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* HOUSEHOLD. IT Jt 1.1 A H. MAY. Beloved ! when we povi away From thixfainiliarapot I wonder who will come nod may In inedewtedcot. Boaetil.li lhi elm UVM who will ntand And think that honi* i* s>%eet, Whrn w huve gone into thai land Where parted households meet I Oh. who will walk beside thu Hirciun, Or sit beneath the pine. To droam again lif a' little drram. When 'tin not your*, nor mine I Wlil noiii.- onufell my favorite tree. Hi 'I down the nioxoy wall : Th.- 1 MngM MI <t.-ar t you 4n<i mo. Will tli.j demrojr them all I Whove name will be on yonder door 1 Whone plctu e deck the walls t Whoxe feet prow roughly on the floor here your dear footstep* falli I AnJ when the years tot ealurie* iwing. Ti I all we love arc dead. \Villnny echo backward brine TUo wurtln that we have mud ? I lx>pe the brook down there will mil* An Did familiar tuno. When in a happier home than thU We talk with all our own. For oh. Ihi-i Intl.- home IK sweet. Earn rorntr U no dear ; Can Heaven without it he complete I I would that Heaven were here. I almost think that from the iklem If I thUhomo can Me. I shall waU-h thoae with rn viou.- eye* Who live here after mo. ' Hu-h ! liunh ! wo .hail not care." jou nay l>ear heart ! it may on true ; we shall not then, but oh. to-d.tr My life IH here, with you. Mnml ir.| of SV-.iBO Is there any hainlsom* people on the face of the globe? Now, we may set aside the black and yellow and polychrome races in general, many of whom arc well shaped, and like bronze statues to look upon but who do not come up to tho Aryan standard in fea- tures and col -r. l/cavmg these children ol nature out of the question, it may be confes- sed that there is no race among whom beauty is common. If the ancient iireeks were like their statues, then there was once a beauti- ful race, but it is not so certain that they did pot idealize themselves a good deal. There is th* more reason to ga.-r this, as, when they have to represeatabarbarian.aay aCaul or a German, or a professional prizefighter, they m\ke these people a* handsome as them- selves, though in a rougher way. There is a famous bronze statue of a boxer, who might be taken for an orator, or a poet, were it not for his heavy metal-studded glove*. Thus it may bs deemed that there u a great propotiou of th* ideal in these statues, vases, coins, and figures, where every one is so graceful and goodly- Every nation ha* a hn<h opinion of its own charms. The French pr.de themselves on s i>all feet, and it ia cer- tain that their women walk very little, and have cunning bootmakers. The Americans write as if their women were a galaxy of loveliness ; and then comes a military critic (Kngluh) who only saw three pretty women in the States, and one of them waa a foreigner. There ia no know- attention on what tkey have to say through their song, thinking neither of their audi- nce nor of themselves. They must be care- nl of pronunciation and intonation, and they are to sing the words a* they would speak them, near the front of the mouth. A true musician, she thinks, must have an appreciation of poetry, the study of which lie recommends. A singer without a strong feeling for words can uot move those who hear. Finally, singers are to read Kuskii and Kinersou, and follow their teachings. L>.Bir>llr afapiitnru. BY TliK REV. W. JAY. Ah ! what so refreshing, so soothing, so satisfying, as the placid joys of home ! See the traveller does duty call him for i sou to leave his beloved circle ? The ima^i of his earthly happiness! continues vivid in his remembrance, it quicken* him to dil ((nee, it makes him Hail the hour which sees his purpose accomplished, and his face turned towards home : it communes with him as he journeys, and ho hears the promise which causes him to hope "Thou shall know also that thy tabernacle shall lie in peace, and thou shalt visit thy taliernacl*, and not sin. " Oh the joyful reunion of a divided family ihe pleasures of renewed interview and conversation after days ol absence ! Behold the man of science he drops the laborious and painful research-- closes hisvoluine- smoothahia wrinkled brow leave* hi* study, aud unbending himself, stoops to the capacities, yields to tne wishes, and mingles with the diversions of his children. Tak* the man of trade whit re- conciles him to the toil of buainess? what enables him to endure the fastidiousness and impertinence of customers? what rewards him fur so many hours) of tedious confine- ment ? By and by the season of intercourse will behold the desire of his eyes and the children of his love, for whom lie resigns his