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w^ V IRISH LAITD £ILL. Its OkoseB Discussed by in Session, the Lord AMEHDMEHT8 MADE TO THE BILL. A last (Friday) niijht'a London cable â- ays : In the House of Lords this eveuing, on motion to coufider the House of Com- mouB amendments to the Land Bill, the Duke of Argyll warned the House that the Bill in its preeent form was an immense development of the Gladstone Land Act of 1881, and one that in the future would lead to the development of some defection. The Bill, he declared, would foster among the Irish not industry, but lazineeu, makinfj tenants more unthrifty. It would yive tenants the privilege of regulating rents to snch an extent as to enable tliem. however lazy or ignorant, to remain on their hold- ings. The Bill was a violation of recognized truths. If political reasons forced the House to accept some of the amendments he hoped that the members would have the couragu to reject others which simply pro- posed the robbery of land-owners. Earl Granville admitted that tha Bill was imperfect, but it was a compromise measure and the best obtainable under the circumstances, and it was therefore advis- able that the House approve it. Nothing oould be gained by discHssing the Bill on ' abstract economic principles. Lord Salisbury said he felt Ihe justice of the Uuke of Argyll's criticism. The Bill was undoubtedly a oon8e<iuence of the Liberal Government's land legislation, in which a departure was made from the principle of freedom of contract. But it wa» only a temporary measure, preceding larger proposals, by means of which the Government would try to mitigate the evils of previous legislation. The Government had not accepted the amendments without anxious consideration as to what the result of their rejection would be. The abandon- ment of the Bill was the alternative, and the Government could not accept that responsibility. Therefore he urged the House to recognize the difficulties of the position and accede to the amendments. Lord belborne (Liberal) said he thought the Government would have been unwise to throw up the Bill. He would rather have cut off his right hand than have been a party to the passing of the Act of 1^>81 if he had thought fur a moment that its author had entered upon a course that would lead to such a disastrous develop- ment of the Irish policy as was now troubl- ing the peace and prosperity of thecountry. Baron Howth, Liberal, said that the Government appeared to entertain the idea that the-.' should reduce the value of land .J 'a much as possible before pro- iiUwit-t, ^d purchase scheme. The Ki>t: of Dunraven proposed to amend the li/tb clause by providing that the court revising judicial rents shall statu the scale of prices of produce affecting the holding. Lord Salisbury objected, saying that the publication of such information would mul- tiply discontent and encourage agitation. The amendment was withdrawn. The Earl of Dunraven next proposed the I rejection of the House or Commons amend- ment relating to town parks. . On Lord Salisbury's advice flie proposal of Earl Dunraven was aocopted. Earl Cadogan, Lord Privy Seal, moved that revision of rents be based upon the difference in prices in 1HH7 as compared with prices from 1881 to 188;"). Earl Spencer and Earl Kimberley op- posed the motion, but it was carried â€" "29 to 17. The remaining House qf Comnious amendments were adopted. CONTEaiFT OF CUUKC. A Senator Ridioulea th» Court, lis Fined, •lallett and Halaaacd by a Mob. A Winchester (Va.) despatch says: United States Senator Riddleberger, who was sentenced on Batturday at Woodstock by Judge Newman, of the County Court, to pa} a fine of V2B and be imprisoned for hve days for contempt of court, was released from jail last night by a mob. The cir- cumstances leading up to his arrest are related as follows by an eye-witness : On Thursday W. W. Jones was tried for lar- ceny and the jury found that he was insane. Jones was a client of Senator Bid- lleberger'a and the verdict made the Senator angry. He was accused of writing a placard and giving a boy 9'i to haul Jones up and down the town, the latter display- ing the placard meanwhile which had written on it: "Verdict, Bill Jones Not Guilty, But Insane, Jury Insane, Lawyers Insane, Court Insane in the Main. " The noise occasioned by this display disturbed the proceedings of the court then in ses- sion and the Commonwealth's Attorney, J. C. Baker, had the Judge issue