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 IN A NT3TSHELL ^^jnjTES SBLKCT KfcABING. of Foreign, Domestle and War t«ncl»«. PJthy* "J»d Pointed. Hheu.Qa tine Mail tils. Ont. Mesiral le \sc3,. T( C. • of the age. il cure Spavin. ' Lameness, mations. lifter or blemish, jfflhsolute cures, aiais of Spavins plints and Ring- jnials sent free, ecure free pam ^ta.\ card lous. 1 our boo' 3. conviuoed. is'd Spavin Cure. 3 and Hoof Oint- •Jer, and Colic â- es and Harness per bottle. )0k3, eic, â- wriie it.-n, Mass.. Lvc, evlorK H DOMESTIC. Cummins, Kingston, Ont., has ,„ffned at Lorette. 1 Qjt sudden death from Canadian »*'"repcrted from Quebec. r ' ,nnen in large bodies are leaving Ka;=tnctior the States. jonite settlement in Manitoba i i.'iO OOO busiicis in grain. â- .:cc )JenDt ock the cittle in the Montreal "' var.ls of their tails for the hair to .r J Qua la, with Prince George on ' mailed irom Halifax toNewfound- .qas N^ew York weeklies will not be tu fcuter Winnipeg through the |:^ F" -.oVict 01 London, Ont., have been to interfere with the Salvation ., tije Narrows of Halifax harbor a r'jeJ rail-.vay bridge and wharf are to national fete of the Acadians was l:;'..e,l at But-'tonch, X. B., in great jston riremen went to Cape Vincent, fconipet:tors, received SIO'J and re- Lraler, of Hamilton, has been pun- I :;o-,".s;aulting Thos. Stout, aSalvatitn vffarrii" 'â- â- 'Aileyn, resident county judge for "ii tli'jil suddenly from heart dia- ently. tyrv Aikman, 2:\ fell off a loa^l on his L-iiarm iu Ancastcr and was kicked to r;;;,v the liorsei. [jailton people are indignant with their 'oancil because it does not hasten to t.;n:alood iuspector. etition has been circulated asking that |,;eat Western division authorities put a ;o the constant whistling of engines -3 the limits of London, Ont. t;j London .Function Railway is making prog: ess and the Credit Valley will :je running into the Forest City. unknown woman between 70 and 75 jfage icll frcm a train at Hamilton, ;apopiec:ic tit and died. [.â- er Biker, a telephone boy at London, iva-- given a holiday, went out shoot- i^iiieui'iitd home svith a bullet in his Ha'.ii.ix bricklayers are protesting ttht'iiiiportation of English brisklav- :work on the new sugar refinery build- :.B. Sheraton, carpet dealer at St. John, ,. has assigned with liabilities of §100,- Thc creditors are principally in Eng- :..ir Curtain found a Spanish half ..ua near Windsor, N. S., last week. i.--- date I'i'i'J. The young man was :i-l tor the coin but refused to part â-  hotel- keepers of Montreal intend I:;d5 the validity of the Quebec License â- .•/A\[\ it is said with good prospects of Saved Army, a rival of the Salva- t::!;. has attached Napanee. It has been jtence six months, and claims to have rireatwork. f:e Franco-Canadian Colonization C'om- yr.ave bou?ht the Hall estate from Mr. |:oal for •-' "00,000. Mr. Senecal's profit r'.«],oou â- -' Victoria .School of Medical declines |:=y Archbishop Taschereau's letter, and -OEtinue in operation, and enter a civil Ss^inst Laval. [â- ^".ilcShane, M.P.P., of Montreal, hasen- lioto a contract with the French Gov- 'ts; to ship fifteen thousand head of '"'-;an cattle lo France. â-  aauijural excursion trip was made â- -"e .Selkirk branch of the Canadian ;. raiiu av the other day. The branch -â- lies long and cost §10,000 a mile to -â-  'y-law appropriating money for the â- â€¢Mot a town hall in London East has 'ieclared invalid owing to the necessary â- ; liaya publication of notice not having observed. 2' McNamee Co. have received the F^t for building the link line connect- "â- e Grand Trunk with the North Shore â- "y. a distance of seven miles. The a S--J0,0OO. â- -- ';|uebec 'jurta hold that the Legisla- â- '^asnot acting ultra vires when it pass- l'^- Act under which Montreal passed a, '^against tlie smoke nuisance. Notice Kpealhas been given. Kmnuttee has been appointed at ^a Fails, Ont., to try and induce the â- 'Southern to build yards, shops, etc., A meetiDg of ratepayers disap- 'he action ot the town council against â- ailway locating its works within the ianits, .. ilcTaggart, a bailiff of Fergus in ]^^? with Peter Wenger, started in a "'fcm Elmira to Elora, and at about '2at McTaggart was found dead in a f"'far Floradale. He had a severe gash â- -•^"ead and had his neck broken. Tnere "^piciona of foul plav, and an inquest '*held. TNITEO STATES. â- *se of yellow fever is reported at the i^rd, Pensacola, Florida. r'^^y rains have fallen throughout â- Â°'a. aiid the crops are greatly bene- '"^â- 'der's Union, of New York, have para N •:^d ail non-unionists to join and avoid a â- '° Bros. ,^ Hall, cf Duluth, Minn., ;,^"«es, have failed. Liabilities un- py shoe lasters have struck in St. Louis fojra :!C0 other workmen out of em- -trick W, MauUin, a grain broker of New York, failed 3 eaterday. The liabiU. tiea are small. -ldc iiaoiu- Thej^iam duties at San Franci«co for the excess 01 the previous year. oaJn*'!