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j..,a(j(ifii4U.ir<jaii,^- >%''-< ta H*i ' H k TERROR TO EVIL-DOERS, %r I f hi' ;â-  CIBfiAriiffit* I. The toMrn of Picton Btanda on the tiJgh-ro&d between Melbouroe and the KcJd-fielda of Victoria, lit is now the centre of « large paatoral dietrict, wltb railway communicatiom with the capit- -J Ahd a growing population tiiat div- Mflo itself into castes in the orthodox oldhcountry style. But twenty years ago it was a small placeu ieaportalnt dhiUifly because It was the otoJy townshiip within thirty milea, and because inside iia wallsâ€" sucih as they wireâ€" all the organizations of civ- ilizatioto was oomoentjated There Were ctiurches ib Piotoinâ€" an Episoopal chuj-ch ««id a Baptist chapel; there was a stnre amd a couxt-housie; amd a doctor lad lately set uj) iln practice. Beimg' an enejigetio yo«uig fellow, wliio be- lieved thiit elklll amd earnest nesa are â- "^rLh as much ita a aew country as capital is in an old on«, hie was doing Well; tliough his putiemta paid their fees in gold-dust and sheep and grain as ofleti as iki ooln of t.he realm. Yot he Wfts no* a bappy roan tli.:e mild March day, as tue stood iln the reranda of (be virara«et looking witlh Irritated admir- ation at a girl wtuose yellow dress and tawny hirown hair and eyes harmon- iwd with the brilllamt anitumn tints of the creepers that twined arouaul the posts and hung m long trails from the roof. Madge Reotou,, tine vicar's daughter, wn« not the belle of Picton; that pre- emineoioe vras claimed by Jenny Bircihi, the innJceepcT's only child, who had goJdeo hair, and a pink and white comr plexiou, and thiree times as many new gvwns as Miss Ronton.. But tastes dif- fer, and though the mllners from up the country and the occasional travel- lers wlio for any reason, or none, stop- ped at Picton, all admired Miss Biroh, IDr. Philip Sewell did not think her wxtfth looking at when Madge was by. He Would have beem well content to have luid thiH eccentric taste all to him- self; but unfortunately, i/t was sJiared by another member of the small com- munity, ajid tibat the most important one in it. TJie Law by common con- sent ranlcB above Medicine in our social organizaUomâ€" the newspaper which (poke of "the value of life and the soo- rednesB ot properly" only eohoed the pultlic sentiment wliicb has fixed the respective status of the professionsâ€" and though the Church is supposed to rank alwve eiilier, it is to be feared that the lawyer, alx>ve all when he Us mag- istrate as well, buliks ni»re largely in popular esteem thain the parson.. At least that was the eaae m Picton, where C&ptain Krere., the "police mag- istrateg" was decidedly the greatest mau in the place. }lo had bceu io the army before he oamo to Australiu,, and had been in- valided after the Crimean War, which al once made him .something of a hero. fie was, moxeover, u diutant cousin of a |leer who had once been Governor of Victoria; and it was to tliis conneolion that be owed hits preseml appointment., giiven him wliru hin benulth seemed su ilbaltered as lu make active service im- pufcsible. The Au.'^tralion climate had restored bim to Hircngih, and if one might Judge froiu expression as well ai; Tooka, to more liupe ainU enciTgy than he bad seeiuefl capable uf when he came to Pict>io, two yeax.s before the day wh»n Dr. S*-wellâ€" a later arrival Hlillâ€" lo«l hi.'* IcjiipiT with ALiilge lle>n- iun after having alreiidy lost lus heart to hex. The girl sal r<i\'<king lieraolf in a light canecliaij' a.s if trying by the mo- tilun to keep sonui iuwjurd vexation from finding vent in word^. A faint flu»ti Staineo tier usually pale ciliceiki\. and her tawny eye-s looiked darker wi:llb aiiiger. MiiisJemny liirch vs Iwi hvl been ikiuiwn to deeicrilie Ma<lge as "a red'-liuircd, wlute-fa<e<l thing," lia<l never st-eii her look so beautiful; for it was Miss Kicinr too's wont to go altuiiit title world ru- (Iher «>i»Uy, except when love or piity of anger rou."