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 |0'S IN A NUTSHELL I rtTS iflNtTTES SEliBCT KBAmif O. I'n tnl, slip u, ,j I 'â- "" " 1° «Uimp« or I -» worth 10u,ue,6i)l :i to claer from«5i,l uniie^ tc anr odh 4ii. f /U" BLIND SHAD ;^ uords. Saves Wian Dka orderly and nej agents' circulars f cited, ^gent^wan KIAL WuRKSia barn crobardmel â-  loam; eighty acrd l^alanc? en Mel ^ry of Foreign. lomesti«, aaa W»# r" j^pitoy. Concise and Pol«f«L â-  devoured the smallpox hospital i ' "vct f f z ological garden in Wind- 'SollapseJ- I i.i Crii't"'" 'â- -'^- *^' 18 loing to decay 3or, Out. of wrpf^k? and loss of life con- 'â- eJi^riveatSt. John.NEd. 1. ne»" United Church is to be called Le. Methodise Church." I rhe Provincial Board of Hea'th meets at Von, "'^•' lu November. ;jrTeys on the Vancouv^er Island railway I! 10 b« commenced at once. fijer E. H- Crawford, of B;ockville, has Ltransferred to Winnipeg. Lor" and Litly Carnarvon are the guesta l-,jjhn Macdonald at Oltawa. ,evera! townships in Nor.hEisex are to i,[jE,i at a cost 01 850,000. [j]e barbers in St. Thomas have been Ured not to shave on Sunday. [.jlmon fishing on the F.cz3r river in VtishCoiiJn""" this year is a tailure. lilsd stole two apples at Belleville, and jinz t^ '^^ sentenced to three days in riof^go i:^ Ka'ghts of Pythias has been Lr z: u: rial row, near Windsor, Ontario. [i bun ired men are engaged rebuilding faniiii outheru slipi and wharfs at Lsslsle. 3^ D',i'.iini"ii Crrckerv Association has â-  .r.reil a Turouto. merchant, who de- i_ii'-o join the ring. 1 K;n3";ton, Ont SiW-ation Army ser- |d: tays the Toronto contingent is a dis- IjK tj tiie cause. |c;ristian peopl-- in Hamilton are exci ed L' ;he pioposed vi-.iD of Mr. Watts, the Liish freetliiuker. Ilhe C:c;n\ve)l line steamer Cami'-.a is a |:ia! wreck at St. Shotts, Nfld. Her pas- iiers and crew were saved. hman at -M jr.treal was recently discov- Ltrjirii? to suftbcate a child by forcing pi into its mouth and nostrils. line temperance people in Essex county eobtairiut; signi'ures with a view to the l::y submission of the-Scoto Act. I Easiness at present is dull in Montreal ifhen the movement of the crop? iaces tiings are expected to brighD- lilr. Si!thM:anu ha^ been made Provincial hretary in the Manitoba Ministry, and |l:.Li;"iviiie Minister of Agriculture. jRn lieuD, the owner of the sulphur f.:3 at London, Ont., who so cruelly :;:ed his wife, has been committed for li ri'fie team that went to returned fl.OOO of the ex- |:.x[oits 0! malt, shellac varnish, and iron irum the Kingston district have sadly |.w tti'.-itce the new U.S. tariff came into |I:ie cotton manufacturers in session at lIcntRal liave decided to restrict the pro- l.hon by running their mills only four i;3 a week. liie busineps men of Berlin and Waterloo ive presented Mr. Hunt, station agent at |nl;n, with s210 and the employes gave pa meerschaum pipe. I A youth named Hillett had an arm so |ii!y crusheil by the cars on the London I'orc Stanley railway that it had to be qutated close to the shoulder. speaker of the Commons Kirkpatrick left |r France recently to be married to Miss |a»i Macpherson, daughter of the Speaker â- ::m Senate, at the Paris legation. ':r Fracuis Hincks and Sir A. T. Gait :tiitly invited Lord Carnarvon to a ban- Ill behalf of the people of Montreal. -8 Lordship accepted the invitation. I l.'ree white men accused of murdering a tE'-tial, have been acquitted at Victoria, The judge, disgusted at the conduct f'te white witnesses, expressed bis regrets fa; he was not a Chinaman. I/M Levis corporation has accepted the pr oi the Lominior. Government of $25,- lor the town hall and surrounding ^peny at Levis for a new station for fictcrcoionial and Quebec Central Rail- e first newspaper ever published in f -at is now the Dominion ot Canada was r«Hahfav Cazettc, the first copy of which, li'W -March i;;], IS52, is in the possession of â- â- â-  Samuel Green, of the Massachusetts â- ^â- 'Oncal Society, Boston. ' tile Methodist Conference in Belleville 'Ssolutioa to change the basis of union, Ptebect of which would be to destroy all li k '°°^ between laymen and ministers as PSinbers of the District Conference, was y^ out of order. liJ"' Dougherty and Ed. Sullivan, have 1^ a rough experience cff Garden Island. A l^t m which they were rowing, with all l^^'t earthly beloD2;ing8, upset, and they had t fang on fQ^ ^y bour before being rescued. IThe old Tonawanda sawdust boat left the J*" of the Mist landing recently, and r,y floated throjgh the Niagara rapida f 'fairlpool. She several times threatened Ij.'