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 ,i â-  1 w ft :4i m Wi " BONNIE MAGOIE " OK, QEAITDPATHER'S STOEY. ST HOSA UlVGHXR. " About five and twenj^ years ago. Jack, boameBS called m0 from Toronto on a parti.- cnlar visit to England. After I had spent tiiree weeks in one_ of the busiest parts of London, I began to think of a little relaxation and decided to see some of the grand, old English scenery before I returned home to Canada. Accordingly, after visiting some of the most historical of the midland counties, I journeyed southward into Devonshire and itayed a a short time at Torquay, which I thought one of the prettiest places I had ever beheld. Next I stayed awhile at a quaint little Ck)mish town, where the old fashioned dialect of the people seemed very strange and where nearly all the inhabitants' names began with Tre, Pol, or Pen. I had not spent many days at Trewelly â€" the name of this queer little place â€" when I received a business letter summoning me to LiverpooL " Accordingly I hastened thither at once, intending to remain there the next ten days when my vessel would sail for New York. My business at Liverpool, however, was concluded much sooner than I had antici- pated, and as I had another week before the Corinne set sail I determined to spend the remaining days in North Wales. Consulting my guide book I found tha Llandudno is only a few hours' saH^rom Liverpool. Packmg a few things in asmall valise I hastily took the. next boat, there. ~^ I think no place in the old country ever pleased me better than that small and peaceful Welsh sea-side town, so beautifully situated beneath the high rocky mountain known as the Great Orme's Head. How often I thought of my two boys in their Canadian home, far away over the Atlantic, as I sat in Happy Valley â€" a quiet green nook of the Orme's Head â€" and gazed down upon the beach below at the groups of merry youngsters plajong on the yellow sands. One glorious morning after breakfast I started out for a long walk and toiled up a picturesque mountain called the Little Orme's Head. Up, up I went, through some lovely woodland scenery. Up and down more steep mountain sides, through more • shady forests, where sometimes through the green branches of the trees I could first catch a glimpse of the wide, shining ocean. Up and down, up and down hill I walked, pausing occasionally to gather some of the sweet wild purple heather or bracken-fern or to admire a lovely rugged view until I, at last, began to grow very, very weary and looking at my watch found that it was near- ly four o'clock in the afternoon. In fill probability I had walked eighteen or twenty miles. I had just then climbed the highest moun- tain I had met with since leaving Llandud- no and looking down to the .valley below I beheld a romantic looking little fishing vil- lage. Of course I hastened down the steep path for I was hungry and weary and longed for rest and refreshment. But in my hurry to make a final descent my foot slipped off the rock and I fell a distance of twenty feet, badly spraining my left ankle. The pain was â- o intense that for a few moments I lost all consciousness, then I became aware of a tiny pair of dimpled hands patting my face and head|and a small, childish voice lisping, " I'se so 'fraid you'se hurt. Poor, poor big man Shall Bonnie Maggie look if grandpap's come " " You are a good and brave, little girl," I said smiling, as with great difficulty I arose. "And so your name is Maggie. Maggie what, my dear? Will you tell â- le your other name " " Just Bonnie Mags^e. " "But Bonnie Maggie what, dear?" I questioned again, wondering what my two big boys at home would think of this charm- ing little fairy could they but see her. "I'se just Bonnie Maggie, and nussing else," persisted the little maid, archly shak- ing her flossy, golden curls and regarding me with big, brown, wondering eyes. " I'se just Bonnie Maggie Oh, there's grandpap " and the tiny, fairy -like figure â€" she could not have been more than five years old â€" went flying with fleet • little bare feet aoross the wet sands, her curls dancing in the breeze, her pretty fece destitute of its sheltering white sun hat, turning to look back every now and then to see if I remain- ed where she left me. " Grandpap â€" gr^dpap " she called, gathering up her little