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% I' â- vy^fTf -; •*<â- â€¢ . .1 â- fir?* i If CURRENT TOPICS. rmssiDESTT CuiVBLtiiD seiik baok the 4ec«l Isr k uurutir lui (jri^iteiiled him by bis ad- aur«r« in Ht. Pnal, and it h»s Ukeu two- thirdi of tbu lime of the good wives of ViuiioiipuliB tu keep battODs sewed ou tbe Vests uf liukled Miuuespoliisns. Wong Chin Foe, the nktaralized Cbins- M«u mIio was rvcenil; taxtd 160 ou iht Cacsdiaii border by the Duiuiuiuu Goveru- meiit, ia in roueipl uf sletterfromHecrtitary Bayanl 8a)iui4 iliat be baa forwarded Woii^ Chin'8 formal coiuplaiul to Minister Phelps ill Londoii, who will lay it before the Britiuh QoTeriiiiieut for expUuations. NiiToaiL (;aa bae been known and ex- taniitvely uned in Asia and China for a feng time. History tells OS of a well in France in the time of Julius C'leMr. The flrst ill the Uuited States was iu Charles- tan. The Taylor Uuase, in Fredouia, N. Y., was illuminated iu 1S24 iu honor of La- fayette, A few years ago a gas well was discovered iu Ouean Spray, near Boston. The nature and rfficieuuy uf natural gas is bat pirlly understood. JoAgum Mnxas has had a vast amoant «f trouble iu hie domeatic affairs. Notlou)^ •go his favorite daughter married au aotoi •KaiiiBt her father's will, and uow"Ual" Miller, a non of the famous poet, is in joil m Nevada City fur horse stealing. " Ual " is a young fellow not vet IH > ears of age. He offers auother illustration of the faut Uiai his father's life has been one of verses and reveraes. Thb firbt statue of Longfellow to be eruulud will be set up in Portland, Me., the rwt'ii birthplace, and will be the work of raukliii Biuiuione, a Maine suulptor. The •lay model has just been tiuisheU iit Rome, auU represents the poet iu a sitting alti- todu, the right arm resting in au easy posi- tion on the bauk of a richly carved and •ruameutal ubair, while the other is thrown •arelessly forward ou his lap and loosely kolds a mass of manasoript. M. Pastbuh, of France, has perfected a â- cheme which he thinks will result in the Sxteruiinatioii of the pestiferous rabbits of Australia and New Zeahsnd. Ue proposes te introduce chicken cholera among the ftuimaU by means of microbes. But who •an sstablith the faut thai (he microbes mil not be a grAlvr nuisance than the rabbits 7 Chicken cholera microbes do not kear a very good general reputation. They night kill all the rabbits iu Australia, but would thoy stop there ? Ir the condensed breath collected on the •ool wiudow-paues of a room where a nuut- ker of persons have been sssembled be borued, a smell as of a siugtrd hair will •how the presence of orgaiiio matter ; and. il the uuudeused breaih be allowed to re- Bsiu on the windows for a few da)s il will be found, oil examination by microscope, that it is alive wiih animalculHv The in- halation uf air conlaiuiug suuli putn-sceiit Batter causes untold complaintn. whuli might be avoided by a circulation of fresh air. TuK Compulsory Kdacatiou law iu New York Hlate is a failure. The Superiu- teiident of Public luxlruclion kiv>-s two eonclusive reasons for it. Ue says : " 8ohool trustees elected to supi-rvise the scbools, and serving withont compensation, â- aturaily objeol to belug turned into con- stables and |x>lice oflioers for the purpose ml apprehending dL-liu>|ui>ut chilJrpii or the •liililren of deliii(|ueiit parents. Moreover. the nclioola are full." The iiuinbrr of chil- dren who attend the ttohools in New York as compared with the number entitled to attend has been duoreasing since 1870. MiN have often been lirivi^ to crime by hunger. l>r. Charles Bradley, formerly of Chicago, bouainv a forger and thief through his passion for cocaine. .\ victim of the â- se of the drug, be redacetl himself to poverty, lost a g<xxl prautice. went to New York, ana was the other morning placed in the bauds of the poliue. Uis prautice was to write letters from doctor to another, asking the loan of a hypodermic syringe and some cocaine for immediate use. His •ouditian iuduoed his ui>mmittal to the peoiteutisry. The saddest part of the Mory IS the fact that be made his wife and â- ix ohddren also victims of the drug. NoBTH C.