^P^ize but managed to keep her equili- â-  ""n, coming out little the worse for wear. Young a good longdionaiiaiC dead, ud mtde hu escape. I cJ)etroitii to hsvea new vrvt^tJ^ modelled after the fashion of ^Tcw^o Herald and »ew York ^Mn. Its price will g SoO ""' ' ' »**rt ^t^ a Capitol of The American WimWedon ha^ S2, 500 subscribed towards its expenses by James Gordon Bennett. The team's paaaes were §3,500. Nashville is sgitating the cent qu-stion. Xfae smallest coin in cuculation in that city IS the five cent piece, and the snopkeepera are beginning to see the folly of keeping out the once despised cent. The amended liqaor law of Arkansas Ln- clades cities of the first and second class in Its provisions. By a mijority vote of the inhabitants the sale of intoxicating drinks may be prohibited within three miles of any church or school ho-.-.s-. Wj-ncu are allow- ed to vote on the question. The Germans of Iowa are starting a m jve- naent to oopose the woman's suffrage agita- tion. They say that if women obtained thu right to vote they would be under the influ- ence of the clergy, and would take an ex- treme position in relation to beer and wine drinking and the observance of Sunday. Prof. Ball the inventor of the Bell tele- phone, has become involved as plaintiff in some heavy litigation concerning alleged in- fringemoQta of his patent, in Prague, Trieste, and other claces in the Austrian domain. The Navajo Indians of New Mexico are likely to be well supplied with funds this year. They expect to take SCO, 000 pounds of wool and 600,000 skins and furs to mar- ket. THE OLD WORLD. King Alfonso is in Paris. Three larije incendiary fires occurred in Vienna recently. The monument to Lafayette was unvailed at Paris recently. Shocks o! earthquake were felt at Dussel- dorf recently. Don Carlos is in Venice. He says he be- longs to Spain and to Spain alone. The inquest on Marwood the hangman, showed that he died of pneumonia. It is reported that M. Thibaudin, the French Minister of War, will resign. Clifford, Lloyd has sailed for Cairo, to assume the duties of Inspector of Reforms in Egypt. Sir Harry Pirkes, new British Minister to China, has arrived at Shanghai and was cordially received. Sufficient money has already been guaran- teed in England to send a rifls team U) com- pete at Creedmore next year. The Baddhist temple in Java, the largest in the East, was destroyed by i ailing rocks in the recent volcanic eruptions. The French are determined to hold their position in Madagascar until the Hovas give them satisfaction, The Comte de Paris says he did not attend the Comte de Chambord'a funeral because " the King of France cannot take second place." He has been notified either to re- pudiate the expression or quit France. CNITED STATES. '« bishop of Ballarat, Australia, is in ' iork. Ijobacco and all the growing crops in raneeticut are suffering from frost. I^'^k James, the notorious outlaw, has Â¥%• "^^^^ m " not guilty " at his trial in IJjf^^'sncies amounting to $150,000 have |i.iii^=o^ered in the accounts of the Phil- VPhia gas worts. [Several French Chambers of Commerce r protested against the embargo on the I t'^riation of American pork. V Denver paper says that Remenyi, in l»tii,°°««Tts in Colorado, is using a violin â- ^ "' made for him at Greeley, in that h,i°4^1, 'Courtney, an idler, walked into a â-  " ^ork saloon, deliberately shot Tl^omas JJ. J "l.tt^m. At present the inoon is 240,000 mfles away bat there was a time when Vba moon wai only- one-sixtll part rfthii, or uy 40,000 mites avay. That time most hare corresponded to some geologioal eaoch. It may have been earlier than tjie tune when Eozoon lived. It is more likely to hiave beea later. I want to point out tliat when tho moon was only 40,000 miles away we had in it a geological engiie of tran-oend- ent power. If the present tide be 3 feet, and if