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PRACTICAL FARMING. Boiled Corn for Poultry. ID the breeding of poultry, a* in all other pursuit!, a little care and forethought in- va-iably return an apparently diapropor- tiouate remit. In the rearing of poultry. where the expenditure on eaoh fol it imall and the material provided comparatively inexpensive, we are apt to overlook the mall wanes which occur in the transforma- tion of the different kinds of grain into poultry, bnt which aggregate quite a num. 1 he opinion that corn is a very nourish- ing food for fowls is so universal that no farther thought a given to the matter. If anyone should suggest that corn would be easier of digestion if soaked or boiled be would likely receive the answer that corn was not hard for birds to digest. Birds swallow stones and other hard *ub- stances without detriment. A moment's thought, however, will convince that the millstones and the grist are two different things, and fee. linn hard grain, although ot exactly like feeding the millstone with pebbles, bean a certain likeness to it. The trouble attendant on the prepara- tion of food, if it is to be cooked, may indeed seem very disproportionate to the advantage to be derived from such treat- ment, but in reality little time need he spent, as before going the rounds of the nesU, a little hot water may bo poured over the gram, a tight cover put on the kettle, and the whole placed over the stove, when, by the tima your rounds ara com- pleted, the corn will have become steamed and mellow and will have lost none of iU good qualities. Remember, each hen lias a certain amount of animal force to be expended aoh day in some direction, anil the less he has to give to digesting her food the store she will have to be expended in egg rj.lucing. The advantages of the warm food in winter, when much food goes toward producing animal heat to withstand the cold, are twofold from th* direct action of the warmth and the slower aation of the food itself, to say nothing of the the fact that the content produced by nourishing foo 1 will resu't m in ire eggt, for a hen thoroughly at home will Uy mure eggs than a discontented one. We have performed the experiment ourselves, and know that feeding boiled corn does pay, and it is as the remit of experience that we offer this plan to our friends. Improved Farm Gate- In making a gateway for a fourteen-foot dway the gate should to twenty feet long. This aliows fur nix feet to balance tliat part of the gate over the roadway, and in opening, a person merely takes a por- tion ol in* weight cf the gate and slides the same a coupie of feet, when it is balanced an I can be opened as easily |a if swung on bms.es. This arrangement is shown lu the illustiation from askutch by PC. Fariih.tm. t Washington. It is best to make a little !oller wall a three- fourth im-h bolt, over which lo run the galo. That part ot the gate winch slides on rollers should 1> mule of double ihiukneit .if inch i'nT. The gate hi. u.l iiui in betweva two posts set far apsrt .11 *dimt the end of the gate readily. I'lin | revonta the wind from moving the (ate, wh i'h is as tolid a* any p\rt of the fcncr. Miike ih rail of the gale, which that she should be big, so that whnm she has don* her work in the dairy she oan !> fattened up for beef. Those men object lo tV- Jersey because she is too small ; she wm'tmako beef enough. Ever sine* I | began to stu iy the matter, I have been a strong advocate of the special purpose cow. We want certain kind of cow for a certain kind of work, and she must do that work better than any other kind of oow. She should be a cow for one kind of dairy busi- ness in order to be a good business dairy cow. It appear* to me that the extra weight in a dairy ROW, over and above what is necessary for her to do the best work, must be fed at a great Ion, because it is fad for many years before it is sold. Tim proposition, it would seem, cannot be suc- cessfully controverted. The business oow must pay every year of her dairy life, and wecanta!i.nl to wait till we kill hi-r to get any part of our profit ; each year should show a good balance to her credit. And how much profit can we expect from cow beef fed from ten to 6 f teen years? It is absurd to expect any. An Early and Regular Breeder We don't want to wait till our busines* cow is three years old before wo get any profit from her we can't atford to waste a year's time ; sud our Jersey will not