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CROW'S Vritf PASS DISTRICT. red to ha a Countrr of Il'imitable Possibilitici. oal Oil Miilh l.iuml In tlmn "li n >llui;l.lraBlBu I roui a < Ml .in.i <lu-rr purl "ii i.i iiln^lral Oli.r rvnllii 'I'n. I.- h.n just been iwuod a summary fnitnili.- I '.in. till, in (ieolugii.il Suney De- I'n iiu. -ht. It contain* llr. Sclwyu s rcpoi t mi (ha work done by otlicer of 111* depart- ment in the Crow's Nost pass and district. After dealing wilh Rome experiment! made in Alberta, Dr. Selwyn speak* of ('.imp Ak amina, just inside the Hrilith Columbia lioiindary, and the country thereabout : "Cameron Kalli brook in a rapi<l momi tain stream eight or ten yards wide. After following it up about a mile aiul a hull on the Icf'. bank. Mr. Fernic, my guide, remirk ed that we must be clow to where the oil had been tumid. Ho had scarcely s|>oki>ii when, wliile still on the Diddle and the trail eight or nine feet above the brook, 1 uoticed a powerful odor of petrolouni. Descending to the edge of the water and stirring die lone* and gravel in (he bed of the stream, considerable quantities of oil al once rose to the surface and (lulled away. * 'rossmg to the right bank it was again seen coming out of the liank. Rome inches above the then level of the stream. Here, skimming it off the surface of a shallow pool, a wine battle full was soon riilh-'ted. This can now be ieen in the Geological Survey museum. Sixty or 70 yards below where the oil was seen, a rocky reef nf grey siliceous tlolon lie crosses the creek and risen into a steep blutt on the left bank ; on tliu right bank, teven or eight feet al>ove the creek, a broad, thick ly timlwred flat extends for 1 50 yards u> tbe base of Till BoHliEllINO Mill STAINS, which culminate six miles to the southwest at the boundary monument, b'.'M) feet above e* level. No work whatever has been done to test the nature of the oil sources. A comparatively small outlay for tome shallow sinking or Imrin^ i>n the flat above described would do this. On the-'.'lrd we proceeded through the pass, crossing th- miiiiinit itnd camping on Akminiia brook about six miles down on Columbia, the weitsrn slope in liritish On the 24th we proceeded down the Vklley, and at about four miles north of the l!;h parallel the trail came down to the level of the brook, and here on the r \f of a beaver dam |>ool there were ledges of hard dark blue thale dipping K. 30 X. !'_' . Lifting Uyrs of this al and below the water a quantity of .lark gruen circular patches of oil rose to '.he surface, and a pre- isely similar result followed by sliriin/ up the mud in the buttnm of the pool. Tin* plare is about 1.1 m.les ina direct line, west 10 south, from the occurrence on Cameron Falls creek, the main watershed of the Kicky mountains, and Mounts Kirliy, Speuce and Yarrell intervening. Oilissaid by the Indians (the Moneys) who frequnnt thin region to occur at other points m the Akamina lirook valley, both alxive and be- low tin! r-i-i.rded. The Akamiiia joins the Klatliead river in Montana, about four mil.-- loulh of 'lie international boundary. The r .Uin oil is of a dark greenish black and dues not apparently differ much from that of Cameron Vails creek. I'rcliininary tests might be made here by sinking a thai of observations nude at the mining camp, east nf Crow's Must lake, and situated about 1,1'IH) feet ahove the trail, on the ridge which runs in a nortliiMitcrly direction het - .\fin Marten creek and Michel creek, and form* the wost side of the valley of the west In anch of Michel creek. From this ridge a muni,. T of spurs with steep intervening gullies drs.Ttul nbruptly to the trail ; in these and on the intervening ridge* a won derfnl aeries of coal seams is disclosed, one al>ove the other froii near the level of tbe trail to the uminii of the ridge. No enact measurements were taken, mid it may bo that tome of the lower cannel stamx are the upper oaei repeated by faulting. The out . which can all be seen on the ground, are twenty seamt in all, showing a total llii.-knesn f ).'