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Si STEWART MTGCal loi^ j.'o, crnrr. his Paper when writinar. i' Dreas and Mantle cattiDr tj ttil| new and improved ilLORS' SQUARES. rtion guaranteed to teadi ladi* 'j*! of cutting all gannenti '3| d children. PROF. S1OT1"«| W., Toronto. Agents wt lt n f'aUMoodLU' 1 KidnV'!^l Trouble oove^oftt^ lent age for 'ff^ inar the " during i-^â€"-- ir and KWnW plaints. A P-r- feloodPwM* AS [been benefltad W» ise: Mra.JI.w3 192 Robert St. CBJ '.fl5ryaipel-a«gj itanding; â- *r^ 1 ,ell. 24 *^»j lauj^ter ««« "J John Wood. 9J0i* Liver Comptoint an* W" itbotOes; Un.J.P^*£^t. ars with NervoMl' '"**'*!£ Am. ler great relieL 8dM»'S.^ F. DALLEYCO..J* Bicycles' SENBATOinS'OMl^ New Catalogna â- •J^il uMpmi wdy Hoc llw â- !•««* tlM«oratkta«M Qd TWO TXSA«i Iâ€" dy. g T. A. nximui. 377oag» San FrandMO p«^" lijiiotii!*^ ,, „i(i Michael Cird«D, wbo W' " rS*bout Al streets, the U/'f J^elpache-. Many tale. of his V*'"' bMbpubliBhed, but one- ID* JV!h£ the most horriWe of all r*"" T have never aeen in print. I (J'B"'i..«i aco John Manafield came U*'" W « Francuoo with faia i^°*,;w They arrived at Clifton etfd"«'*J;fwercina hurry to reach !•*, ^called Solomons, about ninety *«P'*f where Mansfield was to «o J'thev took the traU over the hills "' A voune prospector â€" bis fT'oreotten-uncfcrtook to pilot •^â- ^Thet^^O. Their first day's tA^vel •f"Kl«nk8 of Eagle Creek, a fflngh rapid stream, which flows into r-i There they made camp, within a ' -ip. of the San Carls reservation. â- fAere were rumors that a band of Srhsd left the reservation, there was â- S,Ve news of the uprising, and the Cper there suddenly came into the 'white man on horseback in the f I 0atb of a prospector. Mansfield Jjfe at once recognized the new a Al Streeter, who had gone to *^^tb both of them in San Francisco. r^jew nothing of his career since he l^tcity. Streeter, though known to ]~' on the frontier by reputation, has leen by few except when disguised with fmint and the young man who accom- â- id the Mansfield's did not connect the "sde leader with their visitor. The new r»te supper with them, but declined to tut the camp over night. He did, how- t itjy and talk awhile about the old times. njylight Streeter made his appearance Lw shared their breakfast. Suddenly r^ked a few yards out of camp smd utter- I, cry-imitating a wild turkey. In a Lent the camp was in the possession of 'of Apaches. The two men tried to fiheir Winchesters, but found that they Jbeen tampered with and would not work. |e Indians finally secured the four persons B composed the little party and carried 1 bonnd to the to^ of one of the high I that at that point shut in the river. J the edge of the bluflfto the river's t is a sharp descent of probably seventy E, There Streeter left the hapless victims Ttie Apaches and walked away. Over le precipice, in plain sight of the helpless 'ther and father, the Indians threw the Hie boy. The mother was the next victim. i she was killed â€" before her husband â€" in horrible manner in which a band of lies always slay the females who fa'l he into their hands. The next amusement |ey determined on was the old cruelty of iiing the gauntlet. The young prospect- (tas the victim chosen: He, how;ever, lowing that he had no chance to escape, iioonas his bands were untied made a 1 and sprang over the cliff following the «le boy. Seeing him go over the frightful e the Apaches gave him no further con- Bat he was not killed outright. He rack fairly in the water, and £he shock (io much lessened that a broken leg was only apparent damage. With his ippled limb thai poor fellow crawled fif- len miles to a ranch. There he died, after iniwhat I have just told you I was Ineofthe men to whom he told it. Sever- I later we went to where the Indians i stopped on top of the bluff and' found be bones of poor Mansfield and his wife Tie former was lying face downward on an kbill. His arms were extended, the iit9 fastened to stakes driven in the itimd. He had been tied down and left b be eaten alive by the red ants. They i cleaned all of the flesh from his bones I those few days." In a Dust Storm. [An English traveller, Mr. A. R. Hope, Titiiig from South America of life