frock and paddling through the wavelets to an aged and weather- beaten sailor seated iii an old sea boat, whose name, painted in large, white letters on the stem, I could plainly read was the Bonnie Maggie. " Grandpap, the big, big man has hurted his foot. Let us take him home wis us?" I heard her eagerly ask, as the old tar lifted her into the boat and kissed her tenderly. After he had moored his boat he placed the child upon his broad shoulder, carrying her through the shallow water and across f^e lands to me. " Gandpap is going to take yon home, big man, she said, coming forward to stroke my beard, and then retreating to jdace her tiny hand in the old sailor's homy palm. " Yes, sir If you will accept the poor luMpitality of a rough, old salt, who teied hia Dost to serve his Queen and his country, nia big scar on my cheek I got six years ago in uie Crimean war, for I was then on board H.M.S. Sasseix, and for which I now receive a pensicfn from her Majesty. Proud «f it, you ask T Ay, ay, air, I am a'most as nrond of it as of my Btomie Maggie, here. God bless her." As I grasped the hand and looked into the honeat eyes tf Isaac Winf ord, I knew tiiat he, indeed, was making for th»t safe- port â€" Imean the Heavenly one. Bat, tia* I I^d not think his life's voyage was so near the end. I most not stay now to tdl yon much ajaoat tin ne»t littlA, one-story, white- wwhed oot^ffB^ nor of tiie old vama'n mnti kindnesalo me the two nights Iresfeed lathe eomfortalile hMnmnA-bod he ^ovid- •dffflriwk I am â- ow.oiainiQg to »• womt put of 4iy rain poariqg down in tuxvnta. The rose higher and hi^iar, uid cune nearer and nearer, nntill feared Aey would tomJi onr windowa. Isaac had left home that morning in his boat, according to his nmal cnstcnn. In fine welder he always took Bonnie Ifaggie with him; but when likely to be sqiwUy and rough, as to-day, he ^anoally left her in charge of a frienniy neighlxHr. I had, with her aid, prepared her a bowl of bread and milk but which, however, I iled to make her eat. %e sdbbed pitibdly for "Grand- pa," as the night wore on. I strove to hide my imeasiness as to his non appearance by telling her funny stories of Canadian little girls and boys and by and bye she fell asleep in my arms. Then I heard, amid the roaring of the wind and the waves, the heavy boom of a signal gun and I knew there was a vessel wrecked upon the coast. Carrying Bonnie Maggie in my arms I limped to the casement, throuch which I could see a large »twd of fishermen and women hastening to the shore. I longed to go to them and become one of the active workers but dare not leave the little one entrusted to my care. I could only wait through the long hours, with a strange feeling of sadness and pain at my heart. Bonnie Maggie gave a joyful cry, "Grand- pap is come " when, at last, through the raging of the storm, we plainly heard the dull £ud of men's heavy footsteps, and then the cottage door opened gently. But, oh 1 what a sad sight met our eyes. The good old Isaac â€" ^not dead as I had at first supposed but very badly injured with a blow from the mast of the ill-fated vessel â€"was lying upon a wooden shutter, sup- ported by the village doctor and three brave sailors.^ The latter took off their oil-skin caps and for a few moments knelt reverently down by the side of the bed whereon they had ten- derly placed their wounded comrade. After they, ^th the doctor, had left the cottage to hasten back to other sufferers of the wreck, Isaac gathered Bonnie Maggie to his heart and besought me, with tears roll- ing down his bronzed che«k that I would take care of her as of one of my own children. And as I grasped his hand and solemnly pro- mised to bring her up as my own he replied, "Thank God I knew you'd do it, sir. Now I can steer for Home in peace, for I feel that my little lamb will be safe from harm. €rod has been very good to me, sir," he added. "Sure it was He who sent you here. I have not much strength left, sir, but I must try and tell you that she is not my grandchild. I was never married and have neither kith nor kin. I saved her from the wreck of the Ariel five years ago, when she was a tiny baby â€" hers was the only life saved. It was my boat, the Bonnie Maggie, that rescued hsr and I named her after it, she knows no other, for there was no mark upon her clothes to