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SLOCUM, r Tonga St, Tofgiti TflE greatest dL foveryofthepn •eat a-e for Keyi^ 'n- the Eo«eK^ unng all Bleed U, ^r an-l 'â- • â- V" „ment'to regain his spent breath "" v^foo'steps halted too; and f°" -^SoW himhe wasfoUowed. ^.!itSp.uloSalyarini, deter- murder in his eyes. udden fear, La Gautier ran me â- tbeencoun U agony oJsu |«3 on to the Temple Pier, the steps " " rushing water. 5 laS, S a'^lutoh like i?on, S^- ^iVhcK ""-s they struggled to and 'ittthoughtto escapeme,you murderer 1 ..youinu „ J, of my wife I rS e yor'Back you^go into the riv- I" "Seia your black heart!' I^ie doomed man never answered 'too precious for that. r »i* a K^^ 'f"I^,;,.. «^r,swered breath And so they 1 A'fnr a minute on the slimy pier, ., -S t iij never relaxing, till sudden- lirarini s grip " ,^^ ^rew a knife. One he drew a |pi.ii,.3.""i"'l-^-?*«»"" ]l;2 Robert St, cura lof Krysipelas of 2 yri li-sndinjf; Hoht. "or- Inoll, 24 South St Jliu^hter cured iK^ilepiif Fits after 1 |\'sars!8ufferins; Jen. 1 lie Birreil, 66 W«I. I lut St., cured of â- lohn Wood, 95Cath- tic :t:i Nervous Prostration, twoHdJ of a broken heart. â- f- It relief. Sold at 50c. a*^ i.l.KV.'iCO., Proprietora. p|li|fift1887,i lONES ENGRAVER ingS^East mONTO. f.fl!sh a muttered scream, and Le '"•"•, iSlood gushed out. Footsteps ti' the stairl a shrill shout from a " •" ice Sdlvarini started. In one ^J Te Gautier had him in a dying rid with a dull splash they fell over Lrds into the rushing flood. Down, 1 tiev went, the tenacious grip never ' ' the ^vater singing and hissing m Ira fidiug tbeir throats as they suck- i- down, turning them dizzy, till they ,ted down the streamâ€" dead boatmen out late, attracted by the team, rowed to the spot and far down lowBlsckfriars, they picked up the dead Rin^p •« P*"" fc both locked together in the last clasp |inlS,S„';Ul^ i. They rowed back to the pier 'leen benefited by it J-arried the two corpses to a place for â- " â- " " " night, never heeding the woman who nfollovring them. .Vest morning they saw a strange sight. across the murdered man, her head a woman rested. They come and kiss yon.â€" Fred, ciwne ud hold baby for a monnent." " No, indeed"â€" with affected horror. «^ I Bhould drop him down, and break him, or CMTy him upside down, or some awfol tragedy." " Yon are not fit to be the father of a bt« tiful boy and everybody says he is the vei y image of yon." "I waa considered a good-looking man once," said Maxwell with resignation. "No matter. Bat if that small animal there ia a bit like me, may 1' They all laughed at this, being light- hearted and in the mood to laagh «t any- thing. Presently, they divided into litUe groups, laodcre and Lnigi together. All her cold self-possession was gone now she looked a very woman, as she stood there nervously plucking the leaves from the rose m her hand. "Isodoreâ€" Genevieve" At this word she trembled, knowing scarcely what. "Yes, Lugi," ' 'Five years ago, I stood by yonr sidein the hour of your trouble, and you said some words to me. Do yon remember what thev were " " "Yes, Luiri." The words came like a fluttering sign. "I claim that promise now. We are both free, heaven be praised free as air, and no ties to bind us. Come?" He held out his arms, and she came shyly, shrink- ingly, towards them. "If you want me," she said. With one bound he was by her side, and drew her head down upon his breast. " And yon are happy now, Genevieve V " Yes, I am happy. How can I be other- wise, with a good man's honest love? â€" Carlo, my brother, would you could see me now I" "It is what he always wished â€" Let us go and tell the others." So, taking her simply by +he hand, they wandered out from the deepness of the wood, side by side, from darkness and despair, from the years of treachery and deceit, out ' into the light of a world filled with bright sunshine and peaceful, everlasting love. [TheEnd.1 raig i 1„B his breast, -, j ,j ted her but she was quite dead and cold, le upon her face now, wiping out all to of care and suflferingâ€" a smile of hap- Co^^^ull and Biiiou^' W and deep content Valerie had crept !ec Mrs. J. Beal, B AugmS Be unnoticed to her husband s side, and for a few days people wondered and Bcnlated over the strange tragedy, and 1 it was forgotten. A new singer, a d poisoning case, something turned and distracted the frivolous public mind nthe "mysterious occurrence," to use .. jargon of the press. Maxwell lost no time in getting to Gros- ir Siiuare the following morning, where greeting may be better imi itribed. He told Edd the w mission, omitting nothing that he nght might hv. of interest to her and in turn hf.ird the story of Le Gautier's mdy, ami the narrow escape both had had' ai his schemes. sliers £LL.