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A lecturer at is. meeting of an English: Agricultural Workers’ Union gave the figures in detaié which show how an agri- cultural laborer supported his family of self, wife and five children on his wages of 21 shillings {$2.75) per week. The weekly purchases consisted of six gallons of bread, nah“ a. gallon of flour, half a pound of tea, r. pound and a half of bacon, one pound of Butter and cheese, three pounds of sugar, :‘ith oil, coal, soda, and six cents’ worth of tobacco. Nothing was allowedjn the esti- fiéfir sixoes orqclothing, and except at Whizsnnfid‘e thay never had any fresh The French Minister of Agriculture, dis- regarding the many applications which have been made for an alteration in the arrangement of the coming agricultural show in Paris, has decided that there shall not beadivision of the breeding and fat stock sections, and the two separate shows, as they in efl‘ect are, will be held in the last - .cek of January. The implements will be a view in the grounds of the Palais de i‘lndustrie from Monday, the 22nd, but the judging will not commence until Satur- day, the 29th, the whole show remaining open _until Wednesday, the 318t of January An Australian farmer has adopted a. very peculiar method of making silage. Having eight acres of maize or corn, which yielded a. heavy crop, he laid the entire stacks, uncut, in three stacks, taking care to lay them all one way without crossing. then he weighted the stacks down with logs and stones. When it had settled he covered the whole with earth two feet deep raised to a crown on top, which he thatched with cornstalks. The silage came out in good condition and was greedily eaten by the cattle. The Egyptian government has appointed a commission to promote improvement in horse breeding. Pure breed Arab stallions have been purchased and stationed in various districts, and a. large number of certificates have been delivered to the owners of such mares as were considéred by the commissioners to be sufficiently sound and promising, entitling them to the use of the government stallion stationed in their district, ,, A recent report on mule breeding in Yun- nan, just beyond the frontier of Burmah, states that the business is carried on to a very large extent. There are hundreds of breeding studs with as many -as 3,000 animals in some of them. The larger mules are sold to the Chinese, some for as much as $250, while the smaller ones sell for prices down to one-tenth‘ of that sum. They are used principally as pack animals, the trans- port business of the country depending largely upon them. There is a. strong movement in England for the abolition of check reins, or, as they are called there, bearing reins on working horses. The Hampstead and Highgate Anti-Bearing Rein Association has this for its object, and has accomplished much good work already. The railway companies, carriers, great brewers and large coal companies have abandoned the use of the bearing reins on all horses under their control. Range grazing in South Australia has met with even more serious reverses than on the plains of the United States, and large herds have been disposed of at great sacrifices. The rapid settling up of the country, raising the value of grazing land, is the principal cause of the reverses, add- ed to which are the depredations of rab- bits, which ruin the grazing, and gangs of wild dogs which destroy the lambs. Successful trials have been made by a Scottish farmer in feeding barley dust to cattle. The dust is a. by-product in the manufacture of pot and pearl barley, and has long been used for feeding swine. But now the enterprising farmer referred to has proved its value as a cattle food. He gives his fattening stock twenty-eight pounds per head daily of the barley dust, with oat straw. The famous Guisachan herd of Aberdeen- Angus cattle, belonging to Lord Tweed- mouth, has been sold and diapersed. The Earl of Aberdeen, who is a. son-in-law of Lord Tweedmouth, was one of the princi- pal bu) ers. Several years ago Mr. Coutts Marjoribanks, a younger son of Lord Tweedmontb, brought a. draft from the Guisachan herd to the United States, and settled with them on a ranch in North Dakota. The Russisu government has issued new regulations concerning the manufacture and sale of margarine and all urtifical sub- stitutes for butter. Special inspectors,who have received technical and medical educa- ‘tion, will visit these establishments and analyze the products, With authority to impose fines or close the works for infringe- ment of the regulations. The secretary of the Irish branch of the (Io-operative Union recently stated some interesting facts as to the success of the co- operative creameries. Twenty-three out of twenty-five of these institutions at work last