1.010.579 115 IMunitoba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,017,140 775,923 93 British Columbia .. 6.358.976 1,412,878 '37 P. E. Island . . . . . . . . . . . 540,286 153,197 55 N. W. 'l‘erritorlcs. . . .. 86,316 16,826 16 $127,406,068 $20,550,473, 53 Owing to the abolition of the sugar duties the importation of this commodity shows a large increase compared with 1890. \Vith reference to the exports, Canada sent to England in 1890 3,600 dozen of eggs, valued at $820 ; last year the record was 3,937,655 dozen, valued at $592,218. In these same years there was a great falling off in the shipment of eggs to the Unit; States. The experts of butter also show ft gratifying increase. 1.\‘LA.\'D REVENUE serum. The figures in the report of the Controller of Inland Revenue for 1892 are most en- couraging, being considerably in excess of the previous year. In 1892 the total amount of inland revenue accrued was $8,076,526 as against $6,005,005 in 1891. A decrease is noted in the quantity of malt taken for con- sumption to the extent of about 20 per cent., as compared with 1890-91, and 1‘25 per cent., as compared with the average of the preceding four years. The total quan- tity was 46,425,882 pounds. This is doubt- less owiug to decreased production of malt liquors, on account of the increase of the duty upon malt from one to two cents per pound. The following table shows the annual con- sumption per head of population of the articles mentioned : ' Your. Spirits. Beer. Wine. Tobacco 1889. . . . . .77 3.263 .097 2.153 1890... . .. .883 3.3611 .104 2.143 1891... ... .745 3.790 .111 2.292 189.1. . . .. . . . . .701 3.516 .101 2.291 â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€" ...â€"..â€" DBATH FROM ERIGE’I‘. Authentic (‘nses In Which It Has Been Known lo Occur. '” “I have interested myself somewhat in looking up unusual causes of death,” said Dr. Elder, "and have met several well an- thenticated instances where fright was the cause. The English Surgeon General, Frau- cis, tells of a drummer in India across whose legs a harmless litard crawled while he was half asleep. He was sure that a cobra had bitten him, and it was too much for his nerves and he died. “Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by fear. His wife was insane, and one day she escaped from her keepers. and, dabbling her clothes in blood, rushed upon her hus- band while he was dozing in his chair. King Frederick imagined her to be the white lady whose ghost was believed to in- variably appear whcnevcr the death of a member of the royal family was to occur, and he was thrown into a fever and died in six weeks. “But perhaps the most remarkable death from fear was that of the Dutch painter- '1'en‘tman, wholivcd in the seventeenth ccnf fury. One day he wont into a room full as anatomical subjects to sketch some death’- heads and skeletons for a picture he intend, ed to paint. The Weather was very sultrys and wnile sketching he fell asleep. He we. aroused by bones dancing around him and the skeletons suspended from the ceiling clashing together. “It a fit of terror he threw himselfont the window, and, though he sustained no 11811003 injury, and was informed that a 31' t earthquake had caused the caramel. on among his ghostly surroundings, he died in a nervous tremor. I could cite many other cases where the shock to the nervous system ghich we know as fright has produced eath. W The subject of men’s hats is engaging the attention of a numberof London newspapers and their readers. Mr! Labouchere has headed a crusade against the “ top hat,” and speaks in favor of some kind of a soft felt hat as a substitute. One correspond- cnt urges the adoption of a three-cornered variety, as combining in the hlfltlbd so all the qualities required in a t. “ t is becoming to everybody," he says, “smart another at the National Sporting Club arc'lookiug, compact, handy, warm, weather- On the contrary, it cannot roof, and is not easily blown off.” The l’hincc of Wales is anxiously looked to for a by the French, though discountenauced by sign on the proper thing, 1 . s‘ ~14. . . o. m_;.._u. . ¢.5.~,';s.._.,,.tv~r‘ rupeeâ€"“am Pm W mâ€"u-M, ..., ,...&_..~ nan-me we - -.....”«u... m