<- feet of coal as follows: Xo. 1, r> feet : _. .'1 feet ; 3, 4 feet ; 4, 2 feet : .1, 4 feet ; 6, 3 feet ; 7, 2 feet : M, 4 feet ; 9, 5 feel ; IO, 0, fuel. (do. I to 10 inclusive are cannel coals. ) II, 4 fret: I'J, il'eter seam), M feet ; 13, 7 feet: 11. (Selwyn Ream), 6 feet, (so named by Col. Hiker); 15, (Jubilee seam), SOfeet ; 16, (Williams' seam). 20 feet; 17, .1 fret : IK, .1 feet ; 19, _' feot ; 2), 'J feet. These last four are canuel coal. After some general observations the writer of the report says : " Th<- fuw hours 1 was able lo spend on the ground, while not HUllicirnt lo enable me to atlirm the abtoluto correctness of the details of the table, were, however, ample to enable me to that there is in the ('row Nest pass, between the eastern sum- mit, 4,. '<.'<!) feet above tide, and the valley of Klk river, in British Columbia, an are* of nut less than 144 square miles that it del- lined to be one of the most valuable and i RODI-I nvi rxtAi. riftUM in ( 'anads. A rough calculation would give about 4i;,!'.VJ,( M KI tons per square mile. If one-half of this is available there are in each I square mile '.M.'JTli,'**) tont. The average elevation of the field is about the same as that of Cuiiiiorc and llanfT, or between 4,- 000 and . r i,OUO fret. Krorc Pincher creek westward lu Klk river the pass presents no difficulties for railroad construction. The eastern entrance tn tbe paas in Alberta is .'I.S4K) feet, and where it comes out on the XEW I, IMS l\ Till: PACIFIC. Itccrnf l> Discovered and Recent- ly Created ll;i d II l.iki . A Coail While to 11,-eoiiie Well Acquainted nllb n Bl a plare as Ore" mi I. u Ihe I in x|>ii-lnl Ulrlh "t Fal Klk liver is .'!.:!( feet: the highest inter vcningsum mil being 5,500 feot. A better route to the Klk liver, however, than tliat of the present trail would lie to follow down Michsl crek from near the eastern summit and reach Klk river about tun miles above the mouth of Coal creek. The distance through th patu from Leo's laku, Albert*, to tbe Klk river is about thirty-seven miles." At Coal creek the record says that at the mouth of a staep rocky gulch, about iJOO ysrds to the right of the trail, a line seam of coal 7 feet thick had been cut into. The section exposed showed in descending order- Shale, K) ft.; hard ferruginous, bands, I -lilt ; nail Oft; shale, 7.8 ft.; coal, 7.6 ft. C'herty conglomerate and mastive gritty sandstone! are awn Uith above nd below ; the dip is about K lit- X. l.'> -10 = . A close search along the mountain side, between here unit the watershed at the head of Coal vrrek, wn:ild ulmoiit certainly ills close the mil. roin uf many more of the Marten creek seams. The officer deacon led the Klk river valley about seven miles, then turning to the left asoendml the mountain, a sleep climb of 1,300 feet. Hern on the top of a broken- low u cliff of massive sandstone, admit '< One night in May, 1X19, I 'apt. I)e Peyt ter, of the ship lUbecca, was scudding along before a stiff breeze, 600 miles north of Fiji, when a startling cry from the deck sum- moned him from his cabin. He hail not a gray hair when he heard that cry, but next ' morning hit forelock was perfectly white, ami until age silvered his head it remained a conspicuous memento of that night. It was as dark as pitch and rained in torrents when the man forward called out. " A light ahead '" That light, which savages had kindled saved the ship, for she had been bjwlmg along toward certain destruction upon an nuknown Island. It was a night of terrible anxiety, for in spite of all the tail- ors could do it seemed for houis as though their ship would be driven to destruction upon the land. The pre.