on the wpas, rektes some experiences that were pwsnd strange. Here is his account of a Ittnn he witnessed one afternoon while he 1|M nailing some herdsmen on the plains. J"A dust storm " they called to him, and tmtt before he had time to make any in- Wma, it was on them. The air was Imjfded with birds flying before it I ihe next indication of its approach was l»»t we felt particles of the dust blown in il^ ' *°^ ^°*'° ^^^ ^^^^ not only in â- «Med indenseness, but was mingled with 1^" plants and other substances carried iwngby the wind with such violence as to l««*e the skin smart where. they struck it. ttit ""â- '"'g clouds grew larger and r • ^^'""7 oneputting hU hand over w month began to make for shelter. A â- ^ps of ram fell, and these in passing 1 the dust acquired the consistency lir,ff' j",^^ °^ thunder were heard not \1T' *°" ^^°'« ^o°g the force of the hZ2" /° 8^*** *l^at it was difficult to r*Poiies footing. L.,*!i^"' '«°8 " the storm the cattle l*a n ?l" "' herdsmen tried to round I y 1!^ Sreat herd swayed to and fro, I )« tK?*" ** ^^""' '"^^o'" the wind. The iick^l' saw befo-e the dust got so l»hok ^® "'*^' see no more was the 'srot,?!^,. going °ff at a long, swinginjr •ie ho^ i. *™® '""' *»* "» ^e^ '^^ " ii«bt. W.'^v*' s*^° i* ' 30 dark that forttf ^^^°«gl»t i'lto the room. eoiitinjT T °^^ °^ â„¢"® *h® darkness Boit ^-J ^^ .there was something al- '"tthentk "" ^^^ strange phenomenon, 'natter „f "" seemed to look upon it as *W»r "' ^^' throwing off lightly "â- iitt in^,^.°y*"*=* they might have felt at "oitthS'""' *he day's business, be- " a^i^" makintt the best of it, and Hid ]^^ ^oom was soon a Babel of talk *d iaL V ^^^ through the din now "*4 av °" short, sudden peal of •ad the h3 ^^^ *irops, rain did not fall, **thewf®'i' ^hosecamp lay farther "^ftehonf *!." ^^^ storm, were jubilant *tied i»Jv t *^^ rain-cloud was being « of ftL """® ^°^^ on their ground. oithe J *^e most valuable at thU time on v^J^ when it does rain, it does r*«itBmi*°P**; the weather there tt "wnmuid and no mistake abont ?«8j^ fwni Paterfamilias. Att^»harf Kke a pillowf ' ' ' ' ' V^ (with one tAcs) -1 "^D«W «an«e it's in a sUp." Wear Bat "not or pZr*,***^*" Soda aim Bd^ PecBliKdaaa ftonith»«wrfSL long boota to tiie toSsSt • tbe bbolfc PhiSieir*Jr^ «™M»j«jtaL SeT«n dflwBt ^t^ In biMk goiiurSMfalMtottekadI WwO«*ea BigdogdrawlMl»Bd«SJ Stoeet ca« won t stop for y«;r Oidy Jott" ^placet. Indicated by aaigaiNMt«te»S The tab the uniT««I ^J^^S^S^^ fa. Owl^pe. Om stave k»»rW^ «rt SottcanbeboBBdonflieoarriar' back. 9Hrrie«»U tile water up the six â- even p«in of atone atain in Vteaaa Wean olothea ditto for waah. Sepante â- hop for Iwandy, beer, and wine. Pemnt wV^T.**^*^ «"" ***« "tack fa bis hat-band to indicate to the Vienna public hu prerait mental and moral condition. Hacks hung low on the wheels. Driven fa uniform. Everything's fa uniform here. ±aree low. Ten cents carriee you ftota pombach to Leopolstadt Suburban vil- Mges five or six miles distant. Emperor and Empress are frequently seen drivfag on the street. No fnas all hats go off as tiiey go by. Soldiers everywhere sentries ditto, m a chronic condition of salntfag officers. Fleas abundant Everybody eats at tht restaurant Vienna is all restaurant on the ground floor. Little home eookfag is done. Melange and rolls are the universal break- fast Melange is half oofiGae and half hot milk, always brought you fa a tall tumbler with a big table spoon. Living here is very public. If you hire a room the chances are you must pass through somebody's bedroom to get to lit or have some one pass through yours. Female help, fadifferent or obliv- ious to gentlemen lodgers, oome right fa at all hours, and without kiusckfas;, when on duty. Stoves are like monuments, nfae feet high, covered with porcelain. The furnace holds about two quarts of coal. The rest is monu- ment Handsome men, good shapes, full chests, fine bass voices; A pleasure to sit fa railway stations and hear the officials in charge call the trains. Handsome women ditto. Everybody out on the street and shoppfag by 8 or 9 fa the momfag. Nap at noon. Giarden fuU of families dining fa open air at 5 P. M. They go it till 9. Music, flowers, statuary all about Eating