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A VISIT TO ST, BEEHARD, THE HOSPITALITY AND CHARITY OF THE FAMOUS HONKS. . VUMlea Benasterr ,*) reet Aawve the ftea Wber* I r.i bnir. Travelers *re Careel r*r anel sU*l*r4 ul r..n.i, ilvn a Kindly Weleea**. Th* Napoleonic pas* of the great Sr. Ber- nard, between Switzerland and Italy, doe* not present th* difficulties to-day that beset the little corporal and his brave army when they journeyed from Martigny to St. Kemy in 1804. Th* widened pathway mad* by hi* troop* has given place in the lait three years to a narrow international iod. The rid* from Martigny to Su Bernard is along an*. We started early in the morning and did not reach the monastery until the sun had set. The distance is not great, how- ever, for the road is a constant ascent, ex cept for a short distance from Martigny, and our horse* <ralked all the way. I must confess that my expectation* of the hospice, since I had res, 1 nothing of it late- ly, consisted of hazy childish visions of monks and dog*. I expected to meet but few visitor* at the monastery and had n idea that the gentle monks entertain from sixty to eighty tourist* a day during the summer. I suppose each visitor feels th* t it is inconsiderate of the others to be there ; at least I did, for the setting of a common- place, hustling crowd destroy* illusions. The hospice consists of two long stone building*, set almost at right angle*. In one the monks and well-to-do tourists are lodged. The other i* for the poor, who are given food only, and allowed to remain but three day*. Over this pass on* go** direct- y from Switzerland into Italy, and a* any other way is roundabout, nearly all poor trawlers walk ever th* St. Bernard. Must of the travelers in winter are poor workmen carrying home to Ita'y or Switzerland the scant savings of their season's work. AD average of ten persons pass daily in winter, Before the invention of th* telephone there were many (stall lie*, but now rh*> monks ar* notified of the approach of travelers aad go out to meet tnem. They are almost always picked up irom th* snow, overcome by cold. BBSTOUXG VICTIMS Of licks. Th* custom of th* nodi** and the head are perfectly preserved, also the hair. The skin is brown and hardened, yet the figure* have a distressing resemblance to TUB Hl'MA* BOOT IN Lin. Monks who di* at St. Bernard are buried under th* floor of th* chapel, in a standing position, dreesvi in the garb they wear at hi|ih mass. Owing to their great number, visitor arc allowed to remain at the hospios but one day. An addition i* sjon to b* iiade to th* building*, to accommodate those who want to stay more than en* day. The monks are charmingly hospitable. Even shorn of the halo of romance that surrounds them, they are more than ordinary men. Certainly they meet their duty bnvely and go out in th* coldest habi tt>I* climate of Europe to do a noble woi k for poor and per.shing travelers. It is only a step from the hospice to the Italian frontier, marked by two bowlder* with the coat of arms of Switzerland and Italy rudely carved upon them. The path lies along a clear little lake, that sadly re- flect* the gaant granite slopes ruing from it* surface. The first rays ot a morning sun were just peeping over the mountain ar we approached the lake, a miserable, misshapen man, kneeling on the rocks, was dipping a crucifix into the waters and wildiy praying for rain. ' " U* lost his m'nd worrying over the failure of hi* crops," on* of th* monks ex- plamed. Just across the boundary line are evi- dence* of an old Roman road. Napoleon crossed the pas* in 1804 and stopped" three) hour* at th* hospice. The canton '.i V put a tablet in the hall four years later in hi* honor. There is a Bask in the library where he left it. A courteous monk informed me that the usual method of restoring circulation was to bea-. h*lf-frozeu wayfarer* with heavy stick*. " The sufferers generally bag to l*t them die," he said. "If their limb* ar* frozen w* first rub them with snow for som* momenU, and then carry the patient to the hcepio* by putting stick* under their arm* and