ease) ; and in their welfare and smiles he will find his recompence. Yonder comes the la- w i KKI K.I As) IT - ( Thai Have t,unr Teward Ike Kve- luiiui. ,,r our rreseal Bystesm. The first attempt of the barbarian to es- tablish Minus form of legal relation, in liru of the free love of earlier times, was the marriage by capture. In this the young in. MI, having seen some girl of his tril* who pleased his fancy, call together a band of his brother braves, and catching his victim at some defenseless moment, bound anil gag- g<;d her, and dragged her away to his home, henceforth to be his wife. Two effective scenes are those represent- ing first, the maiden, happily sleeping in hei rude hut, while the love- maddened brave stealthily enters and quietly but firm ly tangles his jagged spear-head in her heavy hair without rousing her ; and, second, the poor girl awake, and being dragged away by the hair ot her head, her hands, and feet tied, by her ruthless captor. This waa a vry common method, practiced in the wild* ami i' even now of Australia. A modification of this custom was found among the Egyptians. There, the female population met at the public baths, and the charms of this aud that young girl were described to the youth who wished to wed, by his female lelatives. When he decided upon one that suited hia fancy an arrangement was made with the girl's father. The prospective birdcgroom, at the head of a gorgeous procession of bis flien Is, accoin pained by musicians and dancing girls, I then wen: to the girl's iimne in the even- ing, and made a show of tearing his resist- ing bride front her lather's protecting arms. Thereupon he placed her, entirely cover- ed by an embroidered and jeweled-atudded veil, under a magnificent canopy born': oy four slaves, and, in company with torch- bearers, singers, with all the display pos- sible, bore her away to h.s home. Once there, thesingerssingand the dancers dance, TsuTtsLSorftal'LU. A Wessssi Ltsrly Life trrBli-l by Ike Beaes m *Jer Trlke. On the luiirly wind-swept island of Sao Nicholas, eighty miles off the cout of Ven- tura county, Col., when, as far hock as the memory of man runs, hundreds of white skeletons have dotted tlio valleyn and hill- sides, lociit arclneologist* are now busy ga- thering the relics of a strange exiinct race. The island 11 ten miles long and oval in shape, being four miles across at the widest part. Strange utensils of serpentine, sand- stone, and steatite are found there among the human bones, and the island and its erstwhile inhabitants have a history ao cu- rious that it is ditticult of comprehension. In IK.TI the padres of Santa Barbara, learning that there were but sixteen of ths strange Indian race then living there, deter- mined l.i rescue them from the inland. They went over in a sloop and succeeded, as> they thought, in gotting all on board. At ths last moment an Indian woman returned for her child, and one of the frequent storms oi the channel islands priniring up, the sloop was driven away witlnut her. The sloop went on the rocks of Point Conception ana all i>n board were lost. Sixteen years later Capt. George Nidever aud two men from the coast on a sloop to hunt otter off Son Nicholas. On lauding they were, likeCrusoe, mon.shed to discov- er human footprints in the sand. They saw no one, however, and a storm compelled them 10 put to sea. It was two years thereafter that the ad- venturous Captain, revolving in his mind the sight of the footprints in the uncanny islands, determined to go and discover and bring over the lonely woman of whom he had vaguely heard. Mea accompanied him, and at length they saw on the surf-beaten shoie a woman with long tawny hair dress- ed in a queer garb of colored bird skins, and scraping, w.th a bone kaife, the blubber from a teal. They surrounded and approached hsr borer he has borne the burden and heat of . . .uunueu.*! n., the day -the descending sun ho* release-l while tho bride, still carefully veiled walks a'ealthily, and, although suddenly coufront him of his toil, and he is hastening home to ' UD *"" down before the oroom to disnlav I -j -u- iT:j _ enjoy repose. Half way down the lane, by the aide of which stands hia cottage, )> children run to meet him. One he carries and one he leads. The companion of his humble life is ready to furnish him with his plain repast. See) his toil-worn coun tenance assume an air of chserfulness ! His hardship* are foi gotten fatigue vanishes be eats, and is satisfied. The evening fair, he walk* with uncovered head around his garden enters again and retires to rest ; aud " the rest of a labouring man i* sweet, bother