not done at a gulp. More happiness to the square yard. Newspapers sinall. Outside world soon disposed of in abont twenty lines. Lots of small comic illustrated papers. "Trmk halles" on every comer. Bound pagodas. Girl inside. No room for more. Sells lemonade, orangeade, soda water, and other light foggy fluid. People here always swallowing somethfatr. Elevator at hotel. Big fuss over it Two men in uniform to run it. Pace, mile an hour. Beds all sfagle. Everybody seems to sleep sfagle here. One more bed on top of bed quilt. Very light, full of feathers, fa a green silk bag. Ban acks everywhere Six stories. Full of soldiers. Soldiers everywhere. Drill- ing everywhere. Drummfag everywhere. Tootfag everywhere. Soldiers marching past hotel at 5 fa the momfag, Always getting ready to kill somebody. Same all over Europe. Never out of sight of a bay- onet. Nations here are awfully afraid of each other. Sfagular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked, iron handle. Reach to the ground Tobacco shops all runby the gov- ernment Keep stamps also. Invariable sign over door " K. K. " (King and Kaiser). The Emperor does all the tobacco busfaess. Not much tobacco in their cigars. Washed, out. Prices of groceries and d^ goods always marked on article in shop Mrindow. Helps one to learn the language. Can read and translate as you walk. Cultivated shade trees lay over anything in America. Six rows, full-grown fa some streets, with walks underneath. Fonntafas, benches everywhere. Business stzeets all shaded, not like Broadway or Fifth avenue. Bath houses five stories high. Everybody here really washes by the bath and not by the bedroom washbaun. Went to one. Girl cashier. Took my mdnw. Turued me over to another girL Black eyed. Good lookfag. Went fa with me. Turned on water hot and cold. Both of us waited for the tub to fill up. Wondered if she'd leave. Strange country. Novel customs. Tub fills up. Girl leaves. Examine door. No lock. Took off collar. Girl bursts in agafa. Brought more towels. And then aprons. Wondered what they were for. Found out Inquired of the girl. What do you suppose To put on â€" one behfad, the other before, and sit still fa while, after us fag the hot water, the girl came back to turn on the cold. No handlfag of water by customer in Viennese bath. Girl must do it all. No such place as Vienna known m Austria. Austrian name. -Wien. From the bit of river runnfag through it Danube River fa reach of city. Timber rafts rfways passing. Miles and miles of cultivated pme forests in Austria. Pass through them by raU. No underbrush. Trees tall and strupht, by tens of thousands. Ayoab Elian. The Bridsh Government have good rea- son to dread the appearance of Ayoub Khan in Afghanistan, and it is not "'^V^S that they are makfag strenuous efforts to prevent him from reachfag that country. England can ill-afford to lose the s«vices of even so doubtful an ally as Abdurrahman, and there is good reason to supposettiat tte GhiJzai cause would be immensely strength- ened by the arrival of Ayoub, whose wm is one with that of the rebels, namely, restor- ation of Shere AU's dynasty. For some years Ayonb Khan has beem waitfagtotake bis revenue fo^ttie depoM. tion of his brother and the ^e"*^*^" " hta own prospect, of succa^»totheAfgl»n S^ne. ^Wh*^. fa 186^^«koub Khan d^ feated Afzul Khan, seized Kandahar, and proSaimed Share Ali. hislather, Abmot of Sfghanistan. it was natatally ««»«ed that he^woSdnext succeed to the ti^e of KabuL Shere Ali. however. '^[^J'f^ wife, who bore him a s«^ .^J^^^ fiSt aoii. aiiAAyHfc^tiia^aMW^a givga former raised tliesta»*rtrfff«j ?»S ]^St his beadmiarton. Tn^*J»^ Mliced to KalwlVh»tfaarw.dipooriga ........^ii«tion. and waa Uaatharonsiy r^Sr*"*-' CTCOBffiHatinii. and Jkjtti iU^ flicFte Batth. wlian ka 4«^1lMi aaeoadhd Urn. and at ^?!£^ AyMb waaaada^mmtf tiwdiatiietafjlindahar J"^7 •»» idlowed Ute masaaen of ffir d( diaaa a Yakoab i^cairied toln- had from bisbrodiar'a »wltli a laiga aad tha pcaaent AyoooKhaa Startfag he silaMat uw^uMMwiui a laiga amy, vmlhflMad General Barrows' fima of 3,000 rt Malwand. near tha HshanMl River, 27. 1880. Advaaoingstm farther he Kaadahar, aadGeBeral Roberts ^»ble, by forced nan^ea from |^ah^tor»i«£etheeity. Ayonb retreated 5?