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 t. " V -^5*' "â- ^â- ^^Twe^^ ' V 3r ED WAHEa lUSK. ^^^-. D8ALS8B0OM C "â-  "â- M lWlOli; J. OCnvB tOB -WAY. JM.HnCKIN8 Glass DWELLIKGS, 10 BUILDINGS. SON, ^t Tor onto. )ebiUty. beaa nsadforllM Ml sw, in the toMimaat o! Isea^s ArlaiiiK (lom ex • of TitaUty, rfogliig in ir Mle b7 aU imsgum, or $6, or wlU be Mil by nphlet on tppllcatlan. iNK CO.. Toronto. RPRICELIST e Sick. ontains every ele- MOST PERFECT xAfionot 91 [ess OIU rpropertie* Tuai- qn»I to the tmma TeRomo. yOUNGFOI.B». THE SEA-SuLl'S kiss. BT EDWARD IBEX^US 3TKTI5SOX. were aitting tnijather, nx of lu, ia We eladiBg Captain Dan Farlet, on the lome- fh»t dilapidated pier ai E ut Inlet, vudng tfg the evening maiL The evening mail i{or that matter the' momiiig ona, too) ^ally took its time, and we improved all ^e ehining hoars of wut!ng for it by be- jgiling Captain O^n into yam Bpfaudng, gotten aa bii Uimre and hamor allowed. ge and that wharf w«re united in a firm 5oad of fellowship. The Captain fiahed from the wharf, tranaaoted his bosInflM HI the wharf, smoked his morning, after- goon and eveiJng {rfpes on the wharf, settled fho was to be the next Mayor on the* vbarf, lived but a stone's cast from the f b»rf and I am pretty sore risked his health by sleeping for half of many a clear sommer sight under the rickety shed ooonpying its nter end, in spite of Mrs. Farlet's tewfol eomplainta. " I'd go to Halifax a good deal oftener than I do, boys," he remarked oneday, io a tone of candid statement, " bat 'tain't convenient to take this wharf along." The Captain had a pleasant voice, a snag ftrtnne, an artificial leg (this in confidence), and endless reminisoences. This afternoon ve were talking â€" or rather be wasâ€" of nilor sapentitions^their absordity, odd- neas, and quiintity â€" and of the siu^lar coincidences and chasers that sometimes make them so significiiat to the simple- minded seamnn, increasing his childish heed to them. The very Ka. itself, so full of mystery and variety as i' is, strenghens such a tenderly and namberleaa singular circumstaccei, reported more or less cor- rectly from ship to ship and mouth to mouth, fill each hnmble Jack -far's mind with awe for this or that "sign" and portent. It was after we had been raking together the old fancies and fables referring to sea- birds and birds at aea â€" the albatross, the petrel, the Hove, the gull, and the like^ that C^iptain Dxa told us of a strange fancy and incident in his caroer, but I am sorry that I cannot attempt to set it down in his own blunt words and phrases. "In the year 1865 I was mate on the bark Alice Robe, sailing from Boston to an English port â€" ^^HuU, I believe, or maybe 'twas Southampton. We had a mixed-up crew aboard as to its nationalities. There were English, Irish, French, and one or. two Eyetalians" (the Captain never used any other pronunciation of the la,st-named), "and some more that I don't remember. We had a smooth voyage, and all got along well together, officers and men. Among the rest there was a young fellow named Beaa car, a Frenchman by birth and education, though he spoke our language perfectly. He was a nice-looking, trim, quiet sort of man, and, to my mind, didn't seem very well or happy most of the time. One day while he and I were on deck, watching a poi poise that was bouncing about near our wake, Beauoar, without any warning, stag- gered, and if I had not -caught him, would have fallen flat to the deck. " ' What is the matter with you, man Y I asked. " He came to himself, white and totter- ing. ' Nothing, nothing,' he persisted. " ' Nonsense ' said I. Are you often seJzsd with fits like that, man Do you call that sort of a turn nothing ' " The end of it was that I presently drew out of the fellow the fact that he had a curious weakness of the head, or heart, or something â€" a giddiness coming on â€" that was apt to take the poor boy (for he wasn't much more than that in age) without any warning, and no matter where he was or what doing, of coarse. " ' But how on earth have you kept such a difficulty from the ship's doctors so long T" I asked him. in astonishment, " Well, lack and pluck had befriended him, and his secret had been no mischief to his occupation. But all the same, I