he eat little or much." Inhabitant i be miliQer- to this house. , j . . ., j- i w-imiij, ami, iiii.uuuiii nuuuemy cumroni- up and down before the groom to display ] edf , he , lH not apDem ? m tht> ^ af , her grace and charm, lie entertainment . but smiled, and tlieZ fallina on her kne e, finally over and the guest, departed, the pr , ve d to the sun. husband unveils her. and for the brat time feasts his rye* upon her beauties. These are two especially effective scenes. Next in importance wo have the marriage by purchase. Strictly speaking, tliis ens The wild woman offer- ed no objection when by signs she waa made to understand that she was to go with them in the boat. They reached Saiita Barbara acrotse the rough sea, and the finl thing the Indian of this lowly dwelling, who ca cut to thy comfort? I'eacc be I A superb piece of workmanship from abroad is a Lice ornament made of diamonds and silver. It u is caught on the shoulders with diamond bow*. Children s silver mugs are perfectly plain with round lustrous surfaces with a chased rounded edge. Anything mjre elaborate has a festooned garlaud. Necklets and bracelets of black velvet iog what to believe when patriotism boasts | powdered with small stones are worn in the local fair. Are the women of Aries England. The Dime of the wearer in script really more lovsly than their neighbors ? Is " Auld Ayr" peculiar, bsyond Girvan and Maybole, for th* presence of bonnie las* ? Weic the women of Tauagra prettier than those of Thebes ? Or do they owe their re- putation to the local school of artists ? Are Irish complexion and Iria'i eyes th* pardon- able invention* of Hibernian patriotism ? Are all Lancashire witches more bewitching than they of Shropshire ? The** question* can uever be satisfactorily answered. Per- haps it might pay an American journal to send a commissioner on beauty all around is written with stones. Bonbon spoons copied after antique de signs have network bowls, in the center of which Ua tiny figure, lu the best silver- ware the surfaces ore plain, highly polished aud with a small round chased edge. I h 1. 1. 1.-. i Ulr. i 4 ., ,- J . ,.. .w..^.. , ,u,., IM*, ,iiv luiiiu HH: iii.nttii ! torn varies among the different nationalities woman *aw was Dr. S. L. Shaw, now 80 I a. to .the actual wedding ceremonies, almost ' year, old and yet living there, riding a i all of which were, however wild and pic- j none . S|)(! ha / never ,J en nor ' h^rf turesque : but a view of a slave market al- ^y object hke lt> ^j tho ht tha mlkn an(1 ways give, a fine opportunity for pictorial hor8 . wer .one. and she knelt on the .hore effect. Here we have the girls yet to be and offered her devotions to it. Two weeks soli postured in the foreground . while their ^rwutt the last inhabitant of rock ribbed , unfortunate comrade is Htoudiug ou exhibi I lion before the group of buyers, a profess- ional exhibitor, a Nubian slave, calling at- tention to the good point* of the prencnt , lot." At the extreme left a slave i* just cover- i injr hi* master's recent purchase, while the | auctioneer in bis box cries his " Going, go- , iiig, gone," over the freedom and happiness of a defenseless woman. The prospective buyers, with radiant faces, each clothed in brilliantly bedecked garments, and bearing ! a casket of jewels in hi* hand to win loving 'glance, from indifferent eyes, from an ap- 'leton.ond parts of skeletons have also propnale background to the white robe* and *ad or stony faces of the girls in front* tempest-tossed Son Nicolas died from eat- ing food to which she wai unaccustomed, furnished by her rescuers, and the curtain fell on her race forever. Wild dogs had eaten her child. Herdress of red and blue feathers, a wonderful crea- tion of barbaric hands, was sent to the Pope of Home. Hello huntera have gathered mortars, pestles, olios, toy steatite canoes, and other curious thing* there for some year* pan, and shipped them ous Eastern and European universities. How much th* world owe* to the older mter in the home, write* T. DeWitt Tal- nuge in the March Ladies' Home Journal. __ Bom nhile yet th* family were in limited the world, who should give a~compreherTs7ve ' circumstances, she had to hold and take and unbiased opinion. But it would be uif. j ca ' yonugfr brothers. And il there is ticult lor the world to believe in his judicial ' y tbing that excites my sympathy, it is a fairness, and no really scientific result could llUle * irl c rr y ln t round agreat heavy child, be obtained. At home w* may all look about "d getting her ears boxed because she can ua, and ask where beauty nourishes most. I nnt ke *P n "" 1" ieU