(Boi'ii4 takes the palm tornegro Beohanios. Within her border ar^ to be loand wholesale merchants, wholesale manafaoturers and dealers in tobacco, arohilects, silversmiths, locksmiths, boot aid shoe dealers and auotioneers. Btewart Bills, of Kaleigh, has filled a Uoverninent •entraot for carpentering on a building worth 1300,000. W. C. Coleman, whole- â- ale and retail merchant at Concord, owns several of the finest breed of horses in the State. Misa Drake, an Afrioo-American, «( Nash, took the prize at all the State lairs for the best prod action of cotton. There are twenty individuals in the Htate worth from »10,U00 to »:{O,0OO each. AccoBuiMo to recent experiments of MM. Haurlut and Kiohet, of which an account has been given to the French Academy of Sciences, the ventilation of the lungs is mcreased by mnscular labor. In moderate work the veutilation it more than sntfioient for the excretion of the •arbonio acid produced, and above all for the absorption of the neoeesarv oxygen. In hard work the proportions of carbooio acid produeod and oxygen absorbed rise slightly the harder the work ; bat it is obiedy the proportion of carbonic acid which iuoreasoe. During muscular exer- tion the ratio of carbonic acid p^odacej to oxygen absorbeii tends to become unity, although normally it is less than unity. A NRw ma({aziue rifle ia to be adopted by the Italian army which seems in some re- spects quite as effective as the French arm. Il is called the Freddi ritte, after its inven. tor, Capt. Frwddi, who has just madekoown his invention. The rifle weighs but seven rounds four ounces ; the bore is .Sl.5 oali- re or a trifle larger than an ordinary lead- pencil , â€" half the weight of the Springfleld bullet ; the charge of powder iseighty- three (rains, which is heavier than the Springfleld, and ihemuzxle velocity is l.tUO feet a seoind, 300 feet greater than that of the Springfield. A soldier can carry '-'00 cartridges, which weigh but eleven pounds four ounces, and he can flrj twenty four rounds in a minute. CuiTKtt II. Uahrisos, ex-Mayor of Chicago, writes from .lapan that ho is sorry that the women of that country have adopted the European style of dress *'- China," he says, " oot of which no almond- â- yed Celestial could esoape, but I would be telighted if the co^lamu of their ladies could be introduced among Western nations. We would thru have our belter halves Iressed to plt-ase an aristic eye, without the prt- seut waste of female health and strength." Mr. tlarrison does not men- tion " feet," but doubtless he does no< wish ha ladies of Chicago to follow the example of ibo Chinese belles in keeping down the i>i/.e ef their pedal extremities. A TOi'ic of no small importance from the standpoint of public health has been exer- cising the wits of the leading medical men of New Vork. The discussion began in an article in the ilrdical Record, which main- tained that cholera was stopped by cold wcH'lipr and that an epidemic at this time of the year would be impos-ible. Dr. Kegiuaiu U. Bay re, of New Yurk, holds, on the contrary, that cholera is a scourge of which the march cannot be stayed by either cold or heat, dry or damp, and, iu support uf his views, he gives the dates of the vaii- oas viaitatious f roui 183Uo.iward8. In that year it appeared at Moscow iu October, and lu MSi. iu Great Britain in the same month, being moat fatal in Deoember. Iu March, 1h:j2, it was at its worst iu Paris, 861 per- sons dying in ten days. From these and other statistics Dr. Sayre argues that it is madness to trust to any notion of the cold season being less susceptible of its ravages. In matters of sanitation, indeed, there is only one safe principle, that is being always prepared, so far as human precautions can avail. Tux other day. Field. Marshal vou Moltke delivered himself of the following opiiiion CQUoerning the French and German armies. At a military gathering at Berlin, held in honor of the veteran's 87lh birthday, he said : " The next war will be above all a war in which strategic science and the art of commanding will play the greatest part. Our campaigns ana our victories have taught our enemies, numbers, armament strength will lie iu commandment -in a quarter's stuff, to devoted the last who, like us, have and courage. Our the handling, in the word, in the head- wbich I have davs my CUTTIMO OUT CAMCKK8. Cases of Kspeoial Interest in View af the Cruwn Priuoe's Malady. In the amphitheatre at the New York hospital the other day Profeasor B. F. Weir wore a long white operating gown, which reached almost to his feet, sa>s the New York Sun. A square table, set on wheels, and having a shelf half way from the floor, bore a glass tray filled with s solution of carbolic. In this liquid Uy the professor's iuslriuniuitB. " The ca^ for operation to-day," said the professor to the lUO medical studcuts sud 25 doctors present, " are of peculiar interest, both being