couldn't' but think, I wouldn't be in your shoes, my man, for a gcod deal that is, and stay on the high seas.' But I promised him to keep the matter to myself. " About a week later, one afternoon, a sea-gull came flying across the sky from the dear knows where. It puzzled us al to guess. The bird was evidently tired, in any case, and settled down on a loose spar, as if it ht d dropped there out of the sky. It was a calm, sunny day. We were far from land. A lot of us gathered arcund the creature at a safe distance, lest we should frighten it ofF. It acted peculiarly, remain- ing on its perch, with its large head a little bent down, its beak slightly open, and shift- ing its weight cnriously, now upon one leg and now another, quite at home at once. "Some food was^lTonght forward, and then, in trying to pla ' c it and a pannikin of water within reach, v c discovered that the bird, so far from be* ' g readily frightened, was surprisingly tamr The seaman gradu- ally pressed closer si c utit, and soon Beau- car walked forward ' d offered it the water aiid raw fish. It OTed him quietly at each step he took. It did cot seem to be in any etpecial need of food. When Beauoar stood near by it and leaned forwud, it stretched its neck and positively stared at the fellow as if it had seen him before, and I cannot tell you what a carious, eerie look seemed lurking in its round, bright, bird tr^w. We all watched it with new cariosity. " Bsaacar drew back. Thereupon occur- red a stranger thing than I have ever wit- nessed. As he stepped aside, the_ great bird spread its wings, and flattered directly upon the sailor's shoulder and balanced itself there Beancar and all of as exclaim- ed in suppressed astonishment at sach extraordinary tameness. Had the bird been some aliip's pet that had lost iti home and master It was not hanger that ren- dered it thus familiar, for the p annikin stood there untouched. Bat this was not all for while Beaacar, half laughing and half frightened, stood there, with the hum creature dilating its wings and turning its head to the right and lef^ suddenly it npt its beak pointed toward his aoe. Wo thought it mlg^t be about to strike »t th« young saQor. lifot so. It bssit almart at fectionately near him, laid its downy poll to his cheek, and wWi that. If vntlmm a bird kis»' ita maiter or mistress, thM great gall •Uned' the man Bmhumt, pMbK t«beaktwioetohfalip«iB»w»y that extraordinary, itartUno^ •^yoa^MsstooaUikl "We kaghed; tlM •Bent BeemMHT,' ly,and ntftared Pwwune-fai FiwMh, •tthsoarsM. IlMkirilkMfttiM being MghtMiii, H from the seamaj^hoaldw. It fiew up, up into tlw open «ff*ftaI !gt t ttBtii8»lMHr,fc A the sbifi or her r^ging^^mid ifr»feir minutes it was a speck ntbe dfstaDce t6at presently â-¼aaished.- Ofioen and men, opea-moatiM gased as loner as it was in sight. ' A. chojfus ot tJMmlations brake out. Bsauear wis samraoded by his messmates, who dialed him, asked iiui qKestions â€" ^though all t^ka^l had taken plaoe they had seen from tiw ginning, aaid understood as fully as heoould â€"and a little hubbub aad babel of sonfusion took plaoe. One speotator snggaated one thing; another sailor deoluea what be tliought the reason for the bird's behavior aright have been. The whole faoldent had taken only some ten minutes. Bat besides an expressed oomments, th«re were murmur- ed from man to man a dozen silpentltiouB notions as to tbe 'meaning' o* tlua remark- able OMurrenoek Tho old salt* dkkeied their stories and 'signs,' the younger sea- men whispered the most far-fetdied and ridiculous explanations and portents. " Undoubtly a rare and even wonderfal natural circumstance had been observed by OS. Presently the idea that it had some special meaning' for Beaacar seemed to be fastened in the mind of every sulor on board the ship. But (aa an instance of the rude delicacy that unbred natures can feel and show) I remember that fe^ uf Bsaucar's mates said much to him about their regard ing this winged guest as the bearer of some warning of fate ti h'm, some ' messenger' trom 1eyond our world of ««a and shore, who had been, perhaps, ' commissioned' to the young Frenchman. They whispered their sailor-like opinions with solemn shakes of the hnad to each other, but not at length to Beaacar. As for Beaacar, he was