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 9i^9PlP wtm MM 3 iUeats prea»n« *» It medicinAf 'a 'r reoora a^r?* ^n» now Jl '*« to^the^«»» at led the «»?" else ha?^' 113 manner Inrt*" simple and can h' for rt^Sdv "" ty of cmI? I "d ate anierground iMe or the nxt ^y has been de. to keep the ov^n 'ef.Gitwitlxart,. arraQg«d themaelVes raylayhim. i ton^ Long Journey. rn,pn the dcctor oam« down staira from k room of Mrs. Marshall the whole JJ,se.»;dtoh.ve i^fhf ball ".â- }]ow 8« n will r.,an;m» dit well " asked (jiyfe, the baby. maniina come donn etun next asked Katy, the eldest daughter "I tf'e little housfkeeper. "tniyon find my wife mnch better?' ted Mr. Marshall eagerly. He was a "], gf»ve man, pale with luixUty *lnt8of 'a'ching. i' i..i.«, A,,^ Tin* cTntTo be did littl Can and not Ihe doctor did not smile I en stop to answer their qaestions. "^-Ism in a great hurry," he said as he ,fA his hat 'I mnst go to a patTent who (iacgerously ill. This tvening I will call I have left instructions with the s JU m w York City, save arria«e Hire. 7na UOTKL, opposite egant rooms fltted plan. KleTatof ibeat. HoraaciS' *a8 to all depote less money at the t any other flrst: as his ear in hig c:ed him to walk Kd Tula. Marshall, Mich., sbrAted Electro- :ctnc Appliances men (young or I debility, loss of Jid all kindred atism, neurdljjia, diseases. Com- vigor and man- k is incurred as 3d. Write them )hlet free. A. P. 202. ' WooUou. Bilk. (j»r. lakers Pundaa, Ont. land, good buildingg. Lt, Caunmgtoti. ISHKD CUTtiiv store, and lot, with mbiDed. Addrass, ROOFER. )ealer in Bui (d lag Paper, resC Prices. TOBONTC. ar^KlTet Toronto' specialty. Send All Healing I GLYCERINB API le world for all dia in, on Man or Beast iggiBta. SOAP 00. GLYCEEKE rket, SteamshipF. d every Thorsdai* ooI,andinauiiiiii ool, calling at Lon 8 for Scotland and ifax and St. Jobn'k summer montbl. lail during winter DBton andGlaagow ween Quebec and 7 week. 3r information Baltimore S. 3o.. St. John's It. John, N. B. Sc Alden, NeW ans. Rae Co-i Boston. Mon- Jicdition, 'Horses fthe VoKKSHIBE liieudcd by first- I m're milk ana liHUil tim;, ana luar box contain IMISTS. ?t, Toronto. AODiX .sher I AND ]acheb InasmaUTslise. Sati^facfiO" iuleiSRIOB. lothes ijaTe tn*' VaBhingcanpro- to injure we bing^M weU»» llCB HAS »*â- ? tfactory, roonw Ibyterian. »W" ler which Mr. 0. Ty and valutfwe laving madunei leap. From tna fito exoelleo^ toTiaces ol â- '" â- ndforciroatan i ., J ED- IS, [OUSB, Uro. owTs But the nurse's instructions were all con- 3 rniiig the i omfcrt of the patic ns she was ifofessicnally discuet ,and eilent. The iildrm playing on the stairs were told io j^enouoiee. Theglocmy day wore on, ^d the patient ^lept and was not dibtatbed- 5atthat night before they uent to bed ;I,(V were allowed to go in and kiss their jotber fecoi -night. This privilege had ^(«n denied thi m lately, and their little iearts reponded with joy to the invitation. jlamma wes better or she could na« tee •jem, The coc'or had cured htr. They l(on!d love him lor it all tbeir lives 1 I She nas very pale, but smiling, and her ;.8t T^ o.-c 8 to them wtie "I am goirg on a journey " "A journey," cried the children. "Will ;ii tike us with you " â-  No it is a long, long jourtey." 'Mamma is go'ng to the South," said ^atf, "the doctor has ordered her to. She till ret well in the orange groves of Fieri- i" â-  ' 'lam £;oiog to a far diftint country, 3-)re beautiful than even the lovely South," •yi the mother, faintly, and I will not sietaok." "You are going alone, mamma " aeked laly. "Xo," said the mother, in a low, siiejt toice, "I am rob going alone. My Pnysi- jn goes with me. Kiss me good-bye, my ;tar ones, for in the morning beiForeJ\ cu are pke I shall bs gone. You will all come me when you are made ready,' but each b:t make the journey alone," In the morning she was gone. When the Hrea awcke their father told them of f :e btautiful country at which she had I lielv arrived while thev slept. 