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N, n AT I IH: LOXD0.1 ZOO. An Account of Some Well Known Mem be of That Community- Til. .,,-..( < ,,ll. .II..U of Hlllll. ! II.. IU.I k. |.l In the ..I I.I II" I " ' lellr IUii..,r. I,.- ."'I '!" Hi IM- I. ,.... I b.o.|. ,,.,.. Ik. 111. . II..U .1. |-.lli..n in. I III' -. . I..-IM l..lli II" I-. Mti.ln ..Ik. II. r.. ..I I/mdon hat the largest an.l tin- lineal col- ic- lion of animals in id Xoulovical Gardens of any city in the world, and ample space ii found fur it in a park Regent'* Park which in much smaller than our Central Park. It ID managed by the /oological So- ciety, a private corporation. Kvery animal has a handsome ami suitable dwelling-place, and may indeed consider it* lot a fortunate one when coal in the Zoological Gardens in those days of (hooting at everything in every corner of Hie world. During the paal year between twenty two and twenty-three th'ju-.in.l beast*, birds, fishes ami reptiles were exhibited there. The time 11 not far distant, says the superintemlent of the garden*, wl.i-n many specie* will be extinct lu tlwir native places ai.J survive in their London home only. In the garden at present there are only four elephants two Astatic, which were brought from India by the 1'rince of Wales, an 1 two African, "in- of which was sent to the V" < by the King of Abyssinia, and turned over 10 the gar. lens l.y her. The African elephant, it is wt-11 known, is not so intelligent as his Asiatic brother, but much injustice has, nevertheless, been dune to him. He is not without intelligence an. I i at least at docile and gooil tampered as the other, Jumbo, the largest ele pbsnt ever teen in Kurope or this c.uin'ry, hail mom agreeable manners when he was in gootl healtii, and re waa an African. The Ix>ndon <-le|.hauts have ll a very ac- tive and uiefcl lite, l/uring the year INMJ, they have carried 1 O.U74 children and, young persons. Thu keeps them in pl III-..IIM an.l provides instruction and amuse- nicut for a vast population. The ^rrtt I/>ndon beast garden boasts a mosl iiiiereniing hippopotamus family. There are three of them, a malr, a female, and a \..uiit: one born in I S 77. The latter are probably the o'll) living hippopotami that lia"ebecn born and bred in captivity. MJI.V wore born and ili.-.l in Ixjiidon ami other places before this young one wai raised. The birth of a young Inpt ipotamtts is, next to tht ..I an i'li pin. lit, the most m'ereeliug and delicate event that can h.ippeii in a me- in. NEW t in M> I grew already accomplished, anil even better prosp-ct* for the future in view, it would Llvelr0e<*)|sat.a*sal>lslsa<i.e.lk*l tlulted ,, ltr 11|<e ,f t ho westerner* were ike t iai.iiu ivuiD.nl.. not confident. Advice* from Ala.li* give new and in- teretling fact* in regard to the new volcano M hi.-h suddenly appeared on Shamuxiu Isl- and during the lust week in August, and j the **h* from which fell 'i">O miles out at i-ea. Meagre details of the eruption have ' been reci-iied before, but the tint fall story si Tlse Marriage Qai-slloa In Dlfrre tries. Recent French statistic* ahow that there continued decrease in the number of _ _ marriage* and births in that country in pro- iVuild by"irj7App'leRate". who'waeon Ihe pniv,u to population. If it were not for otter-hunting schooner Kverelt H.ya. the fecundity of ihe foreign inhabitant., the The chooner on Aug. 27 was lying in population of trance would *creaee. A Ivanoff Bay. near the ea*u-rn end of the similar complaint is heard in the United Alaska*) Peninsula. The weather was Stales, and, as far a* ll.ey CHL be obtained, clear and calm. About midnight tbe crew statistic* bear out the statement, were startled by a hoaree roar like Ihe within the observation of all tnst large fain- breaking of surf on *hore. NoUting could be ilie* are now principally confined to either een, but early in tbe morn i UK the mate re tne foreign born population or their irame- ported a black cloud in the aouluwest sky. ] dite descendant*. Previous to 1 <'<i ;h