-KNOWN '•^^. «"**|i /^' ;*•«â- â- '** ^r Try .ilso PEEiRLESS an.i l{;r5-:- Powers. 'CROIVTO. The Hygiene of Bathing- In a short article published not very long ago in the Western Rural a writer recites the practical use of bathing, and does it in the emphatic language of the experienced physician, who knows fromobseri^ation the effect ot water in promoting health. A few changes adapts it to these columns Among all the appliances for health and comfort to mankind, we may safely say there â- is nothing so well-known, so useful and so comforting, and yet so carelessly performed or thoughtlessly neglected, as bathing. The skin of the human body, from head to foot, is a net- work of pores. One can not put a finger on a single place without covering which ought always As evidence we need only to call to mind the great drops of sweat so often #een gathering on one's face and other parts of the body in warm weather â€" espe- 1 cially during the time of severe exertion i These pores lead into minute tubes ox chan- " I do not propose to stay any ^longer m • j^^jg^ ^^^^ meander through the skin, :ndon,"Sir (leofiery said. "After what 1 The dust which comes in contact with Hive all gone through, a little rest and animals covered with hair is mostly kept out Eietness is absolutely necessary.â€" Enid, ^^^ ^^ perspiration is conducted aWay from " the pores of the skin by those hairs hence, bathing is not so essettial with them as p-af Jold you care to go down to Haversham "Indeed,,! should. Let us go at once. amabsoluttly pimng for a little fresh air KB. The place must be looking lovely iw." 'All right, my dear, "the baronet replied suoth to say, not sorry to get back :i irt of the world where Sir Geoffrey iirttri.? was s Mne one. Then we will go to-morrow, and Max- 'tiiha!l join u.s." "But Isodore? I have not seen her yet." "Oh, she can come down thcte some tae, directly we are settled. " ut€r on in the same day. Maxwell heard ae strange tale of Le (jau tier's death. He oi not tell the news to Eni'i then, prefer- *gto wait till a time when her nerves were »ote steady, and she had recovered from the inockof the pastfew days. So they went down ' Haversham, and for three happy months there, " the world forgetting, by ^eWorld forgot;" and at the end of that «»e, when the first warm flush of autumn 'ached the eloping woods, there was a iMtweddmg at the little church under the 311 Gradually as time passed on. Sir Geoffrey ^overea his usual flow of spirits, and waa ^n" D ° to have another " manifesta- *°- He burned all his books touching "e supernatural, and gradually came to i7 â„¢ cfiiduct in a humorous light. In â- ^oonrse of time, he settled down as a "^1 country gentleman, learned on the jectof short-horns and topdressing, and Joying a rooted aversion to spiritualism. .« Whispered in the household-only it ;«inotbe mentionedâ€" that he is getting a state of things which, all things Uout, LL BEAI sTTOJSr," ElIS," MOTH," A^RCH." ;stra:ed Catalogne- Y, (irT*o)3 riNNIPEO SiJ^' ""' *° ^^ regarded with in- 4e wi^ w** '®*" ^*t" and sitting about l«ourWp 1""" g^^'^d old house were l^e ilwj â- **^'""^i mournful as usual, I »«« iolW j'f "^^ «*^ liiDi last Max- oiiU-dil;^^ "ty. looking with an air iia»ia7?'\^P"de at Enid, who was sit- 1 iaiinaniivifv®'"'^^*^^' 'ith a little wisp of ' "•'the rZi 1.*â„¢^' a ^^" Personageâ€" to "y*i phrase-but by no means an „ so with naankind, whose bodies are practically denuded of such protection. The glutinous mass of perspiration dust and filth, which in time gathers on the surf ace of the unwash- ed or uncleansed body, covers and clogs the pores, and often poisons the system. Fre- quent ablutions and an occasional immersion in water are thus desirable and often indis- pensable to health and comfort consequent- ly, every family should hav^e a convenient bath of some kind, not only for general neatness of person, but as a means of pre- serving health, and in many cases employed under the advice of a good physician. In the long catalogue of diseases to