identify her. Bring her up, as your own, sir. â€" I am growing weaker for â€" I am â€" steering â€" Home â€" God bless my Bon- nie Maggie â€" " and the old man's voice grew tainter and fainter as he murmured over again, "I'm â€" steering â€" Home." Surely ho purer, truer soul ever steered Heavenward than that of Isaac Winford. We buried him in the little graveyard, where I erected a white marble slab bear- ing his name and the date of his brave death. Bonnie Maggie and I then sailed from Liverpool to "Toronto, where Grandmama welcomed her as a sweet little daughter to play with hor two big sons. And by-and-by, when Bonnie Maggie grew a big girl, Grandmama and I, although we could hardly bear to part with her, for she was the sunshine of our home, decided to send her to a good school at Montreal for a few j'ears. She returned to us a beautiful young lady, and as good and true at) she was beautiful. Just the old, winsome, Bonnie Maggie, only older and more thoughtful. And like your fairy tales end, my lad, there came a handsome young prince to win our Bonnie Maggie's heart. But the young prince was no other than my eldest son, Cj'ril â€" your father. Jack, for your dear mother, my boy, is the Bonnie Maggie. How to Kill Murderers. " How shall the death penalty be inflict- ed " was the title of the subject discussed recently by the Society of Medical Juris- prudence, N. Y. Dr. N. E. Brill read the letter he had received from the Committee on Capital Punishment appointed by the State Legislature, asking his views -on that sub- ject. Dr. Brill, in reply, declared that he considered hanging barbarous, and quoted Dr. Hardy, who had attended various hang- ings, and had never seen death occur by a broken neck in a single instance. " The most humane method," he said, " is that of the guillotine. I am opposed to electri- city, because dynamos are too expensive to prussic acid, because its actionis indefinite, and often produces violent convulsions to the garrotte, because it frequently fails." "I'd have a mtui taken to a dark cave, and there bury him after hanging," said Lawyer D. S. Riddle, springing to his feet so sud- denly that every one looked surprised. "Let no human being know where he is buried. Surround the crime with all the horrors yon can. With respect to humanitarianism â€" to kindness to this brute â€" I say away with it hang the man â€" ^hang him over and over if the rope breaks â€" hang him, hang him, hangliim. " At each repetition of the imperative Mr. Bid- die's voice grew louder. "Don't have any reporters around. Don't let the roan be (ele- vated to the rank of a hero. Ladies bring him roses and reporters speak of his fine looks and personal appearance. I think that by no means we ought to abolish hanging. It is a good bld| common law practice^ and by all means hang to it." [Laughter.] Dr. Peters advocated the ^rrotte. Dr. Woods didnt look npon hanging as bmtaL If a man committed a crime he thoQ^t he should have a punishment that wonld be a deterrent to others. Dr. McLaurie suggested taking the criminal to a dark room and drowning him in carbolic acid gas. Lawyer W. B. RaaseU advocated delivering the criminal over to a oomminion of selected sdantists and letting them take his Bfe in the interests of science. i â-  m-.. Jvmaa â€" "That is a "fine p»?i««^ng you've gotliNn^jSmitk" Saitl^" WeH, I flatter mj(*U that it is yen Jmow." Jnpsonâ€" " Is iA vmot.A^obl aaastsra, doyon think?" 99|di-^"WeB,I Mnttexadfy saBB,lNitI to hAmHwopinion of. a friend on y^t s dsgr^'-Iivnaâ€" «fadee#r' A IliB Qoeea% " Dzavag-Boom." A." drawiiw-iooin," as Qomb YieU/n*** reception to ladies is called, b^ins at 3 o'clock in the aftemeon. Batâ€" move par- tic^arly of late yearsâ€" the queen has not always beem able to remain throoghont the ceremony. Perhaps, after an hour's suffer- ance on her part, her majesty retires and Ae princess of Wales fills her place. But the princess is not the rose. She only lives netu: it, and the triumph of the day is dark- eaai fmr those ladies who, arrivii^ a little late, conrtesy to the princess instead of the queen. Accordingly, it seems to have oc- curred to some enterprisine lady that if she had her carriage at the gates of the palace an hour before they were thrown back she would be in pretty good time. At the next drawing-rooih somepne bettered