-eding night, while the Rebecca was under all sail, the helmsman suddenly saw a Ijw, white sandy beach apparently inly a cable's length ahead. Turning sharp- ly on the starboard tack, he just cleared tbe land. (.'apt. l)e I'eyster had discovered a new group in the Pacific, tbe Ellice and De IVyster islands, and the exciting incidents of those two nights decided him thereafter to lie by between dark and daybreak. Sailors tell us that many a lost ship iu the Pacific has doubtless driven in the dark- ness upon some little unknown, island, meeting the fate that pe I'eyster SAKKOWIY KM AI'r.D. Many an atoll can scarcely be distinguished even by daylight a few miles away, because its highest land rises only thirty or for' v feet above sea level. Hundreds of slnpi Besides islands that had existed for ages before mariners ever taw them are others, thrown up in a few hours or days from the bottom of the sea by volcanic eruptions. Natives of New Britain, and the Tonga group have witnessed this remarkable phenomenon within the puii few years. One morning in 1X78 the awe stricken na- tives along the shore of Hlanche Bay, \ew Britain, saw in the bay an island which was not there the night before. It was about UO feet lone and 300 feet wide, and the natives still lay that it was pushed up from the bottom of the sea, though it is evident that it was formed by the euor mous volumes of mud and debris that were ' shot l.igh into the air from craters that had opened in the sea floor. It was at this lime that the remarkable spectacle was witness- ed of a great bay full of violently boiling water, and for some time the neighborhood was rendered uninhabitable by reason of the immciif quantities of fish that were killed in the superheated waters. \Ve may expect from time to time to hear of the birth of new islands along the various lines of volcanic action through the Pacific. The same forces that reared Ice- land above the tea, within a recent geologi- cal age, by meant of matter brought from the bowels of the earth, are still in pera- tion, and the two most conspicuous ex- amples of these convulsions of nature that have recently occurred are found, one in our Aleutian chain and the other in the middle of the I'acilic in the Tonga group. Old Bogatlov is a volcano the Russians wrote about over a hundred years ago. For forty years it apparently had been extinct, until itt internal tires burnt forth again in I ">_!. and from new craters opening in the sea floor a new mountain was thrown up fr->m the tea. New Bogatlov was lint seen in 1HH3. and an isthmus connected it with old Bogaslov. This isthmus and the rock in its centre, called Sail Kock, have now stink out of sight, and vessels pass between the new and old moun- tain. lji.it summer clouds of tteain and apor were still escaping from numerous pass by the Laughlan group, east of New i fiuures that extend almost to the base of New Kogaslov. This great moss of volcanic mat'er iaued from a submarine volcanic (Guinea, but few white men have ever seen these low-lying islands. The heat author- itieson Australian geography say that with- j vent, the debris tilling up around the crater out any douttt there are many little islands until it reached the sea level, forming the scattered over the I'acifh that have never . foundation for the mountain it reared above yet been seen by white sailors, and we know I the water. New Bogaslov has the distinc- thit is so because every now and then a new 1,1,0 O f being the latest addition to onr tpeck in the ocean it brought to ligl.t. Not domain, only little rocks, but islands of consider- j Netfedy saw the birth of New Bogaslov, able importance are discovered. NEW IIIH. 1-.MH. Th great expanie stretching lietween i and Timor on the west aud New liuinea known. ' bnt a little party that left one of the Tonga Island* in October, ItWo, on the schooner >audrly, witnessed Til- .11 I Al I.IM: SI'ttTACLI . stuarier Sam.irang discovered in INSS south these pictures give west f Teniuiber still give /.est to travel in the wondei ful s on the east it ttill imperfectly { ol the making of a new ialand at s distance New islands like that which the I of forty miles from the nearest land. One of es a faint conception of give /est to travel in me wnnueitui scene before them as they that legion. The same may he said of the gaxud upon it eight milet away. Bismarck Archipelago northeast of New Vast masses of volcanic matter were ris- Guinea, where a while ago ('apt. Allrson, ing in three great columns to a height of in the steamer Kei Lung, discovered the several thousand feet. Smaller quantities new island now known as Allison Islan 1, for it separated husbands and fvet, brothers and utters, and children aud parents. u IKI\<- \;:w <*>. The French Turning; luniher !