which flesh is heir, scarcely one can be naihed in the treatment of which a bath is useless. To those blessed with good health, a bath, as a common-sense appliance, gives thrift and growth to healthy functions, a brightness and delightful serenity, a clearness of mind and bouyancy of spirit. It is certainly a blessing to both mind and body. For the mental worker, it is a nerve tonic, A thor- ough application of water of proper temper- ature will calm and give strength and tone to the system. The indoor laborer, who gets but a scanty supply of fresh air, needs a bath to obtain the skin invigorating elements of the open air. „ ^, The outdoor laborerâ€" especially the farmer â€"who works with hCToic energy all day long, unavoidably gathers on the entire surface of his body a complete prison-wall of dust and viscid perspiration; and when -his days work is done be needs then, more than any Other thing, not only a wash, but a good 6oA to fithim for home society, his clean bed and refrieshing sleep. Every one needs a bath at times, and every human habitation should contain something for a complete immersion in wat©-, and, since ccnvMiient and efficient portable baths at comparatively tow figtees w? now exten- sively advertised for sale, there is little excuse for most people to be without this priceless benefit. '" g»y ^aT' ^I^icrece was there, happy "Wlv W.1 °'"®' glorious Isodore, an- ^llo'edbvsT "^.^^^ talked to and fro, "'"'tmiden!'!?"" ^°g-^^« «y«»- The '" ^^\^^^ P*"' a°d alas I truth «d 8»y portty ""^^e will l^e charitable '-*dwev. jS *re you going to stay with us, 1i^^^ "â- '"d asked «°- ' ' '.H She would always How to^g '^^ve^f^-y.Enid 2!""5aV°?.^i"« *° stay,-" MaxweU S!^ nevpT t Conditionally upon your SL^»* beuS '^^^ wliat you have C*-S\l°" r '«« ' Sir Geoffrey ^•" ^^"^e has resigned his mem- ***8ld!" Enid cried. "I must Why Call it a Street Eailway xii« long^ street r^^y .^-*®' „«« wiU^ thft which isfe run brt^ a n^ «T.nf towns near Buenp? Ayres^.H 3^ iffj1«*^pSar in that "de^n^g «- wUl te nin on it £pr..the convenience of SjiughSSkeiigers. £"^?»SE«Se'S^ U aOO box cars. • TIctatairiiJaMlce. ..S" "I'!^»»a." tlie vSSfce of Scone," the •; Stone of JDestiByV the " FiU«w of Evi- dence and ivxAtM Pillow " ate the sev- eral names given to a stone of remarkable antiquity, which lies embedded beneath t^ s«at of the conmatiott chidr in Westminster Abbey, upon which Q^een Victoria set forty- nine yeaxsaeo lifrtIiMaday:(June 28, 1838), when, as a deader and inexprnrienced girl of nineteen, she went through with becoming grace the pompons ceremony of coronation as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and again, leas than two weeks ago, wasoccu- piedby her during a portion of the cere- monies of the jubilee celebration of her ac- cesaim to the throne, a year and a week 5rior to the formality of being crowned, 'he chair itself is a relic of great interest, but in that marvelous Abbey, .so crowded with legends and memories, it carcfcly ob- tains more than a passing glance from the visitor. That' rude ehair, once gilt and em- blazoned with color, contains the old cor- onation-stone of Scotland a sacred stone, which, according to antiquarian lore, Fergus, the first kins of Scotland, brought from Ire- land as a palladium of his race. It is called the " Stone of Destiny," because a prophetic rune has attached itself to it for some 2,400 years. The verse is in the Irish Celtic dialfect, and was rendered by Sir Walter Scott thus " Unless the fates are faithless grown. And prophet's voice te vain. Where'er is found the sacred stone The Scottish race shall reign " Some Irish scholars maintain that the word scuite in the last line, translated by Sir Walter " Scottish," is derived from neither Scots nor Scythians, and that its meaning as given in old Irish dictionaries is a "wander- er," thus csrrying the prophecy far back of the time of the first Scottish king. Again, while the word lia, is Irish for stone, the word phail is Hebrew, and is a scriptural word of deep theological import. It signifies " wonderful " and is frequently used in Holy Writ to convey to the mind of man the in- scrutable character of the t ct, and thought, and power of the Godhead. Literally, there- fore, the words mean the " Ston.' Wonder- ful." Tracing the stone back to Ireland, it is re- lated t^hat on its arrival in that country (on the coast of which the