the early tides be 216 times their present amount, then it is plain that the ancierit tides must have been 648 feet. There can be no doubt that in ancient tiooes tides of this amount and even tides very much larger must have occurred. I ask the geologists to take account of these facts, and to consider the effect â€" a tidal rise and fall of 64S feet twice every day. Dwell for a moment on the sublime specta'ile of a tide 648 feet high, and see wh»t an agent it would be for the pcrformanct of geological work 1 We are now standing, 1 suppTse, some 500 feet above the level of the sea. The sea is a good many miles from Bir- mingham, vet if the ri^e and fill at the coast were 648 feet, Birmingham might bo as great a 8eap:irt as Liverpool. Thr..e- qaarters tide would bring the sea into the streets of Birmingham. At high tide there would hi about 150 feet of blue water over our heads. Every house would be covered, and the tops of a few chimneys would alone indicate the site of the town. Iq a few hours more the whole of this vast flood would have retreated. Not only would it leave England high and dry, but pro- bably the Straits of Dover would be drained, and perhaps even Ireland would in a literal sense become a member of the United King- dom. A few hours pass, and the whole of England is again inundated, but only again to be abandoned. These mighty tides are the gift which astronomers have now made to the working machinery of the geologist. They constitute an engine of terrific power to aid in the great vrork of geology. What would the puny efforts of water in other ways accom- plisU when compared with these majestic tides and the great currents they produce In the great primeval tide will probably be found the explanation of what has long been a reproach to geology. The early palaeozoic rocks form a stupendous mass of ocean-made beds, which, according to Pro- fessor Williamson, are twenty miles thick up at the top of the Silurian beds. It has long been a difficulty to conceive how such a gigantic quantity of material could have been grouna up and deposited at the bottom of the sea. The geologists said: "The rivers and other agents of the present day will do it if you give them time enough." But, unfortunately, the mathematicians and the natural philosophers would not give them time enough, and they ordered tbe geologists to " hurry up their phenomena." The mathematicians had other reasons for believing that the earth could not have been so old as the geologists demanded. Now, however, the mathematicians have discovered the new and stupendous tidal grinding-engine. With this powerful aid the geologists can get throueh their work in a reasonable period of time, and the geolo- gists and the mathematicians may be re- conciled. ARABI PASHA INTER VIEWED. His Life in Ceylonâ€" ResiKned to bis Cap- tivity and Studjrlng English. UEvmement of Paris publishes the ac- count of an interview of one of its corres- pondents with Arabi Pasha. After giving a deacriptijii of the outside of the pretty cottage inhabited by Arabi, and let to him by a rich English merchant of Colombo, who had placed an interpreter at the dis- posal of the interviewer, the latter contin- ues â€" " I arrived at nine o' clock at Arabi's. My card was taken in immediately by a servant, but 1 was obliged to wait for about 20 minutes before 1 could see the Pasha. Overpowered by the heat I am sipping my third brandy and soda, when, dragging him- self along, my card in one hand, Arabi ap- pears, half asleep yet, but smoking a Levan- tine cigar. The Arabian interpreter whom I have brought conveys my greetings and tells him that, belonging to the French press, I could not leave Ceylon without wait- ing upon the valiant soldier who had so courageously fought in defence of Egyptian nationality. While seemingly fiattered by the interested compliment Arabi tells me that he makes no merit of his struggle for the freedom of Egypt, that he was but the instrument of Allah. He adds that if fate condemns him to exile he himself is resigned to it in the firm hope that Egypt is march- ing toward a period of prosperity and lib- erty that will make her forget the bloody days through which she has just passed.' To the