*S where, on July 30, 1881, he de- â„¢*~^ » faifa army under the Ameer, Ab- dnirahman Khan. He waa fioaUy fbited. howevar, to flee fato Persia, taking with him aUige amonnt of treasure and a number of followers. For some years after nothing Bore waa heard of him, until fa 1885, when he made am effort to escapefate Afghaniatan, it transpired that he had been livfag for sraie time faTeheran fa receipt of a pension mmthe British Ctovemment The result of his attonpt to return to his native oonntry was that he was imprisoned fay the Shah of Persia at the request of the Bridsh Minister. Now that he has escaped from this bondi^ it is feared that he win make another effort to secure the throne. He is stfll considered by many Afghan warriors as the greatest general that ever held agovenitmhip in his native land, and the rabMs would undoubt- edly flock to his standard fagreater numbers than ever before. His brother, Yakoub, who is still a State prisoner in India, has be- come an imbecile mm excessive fadulgence fa alcoholic liquors, and Ayonb therefore claims the throne by right of successiqn. England has good reason for anxiety as to his movements. Life at Windsor Oastle. The celebration of Queen Victoria's jubi- lee farougnt out many accounts of events fa her childhood and early life, but not much has been told of her every-day life nowa- days. When the Queen is livfag at Wfad- sor Castle â€" her sojourn there covers about four months each year â€" her life passes with the most perfect regularity, everythfag befag regu'atid by programme, from eight or nfae fa the momfag until night There are always guests arriving or departing. Jt is a continual " come and go " but tiie hour of the comfag and the hour of departfag cf these guests is carefully arranged fa advance. No other court fa Europe has so regular a system. The favitations to these guests â€" or rather the "royal commands," for so they are called â€" are sent by the Master of the Household or the Lord of Chamber lin several days fa advance. Then as Wfadsor is some distance from London, and dinner is served very late at the castle, the guests must remafa until the next day. Nothfag IS left to chance. From the^Mas- ter of the Household down to the superb powdered valet fa yellow plush, white silk stockfags and buckled shoes, every one knows exactly what he has to do and per- forms his duties with the precision of well- ordered machfaery. The rooms occupied by each of the favited guests are a parlor and a bed-chamber. Each one of these rooms is spacious, luxuri- ously furnished, and ornamented with tapes- tries, pictures and other objects of art. Ad- jofafag each bed chamber is an elegantly ap- pofated bath-room. No one is allowed to smoke fa these rooms. It is absolutely forbidden, and with excellent reason. But there are smokfag-rooms fa the castle where smokers can betake themselves. Now and then, it is said, there have been courtiers who have broken through this rule, but they have facurred very grave displeasure when the fact has been ascer- tained. The guests, fa full uniform, U they are officen, or fa court costume, with sword and sash, if they are civilians, meet fa the great corrider, a vast hall where, among other magnificent articles, is found the richest collection of Sevres porcelafa fa the world. The suests converse fa low tones, and as nfae oxlock approaches, tiie hall be- comes entirely silent The Queen is com- fag. The doors open, and at nfae o'clock 'the Queen enters, ready for dfaner. She ap- pears short jfa stature she has, fadeed, written fa her published journals, " I am of short stature for a Queen." Her face is ruddy and her hair silvered She is dressed fa blaak, and wean the dec- oration of the Order of the Garter. A head- drees of lace falls back over her shoulders, and there are very rich diamonds spar kl ing fa herears. The dining-table is dressed with great magnificence, and the whole room presents a guttering appearance, with quantities of rich gold and silver dishes. The dinner is prepared as daborately as at any grert hotel, and there is a separate cook for each princi- paldish. What seems a »ingnl»r ciromnstances to an American is