an order for Senator Biddleberger to appear before Judge Newman and show cause why he (Kiddleberger) should not be lined and imprisoned for ridiculing the Judge and jury and disturbing the court. At "i o'clock Senator Riddleberger appeared before the court and defended himself. He said that Judge Newman had no jurisdiction in the case, which the Judge denied, and asked Senator Uiddleberger to ait down until the evidence could be taken to prove that he (the Senator) was the one who instigated the ridicule, and then, he said, the court ;ould hear the argument. Senator Uiddle- berger would not sit down, and the court tilled him i'2'>. He then dehed the court and said : " This court shall not send me to jail." Judge Newman then told the Sheriff to take the Senator to jail for live days. Senator Kidillel>erger said he would like to see the man who could take him to jail, and Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the Senator aud locker* him up. This action caused much excitement, and this morning at 'i o'clock a mob of 'MO men, supposed to be from Edinburg, in this county, scaled the walls of the jail yard and took the Senator out on ladders. POISONKU C«»NFKCTIONKKY. PLBVKU-PNBUMOMIA IM DETROIT. The Meat lunpeotor Keimrta .Maiiy t'lttal CaMt III the CU/. A Detroit despatch says : The existence in Detroit of pleuro- pneumonia will prove a surprise to citizens generally. On Mon- day last George Kantzlor, Meat Inspector for the Western District, was apprised of the fact that a number of milcfa cows in the vicinity of King's Cattle Yards, were â- nfferiug from the malady. Mr. Kantzier at once drove to the locality and says that as nearly as can be ascertained live fatal oases of the disease have oocarred, and that upwards of tweiity-tive cattle in the first stages of the contagion have been bntohered and sold to the public for food. The first fatal case, the Meat Inspector says, was in the herd of a milkman whose stables are on Twelfth street, near King's Cattle Yards, and occurred on Monday last. On Tuesday two more cows died, and one is at present in the last stages of the malady. In another herd near by, one cow died on Wednesday and one last night. A neigh- bor of another milk dealer asserts posi- tively that she saw two of the latter's cows lying dead several days ago but this is ile- nied by the owner. It is asserted by Meat Inspector Kantzier, however, that the milk dealer had a herd of nineteen head only a short time ago and had disposed of them all to a butcher near by. On Tuesday ho reported the matter to Health Officer Duf- field, and that official, recognizing the im- portance of the matter, at once hastened to make a thorough investigation. He oamo to the conclusion that it was the genuine Texas lung plague, which has wrought such terrible ravages in other localities and is be- lieved to have been communicated to local stocks by Texas cattle on their way East, which have been unloaded for food and water. ^ Lucked u|i HiH Buy and .Starved Hliu, Savino Vinceno was arrested by the Tenth Precinct police yesterday for neglect and cruelty to his child .Joseph, i* years old. The father has been in the habit of locking his boy in the room while both parents wore at work without furnish- ing him food or water. The key was turned on the unwilling prisoner at (> o'clock yesterday mornnig, and an hour and a half later the lad attempted to make Over Twenty Fltbthurg Pmiple Sli'k KutiiiB HweetiiimtH. .\. Pittsburg (Pa.) despatch says: Yellow chrome or some other e<|ually deadly com- pound seems to have become an active in- gredient of Pittsburg confectionery, as no fewer than twenty- three persons living in the Seventeenth Ward are lying more or less ill from the effects of poison. A little dautjhter of Charles Baker, a contractor, who lives on I'orty-sixth stret^t, bought a custard cake at the grocery store of L. J. Logue, corner Centre and Korty-fifth streets yesterday. This cake was partaken of at the morning meal by the entire Baker family and one nr two hoarders. By noon all who had eaten of the confection were differing violent pains, <K>apled with nausea. Kinetics, under medical aid, were promptly adiniiiiHtfi-ed, and, although for a while it was doubtful if any would re- cover, at a late hour last night the patients wore Biipposed to be r)iit of danger. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Baker and their three child- ren, Lizzie McCarthy, servant, William and Robert Rice and John Craig, boarders, were the other victims. Mrs. Logan and Minnie Caudellur. nurse girl, who ha<i eaten some of the grocer's cake the night previous, were also very sick, with indica- tions of )X)ieoii. Mr. J. J. Shafer. a grocer, and family, who lives on Korty-.''fth streetj^ also bought and ate a ijuantity nl the cakfl and are more or less ill. Besides the Shafers, two sisters of Mrs. Shafer and a niece constitute the family. They are all affected to a greater or less extent. A butcher named Simon, who lives in the same locality, his wife and four children ate of the deadly cake and are yet very sick. L. J . Logue, the grocer who sold the cake, alleges he purchased it at a baker shop in the Hast End. THE 8BCRET OF THE SOUL. A Fragment by T. Gautler Giving a OUmpte uf HInduu Belief. The following weird incident is from Gautier's "Tales Before Supper": A priest of the temple of Tirunamalay, to whom I disclosed my intentions, told me of a yogi who dwelt in one of the grottoes of the isle of Elephanta, and who had reached the highest degree of sanctity. I found him propped up against the wall of the cavern. Kobed in sackcloth, his knees drawn up to his chin, his fingers clasped around his legs, he crouched there motion- less. His upturned pupils left visible only the whites of his eyes ; his drawn lips exposed his teeth ; his skin clung to his cheek bones ; his hair, thrown back, hung in stiff locks like over-hauging plants ; his beard, divided in two lloods, nearly touched the ground, and his nails curved inward like an eagle's claw. His skin, naturally brown, had been dried and darkened by the sun till it resembled basalt, and, thus seated, he looked both in form and color like a Canopic vase. At tirst I thought him dead. His arms, that were anchylosed in a cataleptic immobility, I shook in vain ; in his ear 1 shouted the most powerful of the sacramental words which were to reveal me to him as initiate, but he heeded them not, nor did his eye- lids quiver. In my despair of arousing him I was about to leave, when suddenly I heard a singular rustle ; swift as a lightning spark a bluish fiash passed before my eyes, hovered for a second on the half-open lips of the penitent, and disappeared. Brahma- Logum (such was the name of this holy personage) seemed to awakefrom a lethargy. He opened his eyes, gazed at me in a natural manner, and answered my ijuostions. •' Your wish is fultilled," he said ; " you have seen a soul. 1 have succeeded in free- ing ininu from my body whenever it so pleases me. It goes and returns like luminous bee, perceptible only to the eyes of the adept. I have fasted, I have prayed, I have meditated so long, I have dominated the tlesh so rigorously, that I have been able to loosen the terrestrial bonds. Vishnu, the god of the tenfold incarnations, lias re- vealed to nie the mysterious syllable that guides the soul in its avatars. If, after making the consecrated gestures, I were to pronounce that word your soul would tly away and animate whatever man or lieast 1 might designate. 1 be<|ut'ath you this secret, which i)f the whole world I am now the sole possessor. I am t^lad you have come, for 1 long to disappear in the bosoui of the increate as does the drop of water that falls in the sea. " And therewith the lienitent whis^iered feebly but very dis- tinctly a few syllables which made a shudder run down uiv back. ?rEW TOBK EXPECTATIONS ^ Of Catching up to LoDdon in the Itace for Pupulatlou, On the basis of the number of names in the new city directory, the population of New York, from the Southern boundary of Yonkers to the Battery, is not less than 1,000,000. The populktion of Brooklyn is probably over 750,000, and, taking into account other communities immediately dependent on, and geographically united to, the port of New York, the present popula- tion of the Metropolitan district is more than 2,500,000. At the present moment the population of the area known as the Registration District of London is about â- 4,250,000, so that there is a long interval to be covered before we can begin to rival the populousness of thegreat English "province in brick and mortar." But if New York keeps up its accelerated rate of growth the difference before another generation is over may be wiped out. London is growing at the rate of about (iU.OOO a year, while New York's growth is about liOiOOO. Hut in the ten years between 1870 and 1880 the average annual addition to our city population was