interviewer's remarks that Eogland might make Egypt prosperous, and perhaps happy, but never free, Arabi observed "Events do but obey the Uw of fala'.ity. God has willed it that the English should become our masters. He has willed it for the wel- fare of the Egyptian people. Your pen will convey my words very far. As such please to say that by now I nave learned to respect the English as the best friends of Egypt. As you know, perhaps, I am leamina: English it is my favorite oconpation and my most ar- dent wish is to obtain of the British Govern- ment the authorization to go to London to lav at Queen Victoria's feet the assurance of my devotion." M. Paulhan then wked if Arabi ever expected to see E?ypt agam. It would assuredly be a great joy, but if my presence there would entail fresh complica- tions I would by far prefer the sacrifice of my most ardent wish to the good of my counti y. Abdel-Kader the great emir who so loyally served France, after havmg so conra«eonsly combated her, has just died at Damascus, far from the Algeria he loved so well. If Allah reserves for me a simiU^ fate I must submit to the Divine will. ' A Hard Vlrtne. Forbearance, considerateness, â€" we need them everywhere we go. Our common im- perfections are mutual limitations. They demand self-restraint, patience, mutual con- cession. These virtues are hard, but so are all. These are especially hard, because they are incessant. I will tell you what will help much to make them practicable, per- haps easy. Do them for God. It is God's ends that demand them, which demand these almost more notably than some others. His greatest end is Love. No material or intellectual progress no prosperity, in church, state, or home no moral, religious, social or philantrophic interest, â€" is so pre- cious to him as the mutual sympathy among his children, out of which alone his two great aims can reach fruition. These two great aims are the development of our race and the elevation of our individual characters. Humanity cannot progress, save as we stand closely by each other, heart and hand our own characters cannot beautify themselves, save as we attain to the unselfish benevolence which is the' com- prehensive synibol of the divine character. What is hard for yourself then, do for God. Let his love be the reward of your self- sacrifice. He has made self-sacrifice the law of the universe each thing, each being, depends on and gives itself for the other. The extinction of self is the paraphrase of love. Be sure that in habitual self-con- straint, in self-forgetfulness for others' good, in consideratenesp, in forbearance, in yield- ing to other's views and wishes so far as con- science will allow, we are both rejoicing and resembling Him. It He should mark iniquity, who should stand? Let us not then "Let not us judge one another, but judge this rather, thao no one put a stnmbl- mg-block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." So (is it not sweet, is it not manly so says the zealous, persistent, self-confident, but self-sacrificing, the, of all men, most manly Paul. And also, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." Wheiefore, to go back to his Master for a general maxim, "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another." â€" Joseph May, A reporter who had just done his first boat-race was rebuked by the city editor for not mentioning anywhere that Ihe oawmen "took water," and repUed that tone oi tnem took water. They all toak ffn. 1 XBK CaBISTUJf MOTHKB. lliera she)iit7. the dd Ciuistianmot]|CK, n'ps for Heaven. Uer eyesight is almost gwie, Imt the splendors of the celestial city kindle np her visioD. The giay light of Heaven's mom haa struck thfoai^h the gray locks which are folded back over the wrinkled tem^es. She stoops very much under the btiraen of care she used to carry for her ohiidrBa. %e sits at home, too old to find her way to the house of God but while she sits there all the past comes back, and the children that forty years ago trippled around her arm chair, with their griefs, and joys and sorrows â€" those children are gone now. Soine she brought up are in a better realm, where they shall never die, and others out in the wide world, testing the