chiefly amused and puzzled at the sea- gall's actions, and I fancy took the senmble view that if any other sailor had so approached the bird, it would have probably behaved itself in exactly the same odd way. The precise reason for its conduct I never could settle myself but I always have supposed that a thoroughly domesticated and petted gull, a creature lost from some not very distant vessel, came to us, and, struck with some semblance between Beaucar and its master, it had caressed him in the curious way it did, and then darted off, deciaing on its course toward its friends. " Well, the day wore on the sea became rougher about four o'clock in the afternoon, and so brisk a breeze blew up that it was necessary to shorten sail quite suddenly. The Captain of the Alice Robe and I were watehing some detail or other in the short- ening. The crew were distributed about the rigging, hard at work. Suddenly we heard a cry. A dark object fell like a flash from overhead, and clearing the ship's taffrail, plunged with a tremendous splash into the sea. ' Man overboard 1 Man overboard ' remg the cry. Some one had fallen from the f oretopmast headlong into the sea. "I t was Beaucar I The young sailor had been reefing in company with a messmate. According to the latter's story, the French- man all at once uttered a faint cry, lost his hold of the spar and his balance on It, and fell out into the air before the other could so much as put out a hand to save him. The boats that were sent out came back without success. The poor fellow must have been swept away, and sunk, to rise no more, al- most immediately in such a sea as was now rucning. Terrible and unexpected event I We could hardly realize it, accustomed as one becomes to expecting even death to in- vade a sailor's life. All was indeed chEmged in the faces and thoughts of the men aboard the Alice Robe that day, and for days after the casualty. "But you can imagine how the painful event was regarded by the brew â€" or by many of them â€"as something forewarned and hint- ed at to poor Beaucai by the singular incidoit of the sea-gull's visit and the sea-gull's 'kiss' earlie.- in the day. They could talk and, I fancy, think of very little else for a long time after; and the loldeet declared that they had known that the young sailor wm a doomed man and his days numbered the instent that they witnessed the great sea- bird's attention to him, when he approached its temporary lodging-piace, where it rested, glad of friendly faces ai d human society. We found the men talking in comers here and tbere the forecastle at night became a perfect scrap bag of wild and md tales, and discussions from mouth to mouth of the scene that the morning had brought to our notice. Some declared that they nad heard the gull Epeak to Beaucar and nod its head in response to utterances from him. "Yon will guess that I knew what had brought about the sad incident. Bsaucar's falling-sickness (as I had feared for the poor fellow) had taken him j-ut in an evil mom ent for his safety, when balanced on the spar, reefing. Oae lurch, a fall, and the ocean swallowed him up, and hid story was ended tragically. I felt that his sad deatli relieved me of the seal of confidence, and I told what I knew of his disease. But, as you may imagine, the sulors half doubted my stotoment. Notiiing would do for them, we soon discovered, but that Beancar, sotwd and well, and without any falling-sickness or likelihood of it, had received a strange 'warning,' through the sea-guU's 'kiss,' from the next world, which he had veiy slightly understood or regarded, and to that 'warning,' came the poor young sailor's death on the same day, as I have already deseribed. The coincidence was odd, and for the cure of sailor superstitions nust un- lucky. The crew did not recover from the incident all the rest of the voyage, and a considerable number of them refused to re- turn with as after we had reached port. To this day, I dare say, you will find plenty of sailors who have heud and will tell you with solemn faces the stoi^of the 'warning' g^ven an able seaman on tioard the ' Alice Robe ' and if you should try and oonvinoe them fifty tmee over lor the tivth about poor Beauoar, it woold not do the leaat good. A saflor's notien, wise or rilly, ia about the moet obetinate one in tlie world." Tfi£ LmiiE COSO H£EO. Mecy ot a Bey Who The Depth of Wonu^i'ji AfiEeotion. Elsie and Maude, oativalkba, meet Amy. Elaieâ€" " Oh, Anqr, dear 1. Kail me I Do 1" Tbey kiss and part Manoâ€" •* â„¢""' *•* Wbydidyoa ' KW»-" X aa», *o ifimi hldwal-i. hsr 10 heart- tetisso Bi^jkf^ w4tlf «fa£ntlte«»ii^tanl|y. hkd UHNtet battle wkenelMlenr die, great iNer. M aad iaAaUgedb. af^ the .