cases of epithelioma, which first attracted such general attention iu the case of General Uraut, and is at preseul creating great luterest iu the case of the Crown Prince of Germany. I have not studied the case of the princ 3 so ss to be able to criticise the diagnosis made in it, but one thiug is certain, his case proves thst we must not trust too muih to microscopic tests. In his case several seotiuns of the growth were examiued, which, ^joording to the microscopist, were n nant. Later seciions were edly cancerous. W^e miut for ourselves as to the advisability ating, even when the microsvopist A WASTED LIVB. The life. Our enemies may envy us this force, but they do not possess it." This speech, which is not over-modest, does not seem to have given any ofleuce iu France : at least one of our Paris contemporaries, after <)uotiug it. simply observes ; â- â€¢ If the opinion of M. de Molike is correct, let us try to acquire the only qualitv in which, according to him, we are still wanting." Previous to the w*r of H70 71 the French military attache at Berlin, Baron Stoffel, frequently warned his (tovurnuieut to be- ware of the Prussian stafl. His warnings were disregarded. Will those of the old Field. Marshal meet with more serious <x)n- siderstiuu '.' Thk transmission from the cow to man of scarlet fever and tuberculosis was the subject of the opening address uf Professor Uamilton at MarischnI College, AberdneM, in which the lecluier gave an e.\crlleiit account of the iiivebtigaliuns uuuduuted by Mr. Fowtfr mid Dr. Kliin into the relation of a cow niala<iy to -ca-let fever in man. He referred also to the obst-rvtlioQ* of Copland, who believed thai both the dog and the horse cnuUl suffer froia the latter â-  •fectiou, and stkted that a febrile coodi- tier of some kind •an be lotiitiiunicattil to animals by inoculating tliem with the blooii of persuiis ^ho arc the subjects of scarlet fever. Ue further Impressed the opinion that tubercle could be conveyed to man by inesns of milk from tuberculous cows. While the |>os8ibility uf such occurrence cannot be denied, it must be borne in toiud that Klein has pointed out that there are certain important dif furences tMlween bovine and human tuber- oulosis : and again, Creightou has shown that man occasionally suffers from a form of this disease which resembles the bovine malady, making il probable that by far the greater number of cases are not of bovine origin. Nevertheless, the subject deserves much greater investigation, and certainly every effort should be made to prevent the distribution of milk from turberculons 00 w*. .1 Latly's Outtil for Manitoba. " Felix " in London Qwen writes : The warmest of clothing will be re>)uisite, the cold being intense the greater part of tha year. Every article of dress should be made aa simply as possible, dresses in thick woollen materials, and bodices suf- ficiently loose to enable plenty of wraps to be worn underneath, such as a knitted bodice ; those in pine wool are warmest. Hhetland veils, boots and shoes should be large enoagh alsotoallowofthickstjokings, and woollen legginga even over these : nightdresses in flannel, and knitted night- socks ; an indiarubber hot-water bag, and a gocd-sized s>|aare of mackintosh ; nome yards of flannel, thick-lined gloves, strong calico sheets, blankets and pillowsâ€" the latter are a comfort to have amongst the wraps on the long railway journeys. The midges are a real plagne, and mosquito netting is useful to have. Do not forget to take a good supply of cottons, pins, hair- pins, tapes, stationery and all such etceterasâ€" daily articles one is so aocus. tomed to have at hand at home, and become a oousiderable inconvenience when unpro- curable. Warm weather mast also be con- sidered, though of short duration. Some print dresses. Norfolk jacket bodices ; aa a better drees, black in al|)aca, a washing silk or cashmere, ' ' aiig ubl- udge oper- pro- nounces it non-malignant. " TTie professor signalled to bis assistants, and they wheeled in a stretcher oa which lay the patient Ue was under the influence of ether. On his right cheek was the ijrDwtb. it was about the size and shape of a big egg and looked like an ulcer. "Kigbteeu months ago," said the professor "a small pimple appeared ou this man's cheek. U enlarged and he oonsulted a physician, who burned the growth with causiioi This treat- ment, accorUing to moderu aulhoi'ities, is not good practice, as it irritates the tumor and promotes its growth. Within the last year it has growu to its present size. " The patieut's face had been carefully cleansed by tbu professor's assistants with a diluted solution of bichloride of mercury. " Give me a scalpel," said Prof. Weir, "a sharp one." Taking the knife handed hiiii, ne carefully cut out the tumor, removing about one quarter of an inch of hesllh) tissue on all sides of the growth, in order to thoroughly e.xtirpate it. Kach artery as it was severed was seized by a pair of selfclampiug artery forceps, until si.