ship was wrecked that brought it) the Ulster prince, who was the Heremonn-elect, was crowned B. C. 580. He was on the point of being inaugurated under some particular cromlech which was supposed to have supernatural powers of in- dicating which out of several aspirants was a man favored by Baal, but affected by the extraordinary story of this stone and the promise, like that made to Judah, of a "per- petual sceptre," conveyed in the Drnidical rane above quoted, he desired at once to be crowned upor it, and accordingly this Ulster King, Eochaid, of Clothair Crofinn, was in- auguated Heremonn of Tara. The under- stood meaning of the rhyme is that -so long as one of the race duly confirmed to mon- archical right on that stone shall have pos- session of the stone, the combination will se- cure to that race the right, and assure the possession, of monarchy. According to bardic tradifion the stone was said to emit mysterious sounds when touched by the rightful heir to the crown, and when an Irish colony invaded North Britain and founded the Scottish monarchy there in the sixteenth century the Lia Fail was carried thither to give more solemnity to the coronation of the king.and more security to his dynasty. The legends of this venerable stone, how- ever, go back to a period long antedating its first xise in Ireland. Tradition avers that it is the identical stone upon which the patri- arch Jacob rested his head on the plain of Luz,when he beheld the vision of the lad- der, and which he " set up for a pillar and poured oil upon it." And again, Jacob refers to ifwhen be says " And this stone which I. have set up for a pillar shall be God's house."' (Gen. xxvii.) It is also re- ferred to in connection with the stone borne in procession to the threshing-floor of Araue- nah, the Jubusite, to instill it as the chief comer stone of the future Temple of Mount Zion, and referred to by the Prophet King in Psalms, cxviii., 22, 23. It is said to have rested in past ages in Spain, and Githelus, the Spanish King, a contemporary of Romulus, is credited with having sent it along with his son when he invaded Ireland. Edward I. took it from Scone Abbey, iii Scotland, together with the Scottish crown and sceptre and solemnly of- fered them at the shrine of Edward the Confesser, at Westminsterin, 1297. In the reign of Edward IIL it was agreed that this famous stone should be restored to the Scots, but when the trophy was about to be remov- ed from Westminster Abbey, the mob of London rose in a riotous manner and pre- vented its removal. The relic is a specimen of old red sandstone, as was determined when a small splinter was accidentally broken off while fitting up the Abbey in 1838. An iconoclastic writer asserts that in color, texture and granular qualities it is identical with the sandstone which Scoen of Palace is built, and is a veritable product of Scotland itself, dug from the same quarry or bed of rock as that of which the modern palace is built. In the wardrobe account of King licfwanl in 1299 there is the entry of a payment to " Walton, the painter, for a step to the foot of the chair, in which the stone of Scotland was placed, near the altar of Edward, in Westminster Abbey." Further evidence^of the veneration in which it has been held for centuries is afforded Vy " """1^ °^, V?f .James L at the council table at Whitehall, April 21, 1613. Hceaid " There is double cause why 1 should be careful of the welfare of that people (the Irish) first, a^ K»g of iwiand, by reason of the long poasesnon tiSr Crowi of Bnghuid hath had of that hmd, and also as King of ScotUnd for the anciMt Kings of SpoUai^ are descended from the Kings of Ireland, and they h^ye all been crooned on that stone^' Dean StanlOT in his " Memerials of Westmins- ter AbW," says that precious relic, m Kine JaUs L deemcdiV;'isthe one prmcipal monument which binds together the whole empire." " The iron nn«,» he sjdds, "the battered surface, the erack which has aU but rent its soUd mass asunder, bear witness to MWjKars. Thosorytreof Jodah haiMBMd ^^ jEritf B-3ctiidd et Umter. th« etovfted Here J iMyk of tbb Fmh FedftatJoii. B. tTsSO. through Fergn^i, his lineal descendant, who took It from IrelA^i to Sootiand. and on it waa crowned at lona first King of the Soots, K D. S30; through Kenneth IL crowned xa^ of Scots and Picts, A. D. 787, at Soom in Piotia through the monarchs of England to