dinsap'dnt us in this respect, for sli* begins lo return a profit whan two years of age, someli'm-s earlier. This early breeding is so n.uch time gamed. When wo make a business venture we endetvor to make it pay as soon as possible, and. in the dairy luis 1 ness, we want a cow who will co M r.on -e her work eirly in life and l>o ;in to pay .11 soon as she begins her work. A dairy cow must also be a regular breeder. We want to arrange our calving period* to suit our business ; and a uow that is a regular an I sure breeder is worth much more than 0110 that is unreliable in '.his respect. A Ciw That Works for Miny Yeats When we get a machiun that does excellent work, our first thought is, " ^ ill it be durable ?" If it wears out after a few years of use it may be loo expensive. Our busines* cow is a machine, by ihe use of which we expect lo make money, and *lm must be a durable machine, for we caunoi .1: oid to milk her a few years and thou replauu h>-r with another. The Jersey cow not only begin* her w iric at an airly a;, but she continues to work aid work pro- fitably till fthe becomes very oid [1'rize Essay hy A. L.Crosby. '.K ii.imsi: .. MK. run on the roller one foot lorgr than the otheri; and nail lo tho two poiu lust ni.-n tiooed a cros* piece, so thai when the gate is shut the lau.li en I will hung clear of the ground ou this supporting piece. Cie.tr th Fenca Hows. Many farms have belts of young tree* and hushes from ten to fifteen feet wide along ih road and line fence*. 1'liey form a llii'-k ' which encroaches yearly upon the field they bonier. It nmi< strung* that any farmer should allow such a condition of thiug* 10 exist, but uiuiy do from sheer carelnsnes*. S.imelitnii they meau to cut the buihes, but the work m put off from time lo time because other work si*ms more imp.il l uit. Suoli thickets about lields form lurk iig-plmcei for animals and foul weeds, from whic.i much dumttre can be ex- pected to growing crops, to say nothing of amountufsoil given up to them. There it th* not only great wastefulness in such farm- II.::. I. ii' 11 fives aJai-u ail untidy, slovenly l-xik which uin{ht\o be avoided. This is a good " cleaning- up time," and it would be a good p'an to cut down the bunhes about the fences now, and have the land they have injuriously occupied so loaf in a shapu for use next >pring. T ha JertST a Ratings* Cow- \Vhen wo. engage in the business of but- IT dairying wo need cows that will make I he most butter from a given amount of feed. We w*nt these cows to be tieirty feeders, to be easy milkera,giving very rich m>lk, to be gentle. noi too large in size, early and regular breeders, and abls to do good ' work in the dairy for many years. In short, we ne*d a business cow, and in the Jersey we have just such a oow. A Hearty Feeder The Jersey cow is note I as being a hearty feeder. and a hearty feeder is on* that can not only eat a largo quantity of feed but a large quantity of rich feed. It in the feed that makes the milk and in order to makn plenty of rich milk the cow must eat plenty of rich feed. (!un tleness The disposition ol the Jersey row is about a* near perfection as we can rxpect cow nature to be. < Innllenens in a cow is worth money; it count* up in dollar* every year; it saves milk; it keeps the rich- ness of the milk from being wasted, for irritable cows are apt to beget irritation in those who milk them, and this, in turn, breeds ill treatment of tho cows, which cause* a loss of butter fat in the milk ; it insures better care, for the gentle cow in the potted cow ; and in other ways the gentle disposition of the Jersey is one of her valu- able characteristics. An Kasy, Rich Milker Tho business cow must be one that can be <|uiokly milked, and the milk must be rich ; these twoquali- f. iont will commend themselves^** every luminous dairyman. H /.