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 was it very bad chronic, mvolTi. 3 nasal passages,] ire the three tresl ' the two sent nel .3 ever induced to f r x.v« is soinc on in Haliuc county r; „f Dunmore is patting in tiiio F^lliba and the North-wesfc ' -- Ureal log fa"?^*" ^f® arranging beech show in September next. Tam worth railroad have nee |!;"b comrlete tlieir line with all pos- need. Ocecn's Birthday at Montreal was ti by a review oi part of the brigade leers. yarion owned by A. C. Bobbins of Yarmouth, is ashore at Anti- fhe crew are saved. â- reforest fires are reported to be r Beance, notwithstanding the late Ud continuous rains. fi,i»h feast of Corpus Christi was ob- J nth the usual solemnity in the J(ijj[,olic churches in Montreal. eWin^erden, a young man of weak 1^13 fatally hurned at Scotland on the g[3 clothing caught fire from fire- siQ his pocket. TcaBada Mutual Telegraph Company's [James street, Hamilton, was entered L the safe broken open, and the cash ken. Kingston and Pembroke Railway jiyhave purchased from the Uovem- r,e market battery property in freat Lty buildings at Kingston. UNITED STATES. hills in South Carolina are cappd lUOff. Iluicaster, Pa six persons are ill with Ugnmllpox in the coanty prison. Ijatleptsbnrg, Ky., two distinct shocks mnake were felt. nittees of Racine have collected f^OOO for the suflferers by the cyclone. j.foorth anniversary of Brooklyn Sun- [iool celebrated recently over 52,000 [paraded. 1^ now deemed certain that the two- ' 1 E«hooner Antares was lost in the 1 the lake on Sunday. lEichmond, twelve thousand graves of IConfederate dead were decorated. swas suspended. e yew York police have seized six containing 1,500 slung-shots, one of test deadly weapons carried by crimin- Tuley, of the Chicago Circuit thas decided in favour of the backet- liii the contest with the board of trade â- telegraph companies. 1 is prevalent over a great part of lilaad of Cuba and may prove disast- AtCaibarien a demijohn of drinking "ifor fifteen cents. pere are many rumors, that startling iipments may be soon expected implicat- Ikigh military and civil authorities in practices at Washington. e Grand Lodge of Good Templars, at igo, elected (Jeorge B. Kalsteio, of lornia, I!. \V. G. T. Dr. Oronhyatekha, }imo, Cicada, R. W. G. C. i.i;XEIl-A.L. l5reattLe Sebastopol nary yard has pniEch damage. 6 King and Queen of Portugal are on a iltc the King of Spain. Liverpool dynamite prisoners have M'ally committed for triaJ. Be is said to bs a division between the land Prussian ministries. 1 Dillon advises the Irish people to *tne Parueil fund a success. iaifference between Prussia and the 1 have not been settled. fopeEing the Servian Parliament, the ^iiade a pacific speech. discontent has been created in Ft SeLks owing to the military en- fa reported from Afghanistan that the fJrriej and the Ameer's troops have "'-ed a truce, "'renewal of diplomatic relatiocs be- "'heBritisii Government and Mexico f» to advanced state. •Artie exploring party has started for fd, which includes Prof. Nordensk- pad other scientists. "^Irevelya,! refused, in the interests of to answer a question regarding the • of the Kerry Sentinel. IJ^ces from Mozambique state that Por- ia\ '^^""ed war against Makalolo r^^r chiefs on the Schiree rirer. â-  French forces have landed at Mada- ijnd carried several military posts ' hy the Hovas on Shalava territory. B*5 .^chlayer and the editor of the L*y journal at. ViPTina tnnaht a. duel and the editor journal at Vienna, fought a P'stols. Sublayer was kUled. "stated that the Czar has initiated .Pheld a policy which has made it " '0 settle all pending questions ami- *fy IS said to be the cause of EycDub n'resignation. As Egyptian Minister: t interior he received large sums as Ll ae atican, and declares that Prussia denounces Prussia's last re- K^onceasions without offering anything ft Uy thp imtUer, :»^f:'»Ti*^»; Sarb, alo«-ly t WM anJl, »ot ior|«igerth«ii»«hort o^ now niuBg fire from hie Old It^km.Axptifagk on eme sttoMdstrentrth ^nH deadly veocm nomoii*«^rrtbQnBd. The startled tattler coiled an'djounded thealahn^ waSSj T^ T^^ and round, with his fated little eyes darting.b»lefnlfireJnto the eyes cfita ^^^l^'^^'^yt