\ or ei^ht pair were hanging to the wound. The big tumor was removed, together with a small section of the masseter muscle and a por- tion of the parotid gland, with which the tumor seenieu to be incorporated, tiome exfidliations on the molar boue were re moved with a pair of forcepo, and the cut. ting was dressed as an open wouiid.tobriiiK the edges together would di!.tort tlie mouth. Gauze or oheste duth, impreg nated with iodofonn siid covered with s mass of cotton retained by a bandage, com- pleted the dressing, alter which the palieni was removed. I'rofessor Weir retired to don a clean white gown, and then his second patient was brouulit in. He, too. waskUUilur the iudueuce of ether. He had an epilheliomstous growth on the lefi siile of li's tongue. " Tliis tiiaii," brgai the professor, " has confessed to the im- moderate use ol tobacco, but I do not be lieve that caused liistrouble. .H^ilhelioma stems to be contagious. Uohsee sj^pear to oeuome afifecled with it, as caser occur which can be e,\plained in no other way. We kuow two or more members of the same family become victims to this disease-, when tliur< is no previous hist<iry of the umlady iu the family, and the only reasuuablu e.xplsnalioii of the theory is oo^iiagioo. Two years ago this patient bit id* tongue, and tbii cancer seeius to have developed from the wound. " A stout silk ligature was passed through each side of the tongue by means of curved needles. Ihen the tongue was pulled fur- ward by (he silk threads by au assistant. The professor made a small incision down the middle of tha vongue. He then tore the tongue with his fingers down nearly to the base, as if it were a piece of cloth. He it off the half which contained the tumor. As quickly as possible tbs severed arteries were sei/,ed and tied up with strong silk ligatures. After passing a stout silk cord through the stamp so as toeuable him tooon- trol il in case of secoudary hemorrhages, the professor skilfully cut off the other half of the tongae and also tied up the arteries. This patient, he said, would have had the same lingering death as Gonersl Grant if the cancer had net been removed, as it was increasing in size, and would iu time have eaten away the tongue and throat. Old Man Who Heard a 8oa( In tk« Nl(ht i4Md Tliou«ht at Mutkrr. In the quiet waiting room of the Grand Trunk depot in Lewislou aat a gray whis- kered old fellow iu a broad-brimmed bat. Ue had been studying a time-tabls with some perplexity and bad just laid it aside. A question froui Vim relative lo the start- ing of the traius fur Oxford county was lu- troduclion enough. Uis voice was hoarse, but uol Dupleasaut. Uis inflection was odd. Ueiug a l3owu I'.^asler, it was safe fur the writer to guesa that the stranger was from the West. " From the West?" " Yon bet," was the reply. " Goiug to Oxford County ?" " That 8 where I'm going." Conversation was desultory until the Wesleruer opened up. tiaid he, " It's thircy-two years since I see the bills of Maine. I was raised up in old Oxford County. I rockon 1 ami thought u' these hills since I were a boy iu uopper-toed boots with a good old daddy â€" too good, God bless him, for nary such a youngster as I were, 1 left home when I was IU and went out West, then I came tMsuk and went lo sea. 1 coasted eight years and in 'j5 went ou a deep sea voyage and brought up lu California. I've been there ever since. Uave come back uow." " Alone ' â-  "Alone; Yes, alone I That'sthe bother of it. my boy. Nary a darned soul there uor here as I know of that cares whether 1 get here or not â€" a lonesome old mau. Don't you do it. Take my word for it. It's awml. For thiny-five years uothiug to think of but wurk and dig and dive. No wife. Never had none. No friends, exoept boys in the diggings when I first went there, and iu town where I've been ruunin' a little business of my own for the past eight yesrr. Nothing Hliead of me fur the past twenty years but getting rich. No letters from any txxiy as 1 knows uf. Nothing in my dreams but money. Nothing else iu the visions of lbs mouu- taiu peaks, nothing