- in (he Dairy Cow There has been .i g'loil 'leal of controversy about thu proper six* for a dairy oow. Some contend IN Tfli W03LD- BU31E3T fheapolil'. Lou low. a thirl Tfc Wllk ..ii . \ .,,. i i , in, ,n . Cheapside is th* bu'iest, street in the world. I' ' not long ; u is not beautiful ; it is not the resort of the fashionable. It in a business thoroughfare from first to laat, and it has morn history cramme 1 into it* short s'ratdi liian other reat thoroughfares have in iheii combined long ones. Cheap- side not being at thusidaof anythng in the present era, but at the heart of all lluno. being in the heart of London, has a very important place in civic atrurs. It is what limy call " an artery of traffic," asphalted mo the bargain, and affording ingrvu and exit as between the city and the regions west. If it has i qinrterot umi!e to iulength it hs as much as it can legitimately ciann. and even tha'. includes * Intln Mice at the eastern end called the " 1'ouhry." a title which signifies a local purpose in TUB I 'liiiapsidn ha* at one >-nd the Poultry, bnt this need not be jouiued as a separate en- lily. And at llin Poultry end i* tho Man- sion House, where the lord mayor lives in BoiiMace state. i;hep'lde bumps into Tiiretdneedle street up to the step* of tAe Royal Kxch.mge an 1 against the walls of the Bank of Kugland inantntinns which aro bulb useful and ornamental. At the other end of Cheapside there is a statue of .Sir Robert Peel. But. half the people who p.us thero every day uo not know whose ta'ue it i*. Simps, nhopa, ahops, insurance companies, great mercantile houses, res- taurant*, a church l)i k Whiltiiigton'a, that is to say. Bow Church, where the ball* still tingle t.ne re thu stationary in .'red ients of Cheap-id*. Omnmtiaes, humnn >MMiig, cabs ami carriers' vans are the move- ahie oust. Chaapaide is like the channal of tidal river ; at one time of tho day the current net* in one d.reotion and at another time it ebb* lo the opposite course. Th-j street has many funny little tribu- taries, with funny li-tle. name*, Broad street, Friday street. Ironmonger lane and the Old Jewry being somo of ihrse, narrow passages wneie.in nays more primitive than our own, neighbors leaned uut of the win- dows and SHOOK HANDS ACKOW THK STREET, wh^lu from the pavement they could acarcaly have seen the sky, so olowtly 'lid tho overhanging stories approach to the roofs thereof. Kut there are no dwellings in Cheapsista now, nor in the adjacent trib- utaries. The building* are all for business purpose* only ; the old vogun oi overhang has been long dispensed with, and a spright- ly modern air is worn by the commercial architecture. On* kind of commodity Cheapside haa in more abundance than any other place on the whirling fooUtool jewelry. It may not bo the most sumptu- ous jewelry that ever was made ; it may not compare with the golden tiligron work of X imarn, but It is jewelry, nevertheless, and of a good sort for the moderate cliisse*. And there is so much of it that it win* In Cheapside nowadays yon' wonl.l have to call the military within Ua'f an hour irer removing the bung. I 'heapside is hwt seen between H an 1 10 in the morning or be'weon 5 and 7 in the -wiling; either when everybody is coining 10 or going fri.ni hi* occupation. But nil day long the street i* crowded from e.id "> end, so crowded that you cannot anywhere eross it in safety except at the point* where constable* trutfic. are stationed to regulate the MC0irK*Kt*KlV i I :. i- *\r Vrmrgr Baden rvrU l'rrr:n Naval -lr. n^lh In 4irral An Knglish Admiral, in a recent maga- zine article, advocated an alliance botween the Knglish and American navies, and ome of the iiewnpapers on the other side of ihu line flouted t.ne proposal. There u never- ihelew, excellent reason why the Ameri- can people, and, in fact, all people*, whose main employment is the raisiug of food for export, should be solicitous that the road to Britain across the high seas siiuuM be unobstructed. Her inrly llll.UON* OK UotTllS, r')wd*il on an icrea^u aliogi-ther insufii- cienl to r lise a fraction of the luo 1 that is needed, kexp the farmers of the ITuited S:nte* and Canada, and nt other lands that 'night INI inentioue 1, liu -y. Their carrtH, < and dairy pro. lints ara welcome there, and noi a barrier exists ag*>iust the <!! >d of commodities thai is ouiui*u.ly flow- ing through her port*. In CAIB die oo^ao highways wiiioh lead fn lior iloori were olis'r'ic^d It wnuld be a Btjunnnnuiiu, T!lz Tli/ii 4r. !.,.;; HBr-n*lr Urllrllillllr 4-knrrhr. Tin- Iriurk of the rVoplr. The manor hou** in French Canada, say* *, writer in the New York I'ott, wheie the eigniors lived during the " ancient regime," are rapidly disappearing, t'arlia- ment made arrangements in 1S. : >4 for th* extiuguishtnent of the seigniorial tenure by nurchare, and since the-i the old estates have been parcelled out among the censi- lairea, who have in most eases become the owners. Here anil there, however, one eonius across a manor- bouse and an estate where the censit*ires are still tenant*, though no longer subject to feudal condi- tions. Parhtp* the finest specimen of a manor-house is that on the Papineau estate at Montebelln, a village on the Canadian Pacific Railroad between Montreal and Ottawa. The seigniory, known as La Pi-tite N'*tmu,wa granted in 1(574 to Laval, the first bishop of (Quebec, now undergoing tho process of canonization at Rome. It was Acquired in '.lie early part ot this ofin- tury !