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T KLOrKI) WITH A IlKAKKMAN. An lielremt iSruven Her Fuiuily'ii Dlnplra- *UJf» i4uU AlHrrieit llor Clii*it'«| A Pi^aBki. N.V;, deHiiatch ssyl : Th« disappi-nranre of VIhb Aji<:o WrightBoii, of PariKh. in thin county, (ttiriDS of thi; Uit; Philip WritjIitKon. to«(»er with that of Henry MoAiilay. a riiilrond brakt-iuan, hii« cauaed a threat nvnua, ion in thiii section. Miss Wri^hthOn inherits about •SOOOO from her fathir. Sliu is a pretty bloncie, has fa»ciiiatint> manners ami a superior education, havin).' been attendant at Mount Holyoki! Academy for two years. Khe is I'J years of aye and has been tlm belle in society at rarish for two years. She came home on vacation from school six weeks a){o and became ac(|uaiiited with Henry MoAiiluy. a rii.lroad brakmian, at Parish. The ac«|uaiiitanco very ijuicJily ripened into a love match. The yount{ lady's mother was scandalized at her dauKhter's intimate auiuaiutanoe with McAulay, whom she considers far beneath the youny lady in social position, and for- bade McAiilay to call upon ur apeak to her daughter. Mies WriKhtbon's brothers guarded her almost constantly and refused to have McAulay visit the family residence. Notwithstanding this the youn){ lady had many clandestine muetintjii with him and an elopement was arrani4i'd. Klie started ostensibly alone for a prayer meetini^ last evening, and has not yet returned. It is known that Mc .\ulay nut lier and, hiriii|{ a carriaj{<- from a farmer, drove to Me.xici, where car-^ were taken for the west. Miss Wrixhtson made<l a letter at Parish last evenii 14 anni'UncintJ her eloppinent. She said she could not live without McAuluy, and no matter what his lot she would share it with liim Her brothers vow they will shoot Mc .\ulay on si^ht, but have made nn etfirt to find him or their sister. Many piopl,' at Parish say that McAulay has a wife nmi uhilil in llrooklyn. He is M years of «(;e, far from prei>OH8os»inn. and can searcily read. Miss Writjiitson will come in possession of her fortune in thrue years. Hhe Uad S!)0 with her when she Hed last ni^ht. AWril. MINK UIM 8TKK. Ten Vllu«n> Tlinmin I><>wu a Mhaftâ€" hour Killed ami .Slx^4<rti>iiMly lnJili«Mj. A Wilkesbarre, Pa., despatch says : In telli>;ence has reached this city of afri|{ht- fai accident at l.u/^>r!jeborout;h, four miles distant. The carrtaije at Wadiiell's shaft, uat)4 tor hoistiiit; cpal, was about to be lowered into the pit, .Mix) feet deep. Ipoii it were ten miners. >-When within 100 feet of the bottom the carriage became station •ry and the rope be^an to sla -ken Before the entfineor could take up the slack thi crrriaije ouddenly desci iided with i!reat force, thruwini' four of the men off, and they fell to the t>.)ttom of the pit. .lames Johnston and Hu^h Mona^han were horri- bly mangled and instantly killed. \Vm. Boyd and John Klii-ht were picked un fatally injureil. The lejjs and arms of each were broken in a(*vural places and they wore badly cruahc<l. The six others were wriou.sly injurMl and badly shaken. Wm. 'Joyd and lohn Plight were still alive at H o'clock, and Ohasu Connin^ham and John Lloyd, who were also frinhtfully in. jured, stiil live, but the death of all these men ia ozpected at any moment. THKV LICKKU AN KHITOII. A CLKKIOAL WINOKALI.. A Poor AlethuillNt l*relu'lirr SerureH a For- tune by AeeltU^nt. ,â- * A Middletowc, N.Y., despatch says: The poverty of Methodist luiiiiHters woo serve on >,nntry oircuits is pruveibial. Uich men among them are as scarce as hens' teeth. When one does get rich it is not by accumulations from his scanty salary, but by tome such lucky wiudfall as liasjust now blessed the lot of Uev. A. J. Van (;left, the (steeined pastor of the I'^irst Methodist Kpiscupal Church of the neijjhboring vil- lage of Norwich. Sevoii years ago llev. Mr. Van Cleft was oliiciatiug as presiding elder of the Wyoming district, and as pastor of the principal church of the de- nomination at Scrantoii, Pa. (Among his associates in the ministry of the district was the Kev. William Ktevena.an Knglish- man, who in his youth had worked in the tin mines of Cornwall, in thatcountry. The elder was something of an enthusiast in mineralogy, and one day heexhibited to his brother clergyman some curious specimens of tiuore thathad been