else in the chaugiu' sur- face of the Pacific whenever I'vecaught a glimpse of It. 1 ve Ueeu a sordid, mean, luw-lived skinflint part o' the time, and a ruisterin', tearin' felluw rest of it. Lookin' Oack It makes a lump in my throat, boy, it do honest, and I agree I hat a wasted lite is the a^fuUest thing beneath the canopy of blue. It makes me sick. I don't like to think of il, I like to talk, ye see, to keep away from thinking of it. " Coin' back to the ol 1 place?" " The old place ?" t^li ' Yes, the old place. Leastwise that's what 1 reckon on. What do you suppose made me ' Uadu't thoujiht o' iiomu for forty live years. Hadn't been lo church any to speak of. It were only just a soug as did it. A little old fashioned song that I heard in the evening, three months ago buut a mother Aiio wanted to kuow where her wanderin' boy was. It came up uut o the night way .jfT there beyoi.d the mountains and 1 thought of uiy old mother. God bless her, iiid of the old place. I couldii t sieep for » cent that nn;ht. I turned and twisted and sweat great drops. I kept thinkin' alioul home and about all Id ever read or lieard about it. Seems as though 1 could see tbe.uld lady's face luuking lulo uiiua. with eyes full of love, as tood as she did when i was a kid. I tbuUKht it over for a day or two. Life didn't luck ha'f rosy out there. Fact is I wanted to go home, just home, nowhere else, and you bet I started when I made up my iiund. 1 iliiuk 1 only Kind u waul to see the grave of uiy mother and fix up the family lot, you know, and, do you know, toy buy. 1 bee u soil o' huldiu' ou to have a goud cry isomethin' I ain't known for iliirty yeaisi. and when I'm done with thai, and when I've shied around and seen all 1 want to uf the old place, I'm goiu' to Bostuu and see a brother of mine, and go back again beyond the Uuckies and die there with tiiy face toward the East. I could afford to do it and I aiu't the sort to be ashamed of it. Le' me tell you oue thing, though- -all of life and all its gold aiu't worth the loss of your mother's love. Pat that down tu keep ; for if you was me you would be able to prove it. and wouldn't ruu any risk of being lured away from it by auy of the other thiugs of earth. It's the best thing the Lord gives us, and the last thing, I'm thinkin', Ue ought to take away." â€" Letciiton Jaiirnal. CHIKK8B MAMtlli-, il A Vexatious Tax la Paris. Oue of the greatest impositions in Paris is the octroi or duty on eatables and drink ables collected at the various barriers or gates. .\s each market -oart passes through the fortifications in the morning it is stopped and a small tax charged on each and every article brought into Paris. The same system is vigorously practioed for all articles going out of Paris. The anbarbs are uow composed of somsdct^n townships lying outside of the fortifications, and numerous straggling villages which extend for miles around Paris. Each of these places has its barrier and custom house. An English friend of mine, recently settled here, had a dreadful experience with this system yesterday. He lives at Connelles, a suburb some three miles out of the city proper, and to reach which he is obliged to . .„ ..„...,. „.„„,„g, pass through six different townships. He A few pieces of unmade had purchased at au English butcher's, on prints will be useful, a folding deck chair, Ru» Saintc Houore, a leg of Boathdown plenty of wraps and some light literature, mutton as a treat for bis wife. He was stopped at each of the six custom houses * ' on his way home, and wss obliged to pay a An ort- Worked l>od(e. ' sum eijuivalent to 10 cents every time on K\.iuillionaire -My son, you have ruined the unfortunate leg of mutton.â€" iV«w York me. I H'&rlii. A Cartons l.«d|^ of Ui«^ City. (Mew Yurk World ) Old Masons were, uuiil late, of lbs opinion that no such a thing as a Cbiueae lifaisou existed. One geutlemau said he had seen Arabs and Turks who were good Masons, but to the beet of his knowledge, no Chinaman was in the Order. Never- theless, there are uut only Chinese Masons, but right here in New York there ia a Chinese Masonic lodge lu full blast with a membership of over ihree hundred. It is a native organization, not allied direotiy to the Free and Accepted Masons, but said to be founded on principles very nearly akia. The lo<lge-roum is at No. 18 Mott street, second floor, frout, and has recently been remodelled and refitted iu very good shape, all uewly painted and cleaned. The l()dge furuiture is of Chinese design, and imported from China expressly fur the