The rumbling grew loucVr, and soon Ihe census did not contain tati*tici on thi* sub- whole sky was ti led with smoke. The jct ; hence comparison cannot be made, alarmed tailors just before daylu-ht saw a But a writer in the Ladie*' Home .Journal huge column of smoke suddenly shoot up ' calls attention to the records ol this I'rov- for more thsu a mile, and then expand iu , ince as baving an important bearing on the the form of an immense cauliflower from | question. From these official record* it ap- ten 10 twelve mile* in diameter. Kroni the penr that in the past seventeen year* the lower edges of ihe nlond blinding lightning marriage* of meu between twenty and flashes shot down and the air wan filled tw.-nty riveyearsof age in thi* province have with thunder. Tbe spectacle was magniti- ' decline! from thirly nine to thirty-three cent, but at day-light the schooner put lo ' per cent. ; while the mammies ef men be- sea. For miles tbe country was heavily j tween thirty and thirty live have increased covered with ashes. | in the same period from eleven to fourteen The volcano is thirly mile* from the coast per cent. The conditions which give rise to an.l hidden trom view by higher mountains thi* change m Ontario are *uDstantilly the win, h Urder the sea. It must be of con ' same in ihe State*. Men are marrying later, liderable extent, a* ashes from it fell on the and the nnmi.-r of unmarriei i* rapidly steamer St. I'anl and the cloud of amoks multiplying. covery of gold. It hut blinded his eye* to the immensity of what he had done. He least of all the men who had interested themselves in the discoveries realized what aignifieance the opening of a new world might have in the history of the world. And yt Columbus was a religion* man wilhtl. He believed that Chris' watched over him an. I would carry him through to the end. ' His courage and determination and strength of character have lieen unequalled. The i character of Columbus is significant when | viewed in connection with the race of men in America to-day. The people of this continent taken en inaaee are charac- terued liy thoe very qualities of courage, detennin ition and strength of character. \ nd the ilesirefor gold that has caused the white man locrash out the Indian ha* prob- ably made America what it i* to-day. A F.IMT ATLA\TI< LIMB. le from its summit waa estimated to be IIMJ mile* long. It in interesting to note alio that this seapnn has seen unusual volcanic activity in this part of the Aleutian 111- ands. On Sept. 1, while the cutter Ku-h waa cruising near Akulan Iiland, tbe volcano on the island bel.'hr.l out smoke to a height of I, UK) feet, while the laud was shaken by L earthquake. II Ml. I 1% Rllt. El- The XoolopicalGardenicontain a very large and interesting community ol monkeys. One member of it who invites the attention of \i" iu.ru is th* Barbary ape. Tins monkey ha* a habit of snatching eyegla****. The first tune he took a pair he endeavored to fit them on his n-e ai tbe owner bad done, but he found that he was not built for this purpose and imaahed them. Ai! thai have come into his band* since then ha\c met with a similar fate. He is a very powerful, active animal, of a rest lea* and dissatisfied disposition. It i* neceasary to keep lulu in a .age of his own, as be once wrought considerable destructit.il aiming tin- oilier monkeys. He is possessed of very sharp teeth, powerful arms and re- markable agility. He flourishes in the open air. Most of the other monkeys, though not of a peace-loving disposition, a;e less blood, thinly, and live together in a treat cage where continually they make merry. Visi- tors can feed them with proper things and play with them through the bars. They are carefully watched by the attendants. No person with eyeglassef , however, should go very near tlmni, a* the monkeys are sure to snatch at them. A young wuu.an with a new and attractive hat, moreover, is always liable to b* despoiled. Jim, tbe African chimpan/ee, who, of course, lias a place of his own, is an