less than 27,0U0, bo that we have already more than doubleil the annual increment of the decade preceding last censue, and have for the last six years established an average of 58,U0O. This kind of geometrical pro- gression has only to be maintained to make the size of New York as unexampled as its growth. â€" Sew York Kjtoch. Conuecled Willi the Koa<l. â- ' I have met with ijneer characters in my day," remarked a conductor on one of the city roads last evening. " All sorts of excuses are given aud all old fakes are worked to get a ride. One of the nerviest men it has been uiy luck to meet was a well-to-do old ukinllint that used to ride frequently when 1 tirst camu on the line. The tirst time 1 attempted to collect his fare he smiled knowingly and in an uft hand manner said : ' Oh, that's all right.' I was young in the ' biz' and passed him by. lie worked the ' way ' to death. Not only did he ride himself but frei|ueutly in- vited some friends to accompany him. .â- Vt last I tumbled and made some in<|uirie8 at liead>|uarters touching his right to ride free. The very next morning, which was one of the hottest of a hot .luly day, he boarded the car. ' fare !' I yelled in his ear. 'tJh, that's all right,' he placidly replied. ' No, it isn't all right ; you oau't play me any longer,' was my answer. Assuming an air of injured dignity the old fraud said ' Connected with the road.' ' In what cwiacity " ' My son drove the snow- p'ugh on your road last winter.' 'Fhat man never rode with iiiuagain unless liehad the dust." -Symniie Courier. A SUN UAHOE. The editor of the Fort Macleod Oatetie has been attending a sua daiioe at the Blood Reserve near that town, and has come back to his sanctum considerably disgusted. He says 'â-  it was the same old thing, the same old song and the same old tune. " The worst feature connected with this heathenish ceremony is the " making of braves. " Un this occasion there did not appear to have been any candidates : but the whites present, greatly to their discredit be it said, got a victim for the torture by the payment of 8H. Lying on his back on the ground, three or four Indians got uboat this man, and the operating began. Pinch- ing the flesh between two tingerp, it was pulled out, and the knife run through it. A small stick, about two inches long, was run into the incision, and that was done. The same o[)erstion was ri'|)oated on the back. To the latter a shield was fastened. A raw hide lariat, doubled, hung from the top of the centre pole, and one of these ends was fastened to the stick in each breast, 'faking one in each hand, the candidate for honors yanked at them all his might. Then leaning back- wards, he threw his full weight on the ropes, and suspending by the sticks in his breast, danced backward and forward around the pole. Finally the tlesh gave way, and he fell on the ground aud lay there, a full- Hedged brave. Before the operation began, an old* party got out and counted the young man's coups. The list was not a very long one. He stole a gun, aud he stole some horses, and he stole some arrows and probably regretted that he had not stolen more while he was about it. The old party did not relate how many clothes, lines or hen-roosts he had robbed. The young man then blessed the old fellow, threw his arms around the medicine pole and prayed to the sun. This evidently put him in better spirits and the show related abovo proceeded. Then, tired out, every one rushed for the waggons and said good- bye to the sun dance of 1H87, each one vow- ing secretly that it was the last one they would ever go to. But tlioy all said the same last year. " Such an exhibition was certainly iiitiable enough, so far as theiwcr Indians were concerned, but it was utterly disgraceful 'ii view of the fact that it was prompted by whites. FIUHT FOB A CHILD. A MoUu-r ChargMl with KiduaiipliiK her Owu DauKht«r. .\ London despatch says : -V somewhat exciting incident took place on Saturday at the Grand Trunk station. It seems that about a year ago Mr. and Mrs. George White, of Oil City, Pa., who formerly lived in London, agreed to separate, and placed their children with different parties, their girl Nettie, 10 years old, being sent to live with Mrs. Daniel Gales, of this oity. Sub- se<)uently the couple became reoonoilcd and decided to gather their children around them and start housekeeping again. Mrs. White's mother came to London for the girl Nettie, but Mrs. Gales refused to let the child go, so Mrs. White came herself, arriving yesterday morning. Driving to Mrs. Gales' house on Richmond street, the mother chanced to see her child playing in the yard, got her into the cab and drove back to the station, Nettie screaning and fighting all the way. .