this, being there an hour and five minutes early. The process has gone forward till now the clang- ing of noon from the clock-tower of West- minster 18 heard adown a lone string of car- riages containing ladies in uwest evening dress, sitting stonily waiting while a mob of sight-seers peer at them as mercilessly as if they were framed pictures of their, ances- tresses. There is a well-anthentioated record of a young lady who had carefully and success- fully rehearsed her courtesy to the queen, and who, suddenly finding herself m the royal presence, and seeing to the right an open door, forgot everything but the com- fort of being away, and without noticing the queen, princess, or prince, skipped to- ward the door and so out into the space. The great rock on which debutantes split is making their courtesy too soon. Their mind is full of it. It has lived with them for days and nights, and there is a great human impulse to get rid of it as soon as possible. Debutantes who have presence of mind, and habitues of court, know that the proper thing to do is to walk close up to the queen, and then perform the outrageous flop which has come to take the place of tbe pretty maidenly courtesy. After this the debutante finds herself in a passage between two groups. On her right hand is the dip- lomatic circle, with many of her majesty's ministers. The prime minister rarely fails to stand by through the long hours of the drawing-room. On the other side, grouped to the left of the queen, are her many sons and daughters. It is necessary, or at least desirable, that to each several one as she passes, the debutante should make obei- sance. VARIETIES. A carious habit of deer is that of eating bones. If a dead deer b left on a hill, when birds and insects have eaten its flesh, its bones will often be consumed by its own re- lations. Deer will also eat horns that have been shed. Of aU ordinary buildings that are not spe- cially constructed for earthquake resistance, those which have the thickest walls and are constructed of the biggest blocks of stone have proved, it is said, to be the most cap- able of surviving very severe shocks. There are now about one hundred and twenty thousand acres of land planted with tea in the island of Ceylon, and it has been demonstrated that the country is capable of producing a greater yield of leaf per acre than any other coimtry in the world, and that its tea can command higher prices than any other tea in the market. Ashoure, a kind of porridge made of new wheat, almonds, and sugar cooked in water, is on certain feast-days among the Mussul- mans distributed to the poor. In the higher classes presents of ashoure are exchanged in beautiful china or porcelain vases decorated with ribbons, and enveloped in coloured gauze. At the Sultan's palace in Constanti- nople it is prepared for all members of the imperial family and his majesty's minis- ters. A common disfigurement of cemeteries in France is the wreath of black or black and white beads. There is hardly a tomb, un- less it be in the fosse commune or among those that are quite forgotten by the living, without some of these Dead trappings, the creaking and rattling of which when the wind is strong is one of the most dismal sounds conceivable. To hear this noise coming from a cemetery at night is enough to make the blood of these who are not used to it turn a little cold. The best examples of the eagre or bore, the phenomenon in which t»ie tide moves- all at once, are said to be furnished by the mouths of the rivers Amazon, Hooghly, and Tsien-tang. In the case of the last men- tioned river, in China, the wave plunges on like an advancing cataract four or five miles in breadth and thirty feet high, and thus passes up the stream to a distance of eighty miles at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The change from ebb to flow-tide is almost instantaneous. In the Amazon the whole tide passes up the stream in five or six waves following each other in rapid succession and each from twelve to fifteen feet high, MOTHEE-LOVE! BY JOHK IHBIK, TOBOHTO. See yonder mother with her sickly child Pressed closely to her heaving, anxious breast. For many days and nights forebodings wild Have fill'd her heart and banished needfid rest; Yet at the faintest cry or wiah exprest She gladly seeks to soothe its every