«'?e*°*^ passenger war between Chi- cago and St. Louis has ended and the com- peting roads have formed a pool. The Faniers' Bank of Richmond, Ind.. has not re-opened and wiU probably be wound up and depositors paid in full. F«ir"w""*i°°.®'*** Convention met at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Over 300 delegates were present. A scheme was devised to raise a campaign fund of §100,000. The Clan-Na-Gaelassociationof Chicago, is proud of the man who killed Carey. Con- gressman Finertysaid so. He further said they wanted uo interference from Cardinal or Pope. At Oakland MUs., Joe Payne, a negro who murdered Thomas Taylesforthe obilct of robbing, and mutilated the remains nor- ribly, was hanged by the unanimous vote 01 the citizens. Through Augustus Schell and Cornelius Vanderbilt as tru3tr», *hc Canada Southern has offered in New York §6,000,000 in sec- ond mortgage bonds at 5 per cent, to raise money to build a line from Welland to the Niagara river. The general feeling among New York business men is that the liquidations now in progress will ultimately have a beneficial effect. THE OLD WORLD. Don Carlos is in Paris. The workshop3 at La Seyne, France, dockyard have been burned. The Agricultural Holdings Bill passed its third reading in the Commons. The assertion that Mr. Gladstone sub- scribed to the Confederate cotton loan is un true. Cardinal Howard is at Kissingen for his health, and not to center with Prince Bis- marck. Rev. Robert Knox, one of the leaders of the Pan-Presbyterian Council, died at Bel- fast recently. The chief of the Austrian staff is making a tour of inspection of the forts on the Roumanian frontier. A portion of the Italian squadron has been despatched eastward from Gibraltar under sealed orders. Berlin despatches state that China will not hesitate to defend her suzerainity over Annam with the sword. There has been a two-days' battle between Cetewayo's followers and f sibepu, and the latter was defeated and fled. The Neio Era, a Nihilist paper, has ap- peared in St. Petersburg. It says the Nihi- lists are deliberating, not weakening. The French Government has decided to expel Boland, the Belgian journalist who declared that he bribed two deputies. The freciency and magnitude of the riotous demonstrations against the Jews in Austria cause the authorities great alarm. The Khedive visited the hospitals in Alexandria and spoke words of encourage- ment to the cholera sufferers. Serious riots have been caused by the posting of i3otices at the Government buildings, Vienna, offensive to the Croa- tians. The express train tunning from Paris to Amsterdam met with an accident between Malines and "ilvorde, and several passen- gers were killed. The London Telegraph states that M. Waddington, French Ambassador, has re- ceived more conciliatory instructions relative to the Tamative affair. For the first seven months of 1S83 there was an increase of fifty-eight million francs in the imports into France, and a decrease of fifty million francs in the export. Redmond, the National League repres- entative in Australia, denies that his mis- sion has failed, and expects to send five hundred pounds to Ireland every week. At a banquet at which twelve hundred pei.sons were present speeches were made in favour of Prince Victor, son of Prince Jerome Napoleon, as Chief of the Bona- partists. â€" ^♦«- II 1 1 â€" Female Recreations. Says the New York Mail and Express Several women followed the hounds in the first hunt of the Newport season yesterday, and horseback riding is rapidly increasing in favor as a feminine pastime. It is said that dancing was never so little in vogue at the summer resorts as during the present season, and fashionable women affect a pre- ference for tennis and the tricycle, while even the dudes declare their devotion to manly sports. It is not diflicult for persons who believe that whatever is fashionable in England is sure to become fashionable in the United States to underutand this condition of things, for since Queen Victoria purchased a supply of tricyclts for her grandchildren that vehicle has become a favorite with the young girls of England, and the popularity of lawn tennis among Englishwomen is well known. So excellent are the results of healthful outdoor recreations for women that it is desirable to have the present fashion made permanent. It is a common boast that American women are more beautiful than those of any other country, but it is to be feared that the foundation for the boast will soon disappear unless our women can be induced to take more exercise in the openair. The good health of English- women is attributable to their practice of walking several miles with daily regulanty, and it would be a national benefit if the custom were adopted by the women of the United States. Among the indications of a ({rowing taste for out-door recreations for females in this country is the fact that more good feminine swimmers are to bs seen at the ocean beaches than in previous seasons. The eighth commandment was all very well at the time it was written, but it is al- together too narrow for thesedays. It should be withdrawn, to read something like this " Thou Shalt not steal neither shalt thoa embezzle, purloin, commit grand or petit larceny, or obtain money by false pretences; thou Shalt not be guUty of breach of trost thou Shalt not indulge m shoplifting (unless you are respectable enough to wove that kleptomania is hereditary in the lamily) thou shalt not duplicate thy pay accounts." fca^iargjA •â- -.