interest- ing inhabitant of the menagerie. He is young, and the director., in their task of educating llns near relative, have a heavy' responsibility. A mirror lias been pi.i\i.l ed for his entertainment At first he en- , deavored to go behind the (;lass and find tile monkey who wa* making faces at him. Now he seems to take a quiet pride in gar- ing al himself. An In. lun python of great si/e iaremaik- bio for tbe regard which it shows for it* keeper. This nnakc is a heavy burden for a man *veu when it* body is HI ranged about him in the most convenient manner. Keep- er Tyrrell feeds I his reptile, and it not only distinguishes him from other men but du- i play tomething like altection. Ken other would like to submit to it* embrace* a* b* does. Th* marbled p.ilychrica, a rare and curious lizard, with a tail three tune* u* long si its body, and which il throw* into graceful curves, is an interesting inhabit ant of the menagerie. It is supnh .1 with iniMt food. Another curious inhabitant is the chameleon, which has trees in it* Lon- don home in order that it may display its power of changing color. Tbe penguin, a stout bird with a very largo stomach, which walk* upright on very hort hind legs, is a great favorite with old and young. Ttui bird, though apparently of slight intelligence, is handsomely at- tired and companionable.. Prince, a ro< k- h..| per penguin from New /.calun I, i* one of III* beat known members of bis specie* at tbe /on, and is permitted occaiionally to walk abroad. The penguin, being unable to run or My, is easily killed in its native tate, and men destroy il without cause or object. The sloth is an animal so cnnstr.icted that the only locomotion it can accomplish with ease is crawling on thn lowrr side of the tree branch. There is a specimen in the London gardens of Hoffmann's sloth, a native of Panama. The creature is voice- less, and pane* it* lite without social re- rri alum of any kind. Il prefers to li\ in the lluckeet of the forest, where it subsist* entirely on leave* and fruit. Having strip- ped one tree of its foliage it climbs another doe* the same with that. It is of small size, but its strength .ut *o great in proportion thai a man can with difficulty il*tach it from a tree. It seem* to be a email an.l poor relative of the hear. This i* merely a glance at some do/en members of ihe most interesting unim..! community in the world. _ ., Some men like a hornet, are always found Iting uppermost. They sting their friends to sl...w t,..-.r n. 'f p. .1.1. in . t!,e:r enemies, to sboir their imp*rti*liiy I emit other, to L.en ill. n. . h. s ui ;- tie* Alr) lotbew thai III. uoi l.llr. l llarL Justice in Holy Kussia ! (Jen. Van \Vahli chief constable of police at St. Peteraburg, when he was Governor at Ki> If. received a visit one day from a | or wninan, Uie widow i.l a police ngent who had fallen a victim to his luly. For a long time ahe liail solicite.1 Die pension which was her tlue. The I el of the police to whom she had ailHrenaerl her demand stnt her alwsys brutally away. U hat wan to become of her and her chil- dren ! She took the resolution to go and see the ' .overnor.and told him all heratr>ry. "Sit down there and write," reptie<! the (General, pointing to a wnling-talil*. The trembling womsn took her aeat and wrote from the < General's dictation a long supplica- tion. "Now sddres* it aid wait for me in the next room." Two or three minute* afterwards the wo- man wax recalled, ami thelicneralgave into her hand* a sealed letter, saying to her: "Take thi* letter, to the head countable, take care not to open it and come back to me as toon an von have the rnfily " A week pisseil. at the en I of which the woman went to the palace again, but this time joy- fully : her peasion had Iweu granted to her. and she thanked the 4>overm>r with jy. "Il i* useless to thank me I km nothing in the ufTair," and ho immediately gavethe follrw- mg order : "The heal ol the polio* at Ki.il i dismissed from hi* post sad intoexile ! a demand after hiving I money for so doing." In the letter wlu.