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., Y r ~3’E‘Fra 3i new : v' ‘- ' thin 3 like that. ) love ' due him the capta 005115” [730. “ After the warden had made a good man out of me I worked faithfully, sir; I did everything they told me todo ; I work- ed willingly and like a slave. It did me good to work, and I worked hard. I never violated any of the rules after I was broken in. And then the law was passed giving credits to the men for good conduct. My term was twenty years, but I did so Well that my credits piled up, and after I had been here ten years I could begin to see my way out. There were only about three years left. And, sir, I worked faithfully to make those years good. I knew that if I did anything against the rules I should less my credits and have to stay nearly ten ears longer. I knew all about that, sir; never forgot it. I wanted to be a free man again, and I planned to go away some- where and make the fight all over,â€"to be a man in the world once more." “\Ve know all about your record in the prison. Proceed. ” "Well, it was this way. You know they were doing some heavy work in the quarries and on the grades, and they wanted the strongest men in the prison. There weren’t very many: there never are very many strong men in a prison. And I was one of 'em that they put on the heavy work, and I did it faithfully. They used to pay one men for extra Work, not pay ’em money, but the value of the money in candles, tobacco, extra clothes, and I loved to work, and I to work extra, and so did some of the other men. On Saturdays the men who had done extra work would fall in and go ,1 up. to the captain of the guard,and he would i f He had it all down in a book, and when a give to each man what was coming to him. man would come up and :all for- what was in would give it to him, , whatever he wanted that the rules allowed. ‘, “One Saturday I fell in with the others. A good many were ahead of me in the line, and when they got whafil‘they wanted they fell into a new line, waiting to be marched ‘ to the cells. When my turn in the line ' came I went up to the captain and said I would take mine in tobacco. He looked at me pretty sharply, and said: ‘How did you ' get back in that line?’ I told him I belong- ed there,â€"that I had come to get my extra. He looked at his book,and he said, ‘You’ve had your extra; you got tobacco.’ And he told me to fall into the new line. I told him I hadn’t received any tobacco ; I said I hadn’t got my extra, and hadn’t been up before. He said, ‘Don’t spoil your record by trying to steal a little tobacco. Fall in.’ . . . It hurt me, sir. I hadn’t been up ;Ihadn’t got my extra ; and I wasn’t a thief, and I never had been a thief, and no living man had a right to call me a thief. I said to him, straight, ‘I won’t fall in till I get my extra,and I’m not a thief, and no man can call me one, and no man can rob me of my just dues.’ He turned pale, and said, ‘Fall in, there.’ Isaid, ‘I won’t fall in till I get my dues.’ . With that he raised his hand as a sig-r l - us and the two guards behind him covered me with their rifles, and a guard on the west wall, and one on the north wall, and one on the portico in front of the arsenal, all covered me with rifles. The captain turned to a trusty and told him to call the warden. The warden came out, and the captain told him I was tryingto run double on my extra, and said I was impiideut and insubordinate and refused to fall in. The warden said, ‘ Drop that and fall in.’ I 01! him I wouldn’t fall in. I said I hadn’t run double, that 1 hadn't got mycxtra, and that I would stay there .till I died before I would be robbed of it. He asked the cap- . tain if there wasn’i some mistake, and the I captain locked at his book and said there i was no mistake; he said he remembered me when I came up and got the tobacco and he see me get back in the old line. The war. den didn’t ask the other men if they saw me get my tohhaco and slip back into the old line. He just ordered me to fall in. I told him I would die before I would ' do that. lsaid I wanted my just dues and no more, and I asked him to call on the other men in line to prove that I hadn’t been up. ‘ “He said, ‘ That’s enough of this.’ He sent all the other men to the cells, and left iue standing there. Then he told two guards to take me to the cells. They came and took hold of me, and I threw them off as if they were babies. Then more guards came up, and one of them hit me over the head with a club, and I fell. And then, sir,”â€"-here the convict's voice fell to a whisper,â€"-“and then he told them to take me to the dungeon.” The sharp, steady glitter of the convict’s cycs failed,and he hung his head and looked despairineg at the floor. "No on," said the chairman. They took me to the dungeon, sir. you ever see the dungeon 2" 1' Perhaps ; but you may tell us about t.’ “The cold, steady gleam returned to the convict's eyes, as be fixed them again upon the chairman. “There are several little rooms in the dim. goon. Theoue they put nioinwas aboutfive by eight. I! has steel walls and ceiling, and a granite floor. The only light that comes in passes through a slit in the door. The slit is an inch wide and five inches long. It doesn't give much light, because the door is thick. It's about four inches tliick,and is made of oak and sheet steel, bolted through. The slit runs this way,"-â€"-mak- ing a horizontal motion in the air,â€""and it is four inches above my eyes when I stand on tiptoc. And I can’t look out at the factory wall forty lest away unless I book my fingers in the slit and pull myself u U . p‘He stopped and regarded his hands, the peculiar appearance of which we all -had observed. The ends of the fingers were no- commonl thick ; they were red and swol- len and o knuckles were curiously mark- ed with deep white scars. "Well, sir, there wasn’t anything at all in the dungeon,bnt they gave mea blanket, and they put me on bread and water. That's allthe ever give you in the dungeon. They bring t e bread and water once a day, and that last night, because if they come in the day time it lots in the light. " The next night after they put me inâ€" it was Sands nightâ€"the warden cams withthegu and asked meiflwasall ri ht. Isaid Iwaa. He said, ‘Will you begun yoursel. and go to work to-mor- row!’ I said. ‘ Km ail-:1 wen'tgotowork Did saw me fall into the new line, but he ddnt/ HE INMATE gambitâ€"Nomi? till I get what is due me.’ He shrugged his shoulders, and said, ‘Vcry well : maybe you'll change your mind after you have been in here a week.’ “ They kept me there a week. The next Sunday night the warden came and said. ‘ Are you ready to go to work to-morrow 1" and I said, ‘ No: I will not go to work till I get what is due me.’ He called me hard names. I said it was a man’s duty to de- mand his rights, and thata man who would stand to be treated like a dog was no man at all.” The chairman interrupted. “ Did you not reflect," he asked, “ that these officers would not have stooped to rob you ?â€"that it was through some mistake they withheld your tobacco, and that in any event you had a choice of two things to lose,-â€"oue a plug of tobacco, and the other seven years of freedom 2" “ But they angered me and hurt me, sir, by calling me a thief, and they threw me in the dungeon like a beast. . . . I was standing for my rights, and my rights were my manhood ; and that is something a man can carry sound to the grave, whether he’s bond or free, weak or powerful, rich or our. p “Well, after you refused to go to work what did the warden do ‘3” The convict, although tremendous excite- ment must have surged and boiled within him, slowly, deliberately, and weakly came to his feet. He placed his right foot on the chair, and rested his right elbow on the raised knee. The index ringer of his right hand, pointing to the chairman and moving slightly to lend emphasis to his narrative, was the only thing that modified the rigid immobility of his figure. Without a single change in the pitch or modulation of his voice, never hurrying, but speaking with the slow and dreary monotony with which he had begun, he neverthelessâ€"partly by reason of these evidences of his incredible self-controlâ€"made a formidable picture as he proceeded : “ When I told him that, sir, he said, he’d take me to the ladder and see if he couldn’t make me change my mind. . . . Yes, sir; he said he’d take me to the ladder.” (Here there was a long pause.) “ And I a human being, with flesh on my bones and the heart of a man in my body. The other warden hadn’t tried to break my spirit on the ladder. I didn’t believe the warden when he said he would take me to the ladder. I couldn’t imagine myself alive and put through at the ladder, and I couldn’t imagine any human being who could find the heart to put me through. If I had believed him I would have strangled him then and there, and ot my body full of lead while doing it. No, sir; I could not believe it. ‘ “And then he told me to come on. I went with him and the guards. He brought me to the ladder. I had never seen it be- fore. It was a heavy wooden ladder, leaned against the wall, and the bottom was bolted to the floor and the top to the wall. A whip was on the floor.” (Again there was a pause.) .