*!! her wml an<l hiT fea- turp^s to some excilciucint. There wn.s ccmaiilerablo eicu.sn for the indignation slie was now nbowitig. ikr. Smvell luid the hul>iii of ca^ndour, and tite had been indulging in it to t be full, Uiniler ciTcumstancej* wlhi-n reticence would lULVe Ikcti c»pe<iittlly udvisalile. He had just astiBd Milss HimiIuh to mar- ry him; aJiid hi.s requnwt lieimg refused he bad deniundcd I lie rea.si>in ikl' Iter ne- gotiive reply, nod l>egged Iwr (o recnm- sider it . A< first Miulgki litid inereily Genexal naval experts are IcatinK tlie reiterated her nssu ranee tliul .she could never Bcce{)( liitu; but she liked him just well enough to lial* Wdiimliiig IlilD, amd in order tlud .slie might not. seem to be duitig so widlioul cause, slut a;t last, explained tijut m1»> was engag- edâ€" privately, nut even her fal'lietf knew of itâ€" tot'aptn.i'n l,ewU l''rere. Al thittraint the rejected suilor'sduty «;is oleariy to bow to the linnd of deist iiny and retire from tllue content with as much dlBnity «» Iw* (x>uld nmsler. TWb, which lie iwi^bt to have dime w«« exactly wlinl PhiiJip did not do Ho I(ioke<t agluiMl, 8h<icke<l. ilnilignant, and ejaculated nlniust Ufiuimsciously; "Kn- giiged tt> tlial old â€" fog^-y I" Madge felt certailn I liAl a harsher ward thn.n f(ige,y was in has mindg though he mnnuged to reislrain It; and fogey waA had enough. A gij-1 who is thoarouglily in love with a man consid- er<i.l)ly .iie<r seniur cam laugh al the sur- |>riHe o^ linr friends; Inilt when she la not quite sure t.lmt be is the OiUe man ikl (he wtirld for hier, when she has been carried away by the novelty of wooing, and by tlhn l{howle<lge that a ninn who has been all mind the world a/nd h(i« tjied all life's flavors for fiva- IMtd-forty years, seetks as tihe best gift it can give him her uintutioa-ed self â€" when viinily has diclate<l her acceptance tniixne thiin lovBi. sb* ib y[^ te resent very deeply any instnuation tibat, aft«r all, her prize is not so very well wortU winning, ffhe miuat proive tha.t it Is ft pe^'irl <il price; s«be requixes to oonvince Ihetrtielf of it as miu/th as an(y (me else; and she is very indignant whf n aDutb- er gives utterance to l.be doubt that has be«.n lurking hojf-suspeoted in her her onvn mind. KoRey, inrleedl How dare Philip Sew- ell tihiit at such a word I It is true that I,ewis was a little told, and had a few Icrow's feet about his eyes and that there were white streaks in that beau- tiful beard of his. She was sure Phil- ip would have Iweiii unly too proud if he had had a beard a.s lom^ and flow^ iing, instead of a nii»e.ral>le little moust- dhave it off; it cfrtaalnJy did malke him a<-Jiie. Btill, she wuuld m;ilke Lewis look older, and tihlere waw no ne>ed to do that. But hie wasn't a fogey 1 "You ore very courteous 1" sihe ex- claimed in tones that made Philip feel h»w kicking in couiTteey hie h«vd been. "I beg your pardon,, Miiss Ite.nton; I hod no right to syeak aa 1 did; butâ€" but â€" you know" â€" "O ye.s, I knowl I know .t.hat boys of four or five and twenty" <Fhilip waa twenty-six, end tihis was #8 near it as Slie dared venture) "always try to dis- p<irage me«i who luive rea<-hed the age of wlKdom. They are jealous of them, I surpose." "No. they're not," said Philip blunt- ly; "exceptâ€" t.hat isâ€" except whenâ€" when"â€" "Pray, don't make exceptions out of consideration for me. 1 am quite pre- Jiired to admit that very yooing men don't appreciate lihe qualitie-s of those wh<] have more ex.perience than them- Bclvea; Init women,, fortimately, are dil- fer&nt," Kiid Miss Madge, wiho had just passed her nineteenth birthday, with ft