'How id she go Who came for her "' |f :ey aektd amid their tears. "The chariot of Isiaal and the horEemtn hpiiiOl " their fatber told them solemnly. People wonder at the psace and happi- ixprissed in the faces of these motner- bs children when askei about their ,:other they say, ' She kai gone en a jour- :;y." atd every night and morning they !iJ in her guide book of that land where tenow lives, whose inhabitants shall no are say I am sick, and where Gol him- ,!;f ?haU wipe all tears from their eyes. rreventliig Coal Smoke. A London housekeeper writes This nee most destructive at all seasons will crtiv 1)3 increased by the addition of Tcrsl millions of fires daily during tome inths of cold wether. The chances of ke abatement being carried out to any prtL'iative degree ia domestic life are in •i stnali, until a plan is devised whicT 1! be practical, smiple, and economic U thtxistin? gia';es. Such a plan I have Situally cairifcd out in my house. The t- m of putting cold coal on the top of a "fire vertically under it hurries the chemi- ehanges set up, which enables the heat- apors rapidly ascending 1 he chimney to vey \i,ith them unconsumsd carbon â€" if, toot, which is the chief cause of tie (ict cuisance. A little ♦ime is required for nplete ccmbuation. Feeding from Velow e fire is not pri,cticable, except with ites specially conjtructed, which cost ney. There is. however, a medium that raif b'.e and advantageous to both ccm aid pocket. It is as follows, and I can Moo strongly urge its adoption With shovel push the cinders from the ends 'ae grate, heaping them t iward its ctn aLd leaving holes about thrie inches ai End as d^ep as possible. Into these .:3 drop either large or small coal never ;coke into them, nor coal on the middle tu fire but as c 'ke gives no smoke it o^J be used in making up the middle o' fire. By this mode of firing the fresh 'Homes into coutact laterally with hot ies which gives facilities for its decom- iioii by allowing ir.ore suitable time for â-  chemical changes tnan does the vertical i'tm. Fael on Rassiaa Bailways- cliicjal report upon the fuel nsad on !ian railways has been prepared by Possiet, the minister :f ti ays and ccm- ications. It appears from this report, chia concerned with the year 1881, en iorty-nine lailway companies existing le empire only four were using wood asively in fieir locomotives. The lines short ones, running through forest ts abundantly suppl ed with wood and •way from coal sipplies. The bulk of mes used coal, and during the year the sfiite c.nsumption of all railways was J29 cubic Russian fathoma of wood and irci ot 1 230,000 tons of cjal. Th« qnan- of Eugl.sh coal used vas cnly 150 450 n.ojt of which was burnt on the Baltic he eouthwestern lines. The report i a general tendency towird a larger imption of R'jsaian and a diminished j{ foreign coal. Trie increase in the nee 5 sian CO d is given at seventy thous- ons; or 8 per cent, within the year, thir';y thoufand tons of German coil hunt, tni they weje used on I'res tbe G rman border. Since the rep )rt fiwn up there has been a considciable f-tiiient in the supply to the lailwajs â- ^ Ibce'z and Moscow coal. %nd the use =ttolet ni as an engine fuel has betome " getiercil on the lines near the Cauca- Ihe Kassian impcru duties on f jie'gn *«e incn asei not long ago. F-fe's many a sb'p betwixt the baby and Ntub. I'tira cure fcr insomniaâ€" Ssnd the baby jgraniaoiher. I'oimsred silver fingered bowls are the The baby is supposed to do the f emphati pjjt of the hamnering. BOU)IKG Tbe Tale offa TMAMi :* *« " ni lie BoT' Fopolation of Hawaii The population of these islands to-day I believe to be about 95 900, writes a corres- poadens natives 45,00 ' including at least 900 at the leper i eiceinent, and it is safe t j say that at least a quarter vf the natives are tainted with leprosy or an inauiable mal .dy so- called. The Chinese now number ne^uly .30 000; the Americans and'Edropeana about 15,000, oae third Earope^n 5,000 is male up of other nationalities â€" J .ipaueae, Liscars Eist Indiamen, Australians, Maoris, and maneaters frOm the South Sias, whose pos- terity in future will be sought after to be exhibited in all civilzjd countrie8---even