“ The warden told me to strip, sir, and I stripped. . . And still I didn’t believe he would whip me. I thought he just wanted to scare me. - “ Then he told me to face up to the lad- der. I did so, and reached fny arms up to the straps. They strapped my arms to the ladder, and stretched so hard that they pulled me up clear of the floor. Then they strappedmy legs to the ladder. The war- den then picked up the whip. He said to me, ‘I’ll give you one more chance: will you go to work Lo-mcrrow ‘2’ I said, ‘ No ; I won’t go to work till I get my dues. ‘Very well,’ said he, ‘you’ll get your dues now.’ And then he stepped back and raised the whip. I turned my head and looked at him, and I could see it in his eyes that he meant to strike. . . . And when I saw that, sir, I felt that something inside of me was about to burst.” , The convict paused to gather up his strength for the crisis of his story, yet not in the least particular ' did be change his position, the slight movement of his point- ing finger, the steady gleam of his eye, or the slow monotony of his speech. I had never witnessed any scene so _dramatic as this, and yet all was absolutely simple and unintentional. I had been thrilled by the greatest actors, as with matchless skill they gave rein to their genius in tragic situa~ tions ; but how inconceivably tawdry and cheap such pictures seemed in comparison with this i The claptrap of the music, the lights, the posing, the wry faces, the gasps, hinges, singgerings, rolling eyes,â€"how flimsy and colorless, how mockingaud grot- esque, they all appeared beside this simple. uncouth, hiitge iuine expression of immeas urable agony l ' The stenographer held his pencil poised above the paper, and wrote no more. “And then the whip came down across my back. The something inside of me twisted hard and then broke wide open, and went pouring all through me like melted, iron. ltwas a hard fight to keep my head clear, but I did it. And then I said to the warden this: ‘You’ve struck rue with a whip in cold blood. You’ve tied me up hand and foot, to whip me like a dog. ‘ \Vell, whip me, then, till you fill vour belly with it. You are a coward. You are lower, and rneaner, and cowardlier than the lowest and meanest dog that ever yelped when his master kicked him. You were born a coward. Cowards will lie and steal, and you are the same as a thief and a liar. No hound would own you for a friend. Whip me hard and long, you coward. “'hip me, I say. See how good a coward feels when he ties up a man and whips him like a dog.’ Whip me till the last breath quits my body; if you leave me alive I will kill you for this.’ "His face got white. He asked me if I meant that, and I said. ‘ Yes; before God, I do. Then he took the whip in both hands and came down with all his might." "That was nearly two years ago." said the chairman. "You would not kill him now, would you 2" “Yes. I will kill him if I get a chance and I feel it in me that the chance will come." " \Vell, proceed. " “He kept on whipping me. He whipped me with all the strength of both hands. I could feel the broken skin curl up on my bi'ck, and when my head got too heavy to hold it straight it hung down, and I “v the blood on my legs and dripping ofl‘my was into a pool of it on the floor. Something was straining and twisting inside of me again the thing twisting inside of me that hurt. rd automatically at his shirt. I counted the babes, ' and when I counted smile wrinkled his was face, displaying the to twenty eight the twisting got so hard gleaming teeth more freely. ihst it choked me and blinded me; . . . and when I woke up I was in the dungeon you had spoken it long again, and the doctor had my back all allâ€"sit’s all rightâ€"now. plastered up, and he was kneeling beside werkâ€"tmmorrow.” me, feeling my pulse. ” The prisoner had finished. He looked around vaguely, as thongs he wanted to go. “And you have been in the dungeon ever since ‘3 " “ Yes, sir; but I don’t mind that. ” “ How long?” “ Twenty-three mouths.” “ On bread and water 2" “ Yes; but that was all I wanted.” “ Have you reflected that so long as you harbor a determination to kill the warden you may be kept in the dungeon? You can’t live much longer there,'and if you die there you will never find the chance you want. If you say you will not kill the warden he may return you to the cells." “ But that would be a lie, sir; I will get a chance to kill him if I go to the cells. I would rather die in the dungeon than be a liar and sneak. If you send me to the cells I will kill him. But I will kill him, without that. I will kill him, sir. And he knows it.” “'ithout concealment, but open, deliber- ate, and implacable, thus in the wrecked frame of a man, so close that we could have touched it stood, Murder, â€"not boss t- ful. but relentless as death. “ Apart from weakness, is your health good?" asked the chairman. - “Oh, it’s gond enough,” wearin answer- ed the convict. “ Sometimes the twistin comes on, but when I wake up after it I’m all right.” .The prison surgeon, under the chairman’s direction, put his ear to the convict’s chest, and then went over and whispered to the chairman. “ I thought so,” said that gentleman. “Now take this man to the hospital. Put him to bed where the sun will shine on him, and give him the most nourishing food.” The convict, giving no heed to this, shambled out with a guard and the sur- geon. The warden sat alone in the prison office with No. 14,208. That he at last should have been brought face to face, and alone, with the man whom he had determined to kill, perplexed the convict. He was not manacled ; the door was locked, and the key lay omthe table between the two men. Three Weeks in the hospital had proved beneficial, but a deathly pallor was still in his face. “ The action of the directors three weeks ago,” said the warden, “made my resignation necessary. I have awaited the appointment of my successor, who is now in charge. I leave the pri<on to-day. 1n the mean time, I have something to tell you that will interest you. A few days ago a man who was dischargrd from the prison last year read what the papers have pub- lished recently about your case, and he has written to me confessing that it was he who got your tobacco from the captain of the guard. His name is Salter, and he looks very much like you. He had got his own extra, and when he came up again and called for yours the captaiu,thinking it was you, gave it to him. There was no inten- tion on the captain’s part to rob you. ” The convict gasped and leaned forward eagerly. ~. “ Until the receipt of this letter,” resum- ed the warden, “I had Opposed the move- ment which had been started for your par- don; but when this letter came I recom- mended your pardon,and it hasbeen granted. Besides, you have a serious heart trouble. So you are now discharged from the prison." The convict stared, and leaned back speechless. His eyes shone with a strange, glassy expression, and his white teeth glistened ominously between his parted lips. Yet a certain painful softness tem- cred the iron in his face. “ The stage will leave for the station in four hours,” continued the warden. “You have made certain. threats against my “That human word," he whispered,â€"-“if ago, ~-ifâ€"-hut it's 1'“ goâ€"I’ll go to There was a slightly firmer pressure of the band that held the warden’s : then it relaxed. The fingers which clutched the shirt slipped away, and the hand dropped to his side. The weary head sank back and rested on the chair; the strange, bard smile still sat upon the marble face, and a dead man’s glassy eyes and gleaming teeth were upturned toward the ceiling. (rue use.) THE BRITISH ARMY. A Year‘s Cost or the Present Establish. meat-Few Changes Contemplated.