grand air. "I hope they are! That iti, I hope you are 141 love with this fellow, Krere, though I don't see how you can be. And I don't believe you are." "IJr. Kewtil how dare you speak iin sucih a fashion I" "I l>eg your pardon; 1 am very stuji- id. I know I have no right to criti- cise your choice. I am madâ€" jealous, I suppose. But whten a man has bis liest hiope taken away from him, he"â€" "Thw Words ceased, a cerlato husky feeline tJiut had been in Philip's throat Bin<-e the moment Madge said "No" having Suddenly became so majiked as to pre- vent articulation. The girl grew softer when she s;iw hony moved he was. "I am very sorry, Philip, very sorry," she said gonlly; "Imt you see 1 am not free, and you will find somelwdy else who will suit you better.'" "Neverl" he exclaimed stoutly. "Kve>n a boy may know bis own mind, when he is a hoy of twoaty-six. .ind t know !l.hat I shall never love ajiy one but you." She was alK«it to combat this opin- ion, which wi>uld prolubly have re- sulted in a new develujunent of the or- iginal quarrel between them., when her father afipeured. The llev. Mr. Rent- on was an anxiiuius>-loaking man, who .seemed to feel h»nv little his Oxford training was adapted to his Auslra- linn environment. (He had come to the aiitipiides first because his health was weak; n^id wh«-n I lui pare stuft air had healed liis feeble lungs, he tieg.m to look for some sjiftnere of work in the new hind. It was in thle purest mission- axy Bjiirit that ho liad come to Pu-loin ten ye«ixs l)efore: nnd ilt waa in a mis- sionary e(piril sublimed to a forlorn- hope that he clung to bib post iiru spite of tiie bitter consciousness of failure. A few, the more uristoi'ratic portion of (he Picton couimi iin.it y, came to his oh«Lrch; but the majority of thotse who cared for religious exercises at all went to the cluyiel. This consciousness of failure in his life-wor'k gsive the iKirwn anopoJcgetic air, even before those who, like Dr. Sewell, were loyal meniliers of his flock. I'liilip did iu>t indeed wt- tihat Mr. Henlcn wiis nervous in his presence; bat lie perceived, and confid- ed to h'irasf'lfâ€" having n«> ittlier confid- ant whoiin he could tjust with a dispar- aging judgment of Miss Benton's fa- ther â€" that the vicar alm«i.st cringed to Oiptain Frere; and at this nuiment he gl.ired at hifi inoff«Miding pastor, bein^ suddenly etruck with the idea that lie hid forced his daughter to accept tliei CJi])tain. (To Be Continued.) THE QUEEN'S NARROW ESCAPES. Atlriupln Which Have Kern Niulr to .4«hii« Hlunir lli-r MiiJ<'i>l>. tiiiww she has IxHvn on the throne, Cjue<;n Victoria has had .several nar- row escajies from a«.siisains. 'I'he first attempt on her life was imide by Ed- ward Oxford on June 10, 1840. He dis^ charged a pistol al llw Maje.st.v when she Wius going uj) Constitution llill. The luuu was quit* mad, and alter be- ing cajuuretl wa.s ment to Bedlam and tbenoo to BartiiiODr, where, alter 3a yoiirs, he wa.s transumrlcd to .Vust riiliii, where he set U(i> iu business as a house painter. Nearly two yeai-a later, on May 'ii), 1842, and almost iu tlie same plal^e, Juliii Francis firoil at tlim Queen. He -nas Bonlence<l to deiith for this act, but WHS afterward ivi>rieved and wa.s transjiorted to Ta.suiania. The third att»'iiyit waa made on July a by a derorinicd youth named .lohii William Bean, tnit bis pistol missi'd, fire. 'He was imiinisoued for 18 months in Newgale. 