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 M, yetsoittP jti to rove â- ( [searchofinti J::abiD pasaen Ight of the 8te« had come out! aghi ' ai [ere sturdy y^Jj â- 3, and humbled Jisitg; and tkair â- all to be coi^ Ivellerstothe^lj'j |^f;andthe«J3 inich come to a ^H Inigranta to pk* iS â- streets are supp,^] ngeMmthUJnae, Idly and merry to»e« Ibody," as the ^S: I exception of the ler eighties, who 1,' tt easily be a hunfe People spoke to h«ii iid not stay wHh l litary among the i^ I into the far easte^ IsterioTis as the SphiM lith the Boston ^^ I near neighbour lion her?" sugge^ I what she expects to i 1 always looking »" Rionedher." Whew, I going home, she J hnthry, and she ^^ |, ahure, as soon u for some days yet i |ome one asked if sbej America well eno â- thirty years. Bntlh, ^nd she was going toh iations in Ireland think so. She had i lem for a Ions time, a list all be dead by noiH "^ou going there forTj 1 and the answer (^ borne on the June vith life and av g looked up as she i kindled her hdll ike eyes. n, 1 want to die in man was buried _, leriea, and my fathtti graves in County y in a counthry as friends in the States j, ir to bring me as far! •e than just that, surelyJ e care of you when 'ont this," and she pnllij sliabby little pureewki [uarter of a dollar, •e. "Niver a bit t see anould ooman st %o die. I'll not want I she added, feebly;' ere." The hearts of I in the soft June weatL I, were touched with pit) sed which would takel r destination in Con Sher for some time 1, •hiiigly grateful biil| been moved to help ha ne, all the same, to trength and courage home on earth, why dof f feet, at whatever eternal in the heava we â- iha/l find. i of Spelling. )olling is a process thatl ling, like the other 'gres^^ive one. To ha'H 1 w(.;;ld be exceedinga^ ly on such a pleasing eil ove an i£;norance oft' '11 10 growth of theim ;rc of the inci-eaae of 01 ;t, tlic change is so rapil a single indi\adual, wi^ ri thorough education,! ist ol.issitied as an "' Tlie construction spelling, is a matter^ '•n, and science evei New subjects are Handing new words I, "ml as so many of thd ry long, the pressure i' V of spelling grows m* iters which are silent « expimged from th* Much of our sp " ery one, and es )reigners who have 1 gues. Telegraphy jremost in den nds shall exactly J g the days of the past would seeolj] rl with a view to """ ew. The present en exist. The systi ing, which spell strid regardless of old )niing po indis^ be forced to yield gists and antiqo whatever is, will "emove absurdities, â- ying process will go* press are gradaaUy WJ elling, and diction" d, in the present orld, demands one lat more expedite^ itliers and foref»o"' tive. How many' 1 be saved, in thei»* simplifying *J*® et been compntco -^^^"^TtHE niSECT WOELD. BY B. K. DUNCAK. commonest objects of^ Batmre_have Bvesi •."^u^ the creat mass of humanity. " In ed by, the gf^':„„„,^i, „^ ^„„r few men ' ""^tTd by the Ught of modern sci- Tb tharms unk4«^n Jto^ ^app«- e not like leaves, or like cl*y»^^K,. er impress is mW* an inward iof il to a large eJ pon them â€" to ' I, and not only V-^ velyto digest •*•.. they receive, • t of themadre*. r .mi'"2le for wealth or power few men t tC fact that these objects are being P^:?bv a system of laws, vast, grand "h amonious; controlling the earth, the ^t, Jstars the universe, from the upper- lifht io the lowest depth, yet omit- not tbe'smaUest iota, the tiniest atom, maunder their sway, To department of natural science so fully U B^tea these marveUous laws as the class r\ (In the estimation of earnest stu- Jts of nature, this class occupies a very r Int nosition iu that wonderful book ^^;°re wWch is, as the great Lord Bacon " Vox Dei in rebus reveata," the word 'nd revealed in facts, because none so inds in usefubiess and in jury to man or Nearly shows the workmg of that God to m "all that live and move and have 1 being" owe their existence t is time that our people in general, and cially the younger portion, were being acquainted with a class of beings sur- nding us day and night, furnishing us h amusement, food, clothing, coloringsub- ces and Biedicines, that they may be e to distinguish the useful from the injur- ' the harmless from the noxious, and to over those which may furnish new ar- es for manufactures, commerce and do- tic industry. V U J- heir real benefit or injury has been dis- red, after indefatigable researches and crvation, by the Entomologist, who has tected man against them, or them against It was the Entomologist who discov- their abodes, character, and duration R^fe. It was he who taught mankind the that can be made of those which are bcn- ial and the only certain methods of pre- tin'g the baleful ravages of those which noxious. It is for this purpose that even smallest insects that live are collected, served with unwearied patience and care. he immortal Reaumere established upon estates nurseries for