\t tho station the mother procured tickets for Oil City and was about starting away on the Wabash Atlantic express, when Nettie's boisterous conduct attracted tho attention of the pas- sengers, who imagined that tho child was being kidnapped. The result was thai both mother and child wore takon to the (mlice station, where Mrs. (!ales also appeared. .\ hot dispute between motlier and guardian ensued, in which, however, the former finally triuinphod and obtained permission to take her child home. .SPUBOEON AND THE i«.\lTl.>iTS. The (ireat Pre»<.|i«r uu th« llniadeullig of UlMelit. A London cable says : Mr. Spnrgeoii is re)H)rted to be at variance with the Bap- tist L'nion, and it is said will consider him- self in nowise bound by the decision of the coiuingconferencel>etweenthe Baptists and the Congregatioiinlists. In a remarkable article on "The Broadening of Dissent," Mr. Spurgeon writes: " .\ new religion has bt-en initiated which is no more like Christianity than^hnlk is like cheese. A religion, destitute of moral honesty, palms itself olf as the old faith with slight iiii- proveuients, and on this plea usurps pul- pits erected for the purpose of ]ireachiiig the Gospel. .\t the back uf this doctrinal falsehood comes the natural doctrine of spiritual life, which, while it is wanting among certain Dissenters, is becoiiiiiig ful- ler of zeal and force in the I'jpiscopal Churh, where tho GosikjI is fully preached. With the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven, our churches not only, hold their own but win converts, but their strength is gone when the Gospel is concealed and the life of prayers slighted, the whole thing be- coming a more form and fiction and for this our heart is sorely grieved. " The arti- cle is aimed at the preaching of the Con- gregationalists, and not at their character, which, in the main, Air. Spurgeon approves. The fact that it makes no mention of 1 r Parker, of the City Temple, is somewhat commented uixin. How to Qrow Plump. The famous Mr. Banting, who reduced his weight by more than tifty pounds in one year, found that sugar was the moat fattening thing he could eat. Hence, to increase your weight eat cakes, puddings, syrup, honey, candy and pastry, always taking care that it be crisp and digestible, for indigestible food is a chief cause of leanni'ss. New England pie-crust is probably responsible for the apiiearance of the typical gaunt Yankee. Other fattening articles of food are tender lamb, salmon and eels, uiilk and cream, corn bread and butter, and those vegetables which grow underground and of which sugar is inado- heets, turnips, etc. Boiled or bakwl |>ota- toes, mashed on the plate and seasonetl with salt and fresh butter, make a delicious dish, rapidly fattening. Eat often and very slowly, for it is not the quantity that is uateii hut the amount that is thoroughly digested that nourishes the system and rounds the bodily contour. â€" I'he EjhhIi. Uuw to Kat Com, The head of one of the biggest restaur- ants in Chicagocame very near losing a customer the other day by asking him if he knew how to eat corn in the ear. The cus- tomer, Yankee-like, spunked up with this |uery : " Do you take nie for a hog ?" After a reconciliation the restaurant man talked as follows : " No one man in tifty knows how to eat corn in the oar so as to get at the (jDod of it. In the tirnt place, I admit that no man or woman looks very pretty with an ear o( corn in his or her mouth. The fact is there is no artistic way Mo eat it. Take your oar of corti and lay it across your plate, or leave it on the side dish. Hold it with your fork in your left hand. Take your knife and run it over the row o( kernels, cutting .them or lancing them. Take the next rovC, aud so im until you cut all the rowij. Put on your salt and pepper and butter and* then eat. My word ior it, if the corn is hot too. old, you will relish the corn as you never did before. The hiisk^) remain on the oob. And you can then see what sort of iiidigestUile stuff has usca|ied your stomach. " Culinary .Mysterlen, How true it is that few of us know what we are really eating. The manner in which a cultured appetite can be deceived with a plebeian morsel is thus