year produced 910 tons of butter, al- though some of them were in operation for only part of the season. A milk war broke out recently between the farmers in the vicinity of the Alsatian town of Rappoltsweiler and the housewives of the town, over the price of milk. The farmers demanded 23 pfennige (about five cents) per quart, while the housewives"re- fused to pay more than 11 pfennige. Each side was holding out, at last advices. _ - " ‘ ‘ ““‘O D sands. It is practically indestructible, burning, cutting or feeding of? seeming to make it thrive, while it propagates freely in exposed shiftmg sands. Marl-em grass (Peamma. arenaria), which was introduced into the colony of Victoria, Australia, by the government botanist, has proved very-valuable in holding shiftipg --._J.. TL __ Russian legislation on Butter Making. Grape growing is im important part of the agriculture of Cape Colony, South Africa, the product being made into wine and brandy. The amount for the present year was 6, 110,617 gallons of wine,l,516,835 gallons of brandy, and 366,341 gallons of spirits, the whole valued at over a million and a. half of dollars. The area. devoted to the cultivation of indigo in the N orthwesb province of India this year was nearly doublethatof lasuyear. The prices obtained for last year’s crop were the principal stimulant to increased plant- ing this year. The total area. this year was 239,222 acres of which 234,433 acres were irrigated from canals. FBBEIGN AGRIGULTUBE Grape Growmg in South Afnoa. News has reached Tangier of two shock- ing outrages near Fez. On November 1 a party of four Jews, with mules laden with goods, were proceeding to the Thursday market at Sidi Kassim, forty-five miles from Fez. When near their destination they noticed a. party of mounted Arabs ap- proaching them. Two of the Jews fled, but the others were surrounded and robbed . The younger Jew got the load on” his horse and galloped 06‘, but the other was shot dead. A peasant woman informed some soldiers who were passing, and the latter, accompanied by the two'Jews who had fled, carried the murdered man’s body back to Mesquinez, where he was buried. The as- sassins have not been captured. The next day a Fez Jew, who frequents the market at Sidi Kassim, heard a. shot fired at his tent, where an assistant was selling goods, Running up he met the assistant, who told him that a Moor had been shot dead by an- other Moor, near the tent. On entering the tent, and while his back was turned. the owner was shot in the back. The body of the first victim was found 20 yards from the tent, and the Jewish owner lay insen- sibie inside. He is reported to be in a dy- ing state. The Mosle'in who was killed is supposed . to have been the victim of a vendetta, and the Jew was probabiy shot to prevent his giving evidence. The cul- prit is still at large. Twelve average tea. plants produce 111), of tea. SYSTEM OF DEEP \VATER wharves capable of accommodating three or four steemships of the largest size. The people of the West should understand further that St. John has deep water berths for at least ten other steamships in connec- tion with the railways, and which are available for the purposes of any iii-transit trade. The Western men who are anxious for the future of Canadian trade, should make a. study of these matters and abandon the idea. that the business of Canada. must be done through the ports of a foreign country. We are well satisfied that the time will come when Canadian parts will do all the trade of Canada. but this time should be hastened, and there is no good reason why that time should not come now. than New York is, and one that is never impeded by ice as is frequently the case with New York. Theyshould also know that this Canadian port has a much better chan- nel into it than the port of New York, that it is much safer to approach, and that it is equally secure when entered. They should know that this port of St. John has a present capacity for doing; the in-transit business of Canada equal to any demands that are likely to be made upon it in the near future, and that if trade was five times as great as itis likely to, the port of St. John would be equal to it. St. John now possesses one of the finest elevators of the continent of America, with a. capacity for shipping 4,000,000 bushels of grain monthly, and this elevator is connected with a ASTONISHED TO LEARN that steamships could enter this harbor, his idea of our port being that it was only frequented by small fishing craft. These men are types of a large class of self-satisfied Western Canadians, who seem to have learned nothing in regard to the Maritime provinces since Confederation, and who apparently have very little desire to be bet- ter informed. One might suppose that such ignorance of the resources of their own