>errt Iri-f Isitoa sVrtlle O.l.m The French are at work again making new ..aies iu the Sahara desert. They be- lieve that a large region around Kl < iolea, in the desert south of the western part of Algeria, can be restored to fertility. At present one little oasis is isolated l.j many .niles of sand from any other fertile are*. The place has no commercial importance, but the French have established a military post there because they intend to make Kl ( iolei the starting point for all their move- ments in the directions of Tuat and the other oases south of Kl Ciolea, which aie now in the hands of the murderous Tuaregs and other desert nomads. 'Ihe French pro- pose to reduce tbe bandits to submission, and enable merchants to extend commerce to and beyond the regions in the Sahara where caravans can venture now only at tin peril of licing plundered and destroyed, Mr. Holland has made a study *of the geology in 1 hydrology of the Kl (iolea re- gion. He says there it plenty of water under the sand, and that it can be brought easily to the surface, llis purpose is to tap the subterranean supplies and lead the water along the dried up bed of the \Vady Seggueur. From the main ditch side ditches are to be extended, and in that way the engineers expect to fertilize a number of thousands of acres of land. Mr. Holland aayt there is no expectation that the new basin can lie developed to an extent as great as that of the \Vady Ric where hundreds of thousands of date palms are flourishing, although the place had only desert sands a few years ago ; but he ex- pects, at least, U restore to the plain of El (lolea it* ancient prosperity ; for there is no doubt that a large oasis was there once, and that it ban gradually diminished in size, owing to the encroaching desert, which has been psBtiing further north, the winds carry- ing the tana toward the Uediterrai.ean, de- stroying all vegetation and making a dessrt where verdure nail existed. The revivified oasis will at least be large enough to nourish a garrison. France ex- pects to keep a large force at Kl (iolea, be- cause military operations against the tribes; I'urihiT southward will have to be on an im- portant scale. It will, therefore, be a great int gained to obviate the necessity of ringing big supplies of provisions to El t.oloa for tht purpose of reviclualling the garrison there. poi bri .... ______ ,, __ uowii ciin of massive sandstone, a low shaft in the shales at the Uiver dam (cel Ul|i . k h() ciunc , t(|() , irfl , rf a Mrielo , . u mu,-h. a well wooded and fertile bit of land rising 150 feet above the sea. Mr. U. H. Ronnl ly. describing his cruises iu the western Pacific, nays that many of the reefs and is- lands eat of New Guinea ro not marked on any chart, and the position of many others is incorrectly laid down. The fact t'mi nany islands, particularly in the west in ''a .lie, appear on the charts more or less out of position, shows thut there is !>.!, and by a bormaon the sandy and gravelly Hut country, about two mile* and a half noith of the Icmndary Inn-." The report then di-ilt with the move mi'iiti of tliu party up to their arrival in tbe valley of Sage Creek, alioul nine miles from its mouth. In this connection, he says : "Atahouta milt and a half higher up, the creek leave* the lii^-li niountaiim win. h bordi i in ujipi i .JUKI in a iiortheaoterly In. i..,n up to the main watershed some 12 or 14 miles distant, ami here at the edge of the wiiter, on the left bitnk, I found haul, dark, tlmty scalis like those at the Beaver duni |io il on tlie Akamina dipping S :><leg*. . \V. 'J.'i degs. Directly the layers ot this ro.-k are raised the oil rises and nprrads over the surface of the water iu su.-h abundance that a slum tim'i tn with the aid of a tin cup, lo collect a bottle lull. Here also a considerable quantity of gas escapes from tin <'i<n'ks niul joint* m the lurk lnl ignite* frei 'ly on th'' Hpjilu.i tion of a match. Less than half A in K in. .111 i, I r, on the right bank and on the opposite or west M.I.