pain. And, if successful, thinks it purest gain Ere to her own great need comes fitful rest Oh mother-love greatwaterscannotquench. Nor flames deter thee fnan thy holy zeal Thy love-strong handa grim priaon-bars would wrench. There with tihy suffering child " at home" tofeel; The purest love on earth is mother-love. Fall kin to that made manifest above I No man is tmr likely to soeomplish any more than he resolntdy arts 'hiasdf to ao- cmapliaii. H^£lsS2S*" «^:^y*"^*^^ iiaxdap to Jd* wife's pi*maainntMdtat, as he FcefMkted him for the iJitiwrntftinw witit £S-.K!IJ12^^"S*,Hl^ dwelUng- JEESBY MOM£ViS. Bees may besaid to beparadozioalinthat th^ are stingy, yet not parsimonious. Which dress lasts a^ lady tiie loi^eat? â€" Her house dress, bc^^ttse aba n«ver wears it The bnnko steerer isn't" a landlord, to unouat to much, but he gets his living out of flats. When a girl gets in a husband a better man than she expected him to be he is a sir prize to her Liberty is always pictured as a woman because liberty to survive must be vigilant, and there is no blind side to a woman. Wife â€" " I've beard it's bad luck to be married on a Tuesday." Husband â€" "If you'll leave off* ' on a Tuesday' I'll confirm the rumor." Mike â€" "Phat are yez Workin' at now, Pat?" Patâ€" "Diggin' in the sewer." Mikeâ€" "Phat do yez. get fer it?" Patâ€" "One dollar a day and the rheumatiz, begorra I" Patient â€" "Why do you watch the ther- mometer on the wall so closely " Nurse â€" " Because the doctor said if the tempera- ture riz I should give you the quinine." It is admitted, far and wide, Tbkt it has been the maiden aim. Since first ttiia world of ours began. To change ttie maiden name. Courting a girl is like starting a news- paper. It starts out as a weekly, then it becomes a tri- weekly, then merges into a daily. If it has any enterprise it comes out with an extra occasionally. An elderly Boston man, who was induced to try the toboggan slide and is laid up with a broken leg in consequence, wrote to Sam Jones the other day " Go for tobog in your next sermon. It's just awful 1" Mrs. Spriggins thinks that a certain young lady of her acquaintance has no sense of " proprietorship" because when the funeral was passing she had her sleigh driven risrht through the centre of the " corsaee." A sailor being asked how he liked his bride is reported to hfive remarked " Why, d'ye see, I took her to be only half of me, as the parson says, but dash my buttons if she isn't twice as much as I for I'm only a tar and she's a tar-tar. " " What's the price of sausages " " Ten cents a pound." " You asked fifteen cents this morning." "Yes: dot vos ven I 'had some. Now I ain't got none I sells for ten cents. Dot makes me a rebutation for sel- ling sheap, and I don't lose noddings." Pittsburg Tramp â€" " If you'll fill me up with a good dinner I'll saw some wood. I'm willin' to work." Woman {shortly) â€" " You know very well we bum nothing but natural gas." Tramp â€" "Well, gimme suthin' to eat, an' I'll turn on the gas for you." "I tell yer, my frien's," said Brother Gardner, " when I come to realize jist what a queer piece ob clay we am, an' how much workin' ober we need to come out perfeck, I can't wonder ober de shoutin' an' hurrahin' in heaben when one ob us grown folks finds his way in." " You have heard all the evidence," said a justice of the peace in summing up " you have also heard what the learned counsel have said. If you believe what the counsel for the plaintiff has told you, your verdict will be for the plaintiff but if, on the other hand, you believe what the defendant's counsel has told you, then you will give a verdict for the defendant. But if you are like me, and don't believe what either of them have said, then I'll be hanged if I know what you will do." ' â€" The Gommg Man- What will he be? Will he be unlike you and me He will probably be a good deal like his father and have inherited forces im- pelling hiin. His brain and heart will not materially change places or functions. He will hate and love, and have aspiration and faith like ordinary creatures. He will probably begin in profound ignorance like the rest of us, and when he is seventy years old he wiU learn that he has not learned all that there is to be learned. He may learn that life is without end. Looking down the vista of coming