the African â-  bnshmen (aative) Will view them with am?z9ment and as their inferior. Telecraplier der. A party of men were teUing stories in St. J-ouis, when cne of thim taid he tad seen a «ood deal of service on the border, and had tad a good many adventures,, only one of which ever impressed him much. Down at OrMiada, on the Santa Fe road, when it was Jirtt opened,he had had a c irons all one nieht withapartyof robb'rs. "I was in the office in the evening," he aaid, "getting ready to close up, when four orfive hard men cimein. Thevcidn't say mnch at first, but seemed to be locking the ground over. We weie alva^s on the look- out for that kind of chaps, and as the m» chine w a? ticking I pretended fiat some- body was asking mo a question. I laughed alittle and seizing the key, I broke in with. Everybodyâ€" don't stop the express at Gran- ada to-nght. whether signaled er not. Rob- bers here.' They eyed me sharply, but said nothing. The sounder kept up a merry tl ck, and I leaned back in the chsir. They fooled around fcr half an hour and then me of them aiked me what time the train was due. 'Eleven five," I said. 'Well.wewant it,' one of them replied. I toll him that I woi-ld f ignal it. About 10 30 1 got out the red lantern and lighted it. Just as I got it fixed two of them jumped up with revolvers in their hands and said they would save me the trouble. Whil^ one of them covered m 3 with a pistol the others tied me flat on my back to a settee. I couldn't move Lead or foot. After they got me there I began to think what sort of a scrape I had got my- self in. The tii in would come presently and would go flying'by, and then toose cut- throats would murder me just for the fan of It. I had thought the thirg over when J heard a sharp whistle and a roar. The m n ran out to the platform with masks on and revclvers ia hand. Oae of them had the lantatn, which he swung \igcrdusly. In gcing out on the pUtform they had left the door open, s that I coul 1 see things pretty we 11. I began to hope that the train would stop, fcr I kaew tt at it contained men enough to do up that crowd if not taken too much by surprise. The r.. ar came nearer ind nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that they were not going* to stop. With the whistle blowin.; at full blast ancl the dust flying in clouc's. she swept by like a streak of lightning. It was all] up with me. I thought. The robbeis dropped the lant'ru and began to swear. Then I could hear them talking, and prett;y soon I made up my mind that the train had stepped down the load away, and that they were watching it. Before long they took to their heela, mounted their horscis, and were gone. When the train men came up to the depot, all arm- ed with Winchesters, I was the otly occu- pant. They released ms ondl told them what had happened, A couple of them stayed there with me and the train went on. If any express ever catne any nearer being robbed without going through the mill than this one did, I'd 1 ki to know it." Graves in the Crimea. Cathcart Hill has now become the one British cemetery. Ex ending from the Ala:a to Balaklava there were 139 buritl plices, and it was found impossible to look after them all, and now Cithcart Hill is to be taken care of as a monumental record of all the British who died in the Crimea, About 70 teet has been added all round to the old iDclosure, and conaecratei, ani a substan- tial wall surrounds the ipaca, with a house throuj^h which vidiors pass into the ceniC' tery. Capt. Hariord, who acts as Ea^lish Co:sul at S ibastopol, hastakena great in teiest in this work, ani has gottheplice in- 1 5 very good order. A number of the prin- cipal monuments from the ct'ier cemattries have been m'^ved and placed en Cathcart Hill. It woul 1 be imp08ibl:3 mw to moue the bodies, bit the headstones if {laced in this nev7 cemetery, will be safe from dam- age, mi will be still records of those who fell. It is a heavy work to remove the^e headstcnes, and some have to be carried a great distance; it is to be hoped that a grant of money will be made to ba\e this dene