~- The estimates for the British army, in- cluding the ordnance factories, amount to $90,405,000 for the year 1894-95, This is an increase of $1,390,500 over those of a year ago. In appears from the oflicial memorandum accompanying them that on Jan. 1 last the total number of edectives, including India, was 219,400. Excluding those serving in India, the number in the home and colonial establishments is 150.3”. W hat is known as the First Class Army Reserve numbered 8 l,349 at that date, against 76,655 a year earlier. Itisuoted that during the your recruiting for the English army was quite easily effected. Indeed, even a year ago, so numerous were the appli- q cents as compared with the force needed that it was found practicable to dis- peuse for a time with the enlistment of “ specials,” and to raise the stand- ard for enlistment, in the Foot Guards. Measures had then been adopted also to equalize the number of battalions at home and abroad, but it is said that “cir- cumstances have not yet admitted of a re- duction of the force in Egypt sufficient to effect this desirable result.” In the volun- teers the number of efficients continues to increase, and there isomuch larger attend- ance at brigade camps. The recruiting for the militia has been brisker. A noteworthy provision is that by which asoldier, instead of accepting his new allowance of clothing. may retain his partly worn clothing, and receive commutation with fewer restrictions than heretofore. Itis believed that bene- ficial results may he expected from the change when it is in full force. Large supplies of magazine rifles for the infantry have been received, so that a good I part of the work at the factories during the coming year will be devoted to carbines; E On the whole, very little change in Great Britain’s military establishment seems to have been planned for the coming year, and this is an indication that neither the con- dition of the army nor its prospective ser- vice pomt to the necessity of noteworthy « changes. Fruit for the Farm. Fine, fresh fruit, and plenty of itâ€"in variety as well as qualityâ€"is what 'every farmer ought to have. Nothing more help- l ful to the housewife, anxious to . provide it lvaried bill of fare for the workers. in the field, could be done than to furnish her with ample supplies of luscious, life-giving fruits in their season. Bulletin XCII of the Ontario Agricultural College, publ shed by the Department of the Miniter of Agri- culture is a 32-page pamphlet of large,clear type, with a number of appropriate illus- trations scattered through the text that will very materially aid in bringing about a con- summation so devou tly to us wished. There are five parts to this little book about fruit culture, each dealing wit-h a different line of that increasingly important branch of agricultural industry. It is this featureâ€" the variety of fruits treated ofâ€"making the valuable information given by the differ- ent writers available all over Ontario, which is particularly to be commen d- ed in this ‘ publication. The intro- ductory article is by Prof. Puuton. It life." The warden paused: then, in a voice treats 0f the grape and “10 diseasoa WhiCh that; slightly wavered from emotion, he I detract from success in growth of the Vine. continued: “I shall not permit your iu- lThe “8”, by J- W- Beadle, f°rm°rly 0f the teutions in that regardâ€",for I care nothing about themâ€"to prevent me from discharg. a duty which, as from one man to another, I owe you. I have treated you with a cruelty the enormity of which I now com- prehend. I thought I was right. My fatal mistake was in not understanding from the beginning, and in doing so I have laid upon my conscience a burden which will embitter the remaining years of my life. I would do anything in my power, if it were not too late, to atone for the your nature. I misconstrued ' your conduct ] lOntario Fruit Growsrs’ Association, tells how the farmer’s apple orchard may best, be made and cared for. Then follows “ Strawberry Culture,” by \V. W. Hilborn, of Leamington, Ont. It is doubtful wheth- er there is a farm in Ontario on which strawberries cannot be grown profitably for family use, and still there are thousands of farmers who do not grow them. This ,should not be the case, as they can be ' grown with so little trouble and expense. Strawberries ripen during the heat of early summer, when such an addition to the diet J wrong I .have done you, If, before is most healthful and necessary. What is I sent you to the dungeon, 1' could have more delicious than a lush, ripe plum“! The understood the wrong and foreseen its con- fourth “SEY- by Mr- G. W0 Cline: Winona: sequences, I would cheerfully have taken 'i8 deYOiefi ‘70 5h“ delecml’le frult- Plum my own life rather than raised a hand Igrowmg ‘3 3 source 0f PW“ to? 0&8“. 