insects which he only paid servants for attending, but tched himself night and day. The result his observations is a work published in is called " Memoires des Insectes," which unds in useful and curious information. jeneral Count Dejeau, an aide-de-camp to noleon Bonaparte, was an enthusiastic iomologist, who even availed himself of [litary Cu.mpaigns as expeditions for " bug- oting." He was continually collecting I fastening them with pins to his hat which J constantly covered with them. Na- Beon and all his army at last grew accus- Led to seeing his hat thus singular- lomamented, even in battle. But the Irits of these departed insects had their tenge at last, for at the battle of Wag- D 1809, lie was precipitated senseless |m his saddle by a cannon shot. Upon Covering a little, and being asked by Na- leon if he were dead, he exclaimed, " No, r I am alive, but alas alas my insects (gone," and indeed they were, for his hat 3 literally torn to pieces. Another lover of nature was Madame Maria fille de Merian, who at the age of fifty- tr set out for equatorial America, where fe proved her passionate devotion to the bdy of insects by hazarding her life, with- t a guide, among the swampy plains and jning valleys of Guiana. As she was an ^ist and an experienced engraver, she pub- hed several works, filled with plates repre ating insect life, which were destined to BUgurate the introduction of art into natu- 1 history. Each plate is a drama in it- If near the insect, is seen the greedy lizard iening its dreadful mouth, or the ferocious lider waiting for it. The short life of in- lets is here shown in its entirety, with its Intinual strucgles, infinite artifices, its [pid end, and all the episodes of an exist- Le for which life, as in the case of man, is it a Ion? and painful struggle. This be- lie and industrious female naturalist, who bntiibuted so much to the advancement of jttural history of insects died at the ripe Id age of seventy-two in 1707. [bet v.-omen, let young girls who are martyrs the ennui of a life devoid of occupation enise her beautiful books, and learn from pcm how much a woman may do with the me which is now either unoccupied or de- filed to useless employments. To study latnre in any. of its phases, ought, it seems a me, to give more satisfaction to the soul, lore strength to the mind, and cause more imiration of, and gratitude to the Author [nature, than doing a little crazy-patch-, lork or indulging in that intellectual pursuit I gossiping. Insects are divided, accord- Ig to the classification of the old authors, Jto nine distinct orders of these we shall â-ºve time to take but two, viz., Coleoptera, Beetles and Lepidoptera, or Butterflies tid Moths. I We shall commence by examining the COLEOPTEBA. J In most collections of insects the Coleop- Ira seem nearly always to occupy the first lace, because of their bright colors, their Jlidity and the facility with which they ffl be preserved. Beetles undergo a per- ct transformation or metamorphosis. From ke egg proceeds a soft-bodied grub or mag- pt (larva) whose only occupation seems to S Kke that of ^children in eating and grow- g, which it does to perfection but after Itime (in some cases three years) this ceases, pd it changes into a cocoon covered with a lin transparent skin, where, during a long eep, it changes, and bursts forth at last Jith glistening wings to appear a respect- f»le object in the the fashionable world of aects. They are divided into three dis- nct clases, the Camiverous, Scaven- p and Herbiverous. The Carniverous etles are those which prey upon ^er insects. They are of the greatest MWe use to man, and afford a constant â„¢ence of Nature's gracious law of com- "'sation, the one undoing what the other *8, the injuries which one species would â- hct upon man are checked by the carniv- ona species, which prevent their super- RMance and keep an even balance in p« scale of being. iJ^^verous insects par excellence â€" those imch are most formidable on account of Peir voracityâ€" are the Carabids. This fmily, which is the most numerous of land Pieoptsra, consists of beetles provided with png legs, and armed with powerful mandi- |e8 suitable for the purpose of tearing their pctims to pieces. They are the Uons fa tigers among insects. It is afor- "e curcnmstance that these Carabidie er.I!' DMierous as they destroy an im- «nBe number of small noxious creatures, "'» M, weevils, caterpillars, etc., which are the peats of agricnltnte. The p«jadiS" that leads ignorant farmon to ezterminate them is much to Ben^^i^^' Th^ OuMA' be protected and iattpdfCf^l in the same manner as toads in oof gar^^ns, or cats in our granaries. The experimwit has been very successfully tried in France and there ia no reason why it shonld not be aa snccess- f nl here as there. M. Michelet says that " the CanUdx, â€" immense tribes of warriors, armed to the teeth, which under their heavy