completed eaih circle tbn^i 4 chance for a cure and deadly Hkiw. Jlnt the oth^r ma e the inner and shorter whirl with Its head and neck to evade the same, and to strike a crushing blow itself, with ita great fangs glittering, and aU the White the temfic rattles piaved deadly music. Finally the rattler raised and struck, but his fangs were dodged by the e:qgrt Mteilant, and they bit the earth. whRe^thescienced Uttle reptile as quickly closed and struck his teeth into the back of the imttler'a neck. And now the scene became terrific beyond description. The great make turned and twisted with widely- distended mouth, emitting ahwridnoise as the tumult of the rattling and death rtroffgle increaaed. For a time, the rattler kept his coils as closely together as possible to prevent the next crush- mg mpve of its antagowst. and in a wn effort to twist and shake off ita little black enemy, amid short blows. But with a skill that surpasses human compre- hension the aa|BaiIant kept its little body clear of the poisonoos fangs and kept its hold fininly. In despair the rattler raised his head as if sammoning all bis energies for a final effort, and in the twinkle of an eye,- as a whip- lash twines around the tree, the king of enaker had coiled himself around the rattler and, tightening the tirasp with a startling power, crushed the monster in a second. When t'c deathless head of the rattler had fallen u the earth the littl: victor slowly uncoiled himself, and, making sure that the victim was dead, unloosened its hold, and, having snuffed the air of vic- tory, darted off to other fields of conquest. °' 'njprobable that an Imperial con. jui take place between the Emperor i.?l,^*'^°i^y and the Emperor of 'Gastein. J^^ in Madagascar, haf been- bom-^ -uri?i, ® French. Tb»^iiig«nient â- ^ftlitaH '^*' ^^e° tl»e French troops Fablea. HEKCULES A'D THE SNAKES. The infant Hercules having incurred the Hatred of Juno, that Goddess despatched two Serpents, to whom she intrusted the Commission cf strangling the Child. The youthful Uero, however, strangled them, and the unexpectetl Spectacle so surprised his Kurse that she vowed that she would not touch another Drop until the Day ot her Death, a Determination which she was with difficulty induced to reconsider upon dis- coverincc that the vSnakes were not Creatures of her imagination. Moral â€" This fable teaches us three things 1. (As to Juno) never send a snake on a confidential physician' business. 2. (As to Hercules) tbat a snake in the hand is better than two in the crib and, 3. (As to the Nurse) That serious incon- venience my result from a mistake in the soothing-syrup bottle. THE LIOX AND THE MOUSE. A jLion, having been taken in the Nets of Hunter, owed its release to the efforts of a Mouse, which gnawed the Meshes and set the Monarch ot the forest free. Some time afterwards the Lion happened to encounter its tiny Daliverer taken in a Trap and appre- hending instant Death, Filled v ith Grati- tude, the King of Beasts raised his gigantic Paw and with one blow reduced the Trap to the Status of a Wire Gridiron and the Mouse to the dimensions of a Book-marker, Moralâ€" Thus we see the Folly ot asking Points from a Big Operator. SunlifihtNot "Wlxlto but Blue. Since the time of Newton it has been as- sumed that all the radiations of the eun were to be found in the spectrum, and that these reunited mako white light. There is also a tacit assumption that white light is puro sunlight. Some of the eaxJy experi- ments at Allegheny have shbwed that the light as we receive it has been somewhat al- tered by the sun's atmosphere. The change is an absorption pf rays from the blue end of the spectrum. It foUows that our sunlight is more red and blue, and far less intense thai^ it would hi if the solar atmosphere did not intervene. Btt we are concerned with something nearer home. Our own atmo- sphere repeats the performance, str^les many raVs at the blue end of the spectrum, and compwaitivBly few at tlie red end. What does this mean *-et us shake hands with onr. friend who ' wears green goggles. We too have inall our lives seen things in a false light, if we could place ourselvea out- side our atmosphereâ€" say on themoonâ€" we should find that sunHgh* ia