B y. th< tilne he 8" u *" Now it may be a heresy, but we think that | y oon g womanhood she is pale and worn put, the scientific observer will find beauty most anj her attractiveness) has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly consigned to celibacy, i by an ungallont niun, call her Miriam. In most families the two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and the last, th* first because she is worn common amoug the young work women and shop g irls, on one hand, and among " the highett circles," the oldest families, on the other. rillews. The use of s pillow is not a matter of mere blind usage. It has a physiological basis. We sleep, for the most part, on the side, and without a pillow th* head would be uncomfortably and harmfully lower than the body. It will be remembered that Jacob, when fleeing from Esau, took a (tone for a pillow. He needed something for the purpose, ami nothing better than a stone presented itself. Such practices are com- mon in Africa at the present day. Some people rest the neck instead of the head on hard pillows. In Africa extraordinary headgears make this practice necessary , and many a civilised woman hat been compelled by s somewhat similar coiffure to forego both the pillow and the recumlwnl posture. A consideration of the phyai >logical reason for pillows will suggest their proper thick- ness. They should merely bring the hoad to the natural level. Some pillows are much too thick. By bending the the nsck unduly they interfere with the outflow of th* venus blood from th* head. The pillow that just fills up the space above the shoulder best suits its end. Again, pillows of feathers are objectionable. While they furnish the needed support for the head they are too heating, as they have a remarkable capacity for holding and accumulating heat. It should be remembered that more blood, and hence more heat, goes to the head than to any other (*r l of tlie bo ly. Head heating pillows are against the wholesome maxim, " Keep the leet warm but the head cool. " There is nothing bet tcr th.vn the hair pillow. Further, the pillow is for tho heail, not for the shoulders. To rest the shoulders on the pillow defeats the very vnd of which it is used. Fiimlly, special care should be Ukcn of infant* in thi* matter. We have teen their heads sunken deep in the soltest aud thickest of pillows, and their faces, as a natural con sequence, covered with great liends of per piration. It is no wonder that children so treated die. T* tin* wk* -iii- Madame Antoinette Stirling has been giv- ing some advice to Kngliah girls about sing- ing. She warns them ut to sing in pnMif, or evn in private before .'o-npaiiy, nnleis they have a good voice ami <'i>nuleraldv knowledge of how to use it. ll.iviiii; that, her vlvioe io them is to concentrate their fidelity, and *he i* kiiil society calls her but in heaven they t nt. i 1 1 rstotl fl'Ba. H|M-rl insulins: Wllk Ike Llfkl Tfcer .!..- Ike < h. ipr,i la the WorisL Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian | Institution Washington, has been experi- > n.riit ing for some time past with fireflies from Cuba, H* says that the light they give is the " cheapen" in the world produc- ; e.l, that i* to say, with the least heat and the smallest expenditure of energy ; and he believes basal successful imitation of it | would prove a most profitable substitute ' for gas and electrcty. The insect* arc [ beetle* two inches long and belong to the family of " snapping bugs," so called be- : cause when one ot them isi laid on its back it snaps itself into the air with a clicking sound, The secret of the light thi* firefly gives is as yet undiscovered. Apparently it is con- nected in some way with the uiyiterious phenomena of life, and chemiats and phy been collected in large numbers, but to-dty the bone* of thousands of Indians are scat- tered about there. Some lie face down, in dicating that they hare fallen in battle. There are ao many human relics there that San Nicolas is known aa the " Isle of Skulis. " The lonely island wh<>e highest partis but 1,040 feet above the sea," said a resi- dent of Ventura last night, -'is noted for the high irtisti class of many of its relics. Had the woman rescued, t'len 52 years old, not died, a story passing strange would no i doubt have been told of the met so long ' hommed in by the waste of waters about. As it is, much of the itory is shrouded in mystery forever. I IL i.i.l .in ! Trasfe. The controversy respecting the Indian opium trumc still goes on in Knglaud much after the manner of any artillery duel at lon . D e ' *" d " far wit ' lou . t lu <leflmUi