Junes I., crowned Ki^g of Great Britain and Ireland and thence down to Queen Victoxia, as descended from the grand- dwt^ter of James I., the last who has re- ceived anointine on it. •^* itiiSlrthW* I The DlscoTerer of Spectacles. Fewer inventions have conferred a greater blessing on the human race than that which assists Impaired vision. It is impossible to say how many there are at the present day whose lives would be almost valueless were it not for the use of spectacles. Indeed, Dr. Jonson rightly expressed his surprise, that such a benefactor as the discoverer of spec- tacles should, have been regarded with in- difference, and found no worthy biographer to celebrate his ingenuity. Unfortunately, however, his name is a matter of much un- certainty and, hence, a grateful posterity have been prevented bestowing upon His memory that honor which it has so richly merited. But it may be noted th'\t popular opinion has long ago pronounced in favor of Spina, a Florentine monk, as the rightful claimant, although some are in favor of Rog- er Bacon. Monsienr Spoon, in his "Re- searches Curienses d'Antiquite," fixes the date of invention of spectacles between the years 1280 and 1311, and says that Alex- ander de Spina, having seen a pair made by some other person who was unwilling to communicate the secret of their construction ordered a pair for himself, and found them so useful that he cheerfully and promptely made the invention public. According to an Italian antiquary, the person to whom Spina was indebted for his information was Salvi- no, who died in the year 1318, and he quotes from a manuscript in his possession an epi- taph which records the circumstance " Here lies Salvino Armoto d'Armati, of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins The year 1318," "I WiU Lift Mine Eyes Unto the HUls." BT BETH. Down in a valle}' all darkness? Oh no 1 Over the hill-tops blight sun-gleams do peep. Lighting till u.id-day the path at thy feet. Lingering with softest caressâ€" loath to go, Invi'ing you to lift vour tired eyes, as they fade, Even to those HiU-tbps, whence cometh your aid. Step along lightly then, why need'st thou fear? Turn never backwarJ in faithless alarm. Everywhere searching for God â€" dread not harm. Pause not to drop on tbe/owers e'en a tear. Holding thy hand, there w One guides thy way. E'en at thy feet though the waters may roll. Never now shall they roll o'er thy Eoul, Since from the Hill-tops thy Master holds sff ay. Bachel's Children. BT L A. MORRISON, 10R0STO. " A voice was heard in Rama, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and she would not be comforted, bfcause thev are not." Matt. II 18. (Revision.) In Rama, of old. a voice is heard Like the sobbing waves on a weary strand The Soul of the list'ning Earth is stirr'd With the Wail from the " PiopheVs land" A voice of weeping and hitter pain Bethlehem's mothers, in anguish sore. Send up to Heaven the sad refrain :â€" That its " comfort can come no more." The harsh decree of a cruel king Hath taken the babe at the mother's breast And the laughing dariings, with lightsome spring. Who were lights of the glad hoine-nest. And the headsmin's sword, and soldier's spear Hath Ecatter'd and mangled them o'er the plain Rachel is weeping for children dear Whom the minions of Rome hath slain. They die for Him, whom they never knew These precious lomhs were enswathed in bloid Theft- martyred lives were a oeal most true That Jesus Carist was the Son of God. They died that this loWly Christ-might live. Who died for them in the after daVsâ€" And evermore He to each dofh give A " Martyr's Palm' and Vict»r'g btys. A "Woodland Tragedy- «• u There is a man in New York who is a cause of anxiety to Ui friends,, bat not for the reason that heia an ordiBary dealer in stocks and a scalper of siraddlea. His name isC. K.EasUan, and he is interesting be- cause he is likely to falldead at any moment. He has died three times so fur, and he dosen't look as though he had yet done the best in that directicm. He is fully aware of his pleasant little pecniiaritv, and is unable to explun it to anybody. The fint time he died was when he was 30 years old, and that was about 16 years ago. He was living in Norwich, Conn. «He had suffered with chronic indigestion and was weak and feeble. One evening he was out walking after an uuuually hearty supper, consisting of a cracker and