resting these on our shoulder*. Then th* limb* are treated with a solution of salt and vinegar. All flesh that has been frozen hard decays and i* cut away. W* kept on* man from November till June, and sejt him away cured. Our treatment is vary successful Once w* sent a man whose feet were frozen to a hospital at Aoeta, on th* Italian aid*, thinking h* would be better cared for mere, but th* physician* were not as *ucces*ful as w* are and the patient lost both feet. It i* perhaps too wall known to repeal that the hospitality of to* Sk Bernard free, and 'hat visitors Isave what ihey de- sir* to giv* in a box in th* chapel, marked " ottering* for the poor. ' Strangely enough, th* only hotel in th* world, if it <-ould b* called smb., that allow* guests to nam* their own rate* must b* supported, by char- liable contributions, for the offerings drop- ped in th* box form only a small part of th* necessary expen*** of th* place, and th* hospice depends tor it* existence on dona- tion* from various Swiss cities. Th* accom- modations for travelers are disappointing, liks those in most Swiss hotels. Bui a tourist's desire for th* unusual i* satutie.i by long, dart, cold, vaulted corridor*. Only on* monk is visible lb* on* who receive* guests at the door. The sleeping chamber* are plainly furnished. In th* diniug-ro >ui are a number of beautiful paintings, given by various celebrities. To* Prince of Wsle* donated th* piano. Th* sleeping- room* an long and narrow, soms of them with three white canopied bads in a line, end to nd. Sometime* they ar* wide enough for two row* of three beds. There i* a small window at on* end of th* room and a door at the other, opening into th* corridor. Th* chapel i* richl) decorated and has a tweet-toned pip* organ. Th* construction of this chapsl at th* precipitous height of nearly 8,300 feet above the sea was th* result of much patient, weary labor. Large space is given to it, for it is the pride of the hospice. It contains a monument raised by Napoleon to th* memory of Detaux, killed in the battle of Maraago. THE MOR3I3U MAS*. Most of the visitor* appear at morning mass, which lasts from 3 to S. For on* morning it i* curious and entertaining, but after shivering in the cold the warmett day of ihe year, 1 was ready to give th* monks credit for unusual zeal in attending services in midwinter. A sack-clothes' attendant told m* that monks who say mass are not allowed to rub their ha*ids, and, it frequently happens that their fingers are frozen stiff during the service*. No attempt is mad* to host the chapel. Wcod is expen si ve there. It must be brought up th* mountain on mule*, backs. The monk* console themselve* by saying that heat would crea'e a dampness more unhealthy than cold. Th* average term of service of a St. Bernard monk i* twelve years. At th* expiration they are **nt to another monas- tery, generally to Martigny, to die. Their health i* always broken, and fe * of them recover from the severity of their life in the hospio*. The morgue i* one of the moet curious sights ot th* place. It is a small stone building with barred window* at each end Within these walls are placed all the bodie* of unknown travelers found frozen in th* snow. A more gnwsome collection it would be difficult to find. There an at least a dozen ghastly figures, standing erect, leaning against th* opposite wall, al wrapped in ooare* cloth. They go through a slow process of mummification, and d act decay, owing to the peculiar a tmoapn em condition*. Several of the bodies have fallen forwaid and an propped up by THE CHEESE TKADE TIM lankee* Thlak.lt InsneMlM* Teal la* CaaaslUaa Caa net AsjesO ef Them t <nrrsrsne.il Ins; Tbe New York Sun reproachfully calls the attention of th* New York farmers to the progress of dairying in Quebec, which, of course, they could not prevent, but which it think* lh*y might emulate. The an nouuc*ment that Quebec ha* nearly fifteen hundred cheese and butter factories should, the Sun suppo.es, sink deeply into the minds of th* far mere in its State, and make them try to be .oms dairyman of som* ac- count. " It cannot be, ' our contemporary objurgates, " that American farmers will l*t Canadian* get ahead ot them in this profitable businee*. " But it can b*, ha* got to b*, *v*n new is. and keep* getting more so all th* time. United States cheese had a tremendous lead in the British market before Canadian cheese was produced for export. That lead ha* been loet for quite a long time now, and it becomes farther eat each year. For the year ending the KHh of April. 