>y Joseph Pipiuoau, who distinguish- ed himself by restating in the Legislature the tyrannical act* of the British military governor. His son, Louis Joseph I'apmeau, wn.i was still more famous a* a popular leader, being identified with the insurrec- tion of IS'tT which brought about consti- tutional reform, built the manor-house which stauds to-day. Louis Joseph's son, Mr . L. J. A. Papineau, who took part as a lad in the insur.ectiou, is the present prop- lor. TIIO house is built on the banks of the Ottawa, there a noble river. There is a good deal of the old French chateau almut it. It is of stone and in the form of a par- *"'"''". '" rm, mass.ve tower at serous alfair for the acting mill) >ns of lir 1*111, but it would a. an be of grave mo- ment to the producing million* on this Mile of the Atlantia The Amerioan far-! iner, therefore, both north and south ol the 4!l' n parallel, I* Warmly mteresie'i m . ,* the maintenance of Hie freedom of the channel, tliat l.a.1 to iu. surest and l.st '"" THK M ? ^. RAN " C " market, aud the uary which th* United ' eusi-o.-arm* with the horn.of a deer. State* farmer's tax** have might l>e engaged in . muc than k*-t.pii,^ those channels safr and open. W liat the prospects uf keeping ' hem open might, be in ca*c Kngland we e lllcOfi.IlT IVTIi Hi>MTII.ITIES with 01 her strong navui powers ich the United " , te ""'"". wit the horn.uf a deer, helped to build J ' e ro-,ms.r**p*c-io and hete<l by wood- uc^worM lank burn 'K U>ves ; the furm.hing, are Mch ' ll ' ' "**' " 111 '' and there liric-a-brac from all p*r: of the world, with many old painting* and family portraits. A park ol pine, maple and silver birch ruus from the river to the village, and behrnl the i* always village lie the Latirenuan hills, covered u interesting i|uestion to her people, and with hemlock and fir The estate extend. :t posee.ee s K.troely les interest A rocent let'er in the London Timu, dealing with Kin-laud's naval strength in 'he Mediterranean, the writer buing Sir (iuorge Baden- I'uwell, a um<- n >t unknown to Canadians, pouetieti more than us'ial importance at a time when theetfectiven 'as to the adjoining village of 1'apmeauville and beyond. Momooello, with aliout SOO mhaUtants, is, like all French Canadian villages, a onl- leotion of white frame houses, with double windows to keep out the cold, the church, with itsglisleningrool, towering above them of that rigiit arm ol Imperial power in being j as if asserting the supremacy oil the spintu questioned. Sir Geurgu. who is a n em her , al power. Mr. i'tpineau spends his lime "f Parliament, believed he wou'd be d mig in literary pursuit* and in looking after more to guard the mtore.it* of hi* Liverp 01 lue property and interests of his tenant*. oonriiluenU hy spendiiic a winter among In old times th crier stood at the church i.e. Me. i:irraneaii navai station* thau m >'oor on the Sunday before the Si M*r'.m, hi* the moat /. idunco to hi* dirtm at "<t. 'i-p'icn's. II*) cordiiigly oatried out hi* ideas m that respect, and in a col- nun letter he giv** a Ar* inniaiineni of ms obsorvations. Sir i iuorge hogina by -ay ing that the nav November II, warning a 1 1 and sundry to that day. in full drea*. i heir "oen* et rentes" fhe seignior received them pertiko and sword included, and there was much eating and drinking, especially if tho har.esl nad ben agood one. But that al policy is the most critical quntion before I custom, with many other*, ha* vanished, th* country, and follow* that up by the anil the business is now transacted ia a U umnnt that ihe Mediterranean is now j very matter-of-fact way. Nor do the of far more importance t<> Kngiand cummer- 1 tenants coine any more to the seigniory to cially than it ever was, and that hr I "reel a May-pole or lo build a fire on the "foreign " trade i* greater than thai j eve of St, John'* day. They bave ceased of ny other nation in thai sea. It i* of the i to soil at the church door thoir first catch ' of fish for the season for a mass in behalf ol tliusouli in purgatory; and tho (eignior* on their part no longer