country would be regarded as disgraceful, but it seems in their case that such a View of the subject is not taken. Mr. Podsnap was so full of his own knowledge and im- portance that he could not be taught any- thing, and he lightly blew away any suggestion that was made for the purpose of enlightening him. Western Canada is apparently full of Podsnaps,but we trust to find fewer of them in the rising generation of Canadians than in that which existed in Canada when the Dominion was founded. The people of Western Canada ought to understand that they have in St. John a port Of five hundred miles CURRENT OF TRADE has flowed so long in those channels that many Canadians seem to regard them as the only ones available for their use. The truth of the matter is that a degree of ignorance prevails in Western Canada in regard to this subject which would be abso- lutely incredible were it not so well attested, and it prevails not merely among men who have no special interest in being better in- formed, but in persons whose business would seem to require them to he on the alert to discover the readiest and cheapest means of sending their gOUds to Europe. The Telegraph has already referred to the incredible ignorance displayed by a high ofiicial connected with the Allan line of steamshxps, who at a meeting .held in Montreal three years ago for the purpose of considering the fast steamship service, oh- jected to St. John because steamboats com- ing here would have to lie aground at high water. \Ve mentioned the other day the case of a Montreal merchant, a large ex- porter of cheese, who, on his first visit to St. John, was utterly _- V, __° _ The navigation of the River St. John is practically closed, and in a few days the navigation of the St. Lawrence will have also closed. The last steamship of the‘ season will have cleared from the port of Montreal, and the wharves of that city, which form so busy a scene during the sum- mer, will be entirely deserted. That great artery of commerce, which connects the territory of the head of Lake Superior with the ocean, will be sealed up by ice, and for five months or more commerce, as borne on. the water, will come to an end. Then the Dominion of Canada, from MontreJJ west, 1 will have to depend for its access to the. ocean on the open ports of Maritime prov- inces or the Atlantic ports of the United States. These lastâ€"New York, Boston and Portland, Me.,â€"ha.ve hitherto enjoyed much the larger part of the business, both 1 export and import, which Canada has t0} do in the winter season, and in fact the l The St. John “Telegraph" Rails at Upper Canadian Ignorance. The St. John Telegraph makes the fol- lovflng its first. editprfial :: m. 'I ‘,A _’_ - - ' ' that meat. The posmon of this famlly W53 of thousands of other workmen throughout England. “WESTERN PODSNAPS-” Murders by Moors. NEARER ’ T0 EUROPE “ Elbow-grease,” was the laconic reply. “You women,” he continued, “ think that when you run the brush over your teeth twa or three times you’ve done your duty, and are keeping your teeth in splendid con- dition. You will stanl for half an hour before the looking-glass, fretting and wond- ering how you can rid yourself of an almost invisible pimple; but the tartar on your teeth is a secondary matter, whereas, I assure you, good, sound teeth add more to the bea'zty of the face than the smoothest complexion. Exercise your tooth brush. Give at "least three minutes’ time to it. You do? Oh, I think not. Just time your- self onceâ€"keep your watch by youâ€" and when you’re through brushing, look at your timepiece and see whether you really spent three minutes, or even two, on this part of your toilet. The time seems long, but it isn’t. I always tell the children that come to me for treatment to brush their teeth for five or ten minutesâ€"then I know they’ll give about three minutes to it. Yes, my dear madam, use elbow grease on your teeth. It’s the best dentrifice in existence. Good morning.” “ What; shall I use on m teetl ’5 them nice and white ‘2" Iyaakecl1 $321322? tist. The most: singular ship 1:; Ln: world is the Polyphemus, of the British Navy. It is simply along steel tube, deeply buried in the water, the deck rising only four feet; above the sea. It carries no mast 6r sails, and is used as 3. mm and torpedo boat. The “cause” or causes may be many among which are eating too fast, not chew- the food sufficiently to have it combined With the digestive juices; eating too much or more than can be digested, leaving apart ‘90 ferment, to “sour ;” eating irregularly and too often, so that the stomach is over- taxed, not able to do its work, not digest- ing all that is taken ; eating food so difficult of digest-ion that it cannot be disposed of in the allotted time, etc. Of course only that part of the food which is digested