presented to him by a friend from the Black Uills of Dakota, and that came from an undeveloped lode in that region. Hev. Mr. Htevens was struck with the apparent richness of the specimens, and impreascd his views of the probable value of th« mines from which they came on Klder Van (;lett. The result was that the elder and two friends made up a moderate purse and sent Itev. Mr. .Sti-vens to iJiikota, with instructions to buy the pro|)ert\ if his jmlguient aiidexiierience aiiproved of the vi-ntnre ; under these in structions they |liecame the owners of seventy acres of laud covering the supposed valuable ludes iJut the |>urchase had ex- hiiUHti'ii all their means, and the property has since lain idle and unpiodtictive to the owners. Last summer, hovvever, the at tention at a party of ICnglish capitalists was attracted to the profierly. and they sent o\er Captain .John H. ('ook, a Corn- wall mining exfiert, to exiimine it with a view to its purchase. The expert's report was favorable, and the I^nglishmeii have i.ow paid Itev. Mr. Van Cleft and hia asso- ciates S'i.'iO.OOO for the property. Hrliool Uirin Wlii|i a NeWM|iH|»er Man. Hammond, liid.. despatrti says Hiicli A Misses Itellc (iiithrie, Hertie Hammond and Julia Potter, high schoolgirls, published a communication in the U'likhj Inil>'i'rruUni on Tuesday, saying that Porter II. iowle, editor of the l.niuiui h.''hn, had a silly brain, was a niasg of com^eit and belonged to a club footed race. Towle replied in Thursday's issue of the Ei-hn by lenouncing the high school girU. He -laid the writers of the article were things and readers of immoral pafwrs. Last evening seven young women of the high school met Towle in the street and threw red |>up(>or in hi>« eyes, while three of them horsewhipped him most tinmeroifully. He threatened to shoot, bat fled insteail and took refuge in an out- house in fiar of hia life. Citizens had preparewl to pelt Towle with rotten eggs, but they arrived too late. Much indigna- tion is felt lure, all endorsing the action of the high school girls, who are of the b<'Bt families. Porter B. Towle is a brother of the millionaire mavor of this citv. Connl«rfelt«n( In the Ntatei*. A Washington despatch says : The an nual re|Kjrt of tin- ('hief of the Hecret Ser- vice l>iviHion of the Treasury was made public to day It shows that there were M't!) {HTsoutt arrested by oflicors of the ser- vice during the past llscal year for viola- tions of laws against counterfeiting, etc. Of this number 70 were convicted ami sentenced to imprlHonment. The renort says that the , ,,unti'rfeiting now beingdone IS principally the work of Italians, who o[jerate in band-* in different portionsof the country. Thi^ counterfeiting done during the past year amounted praiticall> to nothing, the only attenipt.-t in that liirec tion being a itlO silver certilicato and a S'J silver oertiUi^atu, and these were such poor imitations a^ to be practically harmless. The report refers to the fact that all but two of the many skilled operators arrested since the war for counterfeiting United Htates bonds are now at liberty, and says they may ha expected to resume their ncfa rtona operations at any time. OanKht ji tVnir In the Ntreeti or Chtiiivn A Chicago despatch says : As John Htel ler, a night-watcViman.waa returning home at an early hour yesterday, he was met at the gate by a strange-looking animal that lie drove away- Mr. Hteller entered his house, only to l>e calletl out shortly after by the cry of ' Wolf I" The animal that hail met Mr. Stellcr at the gate had returned to his doorstep. A lively ohase ensued and resulted in the capture of the wolf. He was a young one, dark gray, with shaggy hair and alert ears. Not being aatislled with the blocd of a cow which he had bitten he put his teeth into Mr. Steller and drank briefly rif that gontleman's life current, hut was finally secured. The wolf was bound with a heavy rope, bnt he promptly severed it with his sharp teeth. « ' â€"The proof of a weather prediction ia in the patience that waits long enough for it to oome true. liKATK.M lit IIKATM. A Knihrr ('liargrfl With KrToltinic Cruelly t<> HIh Own Chilli. A Grand Knpuis, Mn.'h., despatch says . Oragon Hamilton, of Woodvilie, is utnier arrest at Newaygo for the murder of his in- f int child. Hamilton is a man of vicious