a cup of tea, when he sud- denly fell on the sidewalk. The Tieople who came to his assituice found him to all appearances dead. The doctors declared that he had died of heart disease, and pre- parations for the funeral were begun the next day. His friends came and looked at his corpse aud remarked what a sad case it was, and the local papers published -full obituaries. On the second niijht he astonish- ed the watchers by tittine up in his coffin and asking for a drink. When hi saw- how close he had come to a premature burial he came near dying in earnest. He lived on regularly enotigh for four yesrs after that. He was' dovn in New Mexico looking after "a mine in the summer of 1875, and it was then that he next suspende d animation. The New Mexicans never had an idea that he was alive, and as the weather is very warm there he would infallibly have been buried if he hadn't been somewhat expeditions about coming to life. Nobody knew him do-wn there, and he was laid out in an undertaker's shop in Santa Fe that served as a morgue. When he came to and wanted to know what he was doing there, he scared tha undertaker's assistant into fits. His next exploit occurred in Phila- delphia one hot day two years ago last summer. He was supposed to have been sunstruck. He carries in his pockets now a carefullj' written n otice containing his address and requesting that he be taken there in case of ac ndent. All his'relatives and friends have been notified not to let him be buried withouthaving a good chance to come to life again if he cin. But -with all his precautions, he is haunted by a foreboding that somebody will bury him alive yet. The doctors don't know exactly what is the matter with him, but he has made arrangements with one of them to find out, if possible, when he really does die. its lone misrations. ... Whether there be sense in the tegend of the stone whether it «me from Egyptor the Holy LM»d; whether or no the pro- Sit^s^enofbe • n»Kty. ,?L^~?" C?:^ther the stone be called thet,teme o^S or Jacob's Piltow, or Jaa Fail, .. 01 """Jf'gj^^e Wonderful," there is no the BY LAURA ROSAliONO WHITE. A traveler, fleeinar from a forest fire. Sought refuge in a coolirg stream near by. From whence he watcbed the eonflagrai ion dire Great trees, like giant torches, lit the sky With ruddv flame, and 'mid them, in the wood, Wreathed by a withered vine, a dead pine stood. The traveler, hearing plaint' .c note) of woe, Gazed upward and beheld, high in the air, A fishhawk circling her dear brood below Was mcnaccdand, despite her utmost care, Must perish if a red spark touched the crest Of the tall tree where she had made her nest. Soon cruel tapers turned the twining vine Into a irlowing ribbon to the peak Of the majestic and enkindling pine. And the affrighted fishhawk with her beak Drew burning sticks from the imperiled nest. Then covered her weak fledglings with her breast. And mid the conflagration's fiery st'n^s. He who waa gaping from the cryst*! wave Saw that she lifted not her sheltering wings. But died for loveâ€" a martjT true and brave. A soul'eFs martvr, by sore love distressed, Till death had not a terror for ber breast. No knowledce she of shining "crown," And "instinct " taught he rshe mu^tdie with those She hid beneath her bosom's rusty down. Tet stillv, a« if lor a night's repose. She cho8"with the sweet boon of life to part, With her belov'd ones 'neath her burning heart After the fire had spent its mighty strength. And black and level w»s the woody place. The traveler Joumeyj d on and met at length Women and men of his most splendid race Fairest and best full many a tale bf bliss And gri t he heard, but never one like this One hopeless for the morrow, -with no art of gracious faith to cheer and soothe and charm. With nothing but a bird's un hinking heart To give heroic courage 'mid alarm Scorning the ether and the earth to be A presence tender to her progeny. A^ if our Father's eye k watching all Tht universe, he saw the scorching play 01 eJementB. Christ said " A sparrow's 'Ml " Is "heeded." Ihaveflnflrfalthto^iay Because this thought has taught me that aboVe Our records are God's chronicles of Love. f-^ â€" ,..