can be of any service in the nourishment of the system, the excess not only being useless, but producing weakness in consequence of the extra vital force'cgcpended in the vain attempt to dispose of the unnecessary quantity. It should be remembered, also, that the undigested part must ferment, become more or less putrid, to that extent contaminating the whole body. That part of the food which does not digest in the natural time must become sour, producing carbonic acid gas (“wind in the stomach”), this gas never being the result of an empty stomach, the outer air rushing to take the place of food, as is supposed by the igno- rant, since this absurd theory would re- quire the stomach to always be filled, al- ways hard at work. No, do not take soda water to neutralize this acid, as you treat the same gas in your over-raised dough. As the digestive fluid (gastric juice) is in- tensely acid, that it may act on certain kinds of food, I suppose that this acid gas is intended to aid the stomach in disposing of a part, at least, of What remains, doing the best that can be done under the cir- cumstances. Therefore, 1 would not inter- fere with Nature’s method of effecting the cure, but give her a fair chance, when all will be well, that is, if you heed her advice, as indicated by the nausea or loss of ap- petite, and stop eating till the commotion in the stomach subsides. Not only do not take an alkali to destroy the action of that acid, but co-operate with Nature, increas- ing the acidity by putting a half teaspoon- ful oi the Horsford “ acid phosphate” in a pint of water, taking a. tablespoonful very often till a more comfortable feeling fol- lows. This excellent acid will soon aid in completing the work of the stomach, while no more food should be taken nntil the stomach is reasonably rested. This is a very reasonable and naturtl “cure,” well calculated to prevent “ the abominations of dyspepsia.” *w -_ â€"~.v nava- Ahigh medical authority cites Dr. Cha- mouin’s experiments, in which be fed a num- ber of kittens on boiled milk and an equal number of kittens on the same milk as it- came direct from the cow or the goat. Those of the former category he found to be twice as fat and far more healthy than those of the latter. A kitten, however, which was left to its mother was the fattest and health- iest of all, though this was due to the assiduous attention which the maternal instinct supplied, and which, the experi- menter pleasantly admitted, was beyond the resources of the laboratory. Following up his demonstration, Dr. Chamouin exam- ined the statistics officially issued by the town council of Paris as to the infantile mortality of that city; and, finding that the chief cause of this was, directly or re- motely, intestinal ailments, he prosecuted his researches still farther, so as to include a comparison between those infants that had been fed on boiled and those that had been fed on unboiled milk. As he antici- pated, he found a. remarkable diminution in the deathq'ate of the former. His inves- tigation was continued long enough to show that thousands of infants are annually pro- tected from intestinal disease and death by the precaution of boiling the milk on which they feed. man 1111“! was one of the surest channels by which infectious diseases were diffused, he had to encounter the objection that the flailing process, to which he insisted to its sing subjected, deprives it of its nutrient properties and also its digestibility. Again, however, he has been able to show that reason was on his side, and that milk after boiling is not only more easily digested, but has actually a higher nutrient value then‘ih the crude state. _ The Practice of subjecting milk to boil- mg heat before consumption has of late been Widely adopted in European countries whose Pubh‘f l13’giene has hitherto been such 83 ‘70 council every means of minimizing the con- veynnce of infection. Travelers in France. Spain, and Italy will be reassured by E1115 salutary innovation, experience havmg taught them that the milk supplied in he- tels end boarding-houses, added to the“ mornlng meal of tea. and cofl‘ee,h8.s too often been tainted with the micro-organisms of infectious or contagious disease. chiefly . ' g diluted with impure water. When a public health oflicer at length suc- ceeded in establishing the unwelcome fact 3113'}? Film: was one of the surest channels bv The Acidity of the Stomach. To Make TeethWhita- Boiled Milk- On May 10, 1879, a. large and extraordin- arily luminous meteor exploded with ter- rific noise, followed at slight intervals with less violent detonations and struck the earth in the edge of a. ravine near Estherville, Emmet county, lowa,penetrat- ingto adepth of fourteen feet. Within two miles other'fragments were found, one of which weighed 170 pounds and another thirty-two pounds. The principal mass weighed 431 pounds. All the discovered parts aggregated about 640 pounds. The one of 170 pounds is now in the cabinet of the State University of Minnesota. The Icomposition of this aerolite is peculiar in many respects: but, as in nearly all aero- lites, there is a considerable proportion of iron and nickel. Some nations adopt most eccentricl methods for impressing upon debtors the‘ heinousness of their transgression. Whenl a. gentleman in Russia. has his portrait} taken,’and artlessly omits to pay the photog.