years, he may observe a modified religion, with idols greatly simpli- fied, and with a more mild temper to know his Creator but science is purging the concrete, and altars with the offerings of peace and good will to men are slowly being reared. ' Youthful ambition is beautiful and should be encouraged at the same time it should be fuided. Civilization is not perfect, and it as many sores. If we do not feel religion, it is no evidence that it does not exist. Re- ligion is a system of principles, as much as morals, and its shams and follies are no argu- ment against the genuine article. An out- grown religion exists only%ith such as desire it. Altars have beautiful offerings, but these may not always be in accord with the noblest part of man. To be unlike anybody else is a laudable enough ambition, but ambition must not be allowed to run away with reason. If Herod beheaded J6hn, we must not behead the idea of moral responsibility. The modern prophet must correctly interpret natural desires. The losing side should have a generous hearing. Slow old men and fast young men must continue to observe the good old ways of trust and sobwness. Sound morality must become the universal practice. The Sabbath is a natural day of rest and should be used wisely. Nature will be studied more and more. Reekie^ pleasure will decrease. Experience teaches a dear school, but the cost of the past is not more than it is worth. A good time is com- ing and a tender and beantUul knowledge will guide us. To stand beneath the arch of eternal years and ask an all-wise Provi- dence to relieve us of all responsibility would not be wise. With sufficiently faeteas- ed knowledge the coming man will be aUe to properly take care of himself, and do his whole duty, and this is happiness. â-  â€" Admiiation Witlumt Idmit. No true man likes to have "a^niiralnm widiout limit" roaring and gushing and twittning round him aUtiie day long. A great man does not disdain pnuae, but he dudains the notion of beii;g deyodsnt on it;- WtoA Doc^r Keate was heaa-mastor of; Etom, he whs oaUed in td nipfkm a nh^ wukMaonethe bafi^ .Bb ettentid jnrtfaw evwu l OB" wini witti [m»» you laay Hss me." â€" ' I heroic digni^ in hia SCIEHnnC AITD USEFUL. The initalnlity that overtakes woidb, I frequently may sometimes, says the i«^i be clearly traced, to an excessive ihdnuM in afternoon tea. """8«ici| The use of |ieroxide of hydrogen is extenj purposes. It is now â- .. ployed ,fo* the Wfeaching of feathers and of tussah silks, for which it is adniirablv"j apted. '••'• It is asserted that the leaves of an InA^ ' plant, the Mtchlia nifigerica, iiave WL found to possess marked antipyretic prote i ties, a decoction of the plant acting in^' respect more powerfully than cinclwna. i peculiarly bitter principle is also said tohan been extracted from the leaves. The soundness of timber may be ascertain ed by placing the ear close to one end whifc another person delivers a succession of smti blows with a hammer or mallet upon the oj. posite end, when a continuance of the vii! rations will indicate to an experienced ett even the degree of soundness. If only a dull thud meets the ear, the listener may be car- tain that unsoundness exists. Frost-proof ink Aniline black, qb, drachm rub with a mixture of concentrated hydrochloric acid one drachm and pure si. cohol ten ounces. The deep blue solutim obtained is diluted with a hot solution of concentrated glycerine one and a half drachm in four ounces of water. This ink does not injure steel pens, is unaffected br concentrated mineral acids orstrong alkaliei, and will not freeze at a temperature of fron twenty-two to twenty-four degrees below zero. IVE The Lunatic. During one of his visits to Paris, Barot von Humboldt expressed to his friend Dr. Blanche, the distinguished authority in matters concerning insanity, a desire u meet one of his patients. "Nothing easier," said Dr. Blanche "come and take dinner with me to-morrow." The next day Hum- boldt found himself seated at the dinner- table of the famous alienist in company with two unknown guests. One of them, who was dressed in black, with white en- vat, gold-rimmed spectacles, and who had a smooth face and very bald head, sat witk great graArity through the entire dinner. He was evidently a gentleman of undoubt- ed manners, but very taciturn. He bowed