not white that the sun itaelf Is really blue. To the i^babi- tants^ "other worids than our," the ,sua may baa bluer star than Vega. WM xrom Gladstone in a little more tliao a ♦ » ♦' Ana Where's tbe MotalT '6'uce'ink while a dishonest man shows the sincerityof his reformation in^mettang more tangible than words. In Quncy, HJm a few y«« ago, a man occupying a position of tJLJ^e|lb.00Oand decaniped to Mexi- I eon- oaghl wha^ ebnacienoe impelled ^tten wealth oagbt to have brbagW) ^gbut tewrtef to hnn but, on ^e me plantf d money hi" SJry'thri^men^irthat he'n»*d. bro-^ ^Idoh IMT had 'aad occupied the pUce. Hieliobse Aw ITebs has iii«aeitafint JppeMMK*' The ediMr is i^BMad «6 find uua yonag toiQi i^b^to support a good newa- P^er. /n^ o C. P.'K 'are uranging for the sale of ooiqioa tieketa Tia the AnnderlBay rente over all the Oabadiaa line of Bteamers, and pobably over one American line. In reponse to a petitiim from the clerks, the proprietors of the Emerson dry goods and grocery stores of the town have agreed to doae thenr stores at 7.30 p. m. every day except Saturday. A publio meetmg of settlers and oibera was to be held at Fort Qn'Appelle .on the 24th of May, for the pnrpose^providing a boons to start a newspaper. It is intonaed to give a nibstantial bonua, which will place a weekly paper on a fair financial baais irom the very start. • AaMooseJawia sitoated in the most con- venient place to be the distribating point for the auQost unlimited fertile prairie sur- ronndlng it, we feel confident that in a few years this beautiful towns its will be covered with aubstantial buildings, and that it will be one of the most attractive •und important cities in the North-west. There is a large ^ng of men at work at the new bridge at Emerson. They are get- ting pile drivers constructed, and are far advanced with a larije scow which will be required in the construction of the pivot pier, as well as in other work. The work- men would have preferred the water to^ave kept up for some time, as the scow is heavy and will take some trouble to launch. Work is to be pushed forward with all des- patch. Sunday was a big day for immigrants, up- wards of 600 persons arrived by the morning and evening trains. A special arrived later, bringing in nearly 300 more, principally passengerA from ^ighmd, Scotland and Ire- land by the steamship Circassian, which sail- ed from Liverpool April 26tb, and arrived at Quebec May 7th. They had a pleasant voyage and made the trip by rail from Point Levi in less than six days. They are an intelligent and respectable class of people, and are possessed of considerable means. â€" Free Press. The first steam plough for Manitoba arrived here on Sunday en route for Eegina. It was manufactured by Haggart Bros., of Bramp- ton, Out., and is in charge of Mr. Caughill, their agent. It has been purchased by and is now the property of the St. John Farm- ing Syndicate, who paid $5,000 for it. The plough is built on the most improved locomo- tive principles and is is supplied with eight oscillatory ploughs. It is also provided with a balance wheel by which a separator can be run. It is capable of being run at the rate of four mile* per hour, and the company think by running it day and night they can break one hundred acres per twenty-four hours. â€" Manitoba Liberal. Little French Ones. " What? Not lend a paltry ten to me â€" to your other self " " My dear fellow, I should never get it â€" I know myself too well " At an evening party, an author, who is distinguished for his profound egotism, is interrupted in the course of conversa- tion. When about to take up his parable again he asks reflectively "Let me see What was I saying "' "You were saying 'I,' " replied one of the company. " My dear fellow," remarks the judge to the plaintiff, who had lost his action before him that afternoon, "you had a mighty good cascljut what made you employ such au ass of a lawyer t" " Because I had been told that he had the ear of the court " Alleged Americin elopement He â€" " Hurry, dearest, the carriage is at the door and your husband may return at any moment." She â€" "Wait one moment. I will not take with me one gift that I owe to that hated man My jewels 1 (Tears them off with