1 Again, in May, on ttio I9th, in tli«> yeiir 1K49, and a third time on Con- st itutiou Hill, William Hauiilton fired al Her Majesty. He, however, was only senlem-ed to tran«4K>i-tation for seven years for this act. Jn tlie follinving year, iLieutenant Pale coiumiltwl another outrage, but he had no murderous intent. Just as Her Majesty wa« leaving Cambridge House I'ale struok her over the face with a cane, ami, like Hamilton, was sentenced to tranaiioTtation for seveu years. The last occasion on which any,body attein,pted to injure Her Alajeaty wa.s twxi days after the thanksBiving tor the recovery of the Prinoe of Wales, wbeu a young man named Arthur O'Cbnnur ai>l)roa<?li«d Her Majesty's carriage in the courtyard of Buckingham Palac*- and t.hreateinetl the Queen with a pis- tol. John B^o^v^a, who was. thein H«\r Majesty's closest personal attendant, aeiztrd the youth, and took the revolver from him which >vaa found to be un- loadiod. Io A Treasure Ship. OHAJPT'ER IV. ilt wa« a carious eenaatloo, and a minute or two passed before I could realize what had happened. Even that ghastly looking object, with its livid arms and mangled, shapeless body and head that now lay limp and flaccid on the deck, aeemed for the moment hard- ly more eufastantial than a dream. Al- ter a few motoents I {pat out my band and touched it, and with the touch it all came back to me. "But th« gold, Tom," I exclaimed, eagerly, looking into Madison's lace; "surely the native brought up some of the gold with him." Tom smiled and glanced at the cajjtain, ajid the captain shook his bead. "Have a drop more brandy," sir," he said; "ye ain't shook the water out o' yer head, not yet," aJakl the (worthy skijiper held a glass of neat brandy to my lips as he spoke. II groaned. It was just what I had exjiected. Of course, they didn't believe in the trea- sure-ship, and I had nothing to show â€"nothing at least but the remains of that wretched devil-fifih, and, of course, that proved nothing. 1 looked from one to the other, and then my eye rested on the blai-k, who seemed to be the one referred to as IJoru by Madison. "Did the nigger tell you where he found me f " 1 asked, looking at Tom. "No, Boru isn't communicative, and it was just about all he could do to sjieiik at all by the time he got you up. But where do you think you were?" said Tom, with a little more curiosity in bis eyes. "lu the hold of the Sjianish gal- leon, to be sure," I said, promptly, "within a couple of feet ot the trear* sure." "The devil, you were!" exclaimed Toui, in a startled lone. "Look here, Tom," X said, as I pro- ceeded to get uji, "if it hadn't Ken for that brute of a, fish, I'd have brought gold enough on board with me to convince all hands, and as it is lia going back to get it." Tom's face looked puzzled, as if he hardly knew what to think, but there was no hesitation altout the ca,i)tain'8 jolly visage as he exclaimed, "Not you, my hearty. That thundering devil- fish ha.s got into yer head, but ye'll be all right when ye've had an hour or two's suooz^." 1 put iny band on Tom's shoulder, "Come on below, old man," 1 said, "and I'll toll you all about it." The skm>per nodded to Madison. '"I'liat's lalKin', now," he said, "Liet him to lie down lor a bit, till he gels, over It, .Mr. .Madison, I siiould like to bear about it m)-.sell', only I've got to go ashoi-e again now. K.e'ep the yarn till I come ixick, ilr. Halt, yell tell it all the better lor a sleeit." 'iNow, what's to oe dune,, Madi- son," I a*skvd, as we sat hall an hour laler on m-posile sides ot llie lubie lu the little siiloou oi the brig. 1 had told the story to Tom just as it had happened, and he bad sal and followed It Word L»y word wiliiout ever taking his eyes oil my face ilU I had fiuished. Ntnv he looked at me for a moment, or two, as if he was going over a lu his luiudr-lbea he a^ioke with a Horl of giui^). â- \ou'r« dead sure there was no mis- take. Hall," tie said, ' it w.is coin you B41W trickling lulu the water* ' "Sure!" I ejaculaued with contetiyit. "^Should 1 want logo back again lor lun, do yoil sujipu.'ii'f ' "UcU,' tie Kiiil, after thinking for ball a minute, ' there's only one way ibat I can thiuk uiâ€" you'll