supply the "pain- benit 'on holy day* or send their daughter* "pour faire la collect*" at the feast of the patron saint of tho parish. The old order of thine;* is fait going out and the new order is coming in with the extension of railroads and the constantly growing inter tirit consequence, then, that peace, free lorn I and prosperity ihould dwell there. These, however, have al times lo be commanded, aud for that purpose an effective i.ni OVEBMA.XTKHIM. rl.KKT is necessary. Sir (>eorge does not think in i 1 KugUndat pr-sent posseseea a fl-et of that character iu the Mediteraoean. He overflows the contracted emporiums and flows in cascades and Niagaras of watch- chains, necklaces, fantastic guards behind the plato-gla** window*. It seems to be a trick of Cheapsnle 1 * shops to display all their treasures to the preoccupied eye* of those who here march in legions along the pavement. They pour their wares into their window* WITH HECKLES* rROrfSIUN. Cheapside should enchant those western gentlemen who believe that silver is to be the savior of nation*. For the jewelry of Cheapside i* m linlv silver jewelry, and tho radiance of the windows ia the whit* rad- iance which tarnishes with inch hapless re- sult in the London fog. they had a pleas- ant way, five or six centuries ago, of ob- serving public festivals by opening wine in the streets. When a son was born to King Edward 11. wine run. in Cheapside, and there was nothing else to drink. Tuns of it were distributed and all the paflsers-by were hailed to oome and help themselves. Those cheerful practices could not he at- tempted in these prosi.io times. I* it that our human nature ha* progressed 10 far that it cannct safely indulge itnolf in this stvU of holiday? If you opened a tun of say* that the bust nav*l authorities agree that the trim practical test of "relative naval strxngth" lies in the posseaiion of battle ships, an I, taking this a* a test, he gives the following liguresof the effec- tive hiltleshipi of tifUKin-knot speed poss- essed by the seven Mediterranean powers inthatseaatpraeent: llreece, thre;lurkey, three ; Austria, three : Russia, four ; Italy, ten : France, thirteen ;<!rea'. Britain, eleven; Russia and France have alto mat. n il ad hi ions on the stocks to their list* of battle nhip*. (ireece and Turkey are dismiss, d from the calculation. Italy ha* a fine fleet, and, in conjunction with Russia, for example, combined with her oinnanding geographi- cal position, would piay a leading part in Mediterranean affairs. Kir (>oorge found ihe Russian fleet established at I'oros, a r.reek port, with quite an appearance of permanence. Tho presence of Russian war vessels in this port has drawn the watch- ful attention of all the nations who suspect the designs of the norihern power in the Medilerranuan. The ofRoer* and men if th. i British (loot Sir < -Forge found to be all that could be desired, still maintaining an invincible superiority . The possession of iiil>r.iltar, in i he mouth of the interconti- nental pea, is tho trne streng'h of the British poMdon. It should be the baa* of a powerful Heel, guarding equally the Wastxrn Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic and home *<**. During the last twenty yetrs th.9 arm n land in Kngland under the plough ha* dim- inisbod by nearly '.',01)0.000 acres, or over 14 per cent. The amount of arable land in Wales ha* diminished _'! par cent, in the same period. In Scotland, on the contrary it ha* increased by 7H,0:>0 acres. It may not be known to the general reader that a riflnhall deflected from its course immediately resume* its line of flight after rimming the object it is unable to pas* directly through. This is to **y, if ball turned from its course by rib pawn under the skin until it reaches a point mathematically opposite to tne point where it entered the soldier's body, and then passes out, resuming it* exact line of flight to enough of it* initial velocity remain*. There is one place in the world, at any r te, where the street* *re literally paved with gold. At Johannesburg it ha* been found that stone recently supplied by a mine on the main reef tor paving the street* yields six dwt*. to th* ton over the plates. .It ii quite an exceptional thing for a chapel to bo brought under the auctioneer's hammer. Such, however, i* to be the fate of one of the most historically-interesting buildings in London old Fetter-lane ( 'hap- el. Formerly the father