feverish haste. Is that all Ah, I had for- gotten My false teeth (Casts them on the table.) And bow, now 1 *.m wholly yours " â€"New York World. in PFomptaess. Half the value of anything to be done con- sists in doing it promptly. And yet a large class of persons are almost always more or less unpunctual and late. Their work is al- ways m advance of them, and so it is in their ^a|;eiiiBt»tp. They are late in rising in the morning, and in going to bed atnight; late at their meals late at the counting- house or office late at church late at their app»intmentBwith.QtheiB. Their letters are sent to the post-office' just as the mail is closedL They arrive at the wharf just a3 the steamboat is leaving. They come into the station just as the train is coming ont. They do not entirely forget or omit the engage- ment or the duty, but they are always be- bind the time, and so are in haste, or rather in a hurry, as if they had been bom a little too late, and forever were trying to catch up with the lost time. They waste time for themselres, and waste it for others, and fad of the comfort and influence and success which they might have found in systematic and habitual punetoality. Agood old lady, who was asked why she was n early m her seat in church, is sdd to have replied that 't^was part of her religion not to disturb the zaligiWk of others And if it wwe with all a bd wfthtM intlHrtapllitt ind' tiie UHmmm- AlBBdniMfaariMr ia laaiwariMlM a day. llufiii bettor tiMafaH%nnia?iadaBd lenaTii^Jlcr haabaads aajr fjHT Botbing. They ikw have whtt, fhey oall " hand- putiiM" m the interior of iMelujKD. The yO^ug Biiu who can hold "a'^I^Mad the loagurt ia rewarded with a awaete^a^ ' A YeaetiaB c^aaa nanafaetorar ia bAffi- «atiag Jadiea' bonaeta ^. the thooaauda, aod aelling them, too. That style of braaet ongfat to make good loQ]dnc'lwMa. Dr. Annitage am, " ICaoD ahoold always be giacefnl." Did the doctor ever have on a new Sprii^ aait, and try to get oat of the way o| a watoriag oart Oaeaanot. " Eqci^ ia treading oa a volcano. " reads X. in,hia paper aloqd. "Papa, what is a voIcaboT" atted the yonogest. "Why, it is aoaiethxng to tread on, my boy." Yes, my son, it is quite commendable in you that yon should wish to aee the wt^ld but remember there are bettw waya of see- ing it than through the bottom of a tumbler. D you ask a young man who wears two watch chains what time it is by both hia watches he is quite certain to grow indig- nant, and yet what is his object in wearing both if not to have all the time there is Literary Matron-:-" What does Shake- speare mean by his frequent use of the phrase, ' Go to ' " Matter of-fac i Husband â€" " Well, perhaps bethought it wouldn't be polite or proper to finish ue sentence." They were courting. " Don't sit so near me," she said. "I ain't near you," said he. "You are." "laint." "But you will be." "No I won't neither." "Then you'd better go home, for I hain't got no use for you." No cards. A well-meaning person gives hints telling "Howtohve on seventy-five cents a week. There is such a thing as being too close, and most editors will just keep on squandering eighty cents a week, even if they see ruin staring them in the face. Gteorge writes to the editor of this depart- ment: " Is a polite man a gentleman 7" It depends on why he U polite, George. If he is polite for effect he is probably not a gen- tleman. If he is polite because he can't help it. there is saving grace for him. woAld otkeravaadald themad^ea tAaoeoaeB and fair fiaaace IB a thmaaad wayi. Unmarried Womeal One of the greatest social problems of the day is to explain whythereare so many mar- riageable women who never get married. Some say that it is owinK to an excess in numbers of women over men, in consequence of which there are not husbands enough to go round. This, however, is disproved by statistics. Take the world through, and fig- ures show that there are as many men in it as there are women. Others attribute it to the expensiveness of modern life. Meh do not marry because they say they cannot afford to. But the fact is that no man who truly loved a woman ever hesitated to be- come engaged to her and eventually marry her because of poverty. There are cold- blooded men, with no