-u the widow had written to il < htad of the police, lieu. Walil bail, unknown to her, slipped a Lank note for twenty -five roubles, winch accounted for her supplication being It i> estimated from the baiii of the On- tario statistics that there are to-day over .<.O*SJMK)() umnsrried men in the United States between the ages of 'Jo and .tU yeais. And of course there is an equal number of iininariifil women of the came age. About GOO young men in every 11)00 who hsve reached the age of 30 are (ingle. Thi* is a con jug*! condition *o dilferent from that of some other countries that it deierve* seri- ous attention. If it is a good thing for the nation it should be euaonraged; and if not, a remedy, if one can he found, ilould b* applied. In Rnmia .173 men and 67.i wom- en in every lusj who inairv entsr the con jiigal sta'e under 'JO years of agr. But our young (..-..pie will hardly tiii.t anything in the condition of Kuuia to inspire them to follow the subject* of the Czar in this re- spect. And the same may be said of Kng- land, win re 7o6 men and VJ9 women in every IOOO are married between 'JO and 3O. If the average number per family in the L'nii.-l States had ben as crest in |v>ni in I860 there would bav* l*en ti I.n<i0niore peopl* in the country, ll'it there will be very few perwons to complain becsuae of I Ins change < ne important re*ult of the comparative decrease in the number of murriagea is to swell the nuinbeis of worker* in every trade ami businee* open to women. In compara- tively a few years they have entered such profession* a* law and medicine, and hare IK-IOHI to compete with men in nearly every branch of business. There are <n*r ?,IHI, OOO women in the Dmteil States earniiig their livmi; in that way, l i.le the vail army employed in mechanical hthor and clerks in stores, etc. This serves to make WOIIHII more in.lepen'lenl ai.it ls willing lo accept undesirable husbands. In that way it increases tlie number of uiiinarri.il men ; and in fact thi* very change ha* prob- ably had a good deal to do with the 'nervate in t tie number ot lutchelorn. It has not been altogether due to the unwilling-nets of young hsmiMed from hi* poit and - nt i,J . . . tii.'ii to nmrry. 1'hilip (>ilbort Hsmmerton, Hie reason, because granted , fc v ^ h ,* l>a , horonghl , ,' after h.vmg r.rened s sum of i . France ascribes the decreaan in marriages : im then- to the greater ditlicultie* now experi- enced in maintaining awife in asatisfaclery I Tie an compared with inrmrr time*. The aine> thing is unquestionably true of the United State*. Thi mod.'in *tyle of living demands more tl.an young men s* a rule can afTurd in the way of maintaining a wife. Hence they delay entering the marriage it.it.-. or put it off altogether. The only remedy seems to be a return to a more imple and lens ei|>on*ire manner of living. There M no proh.tiiility that thia will be done. Hence toe next .enum is likely to sl.ow a rout iniied increase in the numl>er f unmar- ried in comparison with the |>..|.nl>tin. It is no doubt an evil ; but apparently an in- curable one. n. BUI. TO jr.RMti.tN. Tne Wlil-He of Ihe lirmlle sjsn Meant In late Hely ill). The first locomotive from Jaffa has arm ed at Jerusalem. The association* of th* Holy i '. ..n. I it* contact with th* railway syeu-m is itn.-tiiiM' incniigruoai to contemplate. It will be mill- lent to excite lite wrath of Mr. Ruskin, a* it n ust appear to him to IM a greater *a"rilege than that of the Britich tourist rhooiing on Mount Ninai. letters received from Jerusalem by the Palestine Exploration Fund, anmmure that the locomotive had reached lb. cm. Trains are not yet running, but Hi* raili have In en laid down all along the line, and the line, which is IM ing made by a Krench company, will be opened ou ihe 'JOih of thin month. Th* terminus is unliMshed ; it will be on ths o her port* of this continent, an I we*t of the road to IW-thlshtm, not far from of the world generally, demonstration the south end of I lie Monletinre Almlionae. ' have l-een held in commemoration of th* the \Vadi lUlialieh, perhaps belter known ' event tint, practically doubled the known the Valley of limn. .in, will sepamte ths territory of this mundane sphere. Ac. -or. I railway station from the town ; and it will ! jng to ihe beat authorities it was avarice thus he about balt-a-mil* fruin Ih* Jaffa' that prompted Columbus to start on his G!i- Luckily, the Temple site, with ' great voyage into the unknown. It wa* a and the Mout.tof Olives, i* on desire for golil that Kent him acroMa tra-t ll.r ..