society at a great expense. A tall flagstaff with a rope lur running up colors is on top of the building. Auuve tue tluvr aa oue enters the lu<tge-rouni is a rtd sign in uati\e characters signifying " Chinese Masonic Society," and down the sidea are two long slips of red paper bearing mottoes. Oue uf these is " Do good to one auother," and the other relates to the business of tbs Order. The interior is like mest Chiuess quarters, only lighter, and not lull of odd turns and unsuspected corners. Immedi- ately on entering oue is led into a sort of ante-room and thence into the main or lodge- room. At the lower end of this rooa is ihe ailar, and a very valuable oue il is, costing in China tl.oUU. Above it is an alcove iu which a colored drawing is sus- peuded. Il is not the least curious thiug in the place, the design b<.-ing three figures, one seated and two others bending over hii shoulder. The seated figure represents the venerable father of Chinese Masonry. The face is heavy, placid and adorned with a lung black beard. The other two are re- spectively the spirits of light and darkness, who are supposed to be giviug him counsel. In fruut uf the altar a lamp is bung. It is never extinguished, and burns lu oom- memoration of the dead uf the Order. Aiioiher emblem is two sticks uf sandal- wuod punk thrust tutu a box of sand. They keep smouldering away and fill the air with a famt but sweet perf utue. On the wall is oug board, and on this are pasted a great numlier of sheets of paper covered with CbineiHi hieroglypbi> s. 'Ihese arc the lists uf members voted on in the N«w Yurk lodge. Near the rosier hang two books. One uf thtse is sent out from the Hupreme Lodge at San FranciHcu, and gives a de- tailed aucouiit cf a number of oases of those in distress and sick'j>-es, and the where abuuts of each one who needs help. The other is a subscription t>o< k ;u which th»- various amountssolwcrilJed areentereJ. At iiittrvals these two books and ths amount raii-ed are transuiittLd to tha Su- preme Lodge, from which ihe ilepeudeul uieuioers are relieved. Meelinifs are not held ui'Ou regular ui»;bis, Lut at intervals decided upon by the diymtaries of the Ordtr, ssihe atceesilies uf business may demand. The meuitv.rs are not fled of meetings, held geiierally on Suiuloy nights, by the appearance of a triangular fl&g at iIm top ut tha pole ou lop uf the bouaa. This llsii is while and bears the picture of a buK« red dragOD with its tail towards ths point. There are gripH, signs and pass- wonis e.\actly as in an American Iwdge, " The travelling card" of this society is quite a curiusity in list If. It is a »iaars ut red silk inscribed with Chiuese charac- ters, and IS a document highly prized by all its lOisessors. Sonâ€" Have I "• \ " My whole fortune has been B<|uandend in paying your dobts." â- ' Haven't you any real estate yon can the ballet weighs btit 'iiS grains, or mortgage ?" How the Sparrows Keep Warm. How do the sparrows keep warm these nights ? From the way they chatter in the trees and about the leaves, it may be sup- posed that they have comfortable nights somewhere. But sometimes they make a bold and desperate shift. -A citizen says that one evening while passing a pole apou which a number of fowls roosted, he was surprised to see several sparrows fly away from the roost. Not fully satisfied with his conclusion â€" that the birds were roosting under shelter of ths fowls â€" he atepped be- hind a board fence to watch for a verifioa- tiou. Presently the birds began to return and alight within a few feet of the roost , then one, with more courage than any of the others, flew over and alighted sc]aarely on the back of a large rooster, and a moment later disappeared between the feathers of the rooster and a hen at his aids. Soon the other sparrows began to settle be- tween the fowls, and iu a short time all bad found a warm shelter from the storm, and protection from noxious animals beneath the soft feathers of the good-natured fowls, â€" Lflntion Frte Prett. I'eriluus Wurk un Qreat Hridce*. " lu a lecture given at Dundee, Scotland, Mr. Baker, one of the Forth Bridge engi- neers, tells a fine story of modern heroism," says the St. Jumtt' (Juzcttt : " Six men were one day «orkingat the bridge, standing on a plAuk UO feet above the sea level. One of the hooks supporting the plank gave way. With great presence of mind three of the men sprang at the steel works of ths bridge and held ou ; a fourth dived, was rescued, and, it may be added incidentally, almost imcsediately resumed work. Of