#ro« Congo natives, aad siaoe Capt. Coquilbat, four years ago, eatablishsd a station in their oeu ntrytfa ey have beeoese «ood frisada at tbe-wUesay --A. wWleeaex^aneaoMns! event '^pt. CoquOhat lo tell him about It. " Ton know the Mg island near my town,? ha eaid. " Well, yesterday, soon after the sun oaoM up, one of my women and our little bey started for the island in a canoe. The bey is about twelve years old. He says that while his mdttier was paddling she saw something ia the water,r and leaned over to look at iti Then he saW a crooodile seize his mother and drag her out of the canoe. Then the ocooodile and woman sank out of sig^t. â-  " The piddle was lying in the eanoe. The boy picked It up. to i^dle back to the village. Then hi thought 'Oh, if I Tould only scare the crooodile and get my mother- hack I' Hscouldtollby the moving water where the crocodile was. He was swimming just under the snrfaoe toward the island. Then the boy followed the crocodile jost aa fast as he could paddle. Very soon the oro xiile reached the island and went out on land. He lud the woman's body on the ground. Then he went back into the river and swam away. Ton knaw why he did this. H-) wanted hia mate, and started out to find her. "Then the little boy paddled fast to where his mother was lying. He jomped out ot the boat and ran to her. There was a big wound in her breast. Her eyes were shut. He felt sure she was dead. He is strons;, but he could not lift hw. He dra^ped her body to the canoe. He Itnew that the croco- dile must come back any minute to kill him too. He used all his strength. Little by little he got his mother's body into the can- oe. Then he pushed away from the shore and started home. "We had not seen the boy and his mother at alL Suddenly we heard shouting on the river, and we saw the boy paddling as hard as he could. £very two or three strokes he would look behind him. Then we saw a large crocodile swimming fast toward the canoe. If be reached it you know what he would do. Ho would upset it with a blow, and both the boy and his mother would be lost. Eight or nice of us jumped intocaur oes and started for the l»oy. The crocodile had nearly overtaken the canoe, but we reached it in time. We soared the crocodile away and brought the canoe to the shore. The boy stepped out on the ground and fell down, he was so frightened and tired. We carried him into one of my huts, and took his mother's body in there, too. We thought she was dead. " But after a little while she opened her eyes. She could whisper only two or three words. She asked for the boy. We laid him b. side her on her arm.. She stroked him two or three times with her hand. But she was hurt so badly. Then she shut her eyes, and did not open them nor speak again. Oh how the little boy cried. But he had saved his mother's body from the crocodile." As Essalaka told this story the tears- coursed down his cheeks. " I have seen in this savage trilM," writes Capt. Coquil- bat, "men and their wives who really love each other, and veritable honeymoons among yotmg couples. The child feels for his father the fear and respect which his authority inspires, but he truly loves her mother, and has a tender interest in her oven after he becomes a man." Money lor Wiyee. proper uadcietaadj Jn the heosehold, "Qood ..