1*94, th* United Kingdom imported ~>2,H00 ton* of Canadian cb***e. and 31.V20 tons of United State* ch**s* . THIS* nurUS TILL A STURT of progress and deolme, Canadian expofte having mad* a phenomenal increase and 'nitsd Slate* exports hav* fallen off. The difference in th* fortune* of ihe two classes of chess* i* du* to the fact that the Cana- lian is incomparably better than th* t'm- *d Stales article. That ha* been adm' tied more than once in th* course of th* etrsg- [le batween th* Canadian and American or th* British market, and the admission ;ook th* discreditable form of marking New York cheeee a* Canadian, and shipping it rom a Canadian port. A- wears sensitive to very broad compliments, tie put a slop to this practice. Una* well thai our chee**mak*i* should lo** non* of th* pride they hav* so far taken in upholding the national trade mark that we thus protect by law. There have teen rumors that seme ot our shippers hav* not so nice a sen** of th* honor and value of th* nam* Canadian " a* they used to have. We ar* glad lo hear that these rumor* are en.- >haiically contradicted by th* Montreal Sutler and Cheese Association, and that that body has forwarded a copy of it* d*n- 1 to Sir Charles Tupper, in London, with the request that h* assist in *nd*avormg to place th* responsibility for the damaging statement that Canadian summer cheese > in on* case sold as September make on the London market. The statement is credited, RhillTLT OB WaONGLY, to a chilly L/onJon buyer who bought on a rise that suddenly changed into a fall, aad naturally rueing his bargain, h* tried to get out of it by making out something to be wrong with th* cheeee. It would never do to let such an accusation pas* unnoticed. Tbe Butter and Cheeee Association of Mont- real, did wisely in promptly taking it up. If true, th* blame could be traced lo where it belongs, aad th* offender dealt with by the association in a way to dwcourng* the repetition of inch bad business. If falss, as trier* setms every reason to believe it was, the association i* the proper champion to undertak* it* refutation. W* have come by a grand trade, thanks to our cows and our cheese-makers, a trade that at thi* moment it would be easy to loee if we be- came toe secure of the market and leas care- ful about Quality, for not only New York and other State* of the American I" non covet it, but also New Zealand and some of the Australian colonies are making it a tudy ii> produce good cneese for ,Ur*at Britain. These same oolonie* havs great natural advantages in their favor, and u behooves our cheese-makers to be on their guard against carelessness and our shipper* to avoid wrong business method*. ROUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OP THE GLOBE. M rw Werl4 E.r.i. r later*** <r.. ir.i Briefly inuresUns; m* v enlsucs r Kerens sem. A Pre*byt*rian church is to be built at Baden. Sardon draws floO.OOO a year from royal- tie* on hi* plays. Physician*' eirriage* have the right of way 10 the *tre*U of Berlin. One-seventh of the land surface of the glob* is controlled by Russia. Miss Balfour, inter of th* English Con- servative leader, is travelling in Africa. Marie Forrester, who recently died in England, selected Florence Nightingale for hospital work in the Crimea. A deacon***)* hospital in connection with the Chcrch of Scotland has been opened at Edinburgh. Six vetei an* of Waterloo are still living in France, fourteen in Knglud, and three in tne United State*. Charged with drunkenness 33S time* he- foe* a single police judge U the record of a Liverpool woman. It i* estimated that the recent coal strike in Scotland cost |40.UOU,000, or $1O per head of population. In England, Scotland and Wale* last year |3,5OO,IJII<) was spent on technical edu- cation, nearly a million more than the year before. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is said to have aadelW.UUU from "David (irieve, $80.00" from "Maroella. ' and $4O,000 from "Rob- ert Kl*m*re. " A ma let* are now worm by royal noble families in India that are believed to have been handed down from father to con for nearly J.OOO yean. Several aacriniial knives have been recovered from the Mexican pyramid* They are pieces of dint, fashioned into he shap* of a butcher- k nife. A black basalt statue covered with fin* inscriptions has been found on th* *it* of th* great palace of the kings of Bbyion where Belsnazzar held hi* feast. On* of the London newspaper* i* adver- tising for a journalist who can telegraph promptly the latest political and non- political now* " founded on fact." The Turkish i overnment is considering a project for the extention of potato cul- tivation in Anger*. Land devoted to this i object is to be exempt from taxation for five years. Th* Wealevan Methodist* of Great Britain have 1,154 temperance societies, with a membership of 68,79*. Their Hands of Hop* number 4, 2, with a membership of 4:15,4 1 1. A black Canada shilling stamp, damaged, brought $15O at a recent sale in London, a JoubU Geneva $li r >. an 1 V.I Madrid two reals $3, aad a Tianavaal shilling, red aid gnen. $10U Approach**) an being made to leading uirnai in the world of art, literature and tai The attar of roses industry is departing from Kezanhk. In MflU3,l6-{ kilogrammes were produced. In ISItt the yield was only 439 kilogramme*, and la*t year it wa* a little over 3JO. Competition u th* cans* of the falling off. The industry is now carried on in other parts of Turkey, and m France and Ciermany. A New York woman recently in Paris c jaleaaed to a great interest in the woman bootblack* whom she saw there. "Th*y wear a peculiar uniform," she say*, "not unlike that of tbt sisters of mercy. but their coquettish manners quite nullify the reli- gions associat ons of their dreiw. Most of them work with gloved bands, and they are wonderfully neat and dexterous at their calling." Victor Hugo's coffin in th* Pantheon in Pari* *Ull rest, on th* temporary trestle* upon which it wa* set on the day of his , funeral, nearly ten years ago. Nothing ha* been done toward preparing th* tomb in ' which it i* to lie, or toward erecting a | monument over it. At the time of hi* < death it was proposed to rais* a great na- tional subscription for that purooee, bat nothing hst been accomplished^ Britisn and Foreign. Sardou draws loO.UOO a year from royal- Is** on his plsys. Le Stade Francaia, a Paris football club, recently defeated the London Civil Seiviee Club. If Alphons* Daudet's health coir.:nuew good he will visit London (or th* first time next spring. la England. Scotland, and \V*les las* year, *3,500,000 wa* spent on technical education, nearly a million more than the year before. A state* of Claud* B< r jard, th* great physiologist, who, while ue lived, wa* the) ctuef Attraction to Paris for medical stu- dents all over the world, was reosoUy unv*iled at Lyons, near which city h* was) born. ITEMS OF INTEREST. the boot* of U is only A Brooklyn barber shin very patron without cost- The female frog is voiolees. the male frog that sings. Beggars are promptly arrested in Vienna if uaogbt begging on the streets. Italy ha* more theatre*, in proportion to population, th*n any other country. A store keeper in Brockton, Ma*s,^ iieplays this sign: "Home-mad. Corne Beef." A gill of carbolic aci.l,add*c! to a bo -ket of white-wash, will kill the vermin in a hen-house. Bath-tub* ar* to b* placed in th* Chicago school*, so that the pupil* may disport thorns*, tee therein. It cost* tour time* a* much to govern American cm** a* is spent fur the purpose m English cities. Stockings were first worn in Italy, in , be published by Brockhao* in th* year 1 100. Before that period it was j customary to swathe th* feet and iegs in the attempt bandage*. It i* illegal to erect in