- ol the valley, oil wan ag.un found issuing from the. bine of a bank of chill win. Ii has IM-I. tillrd ll.e valley and r,i>is,-d the stream to make a sharp U u I eastward totlinlMMc of the oppo<ntii mountain No rock WHS exposed here, but e\eiy utonr in tin lied ot the creek, especially on bruit; broken T>r riib'm<l, cue out a utroin; .din of petroleum. Tin.' oil roll, . ted b. i.-. a Rumple of win. b i-.in IH) reel) in the in'i-rum, diffpin i ntuely in ap|ieu.ii fniiii thoiMi of I , nn. ma I .ill* creek mid Akuinina ul Ki-li e ne nab creek. Some, of it wus of a liglu I. mini yellow, bill mom of it in.u!y tl. 1'ir of pile brandy and willi a very powerful | rt 1. un o<l >i I ^ n cral gcnlogii al li n. I un . tin character of lli.- nicks and the pbyaicial .i-|i. . .t 1 1.. country in the Smith kootcnay, the Noi I Ii l\.. jieuay and the Crow's Nest and other paws of the Hucky mountains hsve bum admirably do, iil.ed by Dr. (i. M. Dawson, and Ihe Soiilh Kootenay pass is also do- scrilied in bis repot t on the getlogy and ic- ourcesof the 4Uth |rallnl, IH7"). I", d. tAilson the subject named theso works can be referred to. The present H, h.Asi-vor, 1 believo, tholirst recorded instance of the occurrence of |n-ti ..Irnm in tins region, as well as its occurrence in Cambrian rix-U*. Whether the reference nf the rocks to (he agu is. .u i .-!, i nut quite certain : that it is so us regards Iho Hniiiewlmt similar sili- i-oniit dolomites and quarUose strata of the Kicking Hoisi' past has lieen proved by tin: diHi-overy of a ('mnbrian fauna and tbore teems no rr ,i..u to doubt that the petrol, inn Iwaiing buds ol the South Kootenay pass are of the name age. At present. lio\\i\ei, ex ospt on the traverse made l>> Id llawaon, hills or M riir-c. i- KMIW N respecting the distribution of the formations in the urc*t b|.u k of nionnlainnu* country v>ln h Ii"- i.riween i hi' I'M b and .ilst paral- lels of l.itr ,.!.' and Ihe I l.'itb and IITtb riagrena ot longitude, and wbt.'b cnniprises the I'm. i-ll, Hughes, Maodonahl and liUoii ranges and covers an aiea of almnt ll.iMNi square milet, murliul it densely wooded and with peaks ranging ,1 en^ht and nine thou- sand feet. .-.ill tram*. Above this four more seams w. i i.\..minud. About No. ii there are lix more seams which were not united, but the particulars of which were given by Mr. Ferine. These j{ive a total thickness of Us feet uf coal against l.'tJ feet in ihe Marten creek arua on the eastern side of the basin, while in other respects the seams correspond 10 .-lustily as to make it alnmit .11 tan. tliat, except where cut out in the valleys, they are continuous beneath the whole mlervcn ing area. For much detailed information letprctmg the Crow's Nest paas tbe annual report of the <iei>lgical Survey, vol. I, pan b. Isv',, alicady riteii, and the map can l- reteired lo. Many of the seams urn hut class coli ni); coals and others are ^<xid gas Coals, but none of them amanlhr.i WORK ion nPLOUM in this part ol the world, and it u remark of erupted substances were thrown from nuiner ms minor vent). The heavier material quickly fell back into the sea, while volcanic dust, light brown in color, like that which caused the red Huntet glows after the Krakatau ri-uplion, floated away at a great elevation ; and higher yet rose vapor from the craters expanding into clouds of da. Uug whiteness. K.acli up- throw from the main craters carried hundreds uf tons of matter, which wan from tw.'veto til x; "en secom'i in reaching its -i altitude. Tbe next day the volcanic forces were quiescent, and the vuidtly approached near WAR *% ti:i: - : ii i n- .1.1 runlblrr llr. ,i.. I ,. the r n ..i - 1 1 .in .! M i. .u in The I 'nllgn I In S|t u ban lereurd .1 re- port from ('apt. I'oiilbirr, who hut been stutinni'd about a yar belwern tin- Mohan- Hi Makiia.ind tbe Con^o IIVCIH, with re- tr.od to hi.itightH with the Anibnlvii deal- ers from Kh.ti tninn and his successful ell'urls to defeat thuir ellorU to ravage th country DIM, III lit III.' I 'llllgO. He found in September l.mt that laige hands of thetr Aialw hid r.