idea of any feeling for a woman stronger than languid admira- tion, who may be deterred from assuming what they regard as a burden in the shape of a wife unless assured of a liberal income, but most men are not so calculating. Others again attribute the evil to women's fastidi- ousness. They expect too much in a hus- band, and, waiting for an impossible sha- dow, let the possible substance slip through their fingers. This is a hbel on the sex. As a rule they are no more fastidious than men are, and they arc just as susceptible as men to that enchantment of love which in- vests its object with every perfection and covers up every fault. So far as men and women are concerned, they arc as prone to marriage now as in any period of the world's history. Nevertheless, there are the women waiting for husbands and not getting them. They are pretty, they are accomplished, they are sensible, and, under proper training, they would bt -wives and mothers, but they never get a chance. What seems to43e needed is a more thorough method of bring- ing men and women into social contact with each other. mm n m 1. â-  i Where He Was Left. " Yes, I am the man who had a corner on maple sugar a few years ago," he re- plied. " How much did you buy in " "Almost every pound made east of Canada that spring." " How much did you force up the price " " Not a red cent. I lost about |28,000 on that speculation." "Why, didn't you have the market in your hand " "Yes, fcr a few days. 1 should have jumped sugar from eleven to eighteen cents per pound in a fortnight, but a Western wretch began making maple sugar from New Orleans molasses, Indian meal and Lake Erie sand, and in a month I was bank- rupt. It was, perhaps, a good thing for me, though." "How?" ""Wly, I intended to make a corner on pickles in the fall, and if I had some one WQold L surely have invented a bass wood cucumber and cut the price down to fifty cents per barrel."â€" If a/i Street News. â€" I m^ I â-  A Cnrloos PnzEle. The following curious puzzle is said to beat the celehpted "U-14-15," and is well wirth investigating Take a strip of pwer or cardboard thirteen inches long and five wide, thus giving, a snrfa^ of sixty-five inches. Now, cut this strip diagonally as true as yon can, giving two pieces in the shape of a triangle, and meaaore exactly five inohea frmn the larger end of each strip and ent in two meoea take tbeaeatdpa and put them into the ahaJM of an exact MOare,' and it wiU appear to be just eiaht'uMbte oMih Wi^^, bramy-foor aqnare iadM^ i loaa i nwaqoare inAat aaperfieial meiunra- Biaa^.imlh ao diminatton.of mad$e»^ The qaeraoB ia, what becomea of that iadi? fuaoaa aa a pi^^ iwMlil^hi%iB9^booka; hia readings,, j||.trath,-ohaely reaembling aotinga, or aa m e atji^K rather the readings of aaaotor than u MI author. He waa partica- lar on tbeaa ooiPpaiMf aa to the anaagement of hia jna-li^itL tibat faia expteasiftn and plajf otMce BiirUi hie prpperiy aBan,aiid ap- pEawB(LjWith^tta yifwa.qieoial.'fgaaman" ever aceompaaied l^in npoa his toora in the {wovipcef. I^e reaorted to mndi 'stage bu- aiaaav" laad-^amplosed anndry "stage pro- perties"-wh«B he lodged that vhe coold in each wiiie.4Ji»lietter enforce orfllostratethe iotM^ti^n ^lua books. The copies of bio rtoraea fcom whic)^ he ja^ in pablic were inarked withaa many "stage direotwns" as axe contained in the acting editiona c^'a play. When but a lad of 16, with a felow-clerk in a lawyer'a effioof he^ is understood to have assnoiad oertain diaracten at a minor thea- treâ€"probably-one of those establishments supported entirely by amateur actors, such %B then existed in Wilson-street, Gcray 's Inn- lane, and in Catherine-street, Strand. But his skill aa an actor first became generally known when, letmrning from his hrst visit to America, be joined in the theatrical exhi- bition praaentea for a charity by the English officers stationed at MontreaL ' He played AUred Highflyer, in "A Roland for an Oli- ver " Keeley's character of Mr. Snobbing- ton, in "Past Two O'Clock in the Morning," and Gallop, in ' 'Deaf as a Post. " He writes to Forster "It they had done ^Love, Law, and Physic,' as at first proposed, I was al- ready 'up' in Flexible, having played t of old before my authorship