the three banging to the steel work by the arm!, two were in particular danger ; yet when the rescue party reached the first of them, all he said was, ' I can hold on ; go to the other man ; he is dazed.' In all, thirty- five men lost their lives during the five years the bridge has been building, and 2.300 is the average number of workmen employed at a time. Mr. Baker says that though many superior workmen wers needed, there was no lack of them. As for the magnitude of the undertaking, ' as a grenadier guardsman is to a new-born infant, so is the Forth Bridge tothe largest bridge yet bail! in Great Britain.' " Mme. Grevy thinks that her husbeid and son in law are the victims of a politi- oil conspiracy. i A lady in Milton, Pa., who was socosted only English gift and attempt to ourry Wo must move next week to by a rascal just at dusk the other evening, favor with the Persian Court which has ' Lord Dufferin's Girt to the .Shah. From Teheran comes the news of the arrival of an elephant from India as a present from Lord Dufferin to the Shah of Persia. The animal is described as a very fine one, handsomely oaparisooed and attended by some thirty Hindoos. This, insinuates a Tiflis newspaper, is not the a rented house. I can no longer support defended herself in a novel way. She was lately been made by the English, In view' you. Yon must sjo to work." returning from marketing and had in her of the Shah's recall of his late Minister " WtU, rU go into politioa." basket a piece of bologna sausage, whih and another functionary from exile, into " Papers wnioh kuow your reoord will she pointed at the fellow, crying out, •• Yoii which they were sent for uouniving at the oppose you." ' scoundrel, if you touch me I'll shoot you " escape of Ayoub Khan, and the bestowal " That's all right. I'll olaim tbey are SupjKising it was a pistol she bad, the man of honors upon them on their return to He opposing me because I am poor." â€" ♦ Ex- Senator Tabor, of Colorado, is said to have struck another gold bonanza near the Matchless mine at Lesdville. The 8onie Natural DiflTerences. Between France and England there is as much difference as between a man and a woman- both capital in their owo way, and neither understanding the other. French- men imitate Englishmen ; Englishwomen copy Frenchwomen. Frenchmen drink coffee and eat veal ; Englishmeu drink tea and eat beef. France has but one religion ; Frenchmen are prepared to die for il, but refuse to live up to it. In England we have 365 different religions â€" and practise them all -on Sundays. French newspapers fill their columns with romances ; English newspapers fill theirs with facts. French- men marry their daughters by contract , we marry ours by auction â€" to the highest bidder. These are but a few and the less important of the contradictory characteris- tics that exist between the two nations. It is not, therefore, surprising that constant petty disagreements should occur, any ons of which might, if not treated with straight, furwarduess and tact, lead to deplorable results. Like lovers' ijuarrels, what betiins in a pout may end in a bout.â€" Vanity Fui' LoHtlon,. ^ Rev, F. W. Warne, of the late Methodist Episcopal aud Methodist Church of Can- ada, uow of Austin, 111., Conference, and son-in-law of the Rev. T. M. Jefferis, Niagara Conference, hss been appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions of the M. E. Church, U. S., to Calcutta, India. Prof. Bell has constructed a machine on the general principles of the typewriter, for America of the disastrous earthquskea of novel is " Ivanhoe." lie is, of course, say^they might much better have chosen 5j^,,hless has already yielded »L2fiO,000, '^e Souihern States and Central America especially interested m the scene which de- the costume worn by the ladies of China. »nd the new mine gives promise of equal- before the year 11100. e cannot say the scribes the bnrmng of l-ront-de-Bconf i I would like io huUd a wall around i„g u, reoord. "â-  -. .u.,... ,r,.. „...u took to his heels. i Teheran, these English presents do not Professor Wiggins has returned to the seem to have much effect. â€" Lonilon Ttinf. orophetic business. Ue is of epinion that I ♦ , .,â-  .. ..,- , , there will not be a recurrence in North I P. T, Barnum says that his favorite f*'^'l't'""Jg conversation with deaf mutes. Premier and Madame Mercier have returned to Montreal from Quebec. The Premier is still very ill, and it is expected that he will hsve to take a trip south. same of Europe aud the Far Bast, castle.