^ a«ya:r-Ia«the want of a proper uadcietaadlBg o onns r n tng peouniary '^fli«»gria«MMae(btabm. Where ,tte/ibBagemeaf'aad kteoF el the wife oMnt tt Botiilng;iMih ooaaaloa et lajustioe phllandiropht "My to his wife one day, as ha saddealj buret inteike rittittg-roem, "I have been ooanting ooourred in one of theiTmany vUlagS, a^ 'Sl^l^^^i^T^li^S^t^ T Essal^a, the ohiel, went to Japt. (^ullhae |£^«Ji^S;°^^ tend the proosaa, satd that ia not a beginnii^ td. ypurtMrk. ^All theatf veema have «o,be â- wipe nd gjonashed, tte^ eiurpate inade and oleaased,«M the honse linen prepared and k^t intSMei' btsidethe oooking, and I took it afl aea matter of oourse. Ibegla|onee what women's work is, even when she has help, srhioh you are not always able to pro- eure. You ought to receive a monthly sti- fnd, aa a hiusekeeper would. Why Itave- n't you made me see it before I have not been jast to yon, while I have been generous Tiilrtte^ wbq told this In after years to Vr bu^und' oredit, sat down with him hnd^r toe first tinie sinoe their marriage opened her heart fieely on the topic of wo- man's allowance. She confessed to have had maayaaariowfalhonra^ her position as a beggar.^Attliehead of a large hoaaehold iaa-^Bstsmi^town, where domestic service '^ak beth-ecant and inobmpstant, she had hardly been tnuted with $5 at a time dur lug their united lives. " Robert and I talk- ed it over," she said, " and decided that the wonoan who takes care of any household article, like a cupet, for instance, from the time it is first vaaAa tUl It is worn oat, has expanded upon it an amoimt Of time and strength fully equal to the labour that m *de it, counting from the shearing the wool till it comes from the loom. It may be unskilled work, bat it is work all the same. And this is only one small item in her housekeeping laboar Does she not deserve some payment beside her board and clothing? Robert saw woman's work in a new light. From tiiat xxt)» till W-day he has placed a gener- ous, share of his income in my hands â€" not as a gift, but as a right. And he knows that I will no more fritter it away than he will. If I ohooae to deny myself something I need, and bestow it%cost in charity or buy books I crave, he no more thinks of chid- ing me than I think of chiding him for spending his money as he likes. There ure other Roberts who have yet to learn this lesson of justice, and they are found in every walk of life. •y A Oostly Little Joke. " Speaking of women," said the Colonel, after a long pause, " I was travelling in Mis- souri once in my buggy, when I met a tall, slabsided girl of 20 in the road. I had taken a drink or two and felt jolly, and so I hailed her with " Howdy, Sal Fine day " promptly re- looking for a How the Qreat Soathern Tortoise Bnirows. Here and there, but rarely perhaps in one amid a hundred of these mounds, we find the place where the reptile entered the ground. This opening is at once seen to be quite separate in character fron be mounds which £u«t attract the eye. It asists of a clearly defined tunnel, the sides commonly somewhat smooth and compacted by the energy « ith which the body of the creature has been driven through it. The passage inclines steeply downward, descending at the outset at an angle of from 20 ® co 30 then taming at the depth of two or three feet to a more horizontal position. On the surface, a little beyond this entrance, is a heap of debria, which consists of the sand ta^en from the passage. A few feet in from the opening, the passage appears to be closed by loose material wmch was not ejected from tiie mouth of the tuimeL Although I have been unable to cateh these tortoises at work, I have succeeded by tolerably safe In- f erenoes in tracing their method of operation. When they begin the barrow, they endeavor at once to penetrate downwMd to the level in which they obtain their food. At the outset they manage, by frequmtly backing out of the passage and trusting the earth behind them in t£dr retreat, to clear a oon- siderable opening. When they have advanc- ed a few feet in the excavation, they oeaae to discharge the material excavated m their advance, but thrust it behind them, and leave it lying in the dumber, which it en- tirely closes. With this stonge-room pro- vided, the gophers are able to advanoe throu{^ the earth for the dlstanoe of some yards; but as the earth compacted by its own weleht, by the preanm exsiraised through the expansion of roots, and the action tA run, ocoufdea bss wg»M than the same material loosened In the progress of the burrow, they aoon beoMne Immpered In tiieir movements. They then tnrt toward, the surface and ooiktune tfee exeavatloili upward nntfl they have attained very nearly to the open air. Thsy then use the g rea t stro^gtii whioh tiisyolearlT possess to thmf a qamttf of tiie borrowed