now once and for ill in a proper mmuer. Fcr mich less inportani o jeots mjney has been subsciiied by the puoiic, but if the Gjvertm^nt did this psrtcf the -wik, which IS theii^ duty, a monument shoul i bi erect- ed on toe spot to all who fe 1, and tha*; might be dene by pullic subtcription. Dur- ing the siege Cii heart Hill was the con- minding point every one went to lor tne purpose of seeing S-b«t)pol and to get a glimpie of the operations. A'l knew it. It 18 still the spot where visitors §,0 to see the ground cf the great struggle. Tne piece Of ground has been made over to tbe Br.tish Government, and a substantial and fitting monument on the historical gruund would be a re cord of the past as well as a mtna- ment jdue to the memory of the brave who died. The Russians have done their duty in this respect to their dead and we should mot ba behind them. In addition to the memorial chapel in the Russ aa cemetery, a veryfn; new memorial chuich has been built in the middle of Sebastopol over the graves of four A'm rals who were killed, or atlea^t died, in connection with the de- fens? of the place. It was Aimiral L z^reff who created Sabastopol; the fortress and the Black S a fl jet were produced under him. He is en 3 of the four A'^mir^h buried in the new church, and so proud are the Russians of the defence of Sabastopd that atter the siege they erected a moaum3nt â€" i statue on a pedestal â€" to him in the midst of the ruics of the city he had founded. The statue is colossal and stands in front of the "White Buildings," ovei 1 ic king the harbor. These "White Ba Idings," which were bariacks,aie still roofless and ia ruins, and the figara at the Admiral, which is blick, has rebtner a gtas'.ly appearance with suci surround- ings. â- m.' ^ima AVBEms itfee. What Tamed aia Attaaaoa to tha and Dnmliu *i.^ u?* occ3«on to vi.it a certain widow, the Abbe de 1 Epee found her on his arrival absent from home, and only two vonxe ciris â€"her daughters-sitting in the room and sewing The lirls received the abbe retpeot- fully but m total sUenoe. To »11 qaestions h* addressed to them they made no answer. Upon the arrival of the mother the good pneat expressed his surprise at this extra- ordinary behavior cf her daughters. "Ah," sadly answered the woman, "it is not their l^nlt; they were both bom deaf ani dumb " Tbe abbe, filled with pity, asked if there were no means of helping them, and the mother told him that a priest, the Father Vanm (who with the Abba Daachampa, had made s me efforts on behalf of the deaf and dumb), had for some time ioatmcted them, bat since his death there was no one elte to do it. This waa the indnoemet which caoa- edthe Abbe de I'Epee to begin hia first in- atitntion for deaf mutes at Pitfia in 1760 wh*re he continued to woik indef«tigably until hia death, whioh took place m 1789. His memory is still, and will ever be, belel m veneration, uid in Pati's an annual dinner is given to the deaf and dumb in that city on the anniversary of his birth. He was auc- ceadei in his labors by the Abbe Sioard. B«bion, and others. A writer in the Penny Cyclopedia says of de I'Eppce. "Whde the good abbe, with that frank' BOBS wh'ch formsd a beautiful feature in his character, aolicited the examiaation and judgment of the learned upon his method, hia rivals ahroucled their prooeedings un Jer a veil of mystery. The abbe devoted bis life and his fortune, except a bare supply for his own wanta, to the service cf the class he had taken under his protection. Pereira rafa el to disclose his method except for a large re- compense and Heinicke, in addition to re- ceiving payment from the rich, bad 4,000 crown* annually allowed him by tha grand duke e;f Saxony. Both these persons made the art they professed an interested specu- lation; the Abbe de I'Epee only tolerated the nch, he wa? proud of being the instroc tor of the poor and ignorant." BMkg. There Is perhaps no greater wonder than a book. By the help cf little figaree rr mwks placed opon reeds, or skins, or some other available material, men have been able to transmit their thoughts