r 1U A """Pf 1 *"" of the arguments uied e ' l , her " de " eT , thel " 1 "' truct - '*' " ''"P" 10 ' lh IntJ ' ( ' 4k seerwtari Blalsje .mil Lerd ftaltsksjry Bepertesl ie ke I m iriaiou An English correspondent writing under a recent date of London, says: ' The Behring Sea controversy U assuming a serious aspect. The latest news from Wash- ngton has aroused an interest in the sub- ject that diil not before exist, and every- body is anxious to learn the next move of Lord Salisbury and President Harrison. There is an impression in England, growing out of the Chilian controversy, that the President means what he says and that there is nothing of what Americans call 1 ' bluff" about his warnings or his demands. It i* well known that Lord Salisbury in equal ly in earm st, and that ho will sustain what- ever course may be determine. I upon with any naval and military power thai may be necessary. The foreign office is reticent and has as yet given the public no official statement a* to the situation of the British government, but Lord .Salisbury's mouth- pieces all speak in a tone that leaves no doubt that England's navy will be ready to meat any American aggression in the open waters of Behring Sea and that British seal- er* will be defended in capturing aoals be- yond the coast limit of American jurisdic- tion. That is, England will tak* no offen- sive action, bnt will be resolutely on the defensive, leaving it to the American gov- ernment to assume the responsibility for hostile action, should any be taken on the Behring sea issue. "The British will fight and are ready to tight, if necessary," aaid one of th* leading Conservative members, "but we do not seek a fight. If the United State* Govern- ment is inssne enough to go to war or to make a show of force that would be tanta- mount to provoking war for the sake of their Alaska teal ring, which ia really at the bottom of the whole difficulty, and which thinks it can maintain a monopoly by getting the government to take up its cause, on such an issue England will go be- fore Ibe world if America wishes to chal- lenge hsr. " " I have nut the slightest apprehension that war will be the result of the contro- versy," said a gentleman highly connected with the Knglisb admiralty, "bat if sueh should unfortunately be the case, England it better prepared for fight than she ever was in her history. As for the Americans taking Canada, they seem to forget that it took them four yean to conquer thj aniilt), which had a white population about eq ual to that of Canada, and did not have an Knglisb fleet to assist. Campaigning in Canada will b a difficult affair and Canadians would be generally found loyal to the English flag. I doubt if the American* iimld conquer Can- ada. Tin* talk about an easy conquest of Canada is amusing to military and naval meu acquainted with the situation. In other respect*. " added the speaker. " Kuglaod i* in a first clou condition to defend her sub- jects against American aggretiuou. Ruaua iciuapitiablesiluation financially and physi- cally, and a recent careful review of thr mili- tary of our Indian empire show* that India is well able to take care of itself should Hiuuua move in that direction. In one important respect England would gain by a war with the United States. It would put an end to American encroachments on Eoxiiili .xim- merce with South America, and it would ti-nd to solidify all port* of the empire, and tu bind the American colonies mom secure- ly to (ireat Britain. British commerce would gain more than it would lose and American commerce would oease to exist. But there i* a deep, underlying stratum of common neuie and sound judgment in the American character that will, in my opinion pievent any step from being Uken that would imperil the friendly relation* now sulmiding between the two great KngluuS peaking conntrie*. " Lrll*lli.-ll,i.uw wa lllv, win. \. l.*;ll* in b Mini LIIIV- . . . ! 111 L out with the car*, of a home that cannot sieists have .ought in vain to explain it* """" "H'^ f""- P T ^ * .... Kfthlt. In |I*|HH|U nF I llA !