|.,ml it. >RII|M r.in La*t week waa dedicated to tho relr hratiun bf the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by ('olurnnua. In New York and in (ienoa, even in Toronto, where the school children tnmthed tlie programme on Thiirsitnj, and m man; the opoeite side of the town, and will not nf water which probably wa*, to s man as 1 he li|eel ST -111 Hume's Visit il.in.l 4 i . ..in nl IN< il The object of Mr. Van Home's trip to Kng'and, Irom which ho lias juit returned, has la-en kept a profound secret and has af- ! forded ground tor many speculations. W heu I William IV. died tiic timt news of thi event reached the continent through a cable from a London dealer to his agent in Italy, tell- I ing him to order nothing but black hat*. A gentleman who wa* a lelluw-parscnger of r. V.m Home'* on the last steamer from Ki. gland is another proof o! how uw some limes reache* the public in a roundabout way. He i* a well-known Englishman who i* interested in Canada and came up lo the capital y rater-day, and in the course of con- versation with your correspondent repeated part of what the*'. P. R. magnate told him ! was the chief mission, he had in Kiig- I land, from which il appears that Mr. Van Home arruu|~J for a fast Atlantic team- chip line to be in operation in two yean to Quebec. "It will," said Mr. Van Home, " b* a purely poseenger line, a* the rate of speed at which the steamer* will run will pie.-lude tbe carriage ofa pound of freight." He added : " Tlie steamer* will run in connection with the C. P. R. aero** the continent. They will croc* front land to land in one hour less thai, three day*, and land paaaengrrt at Quebec in fiva day*. We will therefore be able to take a great deal ef American travel away from New York. In fact we must do so. They will see. the advantage of using our fast line of steamer and through line of railway when we show them that we can land a Chicago ocean voyarer at his own door in the same tune it would take other lines to land him in New York. That will be al leas: an ad vantage of twenty-four hour*. The advan- tage i the ocean passenger of being on tne open sea only three day* will attract thousands to the Quebec route." Mr. Van Home also dwelt on the advantages In Kngland offered by fasl time on a through route from G rest Itrilam to India via the fast Atlantic service, the C. P. R. transcontiu ental line and the C. P. R. Pacific steamers to the east. He alao think* that th* Cana- dian government will lucre*** the annual su 'uly from half a million dollar* to a million, erat least that was the impression Mr. Van Home's view left upon hi* fellow- I psMaengcr'* muni. I*, would seem from all this that the Dominion government ha* left to Mr. Van Home and th* C. P. R to accom- plish what it failed to do. Three or four year* ago the government advertised for tenders lor a fast mail set vice, but ihe sub sequent ncgofations fell through. In Nov- ei.il'er, I81H, anolher call for lender* was inued, but with no remit. At that time an interview wilh our high commissioner wa* published, in which he Hated thai th* imperial government only consented to sub- sidise the C. I'.K. steam rs to China and Japan, "on the aasurance," to iitiote Sir Charles' own words, " that we sLould en- deavor to secure a fast service between Canada and this country." It is, of coarse, impossible to discern clearly the identity of tbe " we " who ga\e this .issnr an.