Washington, D. C. , on business street*, a building over 1 10 feet high, or one over 90 feat, on resident i- sl street*. Many of th* peojle of New Zealand ar* seriously meditating the pensioning of all the resident* after thy hav* attained their seventieth year. Th* early Keiyptians believed t ia - . the soul existed only while th* body adored. Tb*y, therefore, mbalmed the body, to prevent decay as long as possible. Th* smallest tax paid >o Scmerville, Mass. , i* paid by a man who own* a iron- k*y. Th* moukey is estimated to be worth five dollar*, and th* tax on U is seven cent*. A hunter from Winnemucca. Nevada, ha* been gone three mua'bs, hunting for a Now hi* folks are nuniiug for Photographs of the Princess of Wales i ill th* moet popular in England : sold last year. Next in demand after royalty and ihe prolsMionai b*uu**, come* Mr. lilaiUtone. There in little call for Lord Rosebery's picture Sir L>. A. Lanpe, who was appointed in I So8 constructor of th* Su*z C%n*l, and earned out that work, died in London re- cently. He bad atepped into a barber'* shop to be shaved, and, while waitug for the barber, look a seal, lighted a cigarette, and expired immediately A pnumalic typewriter ha* been invent- ed in England in which eompresssd air does the wo* k of the levers in other machines. A small Indla-rubtMr bulb lake* th* place of the keys, th* pressure of the linger produc- ing ti>* impact of th* type on th* paper. I It is much cheaper than any of the exist- ' ing types of high-grade instrument*. A political agent in Kngiand recently sent ihe following protest lo an elector : I "To Mr. X. Y.Z. Take notice that I o>>j*c* I to your nam* being retained on the lui ef ; the ownership electors ot the county, and \ 1 ground my objection on th* fact that yon are dead. " The document w** addressed | to the dead man and opened by hi* widow. A second part of the prevent Cxarsac- ! count of his travels .a th* Kail is ab*ut to LeipsK. It rls*ls with th* visit to China ana Japan, M him. and in* return through Siberia. The illustrations are from photographs ttkiu by himeeU and by Prince George of Graces, who acooaipani- d him. Cambridge University ha* recently taken up th* queition of degree* for advanced study and research. The council of the Senate recommend* the appointment *f a committee M confer with Oxford and other universities to secure common action on th* subject, aad call* attention to the schema for post graduate studies a. reedy in opera- tion at Harvard. , Dante Aligbi*n Not a Sunday Montn. It is only possibl* for Fobruary to have five Sunday* three time* in each century, unless, through som* chronological freak the century comes la with a leap ye*r, with th* nrst dav of February a Sunday. The five Sunday February* of this oentury hav* been those of 1824, KVJ, aad isso. The next time this oddity will occur will be in the year 19*20. Professor Ohoost say* that if we reckon the averag* depth of th* oceans al three mile* there would b* a layer of salt SOU feet th'ck in their basins should the waters of all suddenly evaporate. in ihe eslablihmenl of Society in Lnlo. Patli has just discovered a new tenor near her Welsh estate and will have him stag st h*r next London concert*. He is a tin miner, named John Williams, but hit local nickname is Kryr Afon. Sir John Kiyby, England's Attorney- Ucneral, has just been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, to till a vacancy made by the promotion of Lord Davey a* Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. At a recent examination for th* Indian civil service s:x nativsa, th* largest number on record, were successful. Two of them were Mohammedans, one a Par***, and th* other three Hindoos. Mr*. Cray, of Bwer*vill*, Perthshire, Scotland, the mother of Lady Millai*. ha* just died at th* age of 84 years It wa* from Mrs. Grey's garden that Sir John Mil- lais painted " The Vale of Rest." Dr. Y. May Km wa* the first Chinese lady W receive a medical degree in Amer- ica. Sh* has now a large practice in Kobe, Japan, and was the first scientifically educated female pricutioner in that coun- try. A while