through thouaanda of years. The names and sbapss of things, tbe deeds and eoitows tbat have occurred as far back as the time of Adam, have been made known tons. Even those abstract uid invisible thooghta, which have no shape or aabstance. bat which, nevtrthe- leaa inspired the writer, and have since in- spired others, tTd all put down in little letters or figurea, and made eternal. The "onga of David, the aublime grievings of Job. the apecnlationa of Plato, the viaiona of Homer, have by those means been hand- ed down faithfully fe r many centuries. To read, mark, learn, and inwardly dlgeat all the thoughts and learning of others ia evidently impssaible. It is beyond the com- pafa of any InteLe^t. But we may ^ther a portion of this knowledge, and the ob- ject is to know how to begin this humbler task. We mnst not read to waste. We maat be moderate if we wish to gain much. The bee does not overload himself with the nectar of flowers, but takes what he can carry away. We mnst select also, and see that the quality of what we take be good. We ehonid lead not merely that we may make money, not to sharpen our iatellect, but to enlarge It. We should read in order to know and feel what is ffool, and what is evil, and to do what is good and nsefnl. Are we ambitions let us learn humility. Are we avaricious? let us leara CQnt°nt. When a man can truly say to himself, "My mind to me a kingdom is," a kingdom of which he is the absolute ruler. A Standard Bearer. There is a beautiful story toli of an old •lepLant engaged in a battle on the plains of India. He was standard bearer, and carried on his huge bick the royal ensign, the rally- ing point of the Poena host. At the be ginning of the fight he lost his master. The "mahout," or driver, had j st given him the word to halt, when he received the fatal wound and fell to the ground, where he lay under a hex-p of slain. The obedient ele- phant stood still while the battle closed around him andthe standard he cukrried. He never stirred a foot, refusing to aivc nee or retire, as the conflict became hotter and fiercer, unt 1 the mahrattas, seeing t^e standard still flying steadily in its place, re- fused to believe that they were being beaten and rallied again and again around the col- ors. Ani all this while, amid the din of battle, tbe patient animal stood straining its eats to catch the Eound of that voice it would never hear again. At length the tide of cocquest left the held deserted. The mahrattas swc pt on in pursuit of the flying foe, but the elephant, like a rock, stood thore with the dead and dying and the en- sign waving in its place. For three days and nights it remained where its master had given it the command to halt. I^o bribe, or threat could move it. They then sent to a village ooe hundred mi^esaii ay, and brought tbe mahout's little son. The noble hero seemed then to remember how the driver bad tometimes givea bii authority Io the little child, and iirmediately, with all the shattered trappings clinging as he went, passed slowly snd quietly away. Tifo Pictures. It is a treat to see a Parisienne cross a muddy street. She advances on tip-toe to the edge of the pavement. There she poises like a bird ready for flight, and then deltly she raises her dress no more than ea- ongh to show faer snowy, embroidered skirt, aad without more delay she trips across, toe and heel barely toucbinc;. and mud refusing to cling to the fairy feet that htr ily leave »n impression on it. XiUided on the otn»r side, she gives her fine fdathers a little shake into place, and passes on with shoes that look as if put on that moment. Watch »n English woman immediately afterwards. Soe reaches tie kerbstone, comes to a dead standstill, and stolidly contemplates the muddy road. Finally she selects a route, Tken very cautiously she lifts her dress, nuking sure that the top* of her shoes are under cover, and then, dowly advancing, â- he puts her right foot out â€" plumb it sinks in the sof b mud; then the left â€" plamb it goes tbe wa'.er oozing over it and then splash splash 1 until the other side is