‘ rapher for his work, the latter does not make any fuss about the matter. He sim. ply hangs the likenessIof that debtor upside 1 down in a frame outside his studio, and every one knows what it means. This singular method rarely fails to bring the delinquent to a sense of his duty as well as his indebtedness. Persons who neglect to pay their income-tax at Gotta, in Saxony, have their names and addresses printed and posted in'a. conspicious manner in every hotel and restaurant in that city, and until they settle their little account with the State the proprietors of the places mention- 1 ed are strictly forbidden to serve them with any kind of refreshment, under pain of losing their licenses. The Chinese ares an astute race, and they exhibit this nation? al characteristic in a rather unpleasant? fashion as regards some of their native default-ere. When a bank fails in China: they cut off the heads of the bank ofiicials. This is avery efi‘ective measure, and the principle has acted so well that no bank in the Celestial Kingdom has failed for about 500 years. in ineffectual fury. Enclosed within the range of its protecting arms is a. calm in- land sea, 80,000 square miles in extent, dotted with a. multitude of coral islets and presenting at every turn objects of interest alike to the unlearned traveller and the men of science. Here may be witnessed at one hundred different points the singular process by which the wavy gelatinous liv- ing mass her-dens into stone, then serves as a. collecting ground for the flotsam and jetsam of the ocean, and ultimately devel- ops an island covered with a. luxurious mass of tropical growth. Here again, may be seen in the serene depths of placid pools extraordinary forms of marine life, aglow with the most brilliant colors and produc- ing in their infinite variety a. bewildering sense' of the vastness of the life of the ocean. The cheupness of soft coal as a fuel When used without a smoke-consumer in a. largé city is wholly confined to the user. 11-, is dear to the citizens in general. The cost. liness of the smoke nuisance can scarcely be estimated. The soot sift-s through the smallest crevices. ‘Every chest, drawer, and shelf is covered with it. It damages the stock on the shelves of merchants, the furnishings of houses, end the clothes of the people. It necessitates the frequent painting of all h-vildmgs, both business houses and "as. It vastly increases the cost and awe: oi laundering. Linen is quickly yarn out by the frequent and hard washing required. L1 a. hundred Ways the smoke cloud adds to the expense of the yeoplc who have to endure its discomfort. 1 One of the wonders of the world is the great barrier reef of Australia. This stupendous rampart of coral, stretching in an almost unbroken line for 1250 miles along the northeastern coast of Australia, presents features of interest which are not to be equalled in any other quarter of the globe. Nowhere is the action of the little marine insect which builds up with untit- ing industry those mighty monuments with which the tropical seas are studded more impressive ; nowhere are the wonderful constructive forces of nature more appar- en a. By a simple process of accretion there has been reared‘in the course of countless centuries an adamantine wall, against which the gigantic billows of the Pacific, sweeping along in an uninterrupted course of several thousand miles, dash themselves Lvu vau o "‘0', -â€"- vâ€" “v“--l '-- â€"-__~ lites, there is a considerable proportion of iron and nickel. It is generally held that meteors at one time or another formed integral parts of a comet. The meteor enters the earth’s at- mosphere from without with a velocity relative to the earth that is comparable with the earth’s velocity in its orbit; which is nineteen miles per second. By the re- sistance it meets in penetrating the air, the light and the other phenomena of the lumin- ous train are produced. Many small meteor- ites are undoubtedly consumed by this fire, caused by friction, before they reach the earth’s surface. ‘uv v-vvv tationl, arose and addressing the men, said : “You are about to face the gods: to the innocent the trial will be nothing, but to the uflty much. In the temple a magic wand gubeen