ate, and said not a word. The other guest, on the contrary, wore a great shock of baii brushed wildly into the air his shabby blw coat was buttoned askew, his collar wat rumpled, and the ends of his cravat floated over his shoulders. He helped himself, ate, and chatted at the same time. Story aftst story did this incoherent person pile np. He mixed the past with the present, flew from Swedenbrog to J'ourier, from Cleopa- tra to Jenny Lind, from Archimedes tc Lamartine, and talked politics and liteiB- ture in the same breath. At the dessert Humboldt leaned over and whisperd in hit host's ear, glancing at the same time at the fantastic personage, whose discourse was still runing on, " t am very much obliged to you. Your maniac has greatly amused me." "My* maniac?" said the doctor, starting back. Why that isn't the lunatic I It's the other one. " " What â€" the one who hasn't said a word?" "Certainly." "B« who in the world can the man be who hat talked in this fashon all the while " asked the Baron. " That is Balzac, the famoui novelist." '1*1 tmnmi m m â-  How Strone the French .Army Is. If General Boulanger has his way ten new cavalry regiments will be created, not for of- fensive purposes, as the authorities are anxious to assure us, but for the simple rea- son that the Germans are numerically strbnger in this arm than the French. On the other hand, the artillery will be left in statu quo. It is considered that this branch of the service needs no improvement nor ad- dition, and we are told that it is superior in every way to the German artillesy. Cer- tainly, the artillery is the favorite arm in F.rance. The regular army is composed of Ip corps, including the one in Algeria. In time of war these 19 corps could be raised to 28, without infringing on what are called the second and third lines, to wit, the ter- ritorial army, which comprises 145 regi- ments of infantry, 13 regiments of artillery, 144 squadrons of cavalry and the reserves of the regular and territorial armies: Each of these 28 corps would consist of about 38,001 men. But General Boulanger contemplates reducing them in war time to 22. These '2i army corps ^tonld contain 5 infantry bri gades instead of 4, and would each number 44,000 men. Thus the first line would com] promise nearly 1,000,000 regular troops, the second line or territorial arn y an equal num- ber of men, and it is estimated that in » fortnight after the declaration of war these 2,000,000 would be mobilized and available for any operations. Canada and the States. Hon. S. A. Richie, of .Akron, Ohio, has delivered an address, in which he points out the advantages to the United States of com mercial relations with Canada. Mr. Richie says Canada imported §50,000,000 worth of American goods in 1885, whereas all Sourii and Central American countries put to'^eiher only took $64,000,000 worth of such goods in the same time. In other words, forty-five millions of people to the south of the United States' only took twenty per cent. mor« American goods than the four million to the north. This should open the eyes of Sena- tor Ingalls and the statesmen of his stamp who talk so fiercely of killing Camada by cutting of commercial relations with us- Mr. Richie, in his address, touches further upon the condition of the Dominion. H« declares that our imports and exports, per head- of the population, are greater ths* tiioee of the United States that our railway mileage is, per head of tbe population, the same as tiiat of the United ^»tes, and that our growth in population since 1776 htf beennlattreW the same as tiiat of the Unit- ed StatMu The Rqmblic commenced witfc a ptmnlation of three miUJons^ and it noir has fifty millitms. Ouiada at the time had apopq]ati^ofSOO,OOOandwenow have* pognDktiMi Of five milliOoiia. hUdtof uie Farialans were in tht of giving tiieir dogs-shoart and pretty I, of which Hke Fnnch language btf ^^Sf^8 ^^ the Anglomanit tala quarters of Pari* ymk such names ij ^Bbae of'CanterbuTy. o' the Witt," "J4ff^BroUaghroJi' "tt-cutem. sea a^ tie of the ;. the face met and to the bes of the cap "You, what is tc f obey you. ;^? "Why i' said Mar to see, ai way, you ,.. man." ".-{j^ " Yes, " whole lot on the las ^e affair " It mt "Oh, r " Come you be a you both sorry to 1 " I ha\ Martin. 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