-.tablished them- ncltc.l III Kllun^ly forlitird IOWIIBOII inlands in the M.ikui Itivei. tb.it tlu:> bad l.ud waste Urge disti i. ti nurtb of tin- i in r, and that proinul iiiiiaHiiii-H must bo Ibey would extend Ilicu iniirderoiis a , i| ii i x. *L v 11 i , taint tuv >**( u IBJ i| 'Lri *. IIV-M ii< in able that explo.-rs are now studying for ellol igh to Ree a long, narrow i.lau.l al-out the first time islands whose existence has forlv f, et i,,^,. A few days laur the long been known. The three larger islands .,. cn(jr gy was resumed with greater of the Unmade and ' hntrecattcaiu vi ,, 1( . lu . e , hall , vel . f _,,.| when jt nu ,| y groups, o Ihe tjuthca-t coast of _ New ceM0 a KaL-on Island, at 1 1 was named was , populous and interesting in all their llm . e m| , M , o||g> a mll(J wld(;> and |50 (|et high at itt highest point. It is only a bare, brown heap of ashes, around wlu.-li lug waves break, sweep- ing up the f.eep shores in oheets of foam. Many a I'acilic inland, the result of volcanic action, wa* just such anatli heap when tirtt it (teered above the sea. A little soil has peart on the map*. Now and llien traders , accumulated in pol on r'alcrn Island, and light upon some island inf. marked on the a lew cocoanul tiees and plants are dragging charts. They guard their secret well, for it , out a sickly exintmce. At pretent the is not to their interest to attract rival , waves are carryinu the island r..pidly away. aipects, "were first described by Itasil II. Thoinimoii in lss;. Tiny hail never been MH. .1 In-fore, and absolutely nothing was known about them. It it likely that not a ftw new islands will ' yet Iw found in the I, mad, al nn-,1 unthread- ed cxpane.t where at yet no > ign of land ap- . L_ V_. ' ' ' traders to the fields they monopoli/e by an muni lliu lo the world the disco\ ei it" they llulnes make. Not long ago a trader who had done i. a good business <?n the \Voodlaik Islands gave (he charts he had made to the Captain of tin- liei man man nf war Carola, and they lluteien it il should disappear entirely there is little doubt that there it lo be an i-l ml fitted for the almde. of man. Mr. I. inter says the islands nearest to It justify thr in teieiii'n that tbe volcanic debris uf Kalcmi ill Kite a retting place to a host ol mai me have, been published. Kxplorers were begin ! annuals and plants ; kinks of pelagic shells they to tin- ti ilics further south. Tha uhii.fi all tbioiigli lliu Hiiullii'in put ni liii li-in : were terribly friubtem-.l by the newn th.it i. -bed them of Arab .uio itu-a in tho n. >i tin-in ibili i.'l". They eagerly wclcomi'd the new* that C.ipt. I'onl bier was uliuiit lo loud an i k|ii.ditioii ,i.. mint the Ai all -i, and ,1., i l.-.l iu In l|i I with a considerable native warriors. The Capum wot therefore able to set out for the Alali tuwns late in October, with liollt '_'<NI well ,u inn 1 soldlels of lliu Si .ilr and upward uf 1,1X10 native* armed with i. lli< inarch was HO rapid that lui tin- Aialis by surprise, and after a hard battle, in which about IINI of the em my w.i killed, they tb d from their Hlrongcst village, and crossing t > tbe innib ahuu: uf tho rivor scattered in all directions. Night . .inn- I.HI .Mum iu pri mil I 1 .. ul In. i i.. f.-llnw up Ins \ i. lory, but i be next day and lor three days after he attacked tbe tou UK with similar snroeit, driving all the Arabs across the in rr and gelling IKISSCHSIOII ol J.m tlaves whom limy had recently captiued. * A grout number of theso nntoitmiulet ha.l been fastened tu^nlher by iron chains at tadied to rings that had been placed around their nrrk< Tbr) told sad sloiies of (huir i, iiil.lr Hiiilei ings. At usual the Arabs had killed or driven into the junglu lo perish .iboiil M. pti.-oni for every one they cap lured. Their fm lifi' alions wero found to be of unuiual strengl'i. Several lows of luilitadea iiiirrounilaiT sacli village, ('apt. I'untlilrr Ihinks thai he bill stupp.- I the , ,..!.,.