*<.VABaA ,n ,1... afford to hire help, and the last because she is spoiled as a pet. Among the grandest equipage* that sweep through the streets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of apocalyptic white horsex, ami many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass. And this leads me to the thought : !. t sister* not begrudge the time and care be- stowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy you know so well as you do your brother can ever turn out anything very ureful. Well, he may not be a Moses. There is only one of that kind needed lor 60UO year*. But I tell you what your brother will be either a blessing or a curse to society, and a candidate for happiness or wretchedness. He will, liko Moses, ha>e the choice between rubies and livinn coals, and your influence will with bis decision. have much to do origin. Ou each side of the animal's Ihorax is a luminous membranous spot, and these Hash at intervals, so that the Cubans put a dozen of the insects in a cage together, and so obtain a continuous illumination bright enough to read by. This light is accompan- ied by no perceptible heat, and is seeming- ly produced with almost no expenditure of energy. How great an improvement it re- present* ui>on all known artificial lights can be imagined when it is staled that in can- dlelight, lamplight, or gaslight the waste is mor* than 951 per cent. In other words, if , they could be so obuined as uot to throw meuUl o( "" "o"-'"tcrfcrence party. I anything away, they would give nearly 100 i Government of India, he says u more than a tiu.cs the illumination which they do afford. I mer9 ^ 8' l "' authority. It holds a : Kven tho electric light is mostly waste. ttrlct " n Hy of H'e trade m opium, is at once the grower, manufacturer, and \eiul- er of the drug, and he is naturally disposed. therefore, to view the question of its use | and abuse chiefly from a commercial He points out that a habit is decidedly on the increase in the country under its rule, even among those classes or m those localities where it admit i tedly prevails, and by ui assertion that it is effectually held in check by leeal restriction. At the same time it is said that opium smuggling tends to develop into a regular trade a Tact which at all events doe* not I strengthen confidence in the decline of the j habit. The opposite side of the question was latel) presented to the public of Eng- land in letter to Mr. Donald Mathcsion, in which he criticise* the pueition and argu rgu- The A London photographer has conceived an idea which has already ma Je him fame, and deserves to make his fortune. He noticed that when he had a lady sitter with lovely, graceful feet she waa always at least willing to let them appear in the picture, hut that when tli* boots were over size that she took care to keep them under the ed^es of her gown. So this man of pcniu* caused to be constructed a pair of artificial feet of dainty proportion*, and had them dressed in the newest and most approved bottines. These he exposed in his atelier and explained to vis- itor*. After a while he delicately suggested to a lady whose feet wen uncompromising that she permit these to enter into the pic- ture, and, deftly hooking the false feet to the hem of her gown, ma le a charming full length photograph. His success ha* dated from that day. London women don't mind availing themselves of the artificial beauty any more than of powder or any other toilet aid. AproposoJ successful pho- tographs, there is a very simple v>ay of pre- venting she depressed, diMonnolatelook that one'* f*oo iaapt to assume in the forced repose of a sitting. It is to drink just a thimbleful of *herry in tho dressing-room. It will put intoyimr face the tiny touch of life ind ani- mation that adds so much to the beauty of n likeness, ami which is so apt to degenerate UK" a grin whu assumed to order. Fe*4 in. I %|..ui ii in-, i -. . A cable despatch from London dated March lit slates: " The county of West- ! standpoint. rnoreland ha* been declared to be infected ' statement that the opium consumption is at with the foot and mouth disease. The . y<it small in comptrison HI th t lie population market* have been clo*ed and the movement of the Inlian htnpire really furnishes a of cattle prohibited." | strong argument in favor of prohibition, in- A propo* of the foregoing a telegram from aamuchasit shown that the evil, it early Washington, D.C , says : " much uneusi- | dealt with in 'his way, may still be efTectu ness is felt by American stock owners, and ally extirpated. Finally, he quotes the n particularly by the department of agricul ture, on account of the aeriou* outbreak of fool and mouth disease in Great Britain. The disease, it is stated at the department, wns first detected in the London markctaon February 4, and although prompt measure* were adopted with a view to suppressing it, it. soon found its way into the neighbor- ing districts, and has now reached Scotland, where the countries of Lanark, Kenfew, Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan anil Midlothian have been declared infected. Many sheep are imported into the United Slates from (ircat Britain, and, as