tbatat these royal dinnen there are iwfated bills of fare, and boieath each dish upon this bill of fare, is printed the name of the cook who prepared it Dinner is over at half past ten or eleven. The Queen rises and retires, and all the ladies follow her. A few mfautes after the gentlemen proceed to the great corrider, where the Queen speaks a few words to each of the guests present In a half-hour more she leaves the hall; and as rfie pas^ through the door she pauses and bows with dignity to the guests. ^The'dfaner is over and the guests retire as soon as they please. The Great Fabfio Sohool. The world is a great public sshool, and it soon teaches a new pn^ his propw place. If he has the attnontea tiiat bdong to a leader, he will be instaUed fa the position of a leader H not, whatever his own opinion of his alnUties may be, he will be commlled to a fa with the rank and file. Knot destined to greatness, tiie ne**^â„¢"?*? which he can aspiraiaraBpactahilityi^t no maa oaa «th«r bo truly grert wtmly KflpectaUe who k vain, pompona and over- ^J^aa. the tima the novM« has found high « low, ttapwb^a ^^tt^ tiha^ £ prooeasof »»««• *?,^ "J*^^" SJTvwy roagb .bat, whan it la aU ovar. to bakwifMMaat in tbe wwU-Hmakaa AMS|«C' I' MI8B lUBSIT MliOFB 8T0XT. Tha death al CaL W. B. Smith, which todc plana Ik Haw Yorkia faw wa^s ago. haa bBoagkt to light a very lemariodila m- cident, lUss Bhett Myron, tha nriaolpal figore in. tits dnma, is a personal uisadTof your oarr a s p on d aa t and from her the fol- bwiiig facts have been obtafaed, with par- missioBfor ttisir pahMoation. Hayna Myron, the faAcr of this young kdy, was a Ranter fa South Candina. His home waa a t^rpical Southern home, qpacions and homitaUe, snrroandtxl by broad acres and laithfal slaves. His family consisted of his wife and RhiBCt, who was then a.Httle child. At the breaking out of the war, fa the fall of 1861. flayna Mynm joined a volontaer Soutii Cwolina regiment Before leaving home he had a pTcture of his little giri pafattd fa miniatbre, and enoased it fa a locket tiiat he placed next to his heart Six months later, fa a skirmish, in Virginia, Hayne Myron was killed fa dose combat, by a Federal officer. Only a few words were sent to the old home to tell the sad story. Dnrihg Gen. Sherman's favasion into Soudi CaroUna the Myron homestead was destroyed^ The widow and daughter con- tinued to live on the plantation u an out- building, supported by the rents from the uds. Two years 1^ Mrs. Myron died, and through the inmience of friends Miss Myron obtafaed a position as governess fa the family ai CoL W. R. Smith of New York. She stated to me that her first meet- fag with CoL Smith was peculiar. That when his wife introduced her to him, sayfag, " This is our new gov^emess from Souui Carolina, Miss Rhett Myron," his face be- came deathly white, and he gave a sudden start He was absent from home when Mrs. Smith engaged her. He mechanically shook hands with her and tried to speak, but his lips seemed sealed. Bat later his manner changed to kindness and cordiality, and she was treated more as an honored g^nest than a salaried teacher. He insisted on paying her four times the amount she charged for her services, and made her duties light One evening she was sitting in the family cirele, tellfag of her past life down fa South Carolina, of the spacious house with its twenty columns, of the dusky slaves, who used to sit her on their shoulders, calling her their " little queen" as they carried her through the cotton fields that looked like seas ol snow foam. For the first time she spoke of her father, how handsome and sad be looked as he went away on that dreadful last day; how he took her picture with him, and told all he said. She states that she was forced to stop in the midst of her word for Col. Smith turned ghastly pale and le the room. Miss Myron continued to live with CoL Smith's family lor two years. "It was a haven and home to me," she said. " I had so long toiled and worked on our plantation, isolated from society and all advantages, it was like a fairy life had opened to me of ease and luxury, but my heart was almost breakmg, as I remember- ed all that I had lost fa those sad, sweet days." Six