matsffad i^i*«i4 untlMtrtiea above :the surface in tlw fona of a ooneb and by the spaoe in the bnirow therdiy gained wey are able to go fer feet fartiier in t h rf s tuita eus line efad v ee i when ti^ must pwtfcmolthet eribed. Howdy, stranger," she plied. "Say," I went on, "I'm wife." "What sort?" " About your kind." "Want me?" "If you'll have me." " Beckon I will. Let's drive back to see dad and mam." " I was joking, you know, so I told her that I was in a great hurry and would re- turn. Three natives who came along jost then stcmped to find out what was'the mat- ter and they set in with the girl to take me back. The only way I could get out of it was to bdt for uie woods, leaving the horse and buggy behind, and five years later the girl was still driving them. That little joke of mine cost me just $350, to say nothing of being run through a patch of woods five miles wide." k^Mfteoa^ rMIHiiWi lbs flow it Will be in Ohicago, A. D. 2.000. Albertâ€"" Edwina, I love you I Will you marry me " Edwinaâ€"" Yes, dear but not until next Monday. To-day is Thursday. To-day I marry Billy; Friday I shall be divorced. Friday night I wed Auguatua. I like him, and we will go over Sanday. Monday I am yours." Albertâ€"" For how long T" Edwinaâ€"" I can promise you two weeks, at least." Albertâ€" "All right. Good-bye!" Edwina â€" " Where are you goi Albert â€" "To marry Lulu to time." " up the An Owina; to the Tariff. " Yes," said the asylum physician, sadly^ as he oonduoted a visitor through the gloomy blading where so many unfortunates were confined, " we eee a good many sad things. For liwtanow, look at that wretched maniac over there, whoee eye is aa vaoant as the eye ofaoerpse. Three numtiu ago it gleamed with the fire of senius he was a man among men. LiteUeotual, eloquent, oom- manraw, He was admired by all, and a solden ratare golden intare was appatentiy before him. Bat on a fatal day he commenced to study the tariff question, aad ypu see what he u now. He Is Incurable. He walks up and down tbeoorridor all day repeating these words ' If the tariff on lumber be removed aad the^ tariff on wool be Increased, how nuUsh of ik •nrplus win raiBain in the Treas- ury iriien the exjport duties on pauper labor be added to the internal avenue deriinpcl from home rule in Ireland?' It is sad, vsory ead,«oaee a noble intelleot shattered thns, bnteolongasthetariff^uestionisat larg^ we 1911st expect to eee tbu bnildlos onnrdaa witbliinatiae-"â€" [Kebradea ScatoJoumal. ::-...;..:ff.:-r'^i: :/ f ' BabbedtheWioBgLea:. v^ mtlswliattwepieoasof orsawepeddid. A k^and g s ntl s m s a ^sntanytag forward ttfaelnteeae saoAsr, vhea sfmnllamenmlir tih*y;i^|iiy^ M » tiia j pavemsni a nd fa a â- MfMit bsMBM a mlied nuMS of Uiiwaiilty. S^is^bMtfM to Has; Ui power to do i»tiria4ili notMl site i aaMfac wmltmm inift. Ha rubbed aflBia.aaiiiirSe did ao he Something Like a HmeymooB. ijlilfliiiiiiiiii.isa and married her "right away." The lad^ Yeang and preMy,'baf tar from stro^' and,t^ devetsd haabaad^ ijateriBtarf to ief wfatt travel wenUPde Ut Wer. ^Ukay ware maaledinMay, 1888, aad apoa the wedding dajtbiioard waiaant oat to berMsnde: â€" **ltr. aad Mre. Sigoomay at borne, at Sviramento, every Thnraday from May 10^ 1888." The whole ol the six yean whidi bavedapied ainbe thea have been spent ia travel with the elewei raestablishiag tha lady's health. Dariqg thatpsriod tiiey have vidted Euj^aadi Ireland, 8iotliiaa, Fraaoe, Germaay, Ital^, Austela, Russia, Greeoe, Denmark, Taney, Ghiaa, Japaa, Egypt, Persia, Af rioa, aad Soutli Ameriea, beipa- viaf witb P^tagenk aad finkhiag at Pana- ma, wheaoe tSey retaraed to Eniuad before embarkii^ for Kew York.. lathe aiidstot all this travelling Mrs. Sigoumey has found time to beoone the motbsr of four ohildren â€" ^twin boys bom at St. Petscalmrg, a. daughter bom in China, and another daughter bora in Brazil. When the 10th of May arrived the happy ooaple were "at home" at Saoramento to reodve their friends, according to their promise of six years before. The expedient has been thoroughly euooeasfuL Mrs. Sigoumey now enjoys ex- oellent health, and whereas at the time of her marriiMse she wdghed the Inslgnifioant figure of 1(3 lbs., ahe now turna the beam at 165 lbs. The ooat of this six years' honeymoon was $60,000, only