cuirasses have a wonderful activity â€" are a perfect rural constabulary, day and night, without holidays or repose, protecting our fields. They never touch the smallest thing thev are occupied entirely in arresling thieves, and they desire no salary bat the body of the thief. Among these beetles of prey we might mention the handsome caterpUlar-hunter, which may be seen morning and evening running along the branches, seeking for their prey. The Dystici or sharks, as they are often called, are large water-beetles, feeding al- together upon aquatic insects. Mitchell, Out. VABLbTlES. A grand dinner in China includes a vast number of courses. Eighteen or twenty would be respectable, but the number may reach two himdred. This year is the fourth centenary of the establishment of the British Navy, the first English man-of-war, the Great Harry, having been launched in the year 1487, being the second year of Henry VII. The fashion in France of hanging beads on tombs has almost done away with the use of everlasting flowers, which was formerly so general. The beads last longer even than the flowers that are named immortelles, and this is their chief recommendation. The cravat got its name from the Croats, a regiment of whom, all throttled in cravats, arrived in Paris in 1600, and set the new fashion in neck swathings. When Beau Brummel assumed the guardianship of fash- ion in this country, it was not considered fitting that a gentleman should travel with fewer than eighty cravats and an iron for smothing them. There are five qualities of meerschaum used in the making of pipes. The best is known by its facile absorption of the nico- tine juice of tobacco, which gradually devel- ops into a rich brown blush upon the sur- face, and when this process is well advanced the pipe becomes almost invulnerable with- out being hard. A specimen of this kind has been sold at Vienna for fifty xounds, al though it was not very highly carved. The Pharmaceutische Rundscliau gives this recipe for an excellent disinfectant. Four pounds of crude sulphate of iron, or two pounds of sulphate of copper, are dissolved in hot water, to which two ounces of sulp- huric scid are added. Mix with the solution, ifuhile still hot, eight ounces of carbolic acid, fi Iter, and put into bottles. When this pow- erful remedy cannot be applied in its fluid state, dry saw-dust thoroughly moistened with it may be scattered over the floor of the places to be disinfected. Electricity has in its time played many parts, but to apply it to a conductor's baton has at any rate the superior merit of novel- ty. After the recent manceuveres of the Ger- man army, a serenade was given in honour of the emperor, and twelve hundred execut- ants took part. It was pitch dark, and of course quite impossible for the bandsmen to see the conductor's beat. But science suggested an accumulator on the music desk connected with a poorly-covered wire se- cured along the conductor's stick, from the tip of which there shone a tiny electric light. Black, gray, red, amber, purple, salmon, dove-coloured, and speckly -white marbles exist in various parts of Ireland, and might be worked with profit if transport facilities existed and skilled masons could be found. The best black marble in the world is found on the shore of Longh Corrib. Galway ser- pentine has long been famous. A peculiarly beautiful variegated reddish marble exists in Armagh another handsome marble has been largely worked at Churchtown and Little Island, county Cork; while in Kil- kenny there are also marble quarries. There is not much white marble in Ireland of any quality but the coloured marbles are ad- mirably suited for the internal decoration of buildings. The milk-cart is not much used in Mexico but in place of it the Mexicans drive the cow into town and milk her where the mar- set for milk is best. The scene at the lecher- ia or milking place is a peculiar one indeed. The calf is driven in with the cow,_ and, after it has coaxed the milk down, it is tied to the cow's neck, after which her hind-feet and tail are securely tied together so that switching, kicking, or running away is im- possible. Don Jesusâ€" pronounced "hasus" â€" begins to milk, while all the senoriias are at his elbow, demanding their supply first, and that in the sweetest and most persua- sive language that mistresses and maids are accustomed to use. Though peculiar, this system has its merits, inasmuch as the ar- ticle vended is entirely free from extraneous mixtures of water and chalk. Goats and donkeys are also milked. Microscopic Possibilities. Perhaps the most wonderful t^ing that has been discovered of late is the new glass which has just been made in Sweden, differing from ordinary glass in its extraordinary refractive power. Our common glass contains only six substances, while this Swedish glass consists of fourteen, the most important elements be- ing phosphorus