character, and the facts, aa nearly as can be as<»<rtaini'd, are that the child was brutally beaten and literally whipjiod to death, and the verdict of the coroner's jury '\H that the child camo to itsdeaih by violent means Hamilton's wife, the mother of the child, died alKiut a year ago, and this child was being kept by Mrs. Kllsworth, who came hero under the name of Marsden. Nellie Olwrholzer, wife of the constable who had Hamilton iiichargeatthecoroner'b ini]uest, covered him (Hamilton) with a Winchester rifle iluriiig the proceedings. It is the prevailing opinion that the relations of Haniiiton and the woman who took care of the child were not the most savory. The boily of the child presented a aickening night when viewed at the ii quest. It was black from its little arms to its knees. Its father manifests no sorrow in the least, but since hia imprisonment has been trying to throw the whole crime n|s>n the woman who had it in charge, while it is the general belief that both are eijiially guilty, and a warrant has been issued for herarreat. Had the I'nsoner not lievii removed iminodiately aftir the ini|uesl the county would have been saved any costs in trying the wretch, aa fories from mills and camps were eon ceiitrating and would have lynched him. TKAIN KOIiiiKKV. Three Masked Mf n (let Away Willi About $40,000 Wurtb ul' Valuables. A Little Rock, Ark, despatch says : Th« train bound north over the ,St. Louis, Arkansas iV Te.tas Kailroad was stop[)ed by train robberg ten miles this side of Tuxarkana, Ark., laut ni(jbt, and the express car was robbed. The mail and passengers were not molested. The robbery occurred at 7 o'clock. U. P. Johnson, the post clerk on duty at the time, says the train was suddenly stopped when moving out of Geneva station. He saw three rough-looking men board the engine, and he knew something was wrong, so he blew out the lamps in liisdepartment and locked the doors. The expreas messen- ger iiid the aame thing. The three robbers were armed with a Winchester ritle and a couple of pistols each. They ordered the doors open, and fired several shots through the windows. The) then used a pick-axe and Johnson tired one ahol out through the window, which was answered by a volley. Finding resistance uselees, and the lives tt the engineer and fireman at stake, the express messenger opened hia doors, when a light waa struck, and search by the robbers began. The leader of the robbers was much agitated, and the mail clerk told him he was more scared than he (Johnson) was. Johnson says he would know one of the men anywhere. The leader weighs '200 pounds, and is thick and heavy set. There was a paaic among the passengers, who Htemed paralyiwd with fear. After going through the express car the men entered the mail car. Johnson ex- [lostulated that that was I'ncle Sam's dominion and that they already had a good .leal of booty, and if they disturbed the malls It would go hard with "them. One replied, • That's so," and that they would not touch the mails. Creat excitement prevails in the region of the robbery, and mounted men are si:ouring the woods everywhere, (iov. Hughes has "Ifered S'iOO for the arrest and conviction of each robber. The railroad company also offers several thousand dollars reward 1 he amount taken is said to reach $40,000. Ill KT ilV .tN ACCIDKNT. by l'»»eni{er.< anil ItrHkeiiiiin Injiirrd .'Hlnhail on the K, .1 I'. A Kingston desuatoh says: The regular passenger train on the K \ I'. Uailwav, going north, was derailed by an aceidcnt near Clyde I'orks. A car on the track was caught by the catcher and thrown on one side clear of the engine and tender, but must have rolled back fnun the side of the cutting to the track, derailing the passenger car and detaching it from the other part of the train. In its descent the car, it is said, rolled completely over two oi ;hrep tiiiies. of iroiirse overturning all the pas seiigerh. of whom Mr. Macl.can, a student of (Jiieen'H (niversity on his way to preach at Arnpnor. wa^ badly out Only one pas- aeiiger escaped without injury. Tlie braks- man was badly burned by the stove being upset. It pinned him down until the other train hands recovered themeelves siitli ciently to go to his ass'slaiice. His hands were badly burned in his efTorts to release himself. The car cauuht lire, but