excellency of a Christian mother's discipline. Her last days are full ot peace, and ca'mer and sweeter wiU her spirit become, until the gates lift and let in the worn-out pilgrim into eternal springtide and youth, where the limbs never ache and ^the eyes never grow dim and the staff of the exhaused and de- crepit pilgrim shall become the palm of the immortal athlete. During the first few years of this century there lived in England a man named Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 pounds. When he died in 1807 his coffin could not be brought down the stairs of the house in which he died, and the wall at the sides of the window had to be broken away in order to find an exit. He was five feet eleven inches in height, measured nine feet four inches around the body and three feet one inch around the leg. A gentleman who lately had business in the General Land Office at San Francisco said his Christian name was "Usual." This was thought to be a joke by the Register, but the gentleman gave this explanation of how he happened to receive it His father was greatly desirous of having a daughter, but as child after child was born to lum he was disappointed. When the seventh child was born, his father was compelled to ex- claim "A boy, as usual. 1 guess he will have to go through life as UsnaL " Such haa proved to be the case. THE S.4Li:SW0MAN. An American lady wno has resided abroad long enough to imbibe foreign ideas asserts that the shop manners in America are the worst in the world, assigning as a reason for this unfortunate state of affairs that the saleswomen "are generally of the hum- blest origin, and are too ignorant even to appreciate the virtue of couttesy." This is a sweeping assertion, and it is in the main incorrect. Thirty years ago a shop girl might have been looked upon with con- tempt, because it was only the ' ' woman who dared" who filled any responsible position in public life in this new country but to-day it is the woman who makes the position respectable, not the position that subjects the woman to its domination, and the best blood of the nation flows to-day in the veins of shop girls. In their ranks may be found the daughters of clergymen, of generals of the army. Senators, and the pen- niless heirs to a pedigree for which the members of the new dynasty would gladly exchange some of their superfluous wealth. And this lady is on the wrong side of the counter to judge of their politeness. It would probable enlighten her if the shop girl should tell the expeiience gained on the inside of the counter â€" of the women who want to buy and can never make up their minds what to get, who tumble a doz3n boxes of lace to select one yard of another kind, who question the shop girl about the goods as if she was personally responsible for their manufacture, who cheapen and sharpen and deceive, and reveal their fine ladyhood in a thousand contemptible forms. If the unhappy clerk sometimes^iosses pa tience under her multitude of trials, the prosperous woman whose carriage waitj can surely afford to be patient and forgiv- ing to a sister who has so little and works so hard for that. WOMAX AH A GUIDE. There has always been a dim conscious- ness in man that his relations to the divine â€" that is, to the ideal side of lif e^were most fitly represented by the purity and single- heartedness of woman, and that she is in a manner a meditator and interpreter between him and Heaven, reversing the Puritan and, so to speak, political idea expressed ia Mil- ton's line, "He for God only, she for God in him." Of this dim consciousness the Pythia at Delphi and the Vestal Virgins at Rome were testimony. Bat woman as a representative of the ideal can hardly ba said to have been consciously recognized until Christianity had consecrated the adora- tion of the Virgin Mother. Since then, al- though the influence of women as wives and mothers most always be immeasurably and most important and precious, it is im- possible to deny that their influence has existed in other forms which have affected the history of mankind. It is enough to name Jeanne d'Arc and St. Catharine of Siena as types of a class that has proved furens quid femina possit when her frenzy is of that