and boron, which are not found in any other glass. The revolution which this new refractor is destined to make is almost inconceivable, if it" true, as is positively aUeged, that, whde the highest power of an old-fashioned microscopic lens reveals only the onefour hundred thousandth part of an inch, this new glass will enable us to distinguish one two hundred and four million seven hundred thousandth part of wi inch. It makes one's hand ache to wnte these figures and who can teU what worlds within worlds may not be discovered wiA such an instrument as this? .Magmfed after this fashion, the smallest Â¥^»J^« ^^ converted into a giant, and if the same re- nting power ca^be appUed to the telescope wTshsfi We the moon brought to our very doors. If a man be faithful to touth, te»* ' faithfol to him. He ^^J^ "° '~«" His succeBS is a question of ome. The time hi|d ^^me ui'i^y blyi(iodi^di I iHf^hb AeMB^edrid m 4 ^a^PK^' to smoke. The old people of Qie housdiold could abide neither the sight nor the smdl of the Virginia^ Wl»n ministers came there, not by pom^ve injunction, but by a â- ort of instinct as to what, would be fafeat, they whiffed thur pipe oqitiKB ba(^ate^ If the house could not stand sanctified somke, it may be imagined how little chance there was for adolescent cigar-puffing. By some rare good fwtnne which pat in my hands three cents, I found access to a tobacco store. As the lid of the lonir narrow, fragrant box opened, and for the first time I owned a cigar, my feelings of elation, manli- neoa, sapensmty and antuapation canaoarce- ly be imagined, save l»^hoae who iiave had the same sensation. When I put the cigar to my lips and stuck the lucif er mateh to the end of the weed, and commenced to pall with an energy that brought every facial musle to its utmost tension, my satisfaction with this world was so great my temptation was never to want to leave it. The cigar did not bum well. It required an amount of suction that taxed my deter- mination to the utmost. You see thit my worldly means had lin ited me to a quality that cost only three cents. But I had been taught that nothing great was accomplished without effort, and so I pulled away. Indeed I had heard my older brothers in their Latin lesson say, cm,nia vincit labor; which trans- lated means, if you want to make anything go yon must scratoh for it. With these sentiments I parsed down the village street and out toward my country home. My head did not feel exactly right, {uid the street began to rock from side to side so that it became rather uncertain to me which side of tiie street I was on. So I crossed over, but found myself on the same side that I was on before I crossed over. Indeed I imagined that I was on both sides at the same time, and several fast teams were driving between. I met another boy. who asked me why I looked so pale, and I told him that I did not look pale, but that he was pale himself. After some further walking, I sat down under the bridge near my house and began to reflect on the pros- pect of early decease, and on the uncertain- ty of all earthly expectations. I had deter- mined to smoke the cigar all up, and thus get the full worth of my money, but was finally obliged to throw three-fourths of it away. I know, however, exactly w^here I threw it, in case I should feel better the next day. Getting home, the old people were, fright- ened, and demanded of me an explanation as to my absence and the rather whitish color of my complexion. Not feeling that I was called to go into particulars, and not wishing to increase my parents, apprehension that I was going to turn out badly, I sum- med up the case with the statement that I felt miserable at the pit of the stomach. Mustard plasters were immediately admin- istered, and I received careful watching for some hours. Finally, I fell asleep, and for- got iny disappointment and humiliation in being obliged to throw away three -fourths of my cigar. DIAMOND SMUGGLEES. -Statistics ortbc Some Tricks of tbe Trade â€" Baslness. Chambers' Journal gives some interesting stories of smugglers and their methods. " Please to hold my baby whilst my hus- band helps me to open my trunk he will be quite good if you shake his rattle," said a lady passenger to the officer who was wait- ing to look over her travelling gear. And that officer good humoredly did as he was requested, shaking the rattle to the great delight of the little one. The rattle in ques- ion which, fastened to a ribbon, was tied to the child's waist, was filled with cems of great value, a mode of smuggling that at the time W8bs too simple for detection. A cle- ver female, attired in the costume of a Sister of Mercy, was passed over by the offi:er be- cause she had no luggage worth ekamining. She possessed, however, a fine string of beads, which, with downcast eyes, she kept telling. Safe on land, she was affectionately welcomed by two persons dressed in