the flames wore soon i|ueiiched. Aiiuther Child nf Nalaii. A Jersey City, N.J, despatch says: Kred. Uiley, aged 10, is an inmate of the Home of the Sisters of the Peace, in which are living over a hundred ihildren. Uiliy a very vicious boy and the other inmates fear him and avoid him as much aa pos- sible. Yesterday Uiley found little Tommy Jonea, H years old, pla)iiig in the kitchen alone. Riley caught the litllo fellow, gagged him with a handkerchief, and then after removing his clothing, held him down on the top of a red hot stove. Jonea succeeded in getting the handkerchief from his mouth and his cries brought Sister Kvangoline to his assistance, Vint not until ho was ter- ribly burned and it In thought that he will die. Hiley was turned over to the police. Ilis father is dead, and his mother, being unable to control him. had put him in charge of the institution. The Canuillun Nnrthweht. The Pine Portage Mine, Lake of the Woods, has been sold for S'.'OO.OOO. On the projierty is a ten stamp null. Kupferachmidt, the alleged Catholic pritst who eloped from Dakota to Langen- burg. N.W.T., with a young lady of IH, be- came partially insaneaftertlielady returned home with her mother, and yesterday, while being taken before a justice of the peace for trial, committed suicide by cutting his jugular vein. He waa in the back part of tile sleigh aii.l coininitted the act before the man in charge had any suspicion of his intention. Sir Adolphe Caron and (ieneral Middle- ton inspected the infantry school barracks to-day and left for the Kasl to-night. Sir K. Caron callut upon Archbishop Tache today. While at Victoria, B.C., the Min- ister of Militia selected a site for the infantry school barracks. At the Victoria banijiiet he sfioku in opposition to Commer- cial Union, sajiug he believed it meant annexation to the United States. A meeting of citi/.ena was held yesterday to take preliminary steps towarda petition- ing the Dominion Ciuvernment for the im- uiediaU) improvement of the Hed Kiver, so as tnnhdvr navigation bat ween this city and Lake Winnipeg practicable. (i. Hushbrook. a Moose Mountain settler, set out on .November '2'2iid in search of a iiand of ponies and has not since been heard from. He ia supposed to have Tni8S»>d the trail and perished on the prairie. He ia a young Kuglisbman of 22. Intelligence n«ceived from Cumberland House stales that inHuen/,a and measles have caused a groat amount of snkneBs. and starvation is threatening the residents of that district. The Dominion (iovernment will b<! applied to for relict. (lossip uf a Day. A single foggy day in I.ondon costs the town Hi>mething like S40.0(X) for extra gas. A law has been passed in Waldeck, Ger- many, forbidding the granting of a inar- riagi- license to a person addicted to the Inpior habit- " Jernmantfakturbolagsforsjalningama Kagin " in Swedish means, in Kiigliah, •• Tlie Iron Mauufacluritig Company'a sale shop." I >ld Temple Bar was being removed on the '.'.'.th ult. from Karringdon street, Loii don, to Thebolds Park. Clieahunt, where it will Ih' erected on Sir Henry Menx's estate. Lord Stanley, of I'reston, who is spoken of ac the probable aiicc^'ssor of Lord I,ans- downn as Governor tJeneral of (Janada. ia heir presumptive to the earldom of Derby. W bile a lady of Xenia, O. waa preparing fed for her chii kens recentlv the diamond ill lier engagement ling dropped into the mixlure, and the loss was not noticed until the feed had been eaten by the fowls. It bi'cariio necessary to masaacre ten chickens before the atone was found, but it was fonnil at last. Thomas Kandall.of lUiffalo. owes his life •o the reprehensible habit of wearing cellu- loid collars. In a .