rare celestial kind which can work its- self out in ordered action, and leave its mark in the record of the weighty affairs of men, 'as the lightning on the river rock. Nor yet is it as wife or mother that Beatrice is the mystic guide of Dante's spiritual life. The Middle Ages, with their sense of the nearness ot the supernatural, were of coursa a period far more apt for such manifesta- tions. The Puritan and reforming reli- gious enthusiams of the seventeenth cen- tury were associated with mysticisms of a different kind, and as to the eighteenth, a Jeanne or a St. Catharine could hardly, under any modification, have co-existed with Frederick II. and Voltaire. Yet the paths of perfection in which good women have walked unsupported by man's arm have not been less thronged since then be- cause they have been more hidden from the light. Not from deserts and hermitages or mystic oak forests have they gone forth to sway battles on the field or councils in the palace, but from inconspicuous homes into hospitals and prisons and haunts of squalid misery and vice. Elisha's departure Teacherâ€"" Whatdo we learn by the translation of the prophet Elisha?' Dull boyâ€" "That he saved his funeral expenses." Teacher (severely) â€" "James!" Dull boyâ€" " That's wot my pa says he's an undertaker, he is, and I guess he knows. Pa 'lows he wouldn't like to have folks go off that way nowadays." A splendid player "Are you interested in athletic games, Miss Fitzjoy " inqiiired De Maurice, as he contemplated an invita* tion to a base ball game. "Oh, dear, yes I'm very enthusiastic over base ball, especial- ly. What a splendid player that genueman â€" Mr. Muff I believe they call himâ€" is. Only the other day I noticed he scored seven in the *e' column." One of the peculiar shades: "What a peoaliar shade is that What could you call it?" broke in the young lady, opportanely turning to a pissing costume of dark red, which emitted spasmodic gleams of indefin THX LADS OCDIVA LXaX^O. ' i â-  â-  ^-^ â-  -T "Unieal DeseendaBf DUbsIIeTts The Story. In connection with the recent Lidy Godivji procession at Coventry, England, a corres- pondent wbojiigM himself ' Lineal De- scendant of Leetric-aad Qodiva," writes to the London Timet ^- " The fable of Lady Godiva's ride is too well known to be i^peatsd here it has fur- nished a subject for several artists of fame, both English and foreigners iBt Mr. Free- man very properly describes il as simply a disgrace to English history. Now, if Lady Godiva had ever ridden through Coventry as she is said to have done, mention of so re- markable an event would certainly have been made by some of the many early writers bat they are silent on the subject. Tne Saxon chronicler Ingulph of Croylnd, who knew Lady Godiva personally, Orderic Vitalis, almost a ctf {emporary, Simeon of Durham, the Chronicle of Mailros, Florence of Worcester, and William of Malmesbury, say nothing of it while the latter, when describing the abbey of Coventry, would certainly not have ommited to record the ride if it had taken place. "The fable is -first mentioned by Roger of Wendover, who flouri'shed in the first half of the 13 th century. According to him, the people of Coventry were to be assembled in the market-place to behold Lady Godiva ride through the midst of them in a state of nudity, attended by two soldiers. She had luxuriant tresses of hair which she un- loosened, and thus formed a mantle which completely covered her body. Roger of Wendover adds that she was seen by no one, Matthew of Westminster, who wrote his history about 50 years later, mentions the fable. His work is a copy with additions, of Roger Hovaden who wrote about a. d. 1204. and says nothing of the ride conse- quently Matthew of Westminster must have taken it from Roger of Wendover. In his version, which differs very little from that of Roger of Wendover, he seems to hint that Lady Godiva was supernaturally shrouded from mortal eyes, for he says that she, hav- iagridden through the assembled multitude a n imintXoisa, ad virum gauderw, hocpro mirac ulo habentem, reversa est. Thus, by recording that Lady Godiva rode through the assem- bled multitude, Matthew ot Westminster and Roger of Wendover very