cos- tumes similar to her own. Need it be told that she was a smuggler, and that her beads were so constructed that eaeh held a diamond weighing seven or eight carats Another ingenious person hit upon the plan of placing a few precious stones in a toy kaleidoscope, which had been given to a child, who carried it ashore in safety. A number of homing pigeons kept in cages, and purchased at a village in Belgium and brought to the United States by the way of Paris and Havre, also played a profitable part, each of the pigeons being freighted with a cargo of exquisite gems concealed in quills, and carefully fastened to the mes- sage-bearing dove. An extensive system of diamond smuggling was at one time carried on from Canadian ground by the aid of homing pigeons. The discovery of this illicit trade was made accidentally by a farmer, who happened to shoot one of the Birds, and on examining it found that there was fastened to ite leg a quill containing a number of diamonds! A clue being obtained, the local habitation of the pigeon propri- etora was discovered and their mode of busi- ness put an en d to. The scheme, stated simply, was to fly every week or ten days a flock of a dozen or fifteen pigeons, each carrying about half-s dozen gems. As the duty on diamonds amounts to ten per cent, the trouble taken to smuggle these gems into the United States does not seem^ so very remarkable. The value of the precious stones honestly ' imported into the States is l)etween $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 per annum, and it has been calculated that Sems to half that sum escape payment of uty. Female Beauty. There is nothing so unfavourable to female beauty than late hours. Women who spend most part of the day in bed and the night at work or in dissipation have always a pale,, faded com]^exion and dark-rimmed, weari- ed eyes, ^oo much sleep is almost as hurt- ful as too little, and is sure to bloat the per- son with a pallid and unwholesome fat. A gross and excessive indulgence in eating and drinking is fatal to female charms. The ap- petite would never be wasted during the utervals betwem meals on pastry, confec- tionary, or any other tickler of the appetite which gratifies the' taste but doei not sapport the system- Exercises is of conrse tial to female beauty. l'^wsss°sss^j:mt aelitt Fetmaty 15 On nearing ue soee of the lava flow about 4o'cl«ckia the aftetooeaon'Satnrday Jaii.|29, oar attention was about equally divided be- tween the volames of smoke issning from tiie mountain nde near the. source and the con- stant jets of steam shooting into the air along tiie margin of the aem, tot perhaps a couple of miles where the fiery element seemed to be consuming even TBB UIGHTf PACmC in its hitherto irresistible march. Upon dose examination with my slass 1 could dis- tinguidi large masses of aa» ashen-ccdored lava, slowly forced bv the pressure exerted from behind, meet the heavy swell of the heaving ocean, and with a rolling plimsebary itself forever amid a seething mass ofsteam and foam, the product of the two greatest forces the earth contains. At three cufferent places small streams of lurid moltenlava could be seen pouring their living fire into the break- ers as tMjr duhed themselves into foam and mingled with the steam that shot many feet into the air above. But the growing darkness gradually changed the scene, and all eyes were now intently turned to the grand display on the mountain side. At first the eye could not wander from the cone which ap- peared to be the source, at an elevation of about 6,000 feet and about twenty miles dis- tant from where we lay which sent up a con- stant solid VOLTTME OF HOLTEK LAVA which seemed larger than the steamer on which we floated, and variously es- timated by the passengers at from 50 to 200 feet in height. Clouds of smoke filled the air around and above it, and at intervals of about a minute or so it would belch forth flashes of lightning to illuminate the sky, so that the very smoke itself seemed a lurid glare of sulphurous fire. As the darkness of night closed around the rest of the mountain, the course of thd lava became more and more distinct; now you trace its course until a few miles further do vn the motmtain side you see it tumbling and pouring over a precipice, as a cascade that might easily he mistaken for anotiier fountain connected with, and playing from, the regions of fire beneatii. Then you follow it along a sweeping, but not tortuouS' chan- nel, down the mountain side for miles th- out a break. Now it is hid for a short interval by forc- ing for itself a passage under the lava that has already cooled and formed a black crust above; but, as if determined to brook nore- straint, it again bursts in full view, a MAGNIFICENT KIVEB OF FIRE for a few miles more, and then again hides and reappears in the same way, until it is finally lost in the cracks and chasms of the hundreds of