flO.OOO a year â€" certainly a very moderate e^pendi* tare. Thns Mrs. Sigourhey may be tnken to have cost her husband very nearly one thousand dollars per potmd, which perhaps is not very expensive as wives go in these days. Consumption of Wood. The London "Times" furnishes some in- teresting sta^tios as to the frightful con- somption of wood Tised as sleepers for rail- way tracks, uid pointe to ita figures as a strong argument in favour of the employ- meat of metal sleepers. It appears that the six principal railway companies of France use more than J00,00b sleepers per day, or 3.650,000 per annum. As a tree of the usual dimensions will give only ten sleepers, the railways in question require 1,000 trees per day for sleepers alone. In the United States the consumption is much greater, amounting to about 15,000,000 aleepers a year, which is equivalent to the destruction of about 170,000 acres of forest. The annual consumption of deepers by the railways of the world is estimated at 40,000,000, and this is probably leas than the actual number. The "Tinrea" remarks: "From these fi- gures the rapid progress ot disforestizition will be underatoM, and it ia certain that the nataral growth cannot keep pace with it. Hence we have had daring the last quarter of a ceutury the frequent inuadations and changes in atmospheric condition." It would be interesting to calculate how much wood is annually wasted in Canada on ddewalks, block pavemento, telegraph and telephone poles, and general railway works. The figures we fancy would stcurtie those who have been advocating greater oonservatism in the utilizatien of our timber resources. It Is of course to be noted thao for all the purposes mentioned wood is needlesdy and unprofitably used. Ohina on Her Dignity. The "Chinese Times" contolns a letter, ugned by the Pekin official and writton just after the news had reached China that the United States had passed the Chinese Exclunon Bill. Following Is an extract taken from the letter If the obnoxious American biU should be carried into effect there will be no other course open for Cnina consistent with her dignity as a nation than to adopt retaliatory measures by prohibiting the citizens of the United States from coming to China. â-  This will be by no means proj ortionate to the harm to the Chinese intsrests in America, but it will have to be done in order to show that the Chinese can do the same thing, and if tbu will have no effect in bringing the United States Congress and the United States Government to reason and fairness, then it will be aquestion for China to con- sider whether It is not time fur her to can- cel her treaties made with that country, to recall her subjects from there, to expel all the United States citizens from this country, and to cease all relations and intercourse, diplomatic and commercial, with that coun- try. Bloodhounds. Mr. William Buchanan, writing to the London Times, says :â€" Just now, perhaps, my own persoaiJ ezperleaoe of what blood- houads can do in the way of tracking orimiaab may be of iaterest. Here, thea. Is an incident to which I was an eye-witness. In 1861 or 1868 (my memory does not enable me to give a more ezaot date), I was bi Dieppe «iien a littie bov was found doubled up m a hone«bln with his throat out from ear to ear. Aoonple blood hounds were at onoe put on to tke sceat Away they dashed after, for a moment or two, snifi^ the gronnd, hu n d r eds of people, indtiding the keeper and myself following in thdr wake nac did the highly-trained "Ifnftls slaoken in thdr paoe^ tlie least till they had arrived at the other end of the town, when tiiey made a dead stop at the door of a low lodging-house, and, tuowing up their noble heaids, gave a deep bay. On the plaoe bei^g enteredi 'the oolpcitâ€" an old womanâ€" was disoovsred hiding under abed. Let me add that the iaatfaiot of a bloodbouad, when properly trained, foc.tkacUng by soent is so msrvelima liiat no one can say podtivdy what diffieaUisa ia following a tmif it oaanot snmionat." h "'tt^ T**- A%uilih Iloalbu; Ezpoiitioo. tt is rspertsd by Indmtrit (Loadna) that â€" nminstiisl â€" pij lti im is i^Jng I Spain for oaRviig qpeeiounsd to tne ptiMfaal ports *«i3M OsdadaVllkM" eftbaddp wbidi is bdBg fitted ' ^U u il 4 fs w ' J