-^â- â- â€" ^..-^ ttn^ttm Turn vsraiMSUMD mamuscipt. Tbe St«ry of F»«e an Arkuaiw Man TolA. Some time ago tbe writer visited Prof. Gailnet, of Little Rock, Ark., and while sit- ting in the library, engaged in conversation with the entertaining gentleman, olraerved a roll of manuscript tied with a atnp of black cloth. We asked him if it were some- thing designed for publication. " It will never be published," he said, and began to unroll it. " See how it ends," and glancing at the bottom of the last page we read the following " While he sat alone, deeply musing, a hearse passed the house, Biadâ€"" here the sentence broke off. Re- questing, almost imploring, tlie Prof assor to tell us the history ot the curious manuscript, he finally consented. " I came to Arkansas when I was a young man. One night I sat in my library writ- ing a story for a magazine. I was in good health and had cause to feel elated over the success I had just attained by the publica- tion of a small volume of sketches, but still I felt the heavy weight of melancholy de pression. I arose and walked out, but soon returned, not experiencing any change. I bent myself to the work of wricing a dreary story and worked with surprising rapidity until I wrote ' A hearse passed the house at d â€" ' Here I stopped. A strange presenti- ment told me that I would never finish the sentence. Next day I took up my pen to finish it, but I had not touched the paper with the pen when a piercing shriek caused me to spring to my feet and rush from the room just in time to see a horse, attached to a buggy, dashing wildly toward my gate, A frightened woman was in the buggy and I rescued her. I put the manuscript away and devoted myself to my new acquaintance our friendship grew into love and finally we married. Then followed ten years of hap- piness. -I did not tell my wite of the un- finished manuscript, but one day she found it and begged me to finish it. I did not like to confess my foolish fears, and finally I told her that I would. The next night, after my wife had gone to bed, I took down the story and read it over. I would finish it for her sake. I took up the pen and was just in the act of touching the paper when my ^yife called me. I ran to her and found her in a dying condition, having being at- tacked by rheumatism of the heart." " Have you ever attempted since to finish it " " Yes. After my wife had been dead for several yeirs I determined one night to finish the story. I went to the desk, but had no sooner dipped my pen in the ink when a noise in an adjoining room attracted my attention. Hurrying into the room I found my son on the floor dead. He had always been in wretched health and had committed suicide. " " Do you ever expect to finish the story " "I expect to try again. It is impossible for me to remain superstitious, even though I may have a powerful cause for doing bo. Of course, all this would have happened even if I had not begun the story. I think that next Tuesday night, if I feel like it, I shall devote myself to the completion of the work, for I desire to see it in print. Come up and see me start off." We were busy when Tuesday night came, and â€" cowardly confession â€" were not sorry when something kept us away. Early Wed- nesday morning we hurried to the house where for years the professor had lived. The horrible thought seized us that he had taken up his pen to finish the story and had fallen dead. Some time elapsed before we had the courage to knock at the door. At last we rapped. No answer. Another rap. No answer. With blood almost at freezing point, and with hair standing erect, we shoved open the door. The old man sat leaning back in his chair, eating pie, "Come in," he said cheerfully. "You see I have just finished that story, and it gave me an appetite for pie. Pie's a good thing to eat after you finish up a story, but you want to wait until you are through writing." "Did you hear any strange noises " wj asked " when you began to write." " Well, yes. A calf over in the adjoining yard bawled for a while. Oh, yes, you are thinking about that story I told you some time ago. Why, my dear fellow, yon should not have been so foolish as to have believed me. I never was