acres of smoldering lava piled along the flat bordering the sea below, and rolling large quantities of the latter into the sea, but itself only reaching the ocean in its molten state at three places, as stated be- fore. The coal-black lava for a mile on each side, the belching fountain of lava above, t\e fiery river of lava coursing its sulphui- ous way to the sea, and the lurid glare of the smoky heavens closing around, formed a scene of sublime fiery grandeur, the like of which few on earth ever witnessed-, and once seen can never be effaced from memory. Fashions in Coffins. There are fashions in everything nowadays, even in funerals, and as there are styles in garments, so also are there styles in coffins. One would think that the melancholy duty of burying the dead would be beyond the dictates of fashion to which nearly everything else in -this world is forced to bow, but a stroU through the warerooms of some large manu- facturing undertaker would quickly convince the doubter that even the house of mourning is ruled by the unyielding band of what the world calls fashion. Fashion said once that he who would be in style must be buried in a casket of beautifully polished rose-wood or other rare or costly wood with massive handles and trimming of silver. Then noth- ing but a slim purse suggested a departure from the ruling style. Now fashion says that a casket neatly and plainly covered with black cloth is the only really proper burial case, and this decree is as imperative as all others from the same source. Between these two extremes there have been many in- termediate patterns, and fickle fashion will probably one day again order a change, and chen the sombre casket of to-day will be a thing of the p t and irrevocably "out of style." It is only in caskets for infante and young psople that anything like latitude is permit led, and even then it is principally as regards color. White or the universal black are the colors prescribed, the former being thatmost used. For those who are bold enough to dis- regard the mandates of fashion there are a great variety of styles and colors available, some of them so novel as to be almost start- ling. For instance, an enterprising New York undertoker created quite a sensation the other day. by Conspicuously displaying in his window a cask covered with plorii of the delicate shade known as Nile green and by its side another covered with light blue vel- vet. Without going to such extremes there are a great variety of shades and patterns of covering material. There are plushes, vel- vets andplain cloths in black, brown, blue old gold and numerous intermediate shades. Embossed and figured plushes are even in- cluded iu the list of coverings QITEFB THIHGS ABOUT MOSET. A Toronto gambler who had been playing in hard luck, borrowed a counterfeit silver dollar from a friend and made straight for the nearest saloon. He met with phen- omenal success, and on quitting the game was $121 lahead. As be was leaving the place he boasted of his trick, and was at once ignominioualy kicked into the street. John Monroe, a young mui living with his widowed sister in the northern part of Georgia, was digging a hole for a potato bin in his cellar the other day, when his spade broke open an earthen pot containing $1,480 in gold. The coin had been buried by his sister's husband during the war, and subse- quently forgotten. Some months ago a lady living in Bntier, through fear of the depredation of tramps, put $110 in bank notes in a pasteboard box and buried it in the yard near the wood-pile Last week she went, oat to set it and foond that box and bills had been badty matUated l^Iice. The has sent the notes to the bonks which issued them for redemption. from rusting if it js allofred to diy on them. The Japanese YS^ertiment paper mill is m a nnf yt a ring. pp^et-hj^adkcnAi^s and clothinff tf paper palp contiaiaing a mixture of linen threads. ' Tiie water pat into gaaallers is likely to become |ron|ii or evapwate; a small quantity of glycerine should tha«^ore be added to tbu waiter, as ^yoerine' will not freeze If the manger or feed-box in stables be eo foul as to emit a soar smell from any cause, it shonld be carefulbr cleansed and washed with a solution of soda or potash ontil per- fectiy sweet agun. An order has been issued in Iiower Austria forbidding manufacturen and tradesmen to sell nickel-plated cookms vessels. It Is stat- ed that vinegar and ouer add sabstances dissolve nickd, and that this, in portions of one seventh of a grain, causes vomiting, and is more poisonous than copper. To make dry yeast A practical recipe is to strain brewer s yeast until a moist mass is obtained. Place this in hair bags and press out till the mate is nearly dry. Thensew up in linen bags, and it is ready for transport- ation. It wUl keep for a long time, and is much used by baken in the manufacture of these called Vienna bread. Prof essor