-e. but this (lovernmcnt of Canada. Sir Charlei Ttipprr and the C. I'.K. illustrate the pbras* " In union there is strength " so per- li-rily that it is not important to make any dis i immation. This show* how vital a matter it is to the C.P. R. to have edahlieh- -I i ins fast Atlantic line; for the finish subfdy of l'W"0 000 or about 8.100,000 annu- ally, tolheir Pacific line is dependent. Sir Charles savs, on a fast line from Great Britain to Canada. Thehuch cotnmiseioner Anticipated, then, Ihe, building of the Allan- ' t 1 ship* un.lor admiralty supervision, so that they would be of certain high standard and eetit!e*l to re.-rive in impel ml subven- , lion of f ISO.fOO a year in the same way as ' tbe Majestic, Teutonic >n.l other fast liners, 'and he prepared to carry a certain armament | and I* available in a c is of war for the s.-rvic of the British government. It i* : perhaps hardly Worth noting that our (an- guine high ciiimi->siniifr went the length of anticipating such a speedy fulfilment of the 1 project 'hat mist of the Kuropcan passengers for the World'* fair would com* via Canada. l>e much disturbed l.y the noise of ihe rail- supentitiou* as C/olunihiin must hsve hren, way. It may be m.-i.i n.nr.l llml the \\'a>li Kababeh means " The Valley of ths l.utr :" the Arabs will now hnve to call it if Ambic words can be found for th.- nenteiicu ' Wadiof Ih* railway whistle." Th* 4.* oil broa<ls I or Hope. Traveller* who have just rrlurned from Mauitolia and the Northweal r|rt that a* alinoit dark in it* significants as the KivrrMyx. Bui years l*fore Marco )<.!<. had crossed through leagues and league* of territory to the golden Indies umt conver- sed with the mighty Khan, reputed to he so fabulonsly wealthy, and had come back to hi* native Venice to tell the tales of the gor^eou'ners of the Indies. Cvliimbnii must have heard those wonderful tales of Marco I'olo.forthe Asiatic explorer hod been peopl* bevond the grenl lake* have an j | or years imprisoned in Cenoain lino!. I age, abundant faith in the future of ihe \Ve*t. | n d it is to a Cenoeae chronicler that tb* This faith is well ^toun.leil. Whatever i mine for diasatiafaclion there n.ay be with the progress of the Old Domiiiion, hot little world i now indebted for the account of ihe fieat Venetian's adventures in China anil itrtaiy. Columbus wa* first of con. plaint can b* ma le in regard to the de- 1 .,) though t In se tales fired hi* imagination velopmeut of that g; eater Canada which ' nti. ..lies out towards the betting mil. '1 Im H.|var.'*inent of the Weatern 1'ruv ince and renitoriei, notwithstanding rail way m monopo onopoly in '.ly and tat ihe etrly d-.yaand Ian t taritl hunltna lading even until the present, is minply wondsrful. Th* population of Manitoba increased by one hundred ai-d forty eight per cent snd tnat ol ill.- Tcmloiies by nearly one hundred and sixty-live per oenl, in (lie last Un year*. 'I !<] number of live stock in the Territories jiini|M-d fn in one hundred and fifty three to tin*. 11,11.. M.I itnd (.evenly i lirci. thnuaitnd head insidvof live year*. While ths Kustern l'io\ im ix.ut; being dnuiiel, alao, to adil to the population of the Unilpd States, Mam- .n.t . he Territories aro actually draw- p. piilaliuu from thn R.-pulili.-. And he could not contulcr such an immense journey overland as Marco Polo hi I t iken. This wax what led to hisruolveauilhiscraae- less endeavor* to organise an expedition. Hi* endeavor* were harassed by Inn own exorbitant demai.ds. The King of Portu gal would have sent him forth long before rerdin;uid of Spain did had it not been so .lull, ult to iiiako terms with the (ien.iese teaman ; Columbu* wanted an immense share of any wealth that might accrue from the euteipris* of going to the Indie* by a water route. Kvtn on Culumliuii' tri- umphal return from the new continent, the first communication be received from King rVrdicami was ill the nature of a business letter reminding him of hit mum me gains. And tin re wa* some .li .lisfaciion in Spain when it wo* found that Columbus' unceasing to .lay twelve