have to go down again. I'd go myself in a mo- mem, old lu.ui, tiat the >.banoe3 are I sliouldul liud It." I juiuiied up and gripped Tom by tiie hand, as 1 e.tclaimed, â- that's what 1 say, but liow are we going to man- age ii r They II try to sloip me go- ing." The skipper would, sure enough," said lorn, with a laugh, " but I can manage the others ivUile he's gon» asliure. Ill go and talk to the mato now Willie you get into the uigsogaiu. I'll have to utter him a share, thougli, I exjjeut." "Oil," I said, "of course, we'll all share, TOm. There'll bo something (or everybody if we can once gel il uj)." leu minutes laler, t went on deck readj to late it again, aud the moment I looked at the men 1 could see that Joiu had been as ginnl as his word, i'lieie was more curio.iily Ihan ever iu iLe glances Ihay cast at me, but there wivs a look of sujipressed, eager- ntws about the mate's uice that con- vinced me be would lorward my enter- tirisc by every me^ms in his power. "J-ook here, sir," he said, coming Ui> to me, "do ye think ye ixmid pilot us somewhere near the e^polf Mr. .Ma<li- sou tells m« ye stiiw it from the dei-k, and I sliould feel more easy in my mind if I could feel sure as therewere no mistake afore ye went down." The idea eiecju a gotxl one, and in le(*s than five ininuttw we were in the boat, two sailors rowing, and the mate aud I'om ijieering over Uic gunwale uu each side, while I did my best to direct the men as 1 sat in the stern. We rowtij some little distanpe, and then I bade them turn and couw back, but as yet we had seen nothing. I could see the mate glaince u|p once or twice as if he began to duuibt, and I was puzzled myself. Surely we were too close to the brig, now, I thought, and yet we seemed to have takeu the right track, too. I Btoc\ped over the .side, aud gazed into the gla.s-sy de\[ith8 and even as I did so a sUado^v seemed to rise from the bottom. I gras^ied the gun- wale and stared iuto the water. Yes; there it was again. The same sha^ie- tesa, yet suggestive, rock I hatl look- e<l at from the brig.â€" the same. "Stodi rowing 1" I shouted. . " Back-lwater, meni" Xn another mlnut« we lay .perfectly still, and, to my suirprise, not more than thirty yards from '.he brig. Tom < and the mate gazed downwards, for some sel^onds witbout speaking, and then the latter looked up. '"'WeU, I'll be jiggered!" he exclaimed, "if I don't believe as it is a shiit after all!" I put on the helmet which lay on the seat beside me, and Tom Ba;w to the fastenings. I motioned to the men to pull a stroke and tbien to stop. Q'om saw that the gear was olear, and the hands on the brig looked after the tump, and in another instant I h.id iwered myself over the stern. Tom put a large butcber's knife into my hand, and nodded. 'Vhen 1 let go. We had judged our distance well, for when I felt my fe<!t touoh the bottom, and looked around, 1 found tha.t I was standing once more on the sloping deck of tiie tS^>anish galleon. A step or two, and I had reached the edge of the hold, and then I paused. Ji, strong shudder ran through me as I lookeci into the darker dejiths below, and for a mo- ment X hesitated. Then 1 looked up- wards, and there, surrounded by a halo of coloured light, X saw the boat float- ing motionless overhead. X could fancy I saw faces peering down at me through the water, and I felt that I was not alone. In another moment I had drop- ped into the hold. it looked strangely familiar as least a quick glance around me in the liquid twilight, but I felt that I couldn't af- ford to pause. I turned my face reso- lutely to the dark<er shadows, and de- scended the slope step by step into the darkness below. X was determined to succeed, and yet the effort Iwas the gretttest I had ever made in my life. My quick glances seemed to travel round my little horizon with the speed of lightning. Each coral branch, each s(ponge or hairy medusa that trembled in the moving water mada my heart stand still and my feet falter; and yet went on. X gripped the knife 1 held in my hand with a fieroer clasp, and held it in front of me, »> that I could faintly see tlie glitter of the blade, and it seemed to give me courage, Steip by step X went on into the shadow. At last X had rea/ibed the place. If it had only been by the sharp shudder that passed through me I should have known that it was the same. '!