119' against you. The livss of both of us have gleCled by the “Flue” Of this Provmce- been wrecked, but your suffering is in the Will! the excepmon 0f P’thW “‘9 apple past,â€"mine is present, and will cease only the Plum can be grown more ewly and with my life. For my life is a curse, and I cheaply than any pther fruit: . . prefer not to keep it.” The last part. is a compilation of fruit \Vith that the warden, \ery pale, but. statistics, sliowmg the number of apple, with a clear purpose in his face, took c.1391", Plum and Cherry “eel. and 0‘ grape- loaied revolver from the drawer and laid it Vines in the mwnfihipl 0‘ Ont-“lo: 83 com- before the convict. “Now is your chance,” he said,rquistly: “no one can hinder you.” The convict gasped and shrank away from the weapon as from a. viper. " Not yet,â€"nct yet," he whispered in agony. The two men sat and regarded each other without the movement of a muscle. “ Are you afraid to do it?" asked the warden. Amomentary light flashed in the convict’s 1: es. y“No l" he gasped; “ you know I am not. But I can’tâ€"not yet,â€"not yet. ” The convict, whose ghastly pallor, glassy eyes, and gleaming teeth eat like a mask of death upon his face, staggered to his feet. “You have done it at last! you have broken my spirit. A human word has done what the dun on and the whip could not do. . . . t twists inside of me now . . ‘ I could be your slave for that human word." . Tears streamed from his eyes. “I can't help crying. I'm only a baby, after allâ€"and I thought I wasa man.” He reeled, and the warden caught him and seated him in a chair. He took the convict's band in his and felt a firm, true pressure there. The convict's eyes rolled vacantly. A spasm of pain caused him to puted for 1802 and 1893, from returns sent in by farmers and fruit growers to the De- partment of Agriculture (Bureau of Indus- tries.) There were last year 750,000 of young trees and nearly 2,250,000 of bearing age. N ow, when grain-growing alone is practi- cally played out, fruit culture comes as a boon and a blessing to farmers, in so far as it offers with dairying and one or two other special lines new sources of profit for the cum-prising agriculturist. Coming so soon after the glorious vic- tories achieved at Chicago by the Ontario fruit exhibit, the advice contained in this , bulletin as to cultivating the wider field which the Columbian Exposition afforded the Province an unexampled opportunity and means of advertising to the world for x the sale of those fruits we are able to grow lto perfection, the issue and thorough dis- ; tributiou through the country of this fruit ibnlletin is a good move. Sent as it is to i the members of largners’ institutes and the Patrons of Industry, there are yet many others to whom it would preve a timely guide. Upon application to the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Toronto, anyone so desiring may obtain a copy of the bulletin. am An Instance in the Family. Mrs. Chatter: “Do you believe that raise his free hand to his chest; his thin, . cures can be oil'scted by the laying on of gnarled fingersâ€"made shapeless by lcugzhands 2" My back didn't hurt much: it was use in the slit of the dungeon door-clutch- l A faint, bud / my boy of smoking in that way. " Mrs. Clatier: "Most certainly. I cured N THE LYNX. Ila n a Dangerous and Troublesome All- use! In Norway. The lynx has very troublesome animal in Norway, and the folds of the farmers \I'O never safe from its depredations. All do long the 1 ti: lies in some cool covert, an as the nig t comes on or in the gray of the morning, he descends n on the sheep, satisfying the cravings o a bloodthirsty nature by killing all that come in his way. It is not enunoommon occurrence forafsrm- er to lose ten or twelve shes in one night. During the Winter the lynx ills foxes and hares, and those birds which he can sur- prise iu numbers: and what seems incred- ible, sometimes attacks elk. Lynxes vary in size, the largest ones being but a trifle smaller than a wolf, while others are as small as a domestic cat. At times they are very ferocious, and often attack dogs with- out the slightest provocation. The lynx, being proverbial for aeuteness of sight, often outwit: his hunters ; but after discovering the tracks of a lynx, the usual way of following him is this: A man follows the tracks in the snow until he has reason to believe that the lynx is not far distant. Then starting either to the right or left, as the nature of the ground permits, he describes a large circle. Should he not again fall in with the track, he is of course aware that the lynx is within the circle. If, on the contrary, he