|UBirel which he had with a laborer iianie<l McNerney, the latter drew a knife and made a lunge at Uan- dall's n'ck, but the collar bioko the force of the blow and he eacajied with slight injuries. Hov. Dr. Malcolm Douglass, who was buried at Kaat Warcham, Mass., the other day, provided in his will that his bodv should go to the earth in a pine box, and that nobody should run the risk of catch- ing cold by standing bareheaded at his Krave. "THK LANU O' CAKK.S." L.at«8t Scottlsli Jottings Truui All Over. Wm. Bae, forester to Colonel Stirling, of Kippandavie, haa been appointed custodian of l-iunblane Cathedral. Tha other day a kingfisher, it fall plum- age, waa captured by a cat at liutlierford boatho'ise, in the parish of Mazton. Mr. Wm. Hen wick, a native of Jedburgh, who wont to Peru many yeara ago, has recently died, and left a silver mine as a gift to his native town. Mr. C. 8. Parker, M.P., addressing hia constituents at Perth, recently, spoke strongly in favor of granting Home Rule to Ireland. There died on thel2tb uU. at Pittyvaich, Dufftown, Henry Gordon- Cumming, eldest aurviving son of the late Sir W. Gordon- Cumraing, Bart., of Altyre and Gordona. town, aged tJ5 years. In memory of the late Rev. John Marker, for half a century minister of the Congre- gational Church in Banff, a memorial atone has been erected over his grave in the churchyard there. Mr. John Collier, Hatton of Carnoustie died on the 13th ult., aged H3 yeara. He waa a well-known and bighly-reapected agriculturist, and hia services as a valuator were much sought after. liev. Andrew Douglas, Arbroath, in a soiree speech, condemned the proposal to appoint lady deaconesses aa most abaurd. Ita authora, in hiaupinion, showed an extra- ordinary want of knowledge of human nature. Major-General A. L. Littleton-Annesley, who will have the command of the military forces m Scotland in a short time, on the retirement of Major-General Klliot, C.B., is a cavalry otticer, having joined the llth Hussars in l>lo4, in time Co have a ahare in the Crimean campaign. A new underground railway ia projected from Glasgow and suburbs. Starting from â- St. Knoch Square it goes up Buchanan street, Cuwcaddeiis, Great Western lioad, then to Dowanhiil and X'artick, crosses the river to Govan, and strikes eastward to Ibrox, Kinning Park, Shielda Road, West street, Bridge street, and completes the circle by again crossing the river to St. Knoch .Sijuare. The Seaforth Highlanders, whose chief depot ia at present at Edinburgh Castle, will be removed soon either to Glasgow or Dublin, and the Queen'a Own Cameron Highlanders will take possession some time ill March or April, 'i'he entire regiment is at present stationed at Devonport. The Royal .Scots will leave Glaagow for .\lder- sliot, and the Scottish Ritles(Canieronian8) go from Curragh to Cork. The following recent advertiaement is beyond comtuent : " Stonehaven Free Church.â€" Rev. John Robertson will (O.V. , preach on Sabbath aa uuder: ll.:<0 a.m.â€" Children's sernionette, ' The Biggest Rock in the World ; ' sermon. • God with His Coat Off ;' p.m.â€" First Ihqntbly sermons to young men, • Make Room for Your Cncle;' ".HOp.m.â€" Old Mission Town Hall, ' f'nclaimed (^asb of Yours.' " A good story regarding Ihe shortness of the straw this season comes from Strath- more. In a small town not far from For- far two farmera met, and in the course of their remarks began to speak about the ex- ceedingly bad crops of corn. First Farmer : What like'a your crap the year,- M ? Second Farmer : Oh. it's naething ava ; the langest o't is just aboot that length (indicating on his stall about eight or nine inches). Fiist Farmer : .Vy, weel, you've nae need to complain. If you only saw mine ; the very craws hae to gang doon on their knees to get a peck at the heads o't. Shortly before the forenoon service began in Stockbridge Free (Jhurch, F^dinburgh.on Sunday, 13ih ult., a young man named James F'airbaim came (juietly in at the church door, and as soon as he had got inside he rushed with outstretched arms along the passage and up into the puliiit. Coming lo the front, he cried out in a loud voice, " 1 am Elijah the prophet." This cauaed much commotion aiiioiig those of thecongngationalready assembled. Several attempts were made to remove the intruder, and at length fon» had to be use.!. It seems FairUairn is liable to mental de- rangement. His family are connected with the Church. wash," so that in mojern Gaelic the name aignitiea " the clear or pure river." There were three appeals before the Houae of Lords the other day relating to the will of the late Dr. Boyd Baxter, Dun- dee. Strange that so celebrated a lawyer could not make his own will explicit. The ministerial jubilee of the Kev. Hora- tiua Bonar, D. D., of Edinburgh, which was to have been celebrated this mosth, baa been postponed, on account of the venerable doctor's indisposition, till March, 1888. Rev. Herbert Bell, of John