panther from th* Pamir* ras been praeen ted to the -lardin ile* Pl*nte* by th* Governor of Turke*tan and Prince (largarin*. It is an animal which has never been *een in any zoological coll*ctiun of western Europe. J. P. \Vallis, etlilor of the stale trial* and reader of conslilutional law lo ih* inn* ot court, is now writing the constitutional history of th* British colonies, from the date of th* earliest settlements in America to the present tune. Herr Cramer, who for forty five years was Pari* correspondent of the Koelntsche Xeitung, has just died at the age of 70. It va* b* who in July, 1S7U, firtt sent to tier- many the despatch, " Der kreig ist erklaerU" War i declared. On a single Saturday th* football acci dents in hngtand included the assistant master of one school killed, and the head master of another laid up with a compound fracture of a leg, and five other persons seriously injure.!. Twenty-five milts of th* Congo Railroad, forming the tint section between Mautange and Keet-ge, are completed at a cost of $1J,- 000 per mile. Tbe line will b* 93 miles long and will connect the immense water- ways above th* falls with th* sea. Stockholm hasabetter and cheaper tele- phone service than any othsr city in th* world. There are about 14,000 instruments in use, *r on* to every *ighte*n people. Two companies, th* General and the Bell, own 10,495 and the State telephone* number :*,OOO. Tbe Ameer of Afghanistan ha* been under th* treatment of Miss L. Hamilton, M. D. . a young Scotchwoman, who first rained a* a nurs* in the Liverpool infirm- ary. She took hsr medical degree in Brussels, and was a practicing physician in Calcutta until IBS went to labo.1 a few month* ago. Lady Sophia Cecil, aunt of th* Marquis of Enter, who i* BOW 94, is th* last sur\ i vor of th* famous ball at Brussels on th* | night before Waterloo. Sh* is a daughter j pi*. I of the Duehea* of Richmond, who gave th* I kind* ball, and danced that night with the Duke ' forte. 1 At Peesavclla-Settermini, n*ar Pompeii, a Roman Oalh noux: was recently excavated, on private property, in which wer* found in position an immense bu.l*r and com- plete sys'em of tubing, witn bronze tap* a thing ..ever fcuixl i erort even in Pompeii. Three rooms, witu m.aic door* and artistic marble tubs, are we.l preserved, and, what is verv unusual, a ruof about sixty leet long t* (till in place. The bssl burglar proof sites ar* mad* of < alternate layer* of hard and *ofl m*il. j >" Henry Aclan.l. Hart . R*giu. prefess- which an welded together. This combine- or or mediume si Ox.wu. no accompaaied lion will not yield to *ilh*r drill cr .ledge- i n p " ot nu uto America hammer. I m ls *"' n " **nt in his resignation, to lake . . . .. .. . ' effect at the end 'if ihe year, wnen he wiil A Norwegian law prohibit. a parson from i . w ,,, wil , haB M / ^ lhe ,, ,p.nding m to n _ b " nu ' OD Ym ' t i fifty yen. H. wa. appointed reader m to a public house. Therefore, when a man big bear. Now his folks are ,n*hip to secure their co-operation ! him. and they fear he ha* found the hear. - _ anatomy in IMJ, Radcliffs s librariaa m decide* that it is tune for a spree, b* must hustle from house to house. In Sweden U i* believed that if a bride, during the marriage ctremony, can k**p her right foot in advanc* of the bride- groom's, (he is declined to secure future supremacy in oth*r words, " wear th* breechl* Oliver Wendell Holmo* once said that I "If nine tenths of sll th* medicine*. patent, proprietary, and otherwiee, in all th* world, were poured into the ocean, it would b* all th* better for mankind and all the worse fur the ashes. ' A family in Pitteburg had an eld ward- robe that had stood in th* house for fifty year*. It became an eyesore to them, and they decided to remove it. A* they were doing so, the bottom dropped, and out popped 173,000 in bank-note* and tiovern ment bonds. McSwmey's gun " i* th* name given to a natural bole, ten inch** in diameter, in a huge rock on the coast of Donegal, Ireland. At high tide, when the sea is rough, th* " gun " repeatedly spout* up jets of water to a height of one hundred