< of tliu A iab in this dnecliun mug lo ua'cl around among Ins islands, and be could no longer hope to keep his know- ledge to hunsell, so he made a contribution lo geography. A >>..!. Inn in named Donald Dow was toiu>l in |HMi by an exploiing parly living alone among ibr n:iti\>'^ on the inland ot lesus.Muiiu. lie is said t> have b, , n i In. only wlnlc m ni nlioi.pl. i (bat tune, had lived iimong the savagefc of the Hisinaick in or i Ari-hipulugo, and be was not at all pli-atrd ' u.U i,.-,,' lii intrndiii^ nhile men. Hn was collecting beche de mer, and in due lime a ship w in to come to cuiy of) Ins tan;" Il in n u known that any while man e\cr land i-d ii|H>n tbe island of llii^ great arclupt l.i^u bi'iiu. l>T.i. when Ihe Challenger expedition was their. lk>w said thai if he was not kill ed, and it tbe Captain of the lUii im. Wave iriiieinb.'ird to pi- U him up, the hib be had gathereil would make him rioh for life. Many of these) islands fall into the cute of those intntumed by Wilfred Powell. will tt'\ nmiilaie in sheltered places: coral reefs will grow und r<-; -li the surface ; nand banks uill be formed to wlnrli the seedt of shore loving pi mis will I", drifted by the waves, and anotlur vrtdaiil ulanil will be added lo the summer seas. I M. Taylor, a c.ulored man, who I ad as- saultud a little Kirl. was lynchrd at Cheiler rlpniii|f of tbe coal possibilities he tells lown, Vld., on Tuciday uighU MI, p. ui n n.r ytars along the coast of New (iiiinea, and who says there are him dred.i if not thousands of islandi in lliu I'n i lie that have .lever been seen by white men save in the distance, and many he thinks have never been seon al all. The fact is tli.ii iirianica is s> immense that noatlat or oidmary wall map can bo r.ade of il e\,.pi on a vn y tin ill scale. We tee tcoren of KIOII|> with the islands apparently in uin.Kii T.I .KIIII K, imprettiou hat large parts of the ilicarc Liowdrd with verdant bits of land ; but u is a fact tliat ships oltcu sail tin, mull thiMi) group* without sighting land al all. h H not nupi. 'bable that sailors i. 1,1 are living the lives of Hobinsou Crusoe on little island specks here and there. Such a castaway, a tailor named .lorgenten, w,n found m |s>S, liMng without human (Oin panionship on Midway Island, in that vatt expaiiae noiibwrai of Honolulu known as Alison Archi|>elngo, not one of whusc little isl.tinh is known to ho inhabited Aim di'in d by hit thipwrecked comrades, who look refuge on another island, be had lived in solitude for about a year, faring \< "uK upon soa birdi uuJ fish. i : rm. IN iniku tut. I In > mli I. .. aa Order iu Keparnle the i. u 1 1 .,ni ike v .un. o Some months ago reference was madr in some of the papers about the lep-i- i.t \', ,'k. bara who were pei nutted to many each other, and thus perpef.iate and itlml leprosy in Central \.i ami bi\..nd it. Noni of tliu Uioks of travellers who have within the past few years \i-..;e I I' .Uhara . IM--C my details of the pest spot in the In^ ill\ i' i-M Illi' Ml. ('.nub Muller liiiiiitin ie-entl\ a .sluil note on tl.c nf 1'iokl. n.i, \\bu-li has iippeurd in a Kuisian periodii ..'ind. He says that eolll|i.ll.ltUei\ ll peiqile klli.u tllnt ly 01 liukhaia has its leper quiirtvr. I lie nu'casu are huddled tugrther in houses on tho northern edge uf the city. The dii tn -I is known by tbe run. ut Cou/aii 1'issiane. Thcltpers live there iu a state of the gie.iteitl imli peinleim', le^eivo no ni.'.ii ! assitlaiice, ami, in fact, do not ask for it. Marriages among them having never been prohibited, new m n.'i. \inm.i ot these iiiifui Uii,,i;e.i spread the discaoe. Il H woi i In i>l i. rink that up to seven- teen years of age the children do not thow any trace of the terrible malady, but three yr.u i latur the diseane. covert their bodies. Tliu Kunr of Hokhura has had bin attention called to the evils resulting horn the mar- riage of these vi, inns of the disease, an I MI accordance wall tie adiicc of Russian physicians, he, last full, ordered ihc separa- tum ul the men .nun the women He also .ie.'idi-il lo establish a hospital for lepers, and to employ in that institut'on the bast specialists, in order to see if leprosy can nut lie cured, or at least, thi\ sufferings of