Knox Church, .Aberdeen, threw himael! on the 21at ult. in front of the afternoon express aa it was passing Kittybrewater and was cat to pieces. Recently he had been in poor health, caused by severe domestic affliction. At a meeting of the Lord Provost's Com- mittee of the Edinburgh Town Coancil, held on Nov. 28rd, it was ananimoosly agreed to recommend to the Council that Dr. Cbambera' statue be erected in the centre of Chambers street, opposite to the Industrial Museum. Considerable excitement was caused in Glasgow Royal Exchange on the '24th alt. by the discovery that 15,000 tona of pig iron had been sold at the afternoon markiet, in compUance with a forged order par- porting to be signed by Jamea Watson & (;o. A searching investigation will be made int the scandaloas affair. A laird of Bpeyside. who bad just re- ceived a commission as a County Magis- trate, said to a half-witted individual who had been aent on an errand on horgebaok, â- ' Oh ! Joaie, you are riding on a horse to- day ; would not an ass suit you better ?" " Ou aye," returned Josie, " but asses are unco scarce nooa-days â€" they've a' been made Justices o' the Peace." A curious sacrilege case has caused some talk in Glasgow lately. Jane Watson, 25 years of age, who is employed in a Glasgow warehouse, was arrested one Sunday recently at Adelaide Place Baptist Church on a charge of having stolen £2 from the coUectiou plate at the door when she waa entering. The young woman, who ia reapectably connected, has been for aeverai years an adherent of the church. After being two days in priaou she was dia- missed by the Magistrate (Bailie Golqa- houn) with '• an admonition." of the passage to An Old I.R<ly'a Knleriirlse. Mrs. Charlotte Forae, of Windham, Nor- folk County, in the last tlireo months of her 7Hth year, pieced and (|uilced a quilt which contains l.A'.fH pieces. It is a splendid piece of workmansnii), and cnnaidering the lady's age is a reniarkahle achievement. Who can beat it? Mrs. I'orse is an old Norfolk girl, having been horn in the Town- ship of Charlotteville, and haa resided in Norfolk county over since. Oonl Purget That Every time you Ixirrow you lake a hack at your self-reiianco. Every time the mercury drops the price of coal goes skyward. Every time you gush over olaaaio mnaic you play the by poorite. I', very time you snub a reporter the gods will unite and smile you. Every time you do good and tell of it you lose the fruit of the action. Every time you buy that whicih you can't afford you prove yourself a fool. I'.very time you throw a bananapoel on the sidewalk you endanger aomeboily'a nock. Every time you call a man a liar he will his lingers while wniting hia turn for '<»f>"k you downâ€" if he has any style about the pen, to the horror of Mra. Cleveland '"'"• A Seene In the I'niled Ktnles Senate, Gorman, George and Ivlmiinda signed together, and George blew hia nose with who whispered vehemenlly toherapnntacled rompanioD about the tn<kHeT.â€" W,nihington Special. Every time you talk about your own worth you convince your hearera that you have none. The Clyde built steamer Ormu/.. Olient Line, lias ina.le tl Australia in 21 days. The Clyile Locomotive Company have Be<:ured ttie contract for the loooiiiotivea for the Midland Criigiiay Railway. Colonel Balfour, of Balfour, <li,-d in Edinburgh on the I'Jth nh.. aged 7(i >ears. He was an extensive lan.lowiier in Orkney. WinaMH iieer forest extends across Scot- land, from Heaiily Firth on east lo Kinlail on west coast, :il(i s.|iiaio miles, 221,700 aurea. President Miiklejolin, St. Andrews, has again been Bele<;tcd as the candidate in the Gladstonian interest for the Tradestoii Division of Glasgow. The order for the closing of Dingwall prison on March Ist has been received, and the prisoners will be transferred to the prison at Inverness. Rev. P. Mackercher, the deixjsed minister of Kilmore, preached a valedictory sermon to hia old parishionera recently' in the echiHilhouae at Dunach. The Lord's Supi»r has been this year dispensed in two pariahea. Barvas and Locha, in the Lewia, for the hrat time per- haps aiiice the Disruption. The author of a remarkable forthcoming volume against tcetotalism ia a graduate of Edinburgh University, and a probationer of the Free Church of Scotland. Norman Macleod'a old church at New milns wua the only one in that parish which had services on the Faatday last month, all the other churcliea having c'eaaed to obser\'o it. Mr. Wni. Macdonald, editor of the ,Vi)i(/i l<nti«h .liirirnlliiriM, died on the 10th ult., after a short illness, at his reaidenct! in Sjlvsn Place. He leaves a widow and four children, KiV. Dr. Alex. Whyte, discoursing on "Some AiUoliiographies," declared that of all woiks ill this department religious aulobiogriiphies were inlinitely and incom- parably the beat. I'lof. Mackinnon, the occupant of the daelic chair at Edinburgh, saya the name CuteSaylnss by the Little Oiiea. 