leet, and each spout i* preceded by a loud report. I V.I. Keqms profeesor in I85H, and wa* created a baronet in 1890. H* i* th* uncle nf ihe Right Hon. Arthur H. Dye*- Aclan.l Lord Rosebsry's Minister ol Education. Louis de Bourbon wa* th* cam* gives in a Pans polios court Ih* other .lay by a wine shop keeper arrested for trying to blow oul hi* brain*. H* c aim* to be the grandson of Naundorf wno. when Loni* Philippe wa* King, declared that h* was Louis XVII., ths little lUuphin imprison d in the Tempi*. Th* win* dealer asserts ibal be has been an officer in th* Dutch army, that h* ha* no political ambition, and that his attempt at suicide wa* due to hi* failing to make hi* bnsmsss pay. lhe sign over the shop read* " Matvos d* Bourbon. " FAMINE IN NEBRASKA. Vssallles live Verve ef tarv*ilea aad aasTertas; tfrtm .1.1 A despatch from Omaha, Nab., says : Th* destitution in those Western Nebraska counties devasted by the drought i* grow ing daily, notwithstanding the eifbrt* to kid the suffering farmers. Th* following appeal has been ieued by Mayor Kemis, of Omaha : "Information ha* com* lo me within th* past lew .lays fr >m the meet re- liable source* from gentlemen of integrity who speak from actual observation that the (uttering among the tarnr an m th* Irought-stricken districts of our State i* exceedingly severe. Families are on the verge of starvation ; mothers have nothing in which to wrap their babes, and hav* no clothing for themselves, except dresses mad* from gunny sacking ; underwear and shoe* an almcat unknown, and fuel is a luxury only to be dreamed of. On* of my informants, a clergyman, informs me that he has partaken of meal* among farmers where th* green* of potato lop* and mouldy bread, constituted th* only food. I am fully aware that ther* is a great deal of suffering among our own people, but 1 believ* that our citizen* should make a special effort to extend all poeubl* assist- ance to th* sufferers in our State outsid* ihe city. It would b* a fitting manner of giving thanks for 'he blessing* w* hav* received for oar citizens to contribute to- ward relieving the sufferings of the** p*o- Whal is needed is clothing of all and descriptions and food of all Whence Comes the Diamond ? Theories concerning the origin of the diamond have been both numerous aad curious. Som* mineralogist* hav* suggest* >i that it is the residence of carbon vapor* ihoaipated by heat during that indefinite epoch known a* the " coal period. " New- ton say* that in hi* opinion it is "a coagu- lated unctuous substanc*. probably of vegetable origin." rUynee and Faure are both of th* opinion that no diamond wa* ever formed on or within the surface of our arth, and lhat all *urh g*m* are brought t} this planet by meteoric stone* from some far-away world. Sir David Brewster. the eminent British philosopher (born I7M. died in isftsi, entertained idea* concerning the Diamond'* origin, which, whil* similar to those of Newton, were different in MIR* respect*. In hi* estimation such gems were onee masses of gum. exuded from certain specie* of extinct trees or plants, which'lisd subsequently " petrified " and assumed th* crystalline form '. According to Dana, th* greatest living authority, they may hav* been produced by slow d*compu*iu*a of vegetable or even animal mailer. Young* Travellers. In Bonavgnturehitation, Montreal, the other day, were two little people who ar* travel- ling all alon* from Norway to t.raatsburg. Wis.. where they are to join their father. A girl nf nine, and hr brother of only a year older, they had mad* th* en'.ire trip alone, and all that had been given the n when they left their native land was their tickets and letter, in a lady'* hand, praying all captains, conductor* aad trainman to be kind to the little ones on '.heir long jour ney. The traveller* were th* very picture of health. Mr. D. O. Pea**, district pa*- senger agent, looked after their want* whet- her*, ana provided a substantial luscb to tak* with them on th* irein. To prevent wrinkle*, th* ladie* of the >-.>uri of Catherine de Medioai wore fore- head cloth tightly bound on their heads.