reached, when, with soiled skirts and seaked shoes, she proceeds on ber wet snd muddy way. Noth- ing could be more characteristic of their respective nationalities, and nothing could be more amusing than the mutual contempt for each other's ways. A Fox steals a Baby. Considerable excitement has been caossd lately at Katsse by the doings of a fox. A young, well to-do farmer and his wife, who have a child two months old, are occupyisg a small wooden structure durng therebtiild- ing ef their former premites.' On Sept. 13 the wife as usual went tu sleep with the lit- tle one, but, waking during the night, was surprised to find it had left her aide. She at once called her husband, when it was dis- covered that one of the frame w(xden doors had b»en broken open. Tae su|positions naturally followed that some one had en- tered and stolen the infant, consequently the father started with the intention of arousing tbe neighbors. He had, however, only j ist stt pped outside when he perceived a large.fox run from under the veranda of tha house opposite. Suspecting that Ray- na^dwasthe culprit, lights were procured and a search made, which to tbe delight of the parents, resulting in the discovery of the baby, who, strange to say, had received no irjury beyond a few scratches. Mi â-  â-  I Ml J. The baseball seaKn is over for the Na- tional League, but our babies will continue bate bawling dnrmg the winter months It is said that American babies swaUow 1,500 thimbles annually. This may account for the anrprising amount of brass noticed m the compoaitioa of the grown up Atnerinti biby. A Policeman's Tiew of Bui^Iary. A oorretipondent sends a contemporary an interesting acoount of the ideas of a police- man on the question at issue between them and the burglars. "We often have a laugh at wbat tbe pipers Fay about the burglars and the police," said the constable, an- in- I p ^ctor wit'i twenty years' ex p jrience. The public forgets that the house-breaker 'knows his way about ' much better than the con- stable. It is the burglar's profession to steal it is ours to catch him. His tread is light: our tread is heavy. On a frosty night â€" and 'cracking ' goes on mostly in the winter â€" our tread can b^ heard three or four hunrrad yards off. The burglai- listens â€" maybe he laughs, if he's an old hand â€" and setsi to work when he knows the coast is clear. BTess you, he doesn't wa'it anyone to watch; he doas that himself. Yes, sir, give ns revolvers give us a military drill in their use, and let us have boots with India- rubber soles. Laugh at tbtt. Well, the burglar would not. None of your, hard, heavy boots, weighing I don't know how many pounds, but light ones, with thick India rubber bottoms. Then we could walk and listen. Now we make a noise â€" one,two three, four, on the pivement, like the tread of an elephantâ€" while the burglar does his work. Then the odds would be in our favor. Instead of that It is now about twen- ty to one in favor of the 'lag,' and a crimi- nal with these odds does not mind riskins;a little. What the 'Moon is Doing to the Eartli. The tides are caused mainly by the moons as it were, catching hold of the watee as the earth revolves |arouad on its axis. This must ciu'te f rict:on on the earth as it revolves and friction, as every one knows, causes loss of power. Suppose a wheel with hair round its rim, like a circular brush such as is used for hair-brushing by machinery; ^f this brush be revolving rapidly^ and we hold our hand ever so lightly on the hair, so that it Is slightly rubbed backward a^ the wheel re- volves, we can understand that the speed of the wheel will be gradually diminished, un- til at la it it will be brought to a stand-still, provided there is no additional power com- municated to the wheel or machinery or hand beyond what was given to set it spinning round. Now this is somewhat analogous to wbat is happening to the earth in Its rotation There is reason to suppose that the action of the tides is slowly but surely lessening the speed of the earth's rotation, and con eeqaently incrdasing the length of