related : A bet was recently made bv two Ereiich gour- mands, one of which asserteel that he could detect the component parts of any dish that was sot before him, tho other betting at great odds that he would not be able to tell the material wherewith his cook would prepare a " savory dish " for them. The cook, a Frenchman, of course, exerted all his talents and surpassed all praise. Tho dish was placed before the knowing epicure Ho tastes, smacks his lips, tastes again, smells it, tastes again. Alas ! it is redolent of all rich odors ; such gravy, such solids â€" so soft, so tender I What can it be ' A wondrous prepared trii>e ? No I Calf's head in a new shape .' No, no, no, a thousand noes. Our epicure gives it up. " It is old white kid gloves !" is the oool explanatisn when the bet is resigned as lost. â€" Boston Traveller. Ill an Oil'-hunil Way. ' Dan, " said a (Xintractor to one of his trusted omployeos, " when you are down seeing about that line this morning, I wish you would mention to Dempsoy that I would like to have that little bill paid. You needn't jiress it, you know, but just men- tion it to him in an off-hand manner. " " Yes, sorr." â- ' I got the money from Dempsey, sorr," said Dan on his return. " I'm very glad ; you merely alluded to it in an off-hand way I sup|)ose." " Yes, sorr, I handed him the bill and towld him if he didn't pay it, I would lot off nio hand and give him >\ witie in the jaw that he wouldn't forgot for a while, and he paid it at wanst." Not tho Place for Ulin. " You'll find this .a very (juiot house," said Miss Poundsteak. " Most of the board- ers are single ladies and members of a sow- ing circle. " " Any poker going on ?" askod Hood. " Good gracious, no!" exclaimed the pious landlady, horrified. " Well," returned Reed, " if that's the his OBcapo. He crawled from the fourth case I guess it wouldn't pay me to board story window to the tire escape at No. '21 here." â€" The Epoch. Soring street, and, on attempting to] .♦ ^ ^ , descend beoanio dizzy and fell headlong i An Esquimaux will eat twenty pounds to the yard Uo was so badly battered of meat per diem, lubricating the mass about the head and body that his recovery , •with as much oil as ho can swallow ; yet is doubtful Ho had been deprived of a Tongouso will go twenty pounds better, ^ food for twenty. four hours and attempted for ho can got away with forty iioimds of . • . j *u * .i, food '°r,_;,'* j„„,.„„f in sfiaroh of something reindeer meat n tho same space of time. It has boon conjectured that tho oxtra- his perilous descont n search of something ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^,^ I^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^.^^^^^ ,^^^^ ^^.^ ^___^_^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ j,^^ ^^ •° ^"- •" '^ I when they see three Yakutes demolish a these lacod-in tailor-mado gowns, as they -It is after a man has attained a ipo whole reindeer at one sitting sn,! rise raise a wearers temperature about old ago that he begins to fall off. apparently none tho worse for the feed. degrees. It is an idea. Asking Too Much. Tho party from the Buccaneer House started at .\ a.m. to go to a iieak from which a 810 view of the sunrise could be obtained. Thoy wandered around until 12.:10 trying to lind tho peak; then they wandered around until 3 p.m. trying to find tho hotel. Then thoy became hungry and weary and impatient, as sninmor boarders will sometimes become, and tho boldest of them-^a dark-browed, silent man, who seemed to bo perfectly devoid of fear, and who, it was reported, had once committed a murder, and, as some saiil, had oven asked the waiter not to change his seat at tho table during tho inoalâ€" now asked tho guide timidly : "Do yod know in which direction is the hotel?" Tho in- dignant guide turned on him like a lion at bay: "Gaul slam it, no! 1 dun't know nawthin about whor we be ; 1 ain't never guided in these parts till this summer. Dew ye'xpoct a man tn learn tho hull State of Maine in one trip."