of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgoon used to be the pastor of it. Thu present chapel date* from the middle of the eighteenth century. course with the oui.tde world. Here at Montebello ihe Papineau of to* day baa abandoned the Roman Catholic ' hurch and become a Presbyterian. Hii father, the man of '37, wae refused com munion because of his rebellion against the British Governor, and his bone* lie iu A* r.NCONSECRATED MACSOI.EfM within th* park. This strained the rela- tion* between tho preMiiV Papineau, now seventy year* old, and the clergy, but they got along without any open breach until a fow months ago, when the cure of Mont- ebello began building a new church. New churches have to be paid for by the people, in virtue ol the fabric law, eaoh freeholder being as- scceed pro rta, -ami the amount assessed Incoming, like the tithe, a first lien on his property. Mr. Papiur.au took the groun d that the cure had no buaine** to nuild a new church, and one thing led to another, nil finally Mr. Papineau went over to tho Preabyteriaiia. Other manor-houses well worth seeing are those of the Ue Belleleuille*, at St. Kuntai he, and of the Desohambault family pear Quebec, which has recently been pur- chaaed by a New Yorker. The manor of thn Lotbiniere seigniory, at Pointe Platon occupir s a splendid site. The'maoor- house of Dautraye, near Rerthier, i*, or was, a sort of Elizabethan villa, surrounded by a hedge, and looking down *r1ong avenue of pine*. Thai of Lacolle on the De Reaujeu seigniory, was built in ls by an Knglishman named Hoyle, whose son be- came a New York politician. The first manor-house built in the colony was that on the Uiffard seigniory a..- Beauport, near Quebec, which was erected about 163.1. In tli*e days, and for long afterwards, tho manor-houses of rich raignior* were irKKUIMlKII WITH or stockades. Tbe barns, stables, sheep- fold* and other attachment* stood within tho walls, which were lUimod with tower*. The seigniorial mill was built at the neareit waterpower, and close by was the church. The poorest seigniors built more modest dwellings, but always took care to have a supply of firearm*, in case of an Indian attack. All the older manor-houses have long since disappeared. A* they fell to ruins the stone* were taken to build churches, rectories for priest*, grist mills, and roads. Many ">f the churches contain paintings brought from France during the French regime. The Baailioa at Quebec contains originals by lilancbard, painter to the King of France between 1600 and 1630, Hale, Carlo Maretti, Fleuret, and Lelirun, with numerous copie* by Plamondon and othor local men. The Montreal churches and religious house* pouess many original* by French painters. The pariah church al St. Romuald, a village on the south shore of the St. Lawrence near Point L*vis, i* a perfect storehouse of frescoes and painting*, some jf which by Lamprech are valuable. A number of relics have oome down from the French regime. Beside* th* bone* of St. Anne, an otficialjlist prepared in 1874 at the two hundredth anniversary of the found- ation of the diocese of Quebec give* the following : Portion of th* true crosr, of the table used at the Last Supper, of the house of the Holy Family, of the sepulchre of the Holy Virgin, of the mantle of St. .lo*eph, of the vestments of St. Peter, of the bones of St. Matthew, St. Thomas, St. Luke, and other npot tolic person* ; with an enormous collection of honns and garment* belonging to minor saints. The Old <>al- lican ritual used in the churches has been set aside in most places for tiie Roman ritual. This is one of the changes wrought by the Ullramonlaues during th* last thirty year*. In digging for old remains in Frenoh Canada there i* no better field than the ballads and common speech of the people, which carry us back to a period that may be described a* remote. The ballad* are all of Kuropeau origin. Malbrouck i* among them. Malhroiif.k's 'cn va-t-en surrre. Mironton. Mironton. inirontaino, Ha brouck 'on va-Ucn iroerre. \c an qu:vail revlcndra. Others are mere jingles aud read like nonsense verse*. It is just possible that they msy be corrupt forms of the son^s of the "trouveres" who wan lered up and down France five or six hundred year* ago. "En ronlant ma boule" i* one of the most popular of the**. Many word* in every day use among the habitants disappeared a long time ago from the standard vocabul -ries of France. Some of them are nautical terms employ- ed, before