^ee, there was the black bea,p of iiiled up cases once inore; there the bhick cavern out of which the arms had stolen â€" ^l could fancy I saw and felt them; again. 1 stopped. I waited in breathless expec- tation; but nothing haj^iened. Then I stooped forward into the darkneseiand groped blindly in the shadow. X gave a cry as I felt my gauntlet close upon something the toucu of which seemed familiar even through the leatherâ€" it was gold! I am not sure how I got Ixick to the daylight. At the touch ot the coins, and still more X think at the yellowigleam as 1 held up a handful close to my eyes, the Haine rush of wild feelings of exultation cauie luck that X had felt Ijefore when first it dawned on me that X had lound the treiisure. I found my way bu/'k somehow; I pulled the signal ruie as agreed, and still in the same state of unnatural excitement, I found myself hoisted through the wa- ter to ttie side of the brig. 'Ibe ^oat was tliore IWore me, and the first things X saw as my eyes recovered from the dazzled feeling with which they confronted the white sunlight, were the eagerly staling Iiu-hh, of Tom, the mate aud the sailors. The mate gras[)ed me by the arm and he and 'Tom hauled me on board the boat, an<l then, for the first time I opened my bauds and let the flashing sunlight glitter on the quaint gold coins that had lain bid so long amidst the coral beds of Ulolo Bay. As I bad antit:i4«ateil, the evidence of the gold was irrewistible, and even the 8km>per was readj Io confess that there might be a cu«w in which an amateur desi-eut was worth the risk in- volved. We moved the brig to thejyiot, aud the lu.sk of getting up the treasure proved less laborious than might have been expected. For my own jiart, I didn't go down again. Now that the exciteiiieut was at an end L found that the strain had told uiHjn me uiore than I had any idea of al the time. 1 was, however, the hero of- the party without a rival from that day forward, aud I confess the jiosition was a pleasant one, as X lay on an extemiiorized couch under an awning sail, aud watched b«g after bag of yel- It)w gold deiiosited on the deck Ijeside me as it was hoisted out of the hold of the SiKinish galleon, where it had been guarded so long and so well by the great devil-fish of Xllolo Bay. (Ihiw end.) THOUSANDS SEE A HANGING. TumUclk Kxi-rulril Itrfore V,<HMI I'rrHuiii In iiu OiM'ii l''lrl<la( Zebul'iii. 4.;ii. Tom Uelk. the (Jeorgia out Law, w;us hanged at Zedulon. tieorgia, on Friday afUriioon. He was marched from his cell to an open field and died in view of fully 6,000 people. On Ihe way to the gallows 'Xoui bowed to the men and smiled as he tiK)k his hat <ift to the women. He was in good humor and said, as he looked at the throng: â-  L<X)ks like il was election day, don't itj" Fully half an hoitr was taken up iu the journey to the scaffold, the crowds blocking the w.iy, bul finally all the .ntprvening fields had been traversed and the fences torn down. :ind Ttmi ran up the steps of the gallows with his hat in his baud. He ma<le :i speech dechvring his father, Taylor Delk, in- n<xvnl of the crime of killing .Sheriff Gwyn. foir which both father and >va have been sentenced thtee liiiios to death. r<mi helped .