married, you know. Have some pie." â€" Arkansaw Traveler. The SXtueral Riches of Tonqutn. Its gold mines, says a writer in the Paris Figaro, can rival those of California and Australia. The natives use that metal for exchange the females of the Muongs of the Black River, on their way to and from mar- ket, gamble with thousands of francs' woith of it, without caring wheather they win or lose. The mines of Talan, near Yuen-Kiang, on the Red River, were visited by the Com- mission of the iMeikoug, who found gold there in bars as well as dust. Still higher near the source of the Red River, the pre cious metal is obtained in large quantities^ Silver also is not rare, and copper is found everywhere, all the domestic utensils of thd people being made of this metal. The tin mines are not worked for want of capital, al- though those worked near Mong-tszj, in Yunnan, near the Red River, are the most valuable known to exist. Zinc, lead, iron, and bismuth are also known. The coal mines, however, are the most important of all. Tonquin produces also musk, tortoise shell, motner-of-pearl, wax, silk, peacocks' feathers, as well as those of the blue pheas- ant, and other birds of brilliant plumage. " In short," concludes the /igroro, "it is a rich country, and worth the trouble ef occupying it," An exchange says that a few nights ago, while a Baptist minister was attendmg divine service, a negro boy and two women took the preacher's horse and buggy and drove them nearly to death. This account illustrates the extreme ot refined cruelty. How that buggy must have suffered I What agonizing screams must have been wrenched from that poor buggy as it jolted over the hard-pan roadway We seriously object to lynching on general principles, but in ex- treme cases like this â€" well, we could will- ing see lynch law take its stern, relentless course. No fate is hard enough for the fiend who drives a baggy to within an inch and a half of death's door and leaves it exposed to the fury of the elements. UFX XS XrfmDON, ')S«aday la geW e» t XdUM. After entering the great thoronglifare of St Mary Axe, E. C, by Leadenhall street, keep straight ahead, leaving the old Church of St. Mary at the Axe on your right, and yea will set foot in the land of IsraeL St Mary Axe â€" "Simmery Axe," according to the pronunciation of the natives â€" is built on tiie site occupied in mediaeval ages by the good monks 01 Bory's Abbey. It early be- came a favorite resort of Hebraic commer- cial activity. Two old rhymes describe the Jews of the period Jews from St. Mary Axe for jobs so vs ary. That for o!d clothes they'd even axe St. Mary. At the end of the street is a mart, or ra- ther a labyrinth of- marts, or clothes ex- changes. On week days hawkers, purchasers and loungers have access to it on the pay- ment of one penny per day. ^Vholesale buyers and dealers pay three p^nce. On Sundays admission Lb free. The place is un- prepossessing, indifferently roofed, and not sa- vory. Noisy activity prevailed at the booths when I first visited it on a week day. There was not a Christian in the market. Strong men with big bags, sharp youths with dis- torted parcels,, and bearded enchantresses witti doubtful bundles were incessantly com- ing in and emptying their loads. Little gentleness was displayed in the proceedings, which reminded me of the manner in which scavengers discharge their wares. Lots of hats, bonnets, boots, dresses, coats and uni- forms were shufliied out on the pavement, raising clouds of ' dmst. The sorticg was quickly done. Even the most wretched rags, magically handled, soon got stretched out in a marketable shape. 'There are sly contractors in those regions who drive a first class trade by c;iving an artificial lustre to the most shabby articles, and by freshen- ing those most crushed. The day was |hot. I saw many hands on the threshold of the small houses lining the narrow streets and lanes bordering tbe marts, all needles, hair pencils, brushes, paints, and dyes. In the middle of one street, leading out of the celebrated Petticoat lane, the most famous track of the rag fair, two artists with paint brushes and pots of black paint feverishly moved around a tot- tering trestle. They were giving a final touch to an incredible lot of forlorn garments whi:h were prospering under the treatment. The cloths were reviving, the buttons ral- lying, and the silky materials were renewing their youth. But Sunday is the day on which the great rag fair is to be seen. The best time is in the morning, when Christians ought to be at church. I was there a little while ago. The heat was almost intolerable. The bells had just begun to ring for the morning pray- ers at St, Botolph in Bishopsgate, where is buried the great merchant, Sir Paul Pindar, the celebrated money lender of James I., Charles I,, and Charles II., who lived hard by. A bevy of children and of flower girls were buzzing about