â€" /<rooA/i/H Eaiile.. ten Slipei'ittltiou Die» Baril. Tho following note appears in the agri- cultural department of the Now York Tribune without a word of coininont, or anything to show that tho editor is aware that the age uf astrology has passed : " 1 always build my fence when tho horns of the moon point up, and stake and rider it when the horns point down ; the two draw together, and my fence never falls. The moon should govern us in all our opera tions. Onr school house, contrary to my advice, was roofed in tho light of the moon, and last winter nearly all the children had the ineaslos, and now tho roof is leak- ing badly." Aireelioiiale KvlKtiunH uV Thi-tte Hoyal Nii*t*rn. It IS well known how attached the thrtie daughters of the King of I>eiiiiiark are to each other. Ills Majesty is fond of relating an instance of this iiltachinunt- Whilethe Princess Tliyra was still unmarried, the I'rinct^ss of Wales and the Czarina with their children came on a visit to Kredens- borg. <.)iic morning the King was going out on a very early HX|)e<lition and deter- mined to go to his daughteis' looms to bill them " good-bye. ' When tho father tapped at the frincess of Wales' beiiroom door ho got no answer, and opening it found her room empty, ami on going to the Czarina's he knocke<l with the same result. On arriving at Princess Thyra's simple beiichanilwr lie found his two older married daughters had each taken a mat- trass from her own splendid guest chamber and established herself thereon in the young girl's room. They were all chatting merrily, but were girlishly anxious to con- ceal the escapade from their ladios-in-wait- ing. â€" .Miidem Society. Squeezed Up Froo' Her Dress. A London paper tells a good story of a lady who, all dressed for a ball, wont to tht nursery to kiss her little daughter good night. Tho child looked at her mother in astonishment, and a moniont after tho tears came into hor big, blue eyes, and she sobbed out, " Poo' mamma ! Poo' Nellie's mamma !" " What's tlio matter with your mamma '.'" asked her father, who was Rtandiiig by. " Poo' mamina's all squeezed up froo' e top of hor ihi'saV'-.tlliiiny â- Iniirnul. In cutting a new street at Buffalo all of one nittii'H land except a iiino-inch strip iwas taken, and on this amount ho has to pay taxes. The law is so strict that no more land laii be takon in such a case than the notice of intention calls for. During tho recent visit of Mr. Chamber- lain and Mr. Jesse Collings to Scotland, two Skye crofters wore discussing tho political" situation. Quoth ono -" Woel, Angus, and what do you think of this Maistor Chamberlain that's to bo horo tho iiiorii ?" To which tho other repliedâ€" " Wool, Uoni.id, he maun bo a very bad man, travelling about wi' a woman wi' a different name !" " Wi' a woman ! Eh, mon, some ono has been foolin' ye." "Na, iia ! its true. They tolled mo she's one •ToBsie Collings." BurApeau Dr^^ss In ilapaii. The Court of the Mikado is being gradu- ally stripixid of every vestige of its Oriental coloring. It was only the other day that the ICniproBs made the European fashion of female attire obligatory »ii tho Japanese ladies admitted to the Court receptions, and the domestics of the palace are now to be rigged out in liveries imitated from those worn by tho servants of the lm))orial household in .-Vustria. Prince Komatsu, who has fliient tho last few months in Vienna, was so takon with tho ap|>earanoe of the Court servants that he aske<i per- mission to have copies made of the different liveries. This was, of course, readily granted, and tho models are now on their way to Japan, whore powdered ])eriwig8 and silk stockings will no doubt before long be as regular a feature in the economy not only of the Court, but of every household which resjiects itself, as they are in our own part of the world. â€" /ujwhisc Ihrald. At Fotherlngay. The Mary (jueeii of Soots tercentenary, besides the exhibition of relics more or loss coniiocted with her at Peterborough, has had » quaint dramatic reoognition. At the little North Hants village of Fotheringay, tho soeno of hor execution, tho other day many liumlred visitors witnessed a series of tableaux vivaiits done by ladies of the neighborhood, niulor tho direction of Lon- don exports, depicting tho chief scenoB in tho Queen's life, from her marriage with tho ilanphin to her execution. Ono of tho roBultsof tho Peterborough Exhibition will be the erection of a homo memorial of her in tho cathedral there, where she was buriod originally. Ji>l\?,- \ man weighing l.'i-l pounds contains 117 poiinds of oxygen, tho volume of which, at ordinary toniiioraturo, would exceed !)80 cubic foet. The hydrogen is much loss in quantity, there being loss than 15 poundB, hut which, in a free state, would occupy a volume of 2,800 cubic foot Tho three other gases are nitrogen, nearly 4 iKiunds ; chloride, about 2(> ounces, and fluorine H^ ounces. .t . lJ,j..f[:. J,