•s^heriff Milhier lo adjust the n<xvse and shook hiiudswith everylxKly within reach. The crowil was hilf crazy with excitement, when the trap wius ispruug. and ii»> effort wivs made t<> preserve the order. The drop fell at 'iM. and at 2.2(i o'clock the phy-sicians pronounced 'I'oui dead. A SMASiliEK. Mrs. Grumpyâ€" What makes you I hitik that the ctiok iwill break her mar- riage engagement with the policeman '* Mr. ('r\in»T»y â€" ^Because (he *^*!!s show that she is txreaking everything she can get near. JSTEREXA' AN ACVIDENT. Miss Rhamloy, you assured me you would say nothing about that mattc^r. Why have, you brokeni your word 1 It" was accidental. I droppi'd it with a lot of otb»r gossip. NAMES OF COUNTRIES. Tbe HeaBlBKorSoine Which Are NMtMai- manly KnowB. Everybody knows the e'Ugin of the name America, bujt not so many are aware that Euirope means broadface in Greek; that Asia Js the land <rf the dawn, and that Airica comes from a Phoenician word meaning a blac'k mac, ajnd is literally "the laod of the blacks." The Liatiin word auMtralis, southern, giives a name to Australia. The anci- ents knew only the lands around the Miediterranean. and for this reason con- sidered that sea "in the middle of the world." The Adriatic Ls named from the city of Adria, tbe black town, which was so called becauise it was built up on the black soil brought down by the Rjiver Po. The origin of the name Canada ia unknown. Mexico conu>s from nexitl, the Aztec war god. HitfnduTas meana deep water ; Coeta Rica, rich coast, and Numragua, sweet water. Venezuela, meaining little 'Venice, -was so named because some ot its people built their hoiuies over the water, as ( he Venetians Hid. When the Spaniard asked the In- dians of a part of Central America, the name of their country, they answered: "Jmnca tan ?" ("What do you say "?) and th ecountry was called Yucatuia in con- sequence. Brazil was so named because the wood of a certain tree of that coun- try wap thoulght to resemble in color the coals in a braziej. Ebuador means equator ; Argentine, silver ; Chili, the land of snow; i'atagonia, the land gt big feet, and Paraguay, THE RIVER OF WATERS. Only men from bleak northern latit- tuides could have named Greenland and Labrador, the last meaning land that might be cuiltivatod. Hiitain is a word of uncertain origin. The name may come from the Cteltio britii, painted, applied to tbe inhabi- hants, because they painted their Ixxlies ; or from the Phoenu.iu.n bara- tanic, the land of tin. because the Phoe- nicians visited Cornwall for tin. Kng- land is Angle-land, the Angles Ijeing one of the Tetutonc^ tribes that over- ran the island. Scotland is the land of Scots, or "wanderers." Ireland mail derive its name from Xr, a 8panini chief, who invaded the country ejirly lit tile Christian era. The German cT^tiHt who settle aini!»ng the Celtic triles of Gaul, gav« their name to X'rance, themselves de- riving it from franca, a kind of spear with which they were armed. Belgium takes its nami» from the Belgae, who pcBsessi>d one of the three parts of "All Gaul" in Caesar's time. The Suevi, an- other trilje mentioned by Ccu'sjir, gava thvir name to Sweden. Upland meana mar»h gixnmd, nnd nearly the same meaning is pireserved in the present name of thei c«>iuntryâ€" Netherlands, the underlands, or louTcnds. IXenmark ia phiinly the march or territory of tba Xtanes. Austria is Oesterreich, the Kastenj EiJipiTe. Priussia is the Hand of the Boriu>sL, ani Russia is the i-ountry ot the Runs, a Swedish tritje that over- ran a part of the land and founded the empire at Novgoroil. Ibe name Germany is of uncertain origin. Rly some it Is supposed '.> be derived from UsL^hermania, the name at a reguon in central Asia. Th".' Germani, a trilie whiisenamo means "followers of Butfldha," lived in Persia in the dajytt of HerodotuBj Switzerland, gets ite