again cuts the track in his detour, he makes a fresh circuit from that pomt, and so on, until he succeeds in drawing a ring around the beast. He may then proceed to made his circle by small degrees, providing always there be no cause to think the animal is on the alert;in which , case to do so is perilous work. In this way the lynx is sure to be found sooner or later. The question of running the lynx down on snow shoes has often been discussed. A young Norwegian, who had gained quite a reputation for killing bears and elk, was once persuaded to attempt it. He started out one brilliant moonlight night, and kept on for three days and nights, resting on twn of the nights only, and then in disgust gave it up, as the lynx persisted in keeping to the thickest brakes and hardly ever crossed a bit of open to give the pursuer a chance of a spurt. The only sure way to bag a lynx is to hunt him with dogs expressly broken for the purpose; but for visitors this is an exâ€" tremely difficult matter, as dogs that Will face a lynx are not easily obtained. The “belghund” used in Scandinavia for elk and bear hunting (usually an Esquimaux or mongrel of that breed), would eagerly follow the lynx and bring him to bay ; but a well- broken dog of this species is so valuable that its owner would be unwilling to slip him upon an animal that Would certainly maim him for life, if notkill him altogether. Dogs of this sort sell anywhere from $100 to $300, according to their sporting merits. One can seldom be certain of shooting a lynx when heaters try to drive him toward you, stationed on one side of the ring, with other shooters in a line. He can easily hide himself fromthe heaters in trees,rocks etc., and also seems to possess a certain de- gree of the cunning of the fox. When the fords are frozen the lynx sometimes makes expeditions to the islands in the vicinity of his abiding place. ‘ As a rule, it is only young Aynxes that take to a tree when hunted or alarmed, but exceptions occur. The lendsmand of Skjaerdalen, a kind of chief constable, g waiting at hiapost fora hare which he knew- to be afoot by the biying of the dogs, was amazed to see a large gray animal, very un- like a hare, come bounding out of the brake and rush up a tree near him. He fired both barrels of his gun with no apparent ellect, and speedily loading again called out to the man on the next post to come quick- ly as there was abear in the tree. He then went underneath the tree and fireda third time, when the animal crashed through the branches to the ground, dead. It proved to be a very large lynx, quite two feet in height. _ The color of the lynx is generally ofa dark reddish gray, spotted with reddish brown, but when the snow falls he turns a light gray or cream color, and the spots are not to be distinguished. Butterfly Thermometer. This isa handsomeoruamcntfor any room and one that it is not difficult to make. Cut the body from cardboard, with two sets of wings of any desired size; the larger, the plainer the figures of the ther- mometer will stand out. Cover the back wings with pale yellow crepe paper, asting it around the edges on the wrong 81 e, and drawing it into abs. 0 by small stitches at the body part of t e foundation, so that the orinkles will all run lengthwise of the wings. Cover the front wings, folding the edge which laps over the back wings so they Will look distinct from them : paste around the edges on the wrong side, and gather the paper into the body with stitches. Rollapiece of cotton for the head and the upper part of the body, and cover with the crepe paper, tying it in tightly at the head with gold thread, and attaching a fine gold wire to the head for the feelers. Border the edge of the wings with gold paint, and place large blue watercolor and gold spots on the wings as indicated, and shade the wings from the body with sepia. Took a thermometer, such as comes for fancy work, over the body, and line the who u with plain tissue in r, either plac- ing a dress ring at the has to hang it by or attaching ribbon under each wing for that purposeâ€"[Toronto Ladies' Journal, Au innlreepeer in Norwa is not r mitted to have female atteddants in uporocm, unless it be his wife. Reports from Florida state that the as. gator is rapidly becoming extinct. It is reported that fully 2,500,000 of them ha. been killed a the past dozen years. 9 ., I" ,_.,,,_,__,..__....-_ . 2“.--”Mâ€"r-» v