trin loadsof goldin grain, I tll> l almost hysterical demands for gold while ciosnud by other train* carrying bs<!k the , 011 t|,,- nc w c.munent, the In.ln s, w he caU- weallh of the tal in Putin n are leaving c ,| it, had led la hi* almost entirely for- Winnipeg for (ho seaboard every twenty K ,iting the interests of science and religion. With all these proof* ..f pro- l| i,,, cnergie* had been devoted to dU fnaartlasis *brea4. When the b*nd of the l.lth Battalion, Hamilton, returned from its recent trip to Denver its member* were "interviewed," and the following resulting paragraph has been going the rounds of ihe papers: "Another thing which pleased the l*ndn- men wa* the love of native land which was shown by nil the Canadians they met in Chicago and Denver, and indeed wherever they went. Men of all ngre .ui'l conditions would eagerly pres* forward to shako them by tbe hand and tell thorn that they, too, were Canadians though often from p irts ol the Dominion hundreds and even thou- sands of milei* from Hamilton. At the free open ail concert which the bund gave in tb" city park of Denver a great crowd WUH present variously eitinmted from !S,(KH) to III, "(Kl person*. One of Ihe pieces played w the favorite medley called Albion, con- ustirgof a potpourri of national airs. When the lively British Orena.liors wa struck up the crowd chrered lustily; while Home Swcci Home was )ing played scores of*men standing near tl.e b.ind were seen to weep : but when the filial air Ood Save thn t,>n- -<-i. wii p ayed the people seemed to go mad. They cheered so loud that the hand could scarcely be heard, waved their hats, and continued i Inring for a minute or two after the music had ceased. It was a scene never to be forgotten." There a r e sonic who r fuse a favor so graciouily a* to please us, and there are others who confer alt obligation so clumsily that they please u* less by the measure than they disgust u* by the manntr of a kiudiitia." Ike Belt, The nineteenth century is calling the roll of the children of it* first <juarcr, and one by one its great men are, lice Colonel New- come, answering " Adsura. ' Lowell, Whit- tier, Whitman, Kenan, George William Curtis and now Lord Tennyson, have re- cently answered the call and the waning years of the century will, in all probability, place the fatal asterisk agaiust tbe few re- maining name* of the. great men who began life in the century's first quarter. As Alfred Austin, in hi* tribute to Kngland's dead poet laureate, wrote on the day Lord Ten* nyaon, at the good old age of 83, " crowed the liar :" Thin day extingulHheii a star aa bright Aiian)- one upon our drinfr century. Mure, as in that groat England over-sea, I.iK'it, lifter light itoea, but yet not night. In America the lone "Autocrat " remains the one distinguished link with the great pa*t of American literature, while Kiifkin, in Knglaud, holds relatively the name posi- tion in the Victorian era. New singers and new writers are pressing to the front in Knglaud and in America, but in both coun- tries they mult win their way by the divine right of genius grandly exerted to win at secure a place in the hearts of the people at America's recent lead or the master singer upon whose placid brow will ever rest the laurel wreath of the Victorian age. The present i* especially a time for mem- ory ana retrospection. The dying century itself will toon pass into history, and before the .'rowing music of nineteen hundred lie- cms to inthrall us, and lead our thought* and affections out lo the new era with all the high achievement* and great| events it will bring, it i* well, perhaps, for a time to take note of the past. The numlwr of great men who.within the last few yean, hitve fallen ssleep before their century closed, in- evitably suggests the query whether the present number* as uiauy whose renown will tw prolonged as sorely as that of many who have recently left u*. Leaving that question to be decided as only it can be decided, by time, it i* inter- esting to note how prolific