tho victims mitigated. The^jder of the KIIIII wan of a drastic nature and could IK' wanaulsd only by the stun. est necessity, Celdea Tksasjhls fer every aj. Monday A great part of the education of every child commits of those iinpreteions, vis- ual and other, which the senses of the little being are taking m visibly, though u tcioutly, amid tbe scenes of their first exer- cise ; and though all sortt of men aie born in all sorts of places poets in town and pro- sue men amid fields and woody solitudes yet. consistently with this, it is also true that much of the original capital ou which all men trade intellectually though life con- sists of that m i of miscellaneous fact aud wbi h |ii.-v have acquired nnpcr- ci-pti'iily by tho o.'scrv itions of their early years. ( Professor l>. Mauon. IVesday Thou Comfort r. Infinite, divne ! Coiuc. and in tlil- poor heart shine ; CI.MTI-I.' i him mo from ail mv iu ; Make and keep me pure within. Keep me l.y thjr miKhty power Kvery itioment. day. and hour. free from lut and ulnfui pint.. : Thou my hope, uiy lite, my tuiJo. Illuminate my irHml aud heart : The Father - icru- ion. will impart ; Th. it all I think and tiy ami do : anil '.rue. And when my work of life i o'er, Tho btoikcrs Mirtcc. Ihe billow* roar. : pel til i .MI. all iluiiblH remove, Mi i.'ii-ianl comforter dill prove. Wednesday ria?e yourself ofleu benealh the cross of Calvary ; see that Right of love and sorrow : hear lhos*> words of wonder : j look at the eU-iual Sun humbling Himself tlieie for you, and ask yourself, a. you gaze fixedly on Him, whether he whose only hope is in that cross of absolute sell-sacrifice and self abusement can dare to cherish in lim.ieli one sell-complacent action. Let the Master's words ring ever in vour ears, " How can ye believe who receive honor one of another aud seek not the honor that riimelh tritm Cod only !" [ Bishop Wilber- force. Thursday The wite man has hi follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the diMeicnce the follies of the fool are known lo ihe world, but arehidden from himself ; the follies of the wine are known to himself, but hidden from the MI. i Id. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomit'ints of genius ; and we arc never more deceived than !ien we HUM ike gravity for great- ness, solemnity for science, and pomposity foieruditior. i a'.-i. Culton. riula> \\ould our King tell ill agaiu and again "Fear not 'it there were any reason to fcai : Would Ho say tins kini] word again and agini, ringing changes at of the bells of heaven, upon it only to mock us if He knew all the time that we could not possibly help fearing? Only give hal* an hour lo "|.|.iiiij out ihe reasons He .uivcs why we are not to fear, and all tho all in- clusive circumstances in win. -',i He ...ys we aie not lo fear ; see how we are lofcar noth- ing, and no one, and never and now here. ; ace how lit- Himself is in every easr ihe fouiidaiion aud Ihe grand reason of Mis command, HID piesvmv and His power alwayt behind U. L'l'hu Kuv. \\'. D. Pat- ten. Saturday Our chiiiik'i'f'ii I'l.-i are ebbing to :in end i inn. nl to ! i kill - a: id to ileal h we ten. I : IM onquerorol thtgravo, lv>. thoii our ui.ido, He t lion our light lu ill .u Ii s ilark. ei ent iilc : 'linn in our mortal hour uill he tin jiloom, s.i -'-in.- 111 ile. iili no terror iii tho tomb. Thou who in darkness walking didit appoar I'poii thowavox, mill Tli> ili^elpl.o. elieer. 1 ome, Ixiril. in luuesoinc dayn, when -.lorun ul. Slid e.irihl) houe-iuul buniMi -uccor. fall ; N hen .ill Is dark ma> we hi liolil Thee nigh. nd hour Thy voice " hWr not, for it is 1.'' The weary worhl i . uioMct injc lo ilecay. It 4 nl.'i '" - n aiie, KM iiaKeant^ I'n.le .'IH.I\ : I u :,.i: l.i-.: -miM'l hen Ilie -l.irv shall full, May we arive awakon'd by I'h.i . .ill. With Thee. (> I.(.i J. for ever to abide In tbat bloat day which hot no eventide. ______ (AnonT m 01 n Some Scotchmen think that tho person who cannot dance ought to dio. The pnhlir schools of Dundee will hereafter tearh their pupils lo dunce tho Highland ;'mg, vhe Strathspey, and other lu'a^ual daave*.