satisfactorily disposed of " Peeping Tom." Ralph Hig- den, the monk of Chester, who died a. u. ISfiS, Henry de Knyghton, and John of Brompton, who were later writers, mention the fable, on the authority, no doubt, of Roger ot Wendover and Matthew of Westminster. But the most conclusive evi- dence against Lady Godiva's ride is the simple fact that at the time when it is said to have taken place the town or bor.iigh of Coventry did not exist. " Coventry owes its existence to the cele- brated Benedictine Abbey which the Earl Leofric built for an abbots and 24 monks, at the instigation of Lady Godiva, according to Ingulph, Leofric endowed it with 2t manors, situated in seven different countries, and with half that of Coventry. The build- ings were completed in a.d. 1043, and pro- bably were commenced 20 years previously. The church was the most splendid one ever raised in Eogland it contained every orna- ment and decoration wrought by the art of man that boundless wealth, spent n ith lavish and pious hands, could supply. It was so enriched with gold and silver that the very walls seemed too confined to contain the treasures. Orderic Vitalis adds that Lady Godiva gave towards the abbey church all her treasures, and sending for goldsmiths devoutly distributed all the gold and silver she possessed to make the sacred books and gospels, and crosses and images of the saints and other marvellous church ornaments. In a word, for the love of God and the ter- vioe of the Church she literally denuded herself of all her personal propertj"" " This is the true history of the noble a:id peerless Godiva, sister of Thorold, the shire- reeve of Lincoln, and wife of that faithful lover of his country, wise statesman, loyal subject, and de\'oted husband Lsofric, Earl of the Mercians. Ingulph describes her as the most beautiful lady then living. Lovely as she was, the beauties of her soul and her virturt far eclipsed her personal charm?. The old historians vie with each other in her praise. Yet the fame of her good work has perished. The abbey church in which she and Leofric were buried is destroyed the foundations were dug up in 1670, and the site turned into a bowling-alley the memory of Lady Godiva is kept alive by a fable â€" a disgrace to English history â€" and by a woman on horseback in a costume which would not be tolerated on the English stage." Tbe Spectre of the Toyabe. Robert A. Marr, a member of the Gov- ernment Geologic Survey, in a recent letter gives an interesting account of an atmos- pheric phenomenon, which he lately wit- nessed in tbe Toyabe range southwest of Montana. Mr. Marr says: "Suddenly, as I stood looking over the vast expanse be- neath, I aw myself confronted by a monster figure of .a man standing in mid-air before me upon the top of a clearly defined moun- tain peak, wh en had but the thin air of the valley below for a resting place. The figure was only a short dis ance from me. Around it were two circles of rainbow light and color, the outer one faintly defined as compared with the inner one, which was bright and clear and distinctly iridescent. Around the head of the figure was a beauti- ful halo of light, and from the figure itself shot rays of color normal to the body. The sight startled me more than I can now telL I threw up my hands in astonishment and perhaps some little fear, and at this moment the spectre seemed to move toward me. In a few minutes I got over my fright, and then, after the figure had faided away, 1 recognized the fact that I had enjoyed one of the most wonderful phenomena of nature. Since then I have seen it once or twice from Jeff Davis' Peak, but it never created such an impression upon me as it did that even- isg when I was doing service as a heliotroper all along the top o( Arc Dome." â€" Helena Herald. A correspondent in ite white as its wearer moved on. " That," there are more paid replied the elder lady, critically, "was meant, I shpnUksay, to repreaent cmshed raspberry npqf^ which the cream had aomr- OUs Japan writes that musicians in that country than in uiy other. This is to be accounted for by the fact that the character of Japanese mosic is such tiiat nobody cares to play it except for pay. :•â- â-  'I â- Â« 'â- *! r