these animals are very subject to the contagion of foot and mouth disease, it is feared that it will be introduced by them into the United States in site of the quarantine j . , tborily of a declaration made by upwards of five thousand medical practitioners of th* . United Kingdom to the effect that the . opium habit is morally and physically de- l basing, and that the drug ii.i-li should therefore in India, aa in Knglaud, he classed | as a poison and sold for medicinal purposes only. Nothing could be simpler or more scientifically accuiate than thi* presentation of the subject. Thus much even the Indiau ' Government may fairly be expected to con- ' cede, and we cannot douht that it would do tins and support the admission by pr.n-tu .d legislation, but that there come in tho rival interebts connected with usage and revenue. We can all appreciate in some degree the resulting difficulty of it* position, out this is no reason why the work of reform so now enforced. If the disease continues to greatly needed should be neglected. It re prevail in (ireat Britain it will no doubt he necessary, it is *aid, for the Government of the United States to prohibit entirely the introduction of cattle, sheep, goats and win* until the outbreak has been complete- ly suppressed. This disease docs uot exist ou the American continent, and it would be a national calamity to have it introduced. a* every animal that ii in the leant expose'l to it becomes diseased. mains to be seen whether a process of reduc- tion, gradual if not rapid, in this injurious traffic cannot he effected without sterious dislocation of present fiscal arrangements. Tee Naay lffair>. Mr. George Nort hedge, a bachelor ral estate agent of Chicago, about a month ago fell heir to a fortune of fSUO.OUO in raib. The windfall came to him through the death of a relative in Kugiaod. and aa soon as his good luck was known, it was widely adver- tised in the journals of the day, glowing ac- count* of his agreeable manners and personal characteristics accompanying hi. portrait. The result was entirely unanticipated. On the first ''ay after Uie publication in the V Chicago paper*, 'Jft letters were received " from ladies of that city who were willing to marry him and hi* fortune. Th* next aay the number increased to over 100, the news having got into the country, and now that the tact is generally known, the un- happy man in the daily recipient of a couple of hundred letters a day from women who are willing to share his fate. Kvery section of the union i* repre- sented, *o that the desire to get married con not be said to be confined to the women of any pariicular locality, while ladie* of all agn, widow*, maiden* old and young, are included in the number who write to V i . Norlhedge, showing thai th* infirmity is uot peculiar to any condition or time oi life. Some of the writers Imldly propose marriage, others jiuthintat it, and not a few want to be his housekeeper. Some of the writeis declared that the picture of Northedge shown in ihe newspapers waa just too lovely for anything, ami they were sure they could be happy with such a man.even if he wa* miserably poor. So many latter* came that he has not had time to open them all, and several hundred are at hia boarding house still unopened. Thus far ho says he ha* received over MO otter* of mamage, and he has no doubt there ar* score* among the lot he hasn't yet opened. Other* asked for his picture, his size, oom- plexioo, if he had ever loved. "The whole lot would marry me, 1 believe," said North- edge, "and I don't know what I'm going to do.'' It may lie *et down as almost im- possible for a man to escape marriage when the whole unmarried female creation is aftr him. and to this unlucky person one course of three must be taken. He must either get married at once, ijive away his money or leave the country, and the sooner he rouus to strive sgaiost manliest destiny the better for his peace of mid. ( :*n. Uourko ha* asktd t/o be allowed to expel all the inhabitants of Warsaw except ' 50.000, but th* Russian Government has de- clined to grant tho rcouesu An explosion took place last week in a Belgian colliery, and .'I'M men were impris- mud n the mine. As the ventilator was Oi stroycil, none of tho men were rescued. At a dinner in London last week of the Association of Chambers of ( 'oiiniien-e, Sir ( 'h.trlfH Tupper mode the speech of the oven- ing. He referred to the vast resource* ,,f the North-Wesl, and xai.l Canada could supply Kngland with all the grain ami flour she required, and in exchange '.'anada would take the manufactured arti.'le* of *.!io Mo' vat euuulrjf.