•"" •- â- ' Th^ Ekiglish House of ComidOns tco^g- nises ho ieports of its debates, and -has iu- ways declared that to report them is a breach of its privileges. This is still the existing law, although these reports hskve been made without hindrance for more than one hun- Death by Precipitation. Death by precipitation is one of the oldest modes of capital punishment. It prevailed widely over the earth in primitive times. Traces and traditions of i; are found here and there in different countries, and in lo- calities far apart. We can easily understand how this should be so, for in aticient times towns and villages were almost exclusivelv built upon elevated rocks and heights, for the sake of security. The nucleus of the town was usually a large isolated rock, such as the rock of the Parthenon at Athens, the rock of the Palatine at Rome, the rock of the Chateau at Nice, and the rock of Zion at Jerusalem. Precipitation among the Jews was one form of stoning, which was the re cognized legal punishment for blasphemy. Indeed " stoning," as the Mishna informs us, was regarded as merely a term for break- ing the culprit's neck. 1 1 was made imper- ative that " the htyuse of stoniqg," as the place from which the criminal was cast down was called, should be at least " two storeys high " and it was the duty of the chief witness to percipitate the criminal with his own hand. If he was not killed at once by the fall, the second witness had to cast a stone on his head and if he still survived, the whole people wei-e to join together in putting an end to him with a shower of stones. Tnis precipitation constituted an essential and humane feature in the act of stoning. Both modes we must regard as an exceedingly primitive custom, the most nat- ural method in which a rude people would wreak their vengeance, or inflict deserved punishment. It was of a piece with the pre- historic custom of casting stones upon the place where the dead were buried, and so piling up a cairn there. Only Snge;eBted the Death. Law is a very queer thing- Sometimes the suggestion of athing^is enough, and other times even absolute proof is no good. Now when a man dies while a suit is pending the attorney on his side can prociire a postpone- ment by saying he's desul. That is how sen- fcible people would get it, but the law calls it " suggesting the death of the plaintiff or defendant." An attorney some time ago was making that common fight against just ice by postponement tactics. He had about fot to the end of his tether and he felt very lue about it. It seemed inevitable that, the case must be tried. He was on hand when the case was called. A bright idea occurred to him. He got up and said: â€" "May it please the court, I suggest the death of the defendant and asl^n ad journmient for two weeks." " Grfntw" When the case cam» up again there i^Fa row. The attorney* was called up. •'What do you mean, sir," asked the court, " by saying thatthe defen- dant was dead, when he is here in court alive and weU " "I did not say he was dead may it please your honour. I merly took the law for it, which provides that counsel, may suggest the death of tbe defendant," I suggested it. • â€" 'â- â€" Scotland street tunnel, Edinburgh, which has for many years been closed up, has been leased from the North British Railway Con^any, and is being utilized for mush- room cidtnre. Over 200 yards of mush room beds have been planted. A Persian never takes a dose of physic until he has previously obtaineda vonrable answer from heaven in tiie shape of an omen. Should he have the potion at his lips, if he happens to sneeze it is enough the physic is thrown to the dogs, and another practi- tioner is called in. Bream aie much eaten in France, fivepenoe of while er ydlow. wax. When, m^ted, re- vise ftdlntHcfire, and adAfonrtfnnces pore turpentine then stir until cool, when it is ready for use. The mixture brings out the «., we a.«-- •--: â€" -^,„ _f witnem. original colour of tiie wood, adding • lostre dOTbtofonetidng,ituiaPg»rofWit»«.j »^ ^^^^^^jjjj^ As a throne of an onpire kings nave oeen dred years. " The following simple preparation will be found usefnlfor cleaning and polisldng Old furniture Over a moderate fire put a per- :. ,. ^. » f ectly clean vesseL Into this drop two ounces or sixpence m pound bein^ the nsiuJ pnoe in country towns. The old Ftendi wamrbt "Otti a bnme petUbramer aeg omit," whioh Izaak Walton truisiates, "He that hath breams in liis pond is able to bid his firiend welcMne," proves that in IHaoe a bream, like good wine, "needs no bosh." /. i â- i I -^^C. ' I. If rp H 1 'A. mi â- 4r* â- wm