Jacqura Curlier wa* born, by the seafaring people of northern Franco. Thus a "habitant" does not get in or out of bis sleigh, but embarks and disembarks; if you drop into hi* house for a friendly cut, he doe* not ask you to take off your overcoat, bnt to unrift or dismantle your- self ; ihe linen he buy* or send* to the wanli is not linen, but "butin," booty, a very old and suggestive Norman word for such articles. The reign of ihe seign- ior* with their stockadea ha* also left it* mark on his speech, a* when on hia way to the village he tells you he is going to "the fort." He has been obliged lo coin word* to descnln- surroundings and occupa- tions, e. g. , sleighing, maple-sugar mak- ing, working in th* lumber shanties, driv- ing logs, which are unknown in France. He has incorporated many Knglish -vord* used lu trade and commerce and in parlia- mentary proceedings^while his abrupt pro- nunciation of many Front h words would gravel a memlwr of the Academy. A few Indian word* and expressions imprejl**d themselves upon his language, and hi* ao- ceut and manner of articulating are pecu- liarly his own. Pulling aside these feature*, he (peaks French as she was spoken t hre* centuries ago without any suspicion* of a patois. The people still cling to the laudable custom of having large families. According to the census of 1S91, the average number of persons to a family throughout the Pro- vince of Quebec is 5J. This includes th* average in tho Englisn-speaking district*. In purely French counties it exceeds six ; in Kamourask* it is U. I ; in Oasp* and Tern- iscouata, 0.4 : inCharlevoix, 6.7. In France the average appears lo be under 4..'{. The clergy ay the fecundity of the French-Can- adians is due to their good moral*. No doubt iher* ia something in that, hut pro- bably the best explanation i* that the "habitant*" live a simple life, marry early, enjoy a rude abundance and have plenty of room in which to expand, land being given away by the Government ; whereas in Franco the small cultivator, with fifteen or twenty acres, has by law to divide it, on his death, among hi* children, aud i* thereby deterred from railing a large family. i i itiii-i \ i. IMI Vir<i lit . af Wild rawls ami 4nl***l> llun tlrare I .on. I on Table*. Hitherto the term Russian game, a* used in th* London market*, ha* applied more to birds than to v*nison of any sort al- though the latUr, hailing froti Russia, ha* Iwen available here and there for the last few years. We should, however, liko to see it become more easily procurable ; It certainly would be of greater assistance to the housewife, for in spite of the many ex- cellent things obtainable and within im- mediate reach, there are two things to be considered the increasing desire for variety in food and the decided inclination toward a higher clan of cookery, involving more skill on the part of the cook and a larger choice of materials. Of course w* all know that with money everything is to b* had in London ; but we are speaking of such im- port* with a view to bringing delicacie* which are now unapproachable within reach of ordinary income*. The North of Germany yields wild b> <tr -nd abound* in doer and roebuck, which fignre in German culinary works and menu* under the name* of reh and hir*chbratn, etc., and which in French are called claim and chevreuil. From Rusiia come* th* reindeer, which Urban Dubois praises when prepared with a sauce a 1'orange. Ivlk or moo*e i* also to b* had in Paris, presumably from Canada, where they are procurable, but also hailing from some part* of North- ern Kurope. Moreover, Russia sends us partridge* and pheasant* and her gelinottes (ha/.l hen) are delioiou*. German grouse are by no means to be despised, ana the Scandinavian capercailzie and it* varieties are becoming well known, the kind called hy th* French poule tie neige being one of th* most ap- preciated. Another bird easily obtainable in France and coming under the heading of game i* the outarde or bustard, which' as far a* the writer know*, i* not eaten in Kngland. It is said that .T2.000 varieties of good* are manufactured from wool. Persia i* about the only country where the telegraph i* not yet at home. The Australians have more churches in proportion to the population than any other people. Many a man fights for hi* oreed who never think* of carrying an umbrella for hi* wife. Tbe money inned from the Koyal Mint last year WM : Oold, 13,907,*W ; silrer, fH, ; bronze. 51,556.