the day, and that this action will continue until the earth revolves on its own axis in tbe same time that the moon takes to ravolve round the earth. Then the day, instead of beiag twenty four hours as now, will bs about twenty -eight days, and the earth will be ex- posed to the full blaze of the sun for about fonrteen days at a time. The change this will bring about on the faie of the earth can hardly be exaggerated; All life, both ani- mal and vegetable, will be destroyed all water will be evaporated the solid ro'jks will be scorched and cracked, and the whole wotli reduced to a dreary ani barren Wl- derness. It is supposed by rone tbsit'he moon has already passed through all this hence Its shatteredfand bare-looking surface. That the earth, being so much larger, has more quickly acted upon the ooeans which once were under the moon's surface, and stopped alonost entirely its revolution, round its own axis, thus »using it to have a day equal to twenty-eight of our days, and t'le heat of the son has already to it what in fa- tare ages it will do'to the earth. Bapidity of the Blood Currents. The 1 at i of the blood current generally incraases with the activliv of the animal, being most rapid in birds. In insects, how- ever, it ia compirj.tively slow.; But this is because t le air is taken to the -blood â€" the whole body being bathed in air, so that the blood has no need to hasten to a special or- gan. H twever, activity nearly doubles tie rite of pulsation in a bee. The motion in the arteries is several times faster than in the veins, but dimiaislies as the distance from the heart increases. In the carotid of the lorse. the blood moves twelve and one- half inches per second, in that of man six- teen in the capillaries of man one to two Inches per minute la those of a frog one inch. Men'i) Foibles. Men wit'i red news are the light houses warn mariners when "half seas over,' Man with dudlsh habits are coated high in the ti lor market. M m with slovenly ways are balanced and foand wanting. M m with money to spead cin mike most any man their friend. Stockmar's Diamond Wedding. Golden weddings are events of rare ooour- rente, but diamond weddings, as they are called ia Germany, which are celebrated after 60 years of married life, excita a na- t-oaal interest even in a country where an Emperor is able at 83 to sit for three houss in the saddle, and where a Mnister In hia sevenllsth year delights in keeping the whole diplomatic world en tenier bo"ks from one end of the year to the other. Tae Ger- man papers gize an accoant of tbe diamond wedding of Gen. Steckmir, (no relation of Baron Stockmar,) which took place o.i the ISth of October at Dasaan. G .-nr S^ockmr lain hia ninety-first year, and both he and hia wife are said to be in the enjoyment of perfect health. Gen. Stockmar in one of the oldeat friends ot the German Emperor. They met for the first time, as mere boys on the battle of Jena in 1806. At one of their most recent maetings when the General ex pressed a hope that his Majesty might bring his shares np to par, the Emperor replied in hir own humorous way: "On! Stookmar,yoa are not a courtii r;if you were a true courtier you would have said, 'Oh! your Majesty, at least 20 per cent above n r 1' " T a ^mm I i m Aristocratic Cooks. Louis XV. gave the moat exquisite sup. pers at Lj Petit Tilanon, prepared by hia own banda and those of his mo^t favored courtiers, for a thorough knowledge of gas- tronomy was in those days an inditpenaible accompl'shment to tbe fine gentlemen. All, m?je«ty included, would don the cook's aprcn, and assisted by four pages to do scullion's duties, go to work; the king would devcts himself to "poulat an basilic" and preparations of eggs, in which he was highly skilled the Due de Gmtant would prep ire the salad, tie Due de Coigni would SDpjrlntend the rcttâ€" each one of the party being famous for certain dishes â€" and there weie never fewer than forty-eight. I a the salon above the tables were splendid with S::vres, and gold- and silver plate, and vases filled with the rarest fiovers. Attendants