days.' Flexible had ben originally personated by Mathews, Dickens, no doubt, had played Flexible at the minor theatre already mentioned in the lawyer's clerk period of his career. In Ca- nada. Dickens waa appointed stage manager of the .amateur pertormanoes, and he dis- played the zeal, the energy, and the enthus, laam he was wont to exhibit upon such oc- casions. As he wrote at a later time, "Once in a thing like this â€" once in e rery- thing to my thinking â€" it must be carried ont like a mighty enterpriise, heart and soul." His interest in the cause was almost redundantly demonstrated. "I am not, let me tell you, placarded as a stage manager for nothing," he writes. "Everybody was told they would have to submit to the most iron despotism, and didn't I come Maoready over them j • ♦ Xhe pains I have ta- ken with them and the perspiration I have expended durinit the laat 10 days exceed in amount anything yon can imagine. I had regular plots of the scenery made out and lists of the properties wanted, and had them nailed up by the prompter's chair. Every letter that was to be delivered was written, every piece of meuey that had to be given, provided, and not a single thing lost sight of. I prompted myself when I was not on when I was I made the regular prompter ot the theatre my deputy, and I never saw anything so perfectly touch-and-go as the first two pieces. » i really do be- lieve that I was very funny at least, I kaow that I laughed heartily at myself, and made the part (Mr. Snobbington) a charac- ter such as you and I know well â€" a mixture of T- Harley, Yates, Keeley, and Jerry Sneak." â€" Loncjman's Magazine. A Double Slsooont. We heard Brother Holmes, of Savannah, Ga., tell a Kood joke on a Richmond hotel man. He said that, when Dr, Price, of Wales, was attending our June meetings, some years ago, he atoped at Ford's Hotel, and when he asked for his bill, Ford said '• We knock off halt the price, as you are a minister." Dr. Price thanked him, and asked " What do you take off for edi- tors " " One-half for editors too," was the prompt reply. " Well," continued the doc- tor, " I am an editor as well as preacher; so I am entitled to two halves, and thus my account is settled." The hotel man laugh- ed and let him go on. â€" Richmond Va.) lie ligiom Herald. The Best Newspaper. The best newspapers in the world own the public as their masters. The man does not live who has had any experience and would dream of building up a newspaper and making it pay its expenses, without some regard for puolic opinion. The most independent paper in the world is the one which recognizes no master but the public. The personal organ may be independent of the public, but it is sustained by its own- ers simply to give expression to their views cr to adyanoe their interests, and as soon as it is know to be a personal origan it ceases to have influence, no matter how elevated its literary and moral tone. Intelligence from Senegal is to the eSect that the French column under Col. Desber- des drove the hostile natives back, and tranquilly established themselves ou the left side of the Niger. Statistics arestUl coming forth in regard to the primroses used at the Beaconsfield celebration last month. The total sales in London are estimated to have brought the dealers in a sum of £4,000. A single dealer in the West End sold more than 9,000 bunches. Among the younger members of the Eng- lish bar, says the London Truth, the feeling is increasing that the only effectual step which can be taken is to permit barristers to deal directly with the public. If a man wishes a barriater to make hia marriage set- tlement, or wants his opinion on the con- struction of a document, it is mcmstrous that he cannot carry ont his wish without having the ooets trdbled by the intervention of a aelioitor. On the other hand, it is equally ridiculona that a competent aolicitor, who is wen acquainted ynHii the details of a case, cannot aigne it jn court, bnt mnat instruct coanad to do aft What ia leaUy wanted for ia]ie4«itba !of l«gal boaiBeaa ia a lawyer, whatiier called faaoiater or solioitor, and a aaar^ intelligebt eleriE. â-  » Ui i 'â- I ' • '^: mi.. ' al;vi ;sv, â-  f 'j,4 P^-V '/^':^' it ^p^ t^ ,^ '