10^U1V S li.\l'l:l;IKMK IN SCIKHIL. Little Tommy had spent hia lirst day at school. " What did yon learn ?' asked hts auntie. "Didn't learn anything." said Tommy. " Well, what did you do ?" "Didn't do anything. A woman wanted to know how to spell ' cat' and 1 told her." wiUT ciniiLKV oiuKi rs to. Little Charley pu/.zled his mamma one day with the inquiry, " Mamma, do all goo<l people go to heaven when they die?" •• Yes, my son." " And will grandpa go to heaven, too?" â- ' I hope 80, my boy." " Then I don't want to go to heaven." " Why not ?" asked the aatonished mother. " Because grandpa will say, when he sees us boya there, 'Whew! whew! whew I What'a all tlieae boys doing up here.' C1.0S1! IlK.lSil.NIN.i. A little chap uptown who called himself Doctor Sol says wiser things thau one would expect from a three-year-old. "When will baby talk?" he said to hia mother the other day. " When ahe gets her teeth,' mother. "All her teeth?" "All." " Well, I don't believe it," little fellow after reflection, father haa only one tooth and he talks you to death." said hill said the ' Grand - Koineihlnic .\buut Ko..iweBr. Fifty years ago boots had the preference. To-day shoes. Formerly, in all weathers. the boot waa worn outside of the trouaers. To-day, when worn at all, the legs of the boots are covered by the legaof thetrouaera. The whirligig of time is bringing boots into the fashion again, at least fo^ winter wear, and it seems to be in the interest of good health. It stand., to reason that it should be so. Kverylxxly reapeets the force of the general hygieni(^ principle that it is uecea- aary to kxp the head co.d and the feet warm if gimd Is alth is sought. Boota cover not only the firt, but the ankle and the lower kg, and hence fight ofl rheumatiani that delights in attacking those parts. W.wlei, stockings are posaiblv t(X) heating and inako the feet perspire. " With a pair of gr,o,l boots, cashmere socks are better. The sole of a winter boot should be thick, but, tsiing thick, it isn't necessary that it shouM bo heav>. Cork s<des are excellent, and they make a light-weighted boot, while protecting the foot from the wet. A pair of fancv h.alher tops, say of the btst mo rocco, will last many yeara, and so, with footing, b(X>t3 eventually coat aa little as shoes. The boot legs should tit as aiiugh to the limbs as the size of the feet will per t. This makes the legs of the trousers fit the better. Eschew galoshes. They injure by " drawing." Let thick aoles serve their purpose. It the feet get wet put them into cold water, next dry them thoroughly and then, with a change of socks, they will fairly glow with warmth.-.V/^ York Nearly a Cheek mate. They tell it on a member of the club, but It may onl> be a gross slander. He had been playing chess at the club-rooms until a late hour, and after he got outside he atoo<l on the sidewalk meditating. A polioe- niaii, unpcroeived, made his approach. " Move on," he said, gruffly. " U'a your move," said the absent- minded citizen, and II muliial recognitions had not occurred it might have been the police min'a. Many years agoâ€" it was when the four Hnrpcr brothera. of New York, were living -a well known physician came into their ofhco one day and was talking with one of them, who noticed that his visitor's coat sleeve was torn. He called his atten tiontoit, saying that it would be well if he would ask his wife to mend it, as it did not look well for a gentleman to go about with his clothes in that condition. " 8j!k " announced the doctor, sternly, " I prefer that it should remain aa it is. A tear may be the accident of a day, but a darn is of the Clyde is derived f rou*,^ d«u, ., " to ' the sign manual of ,>ennrv" 9i