were dispensed with altogther one coirse being tiniBhed. at the stamp of the foot the table sink through the floor, and another, completely fur aih bed, rose in its place. An Eight Tear-Old Murderer The Rjvel Gazette gives an accoant of a preliminary investigation in which a little girl aged only 8 years was charged with bavicg murdered another little companion only 5 years old by stabbing her with a knife which V a,i found to have passed downwards through the linjs and penetrated the heart. The circnmstat'Ces seemed to point to pre- meditation. The day before the elder girl anted to obtain apiece of giy -col jred oloth which the other bad in her possession but refused to give up. So the elder threatened to killher uii'ess she surrendered it next day. This threat was made in the presence of her own sister. Next day she r-^peated her demand 1 for the coveted piece of cloth, aid upon being agan refused she instantly stabbed t^el ttla one. Bismarck's Tyranny. The duchy of Schleswig, recently wrested from Dacmark by Germany, is in a sta'e of ferment over the law, originating with Bis- marck, forbidding any o" the people to speak the Dj,risii Iinguage. Even school children are punished when they speak among themselves in their native tongue, and so far has this obnoxious law been .car- ried that a girl's birthday festival was brcken np and the guests arrested aid fined because they sang some old Dinish folk- Eongs. Milked by a Snake John Yard, a farmer living on the Brunswick pike, eight miles from New York, has been pasturing a number of cows on a lot in his place. For a number cf times he noticed that one of the finest of them every morning was as dry as though she had been milked. He was puzzled at this, and as an experiment changed her to another pasture. She imniediately began to give the usual am- ount of milk. After a few days she was returned to the pasture with the other cows, and at once began to come in dry as before. Finally Mr. Yard had a boy to watch the cow. The mystery was then quickly solved. The boy reported that early in the morning a large snake, "the biggest he had ever seen," came and breakfasted from the cow's udder, drain- ing it completely. The cow did not seem to mind the operation. The facts are vouched for by respectable persons who have seen the onake taking its matutinal meal.â€" [New York Tribune, *. â- â- Â» â-  Four M's in Jewish History. Four of the strongest links in the chain of •Jewish history are forged with the letter M, a ad around the name Mo ei are clusteredi A' me of the brightest epochs of our people. Moses the lawgiver. Moses Maimonides the Jdwish Lither, Moses Mendelssohn the ph'lisopher and Moses Montefiore the phil- ant iropist, are nanies revered aad dear to all Jawish hearts. The first three are known to us by the q lalities of the brain they have obtained a {lace in oar histo-y by the great less of their fntellect; bat Moses Moncefiore is endeired nnly to us, aad he has earned his place in Jawish anuals hv the qualities and greatnsaa of his heart, â€" Rabbi Wiie. The coat was a very bad fitâ€" too full in the back. "That'll never do," said the customer "It's like a shirt on a lean pole." "Dot coat, my frient," rephed the dealer, "ish a very stylish garment. Look at dot back Mein gracious, it iah lufly. See dot peautiful puffing â€" der latest style â€" and don't you forgot it. It was made on Fifth avenoo. It is der Fad- der Hubbard style and ish actually worth so much as five tollar more for dot cut," and five minutes later the delighted customer left the store with his Father Hubbard coat. A vnudoo doctor in Washington, when a b* 1 ever comes to him to find oat what s to le theilissne between him and his enemy, drops two silver coins into a skillet of boiling watar, adds a pvr of black chicken feathers, and in the course of a satfsfactory inoast ttian manipulates the skillet so that tie coia whioh represents tha bsliever sha'l hop up aad do vn upon the coin whioh represen ss his enemy and the baliever pays five dol- lars with alacrity for so convincing an exhi- bition. 1 â-  W^