the streets selling, at a penny apiece, roses which would have adorned a queen's table, "Good luck to you," sweetly said a rosy little girl, with re- markably loving blue eyes, of whom I had bought a rose. Poor little darling, she was as grateful as though she had received a ten shilling piece. The marts and streets are full. The rag fair is in all its glory, "Buy, buy, buy!" roar hundreds of husky and panting voices. " Won't ye 'ave the bloody lot for five bob and a tanner This his no second 'and rot. Come to the hold fine gents. Hall stun- ners, hall " "Buy, buy, buy! Hask for Aaron's braces my boys. "Ere his a two years' wear for sixpence. Buy, gents, buy " " Buy, buy, friends Look 'ere â€" a coat of Saville row. You will 'ave it for a dollar honly because I want to give hit away and to go to my mother. Well, 'pon my word and 'onor, the lining halone is worth twenty bob." "Buy! 'Ere is a sock for a kick, three pairs for a tanner, hall new. The hunrival- led firm. None of your uiissrly habatements and discount tricks." *• Buy, buy 'Ere is a new suit complete for fifteen bob. No shickery shoddy with hus. Don't be bashful. T.ell me where yer 'onor can present 'imself with a sit-upon for three bob like this 'ere harticle. Come on close hit shell out friend. Don't let this 'ere gent take ye for a sweep. " "Buy, buy! Cawn't ye stop for 'alf a second Gaze at that 'ere new topper, and if ye meet with a masher in the park with a more haristocratic harticle, my name ain't Absalom. It's honly four and six. None of your fibs of tanner and flatch," " Buy, buy 'Ere is a silk 'andkerchief for a kick the best flannel shirts hever hoffered for sale for two bob a pair of draw- ers as worn by the royal princes and the late John Brown for a twelfer." Here is a short woman, with the wiist of a lifeboatman, ready for action, with an ugly wig, a terribly hooked nose, a rancid complexion, and eyes that a duchess would give her dukedom for. She calls me " my friend " first, and then more affectionately "my dear." She would feel better if she could sell me some of those jewels to take them to "my darling" at home, who, she is sure will be much disappointed if I don't. Although I resist her entreaties, she does cease to be agreeable. But what is that tremendous uproar hard by It must be a violent quarrel, for voices are fierce, and their unharmonious strains mingle with the sounds of hard blows. Not a bit of it. This tumult simply proceeds from a dozen or ao of self-sacrificing men en- gaged in disposing, as they say, against their own interest, of an unprecedented bargain in clothes. Nothing beats the intenseness which immolation kindles. The philanthro- pists are getting quite mad about it. More than partially undressed, screaming as for life, tbe water running down their swollen faces, stamping and fuming, entirely pump- ed out, now and then they fold up with rage and beat with fury the articles they have praised the most, as the acrobat lashes the child that misses a trick. Petticoat lane is so full that I am forced to the contemplation of a display of various- ly sizsd sausages sold by Abraham, who claims the invention of no less a boon than the celebrated German wurst, I am so long pinned there that I fall into fruitless reflections as to how the Hebrew reconciles the commands of his faith with the commerce in pork. However, a brisk trade is going on there also, but it is only fair to add that un- prejudiced Christians considerably swell on Sundays the crowd of Jewish purchasers. The'middle of the street is occupied by a long line of troaks full of cheap articles. A man selling gingerbread is using ungentle lamgnage to a boy who cries and protests that he has given the costwmonger a shil- ling. The Jew denies it. The majority of the crowd sympathiz 3 with the child. No- thing daunted the Israelite pledged himself by the "bloody" life of every one of us that he shall never return to the boy what the boy never gave. There are symptoms of a free fight. A tall police officer rams through the crowd, inquires, and the Jew breaks his oath and hands over the disputed coin. This is the only quarrel I witnessed in tbe fair. The locality seems doomed to be trans formed. Half of Petticoat lane has already abandoned its popular nam" and is called Middlesex street. At the corner of this sec- tion of it and of Tripe yard, an unengaging spot, I suddenly beheld, but only fur one second, one of the most per.'ect faces of wo- men the imagination oin conceive. The ad- mirable creature had eyes and haif blacker than nature, with dii'iue mouth and a complexion of marble. She was tall. She must have been twenty 5 ears old. .She made for the tavern at the corner of the yard and of the street, a dull saloon witla a loan office attached. I hastened to see more of her, but she had disappeared. If her soulisasre-finedasher person, what a|iiorrible life must be hers