placed on the altar. Each of you mutgo in by turns, take up the wand and mtound three times repeating the name of Mafhadeo ; the wand will stick to the hand bf the guilty one. By? this time it was nearly dark. I glanced in through the door of the temple. Aeolitary oil buttee threw a. fitful light on the altar, on which an ordinary bamboo stick about two feet long reposed among mains of uncooked rice and cut limes. the Two remarkable meteorites have fallen in Iowa within the past twenty years. Feb. 12, 1875, an exceedingly brilliant meteor, in the form of an elongated horseshoe, was seen throughout a region of at least 400 miles in length and 250 in breadth, lying in Missouri and Iowa. It is described as “without 9- tail, but having a flowing jacket of flame- Detonations were heard so violent as to shake the earth and to jar the windows like the shock of an earthquake,” as it fell about 10:30 p.m., a few miles east of M31“ engo, Iowa. The ground for the space of some seven miles in length by two to four miles in hreadth,was strewn with fragments of this meteor varying in weight from a few ounces to seventy-four_ pounds. The Largest Known Weighs 50.00:) Pounds and Was Found in Greenland. A meteoric stone, which is described by Pliny as being as large as a. wagon,fell nest Egospotami in Asia. Minor in 467 B. C- 0 About A. D. 1500 a. stone weighing 1,400 P? fell in Mexico and is now in the Smithsonian W Institution at Washington. The largest W‘ meteoric masses on record were heard of 8“ first by Capt. Ross, the Arctic explorer, to through some Esquimau. These lay on the 51‘ west coast of Greenland and were sub- 0 sequently found by the Swedish exploring be party of 1870. One of them, now in the 7‘ Royal Museum of Stockholm, weighs over 61 50,000 pounds and is the largest specimen W! known. A El PAMOUS MBTEOBIO STONES- Queer Ways of Punishing Debtors. A Marine Wonder- Soft Goal- Now the natural question is, “ How was itdonc ‘2” Very simply. The temple, the lonely glen, the uncanny hour, the incan- tations, all were mere accessories to appeal *totuhe superstitions of the ignorant peasants. Tile “ magic wand” was thickly smeared with strgngly scented sandalwood oil. Rama’s guilty conscience prevented him 1mm touching in, as be firmly believed the wand would stick to his hands, and his, of course, was 'che only hand that. did not mall of the oil. This steamer, Alfonso XII., having on board ten boxes of gold coin,each box worth £10,000, struck on a rock and Bank at Grand Canary,while on a voyage from Cadiz “Havana in 1886. It was ascertained that the specie was at a depth of 263 fath- omsâ€"IGG feetâ€"and grave doubts were en- tertained of the possibility of any diver being able to withstand the tremendous Preserve incidental to such a depthâ€"via, 391111: sixty-seven pounds to every superfi- cllllsquare inch of his body. Experiments fitthis depth were made off Dartmouthfiq‘d W0 men, Lambert and Tessier, were found equal to the perilous task. Also, dresses Vere at length made which would remain wliter-tight at so great a depth. An expedition was sent out by the Marine Insurance Company, the divers to receives. NWard of 5 per cent., or £500, on each box recovered. Lambert go: up seven boxes and Tessier two. So terrible was the press- urethat neither man could stay below for “Date than a few minutes, and Lambert, f01' some time after his return, suffered ”from chronic paralysis of the bowels, by ”Which he was in a certain respect reduced “the helpless condition of a. babe in the cradle. Probably a tight-sealed kettle, Sent down empty to the same depth, would Ve been crushed flat. As it was, the divers only succeeded in finding nine boxes Outof the ten, £10,000 thus remaining be- low. A subsequent expedition went in Web of this box,and the diver after being Slow for twenty minutes, was hauled up filly to die. Nothing discouraged, a fresh :Ipedition went out with two divers from I on and join his fellows. Coming to he went through the same panto- mimbut instead of allowing him to pa. sson, hadehim stand aside. When the last man had gone through the ordeal the Brah min turned to Rama. and said quietly . “ Tell theaahib how you stole the money.” To my utter amazement Rama fell on his knees, confessed that he was the thief, and ofiered to show where he had hid the balance ofthe money. He had succeeded in open- ingthe mail bag without seriously disturb. ingthe seals ; the Postmaster had not really enmined them, and so their having been immipulated had escaped notice. Needless ‘toazy, the Brahmin was rewarded and poor Rama was sent to repent at leisure in the digtrict jail. .." A CURTAIN WAS DRAWN ' mouthe door, and the men entered one at a time. As each one appeared the Bnhmin seized his hands and raised them tohisforehead, and then allowed him to Germany. The first of these Was promptly hauled up, half dead, only to be sent ashore to the hWPital, raving mad; the other went down, but returned declaring that no box was "there. Whether he really got so far as the :hzarette from whlch the nine boxes were fisher: is open to doubt. The pressure at Ouch depths must be positively crushing. the accounts of one Of the deep sea. dredging expeditions, it is mentioned that When the trawl was raised from a. root depth, the pressure proved to have een 8“ch as to "vmh together the wood of the “a.