Thomson has dononstrated be- fore the New York Society of arte a novel application of electricity. By placing pieces of metal end to {end under a forcible pres- sure, and passing an electrical current through them, perfect weldings are effected, even between metals otherwise incapable of being welded together, or between different metus. To weld steel of one and a half inch diameter, a current of six thousand amperes, ifaving ail electromotive force of half volt, was necessary. It is stated that the use of thirty-five-horse power for one minute will weld that thickness of steel without aiy blows or the application of other heu Steelalso may be welded in this way to bras-. The First Btiler of JapaL. The Chinese have an older civilizatiuU than the Japanese, but there is no doubt iu the minds of statisticians at large that the latter people have the superior system oP Government. They are endeavouring, at any rate, to keep abreast of the times ami the advancement of the age. The history of Japan goes back about 2,600 years, and dates from the period when the orb of day proclaimed his dominion over the countrj-. It is a very pretty tradition, which is be- lieved by all loyal Japs, that tbe sun was the first Emperor in the land. Since that time no ruler has been arrayed in such splen- dour, not even the notoriously gorgeous Solomon of Eastern pride, nor the lilies of tbe fieldâ€" even they present a comparatively modest appearance beside the efiiilgence of the first great, shining Emperor. But the sun lost his grip in some way and was de- posed, and on the throne was placed Jimmu Tenno. No record.«xists of the sun having become angry at the proceedings or interp s- ing objections. On the contrary, it is t':,e of the greatest examples of returning •' il for evil thatds on record. Instead of £• i g off on a strike and, by, "dousing the gli' ' cutting off the illumination of the woi. !, old Sol went right along shedding his hn ms with the same uivish and gratuitous spirit as before. The children of the sun who ha%'e from time to time sat upon the ancient throne have, according to native historians, got along about as well as the rulers of other nations, although it is alleged that the Mik- ado has always been a mere figurehead, and that rhe b\}siness and policy of the Govern- ment were conducted by the Ministers of State. » Self-inflicted Misery. Many of us fritter our lives away. In- deed La Bruyere saj's that most men spend most of their time in making the rest miser- able. On the other hand, " if the heart be right," says the Imitatio Christi, "then would every creature be to thee a miiTor of life, a book of holy doctrine." Most of us can be rendered very unhappy by un kind- ness, the loss, the faults, even the coldness of those we love; but it is cirteinly true that no one was ever yet made utterly mis- erable except by himself. Marcus Aurelius wisely tells us to " remember on every oc- casion which leads thee to vexation to ap- ply this principle â€" that this is not a mis- fortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune " and he elsewhere observes that " we suffer much more from the anger and vexation which we allow acts to rouse in us than we do from the acts themselves at which we are angry and vexed." He Leffc Him to Think Over It. It has often been a sportemans fate to miss and marvel at what seemed unaccount- ably easy shote. The reply given by his staJker to a gentieman who, after a series of inexcusable misses, remarked: "Well, Don- ald, who's fault was it that time?" is admir- able, and well portrays a sportsman's own feelings on such occasions. Quoth Donald, " WeU, he wasn't more than a hundred yards, and it's not my fault you missed him and it wasn't the fault of the steg, for he stood stall enough and it's not the fault of the rifle, for I ken well it's a right good one so I'll just leave it to you to think it over to find out whose fault it was." Shockine: Frofisuiity. Dr. Snhdel was a society-man who liked to air his Latin. He had taken an acquain- tance to call on Mrs. Parvenu, and the man had never called again, and, when the lady saw the doctor, she asked him about it. " Ah, doctor," she said, " Where is your friend?" "Not my friend, madam," cor- rected the doctor " he was merely a quon- dam acquaintance." "Sir," exclumed the lady, in bonified amazement, " I don't know the rdation existing but, if you cannot ex- press yourself in ladies' company without profanity, yoa had better follow your friend." Major Stewart, of the Cascade coal mines, is now in Winnipeg.' He slays the output will soon reach 500 tons daily, and that the intention is to supply San Francisco and the Pacific coast. Men talk mnoh of the right of free *peech and oondem all at te mp t s to fetter it. They should also xempect the right rf free silenoe, •od visit with oqasl oanaare all attempteto violate it by jaconsidetate and nnbenevol«it