weeks ago CoL Smith was taken sud- denly ill, and when he realized that death was inevitable he expressed a desire to see Miss Myron alone. She states that as she neared the bed of the dyfag man, she saw him holdfag somethfag convulsively fa one hand, as he extended the other to her and exclaimed " Rhett Myron, forgive me before I die without your pardon I cannot die come close and listen to what I have to tell.you. It was I who made you an orphan my hands are red with your father's blood. Take this," he said, handinc me the pack- age " I found it on his dyfag^ breast It is your face your name and his name are upon it Take it, and forgive one who has tried to expatiate the wrongs done you. Oh I can you forgive a dying man " and the voice became fafat and low. " Oh sir, you both were soldiera I free- ly forgive," and the poor girl could say no more, as she fell unconscious upon the floor. " Thank God," he murmured, and all was over. When Rb Myron recovered, tiie man -vriiohad killed her father, and who was later the best friend she ever knew, was dokd. In his will, he bequeathed to her the generous sum of 115,000. He also left a letter giving all the particulars of her father's death. Only a few days ago I saw the picture â€" a sweet child face, fa an azure cloud, and on tiie littie plnirii case were marks of blood. FOEIGV HEWS. An enormous oil field has been discovered fa Venezuela near lake Maracaibo. Mr Andrew Carnegie will probably soon pay £115,000 for Abqyne Castie. A check for a million and three-quwters sterling was paid to the Bridgewater Nav- igation Company lately for its work on the Manchester ship canaL The pilgrims from India to Mecca will henceforth make the pilgrimage to the sa- cred shrfae on Cook's tickets. Frascuelo, the bull fighter, has been offer- ed ^,000 for four performances fa the city of Mexico, and he ^as accepted. The Glanco Boat club of Trieste has been dissolved by the Austrian Giovemment be- cause it tqoK part fa tiie regattas of Venice. Black rot baa attacked the.grapes fa sev- raal puts of France, and it is thought the losses will be immense. Tha German authorities fa Alsace-Lor- ndne have stopped tiie grantfag of all hunt- ing licenses to the French residente fa the â- mnxed provinoes. To ' the Boolanger hat, the Boolanger mpe, and tha^onlangar Utters, the French Ww^iow added the Bonlanger mimip, with lAidi the harben.can shave their Gamaa oastomers. iWnein^Aatllme. EtAaCMator has siaMkwith; AUbey and Gran for a eiitf- m^J^MAwmhewOaaiam to a maiiy lomaof mnaic, aa it probes whatovar tmtk tiiare ma.j be m tiie oertP peat tiba* gbta am Kvallttla «f eilktv ywda a* Pc aad fliade wondaifal tiuM. IDss Dampaay, woB, wei^ through all that water Ui I mbnte » seeoads, aad Misa Cooaaaa, saoond, oaneiaoaJlj tiuqaa yards bahfaid. Miss Johnson, daoghtar of the fonnar ol-aanion of Eaglaad started from tha aawteh fa a mile race fa Swadan, and beat aeA arala aad fsosala awEaunars, aoma with a hnndrsd yards' start Bicycliste are goiiw mad iost now on re- eord hrsakiaiL Dubois, tta Frenchman, has this week beaten every previous record between two o^es aad tweaty-one miies, the latter distanoe having bean accomplish* ed fa 59 mfautea 15 seconds. Dubois beat the two-mile record by ei^t seoonds, and he has made twenty fire mues fa 1 hour 10 mfantes 34 seconds. Merry Hampton keepa well and mafatafas his place at the heal of the candidates for the Leger. Car- rasco and Kilwarlin are also doing work, but Eiridspord is it anythfag a litue fine. Dr. Lyssght of the Bristol, England R-yal Infirmary, sacrificed his life fa an effort to save a patient Abont a fortnight ago a man was admitted to the infirmary anf- ferins from an affection of the throat, sup- posed to be diphtheria. The operation of tracheotomy was performed by Dr.Lysaght, but tiie tube becomfag choked, thelast chance of savfag the man's life was for some one to apply his lips to the cube and suck the moisture. This Dr. Lyssght did, but without avail for shortly t^torward the patient died of suppressed scarlatina. Dr. Lysaght caught the disease in ita worse form and died. A wfadow is to be erected fa the fa firuMuy to his memory. The event of interest in France is the mobilization of the Nfaeteeuth Army Corps, the quarters of which are at Toulouse. The idea is to test the speed with which enormous bodies of men can be got together in perfect fightinr condition on short no- ice. The scene of the experiment has wisely been laid near the Spanish frontier as far as possible from the great centre of inter- national irritatiou in Europe â€" Alsace and Lorrafae. The result of the experiment will be eagerly awaited, as evidence of the progress whi^h the French have made. It will probably be difficult for the poor public to form an opinion, however, for already the authorities are quarrelling as to what resulte are possible, and to obtain anything like a general opinion from the wise men when it is all over will, of course, be out of the question, u A Noble Mission. Ineveryageof tbe world men have been Bud denly called from the buamess of earning their livelihood to higher work in the ser- vice of God or their fellows. Miss Gordon-Camming, tbe well-known traveller in the more remote parts of the world, gives us a remarkable instance of this in the story of a workman in a saw-mill in Scotland, who, by the loss of an arm was compelled he gave up his trade, and become a colporteur in Glasgow. While thus em- ployed, he was so much interested in the blfad men who bought books fa embossed type from him, that he set himself in tue evenfag to learn all the different systems of reading and writmg for the blfad. In coarse of time, he was sent as agent for the Scottish Bible Society to North China. He was appstlled by the large number of blfad beggars who travel through the coun- try in gangs, askmg for alms. They are the victims of opthalraia and small pox, diseases which, fa China, are unchecked by any scientific knowledge. These wretehed beggars, in their filth and ignorance and misery, have reached the very lowest con- dition of humanity. The poor missionary conceived the idea of liftug them at least up to the level of their feUows, by reducing the Chinese lan- guage to the blfad symbols and then by teachfag them to read it. When we re- member that this language consists of five tiiousand intricate characters, all of which must be commited to memory before a Chinaman with sight can read, we can un- derstand how stupendous a task lay before him. He was obstfaately beut on accomplish- fag it, and during eight years gave all his leisure time to puzzling out a system which should enable the blind to reiad. He suc- ceeded at last The number of characten is so reduced fa the emliossed type that any blfad Chfaaman of aveiage fatelugence can learn to read fluently in two months. During the mne years which have pass- ed sface he perfected his system, he has taught it to a large number of these poor creatures, facnlcating at the same time Ae truths of the Christian religion, and has educated severid young blind men to be effi- cient colporteurs. As his pupils had no other means of live- lihood than beggfag, he supported them while he was fitting them for work by his own scanty salary. He is endeavoring now to trafa fatelligent men, who can see, to found a blind school fa each of the eighteen provinces of China, but is greatiy crippled by his poverty fa this endeavor. Such a story of the devotion of a life to the h^p of those most wretehed of God's creatures comes to us even from the other side of the world like the sound of a bugle- call to one who sleeps. To what blind oro- ther have we given help? To what soul, sit- tingfa darkness, have we showed the light Who Was the Biggest Fool. A couple of New York gentlemen were talking about bank cashiers and Canada. One of them remarked that he had confi- dence fa his clerk, and had sent him to Canada with $50,000 to bdy lumber. You say you have sent your clerk with $60,000 to Canada to buy lumber, and yon expect him to come back?" "I do." " Well, you deserve the redribbon as the biggest fool alive. " "But suppose my clerk does oome back all right. 111 not be the biggest fool idive then, iSiir "No fa that case he will be." Dr. Jessnp, of the British Medical Aho- I. â- »â- that the Waacingof hlah-haaled s oj j t B a i' t ha caalro: « gcwmy as to '«;dl*tt%«ft4itNlbsa -.1 i if .! ' I 'i li h ^fP^By