in those parts A few yards off another loar tfijc loans money daily from £3 to £300. li you want money you cin easily obtain it, provided you have quite overcome the prejudices you may have been reared in with regard to big inter^ est, for money lenders are not scarce in the rag fair. But here is something cheaper â€" a glass of sparkling, but not intoxicatmg, champagne for a penny. The crowd is not thin around the booth, and its noise sounds queer with the voice of an old cripple mournfully bawl- ing, "Apaemin memory of 1S4 little ones who died by a sad cilamity at Sunderland." " Ave a look at these ere beautiful jewels," says a young womin to her companion. "They ain't dear â€" a lot of unredeemed pledges." It is at the corne;- of a street leading out of Petticoat lane. The shop is small and low. The wares are of a mixed kind. There are hams, biscuits, cheese, all descriptions of salt and oiled fish, and other goods. The window of the shop is raised. On a table placid inside against it is an as- sortment of gems, watches, chains, and med" als. Business is transacted on both sides ot the window. An old Jew, with a thin and remarkably fine face, dressed like a man ready for a ciU in Miyfair, is effecting tlie sale. In many shops tnere are to be noticed men of the same well-to-do aspect, giving you the idea that many of the old, black, rickeity stores are rented,by men who gener- ally dwell in a different hemisphere. Jews from all lands have established themselves on this spot, Lazarus, iireslau Israel, Abraham, Fernandez, oolomon, David, Rodriguez, Tarina, Ismael, Aaron, Nathan, Samson, Closes, Cassel, Nabs.rro, Jacob, and other Biblical or geogrophical names, of which many repeatedly aopear on houses often marked by the Hebrew charac- ters, testify to the fact. Everywhere you meet them â€" in White Rose court, an ugly narrow passage in Baker and Bull courts which are not an inch better, and in Cutler, Ellison, and White streets, the rivals of Petticoat lane. The interior of the squalid houses in which the members of this curious settlement live is mostly well kept and com- paratively clean. The race cercaiuly does not fear the water. Indeed, it has made the article an object of trade, I saw in an un- lovely lane, where vegetables, meat-, and fish were sold at fabulously low figures, the following words written on the wall • Hot water sold here from 6 a. m. to 12 p. m. Not many yards from that spot resided at «";rosby Hall Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterward Richard III., the cruel murderer of the children of Eiward IV., his nephews Talking. Why is it that women have generally so much the advantage over men in the matter of talk? Not, of course, over all men, for there are some of the tougher sex that can talk and talk and talk any one woman both blind and dumb. But as a general thing the women have it. What is the use of that man in Tennyson's "Brook" telling what he suffered| for "Katy's sake?" We are bound to believe that a great many have suffered a great deal more from Katy her- self, or from some of her sisters. Just let them get started and they go oh forever and a day. It does not matter what the subject is. A girl fresh from a fashionable boarding school, a "superior party" in the common room of a country hotel that keeps boarders, a successful whiskey seller's wife, or the "lady " of a man that has made his pile dabbling in bank stocks or land scrip, a woman that is first cousin to a Church of England clergyman's wife, or the very prononced authority on theatrical mat- ters and church socials. Indeed, anything or any one. How loud to be sure they talk How they do lay down the law How they do dwell upon charades and tableaux vivants How solemnly they think that in these days professing Christians cannot be too careful How they proclaim on the house tops that when they were about to be married their inexorable papa required them to make "one shirt each " How private theatricals " with a religious turn " are exceedingly useful in 'church schools" and colleges for giving the " young lady pupils " ease in ordinary life, etc, etc. Oh, dear, to be sure I And all the while it is as impossible as it was for Captain Webb to swim the whirlpool to convince these women that they are ridicalously vulgar talkers all the same. At the seaside " Why, dear, we must have a nurse the baby is teething, and will cry all night." "Well, let him yell those stuck-up neighbors of ours, the Joneses, are in the next boarding-house. If they hear him they will recognize his voice, and know that we are at the shore, too." A case in point " You know, love," said an elderly maiden at Mount Desert, " it makes one look from six to ten years young- er every time one crosses the ocean." •• Why, aunty," hereupon ventured a pert young minx, hitting by, " you've crossed so often, I wonder you don't look immensely young." :, W fe