of name* world- famous, and apparently not born to die, wa* the tirst quarter of the nineteenth century. Some of these names, it may be laid, will owe their perpetuation to fortuitous circum- stances, but upon such circumstance* ha* fame always depended in the majority of instances. And in the list of ihe greal men who began life in the early yean of thj cen- tury some have a* clear a title to lasting renown as any that th* century can show. To select a list of the mo*t noted men and women lorn in the period between Janur ry 1st, 1800, and Itoceirber 31st, 1825, a not as easy a matter as it might appear at tins glance, so much depend* upon individual preference and training in such selection, but a* far as possible the following list ha* lieen selected m accordance with what U believed to be the claim of theae name*, a* ascertained by goacral familiarity of the public with their achievement* or by th* [urticular position they occupied. Tbe dale of birth alone U given : 1HOO Macanlay, Pusey, Heine, Bancroft. Catherine K. Beeuher, Franris Lieber, Von Moltke, Millard Fillmore. 1 sol -Cardinal Newman, Bnlwer. l-r.' Victor Hue..., lHnn.ii the elder, Von Kanke, Hugh Miller, Laodseer, Cardin- al Wiseman. Ralph Waldo Kmennn, Liebig. I Mil Benjamin Disraeli, Oeorge Sand iMnie. Dudevan), Richard Cobdeu, Nathan- iel Hawthorne. Franklin Pierce, Johanu Strauss, the composer. 1803 Hans Christian, Andersen, De Lei- epi, Sninte Beuve. Isoti-Uutwer-Lytton. John Stuart Mill, Kossutli, Kdwm Forrest. I i7- Longfellow, Robert K. Lee, Gari- baldi, .lulcs Grevy, Agaaoiz. 180S \Vhittier, C.autier, Merrivale, Rothschild, Strauss, the theologian : An- drew Johnson, 1'rcsi.lent MacMahon, Car- dinal Manning, Mazzini, Jefferson l>vis. Napoleon HI.. Werg*land (Nuway.) I'siiii Mrs. Browning, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, O. W. Holme*, Clad- itune, Abraham Lincoln, Poe, Jules Favre. 1810 Moutaleinbert, Cavour, De Mos*st, Napier of Magdala, Schumann, Leo XIII. I s 1 1 Thackeray, Dury, John Bright, Wendell Phillips, Liszt, Leverrier, France*) Kemble. IKI'2 Robert Browning, Charles Dic.'ceni, Thai berg. Horace (ireeley. ISI.1 -Henry Ward Beecher, Richard Wagner. I HU -Charles Reade.Motely,. lules Simon, Kdwm St.tnton. isl.'i Anthony Trollope, Dean Stanley, Prince Biimarck, General Meade, Sir John Mac.lonald. 1816 Charlotte Bronte. 1817 Mommsen, [jvingctone, John R. Gough Vcn Sybel. 1818 lame* Anthony Fronde, Emily Bronte, Turgencrf. i .ounod, Karl Marx. ISI!) Charles Kingvley, John Kunkm, J. ('. llollend, James Russell Lowell, I'yriis W. Field, Walt Wluurian, Queen Victoria. IH'JO Marian Kvan* (Gv-urgo Kliot), Herl*rt Spencer, John fyudall, Victor Kmmannel, Florence Nitthtiugale, (!eueral W. T. Sherman. IS'JI- .Jennie Lind, Rachel (the actrein), Flaubert. I-..-J l.ndVye, Mathew Arnold, Pas teur, Schliemann, R. B. Hayes Hon. Alex- ander Macke.li/ie. :: -Freeman, Renan, Max Muller, Coldwin Smith, Count Audrasay, General W.S. llanc-H-k. lsJ4-Wilkie Collins, George William Curtis. 1 -t.'o Professor Huxley. Of course such a list of nnmes as the above sttggetts criticism, but it at hast presents compactly some of the more famous names of the firat quarter of the cen- tury . and furnishes some sort of a standard by which lo judge that era as an era of great men. Of the above list Gladitone, Bismarck, Tyndall and Huxley are the most eminent amonit those who survive, and the pa.it week recorded the death of F.rneat Kenan, author of the Life of Christ, and Tennyson. How many " immortals " are in the tboire list i* another question. Fronde, in a recent nt- ternnoe, declared that in literature the only two immortals of onr age an Carlyle and Tennyson. But in America, at least, Kmer- son and 1 nnqfellow are equally certain of lasting renown the one a* a bold, original, optimistic thinker and poet ; the other a* America's sweetest and best loved singer. "I've just been vaccinated," she Remarked. 1 asked her whether Twas on the right limb or the left. She blushed and stammered. " Nethw 1*