“ be” do that the knots started out , °f lt.â€"-[Tuc Westminster Renew. I By? this time it was nearly dark. I 'gluwed in through the door of the temple. Aalitary oil buttee threw a. fitful light ion the altar, on which an ordinary bamboo stick about two feet long reposed among gains of uncooked rice and cut limes, the whole sprinkled with red powder. ample, owing to some not of desecra- ‘tionin the past, had been abandoned, and ' “3311110515 buried among weeds and tangled ‘ brashWOOd. Thahour selected was about 6 p. m., and the long twilight shadows gave the place a weird. uncanny look. The old Brahmin w” awaiting us, and, as we approached, sp ‘ to be busy muttering incantations. The runners all seemed to he more or less and“. the spell of the hour; but the look of twilight. on Rama’s face was quite distinct. The Brahmin, hevipg finished his incan- thg village- Mine Story tron mu.- a“..- A , :1.” catching a’ Thief. of this story, says the charge flxfirrator Thad India, some years ago division on the western coast, Tim“ 5""! vwhich had seldom, if ever, been a. European officer. The people of 53$“! . , WW the most part ample fo.k and very Pendfious. One morning the narrator su mod- infomfmtion that of cgnsiderable oney, arming part 0 t e contents im‘fin from a head to a. sub-office, had geamlen on the road. The whole affair was _mpped in :11 story. The only tone runner, whom we shall call we! thud since the theft paid 03' certain- debtli“ the village which had long pressed u’ nihim; but there were no other sus. 3’ on, circumstances, and the man had 0 xci . , gone 10 years good servxce. 1.83;“ trial by ordeal, and for this pur- poeetnaged Brahmin, who was supposed occult powers and to be in daily to! ‘93 with the gods, was consulted, comm“, . . . and readily undertook to dlscover the tmef. All the runners, at goodly array of sturdy Mshflm peasants, were summoned to the office, md under the guidance of a. cheyla. or disciple of the old Brahmin, we all pro- ceeded to the small deserted temple of Mahdi“): situated at some distance from LL- village. It was a. desolate spot, and Thpre is a. growing demand for New Zea- nd Produce in the Londe :aarket. AN EVIL REPUTATION. Deep-Sea Divine- About In the refmm made in the pre visit to Canada. nothing in sun connected with time, of which and McAz-thur, Brown and (Mae by_the Canada It was in 1 future hero of His Lordship had but reeen region of the mended the Al being ordered 3 convoy to N St. Lewrenee, the employme making himdr em climate. other occasio his personal give way to He arrived a. course at Que some weeks, along the Ame Quebec on the up with the pressive words compelled him for some time, 14 that he was ure from the 5 friend William oi his recent c successful one. destroyed m done in the as. “but not one “but I do not other things 14th of Angus with four sail man'of-war, p ran, who gave nine and ten h the frigate. th after we were battle ships, 1) us.” The M. was probably Bibaud refers who afterwar an egnagemen XELSO The Great Although men susceptib of “loveZy wo that his enfor time mention for his becomi that way than erhaps, woul been doubts e of the lady in her to have have fixed on again, on a M Was afterwarv Bank. Facts enee exhumed 0115 to his dea. in part- in an ' ject contribu Monthly, 90' Mary Simp the object tachment in daughter of bee merchant, 1n 1766 01' 17 Nelson 3 visit likewise h1gh' (Mrs. Harrowu Llary SJflpSOll girlr'y 1:1 Quebe most Landsat: held. ” “'e of the eomple have acquired only of the others, includ who subseque well-known C Military Sec Dorchester an some years p11 post of Gavel-1 rm: The climax laged by _C_i: “ Life and Se the Albemaru ready for sea“ his leave and the place w anchored ; bu Alennder D beach, he saw boat. On his the former a; that. occasiom up no your I you shall be :11 He then sad-d“ to leave this 1 her whose 80: chums, and} at her fez-DH} monstmted 1 of so rash 3 he, “ situste inevitably f exclaimed N it !”' To: ‘ severe alter Devison's fir Nelson, who quished his _ be led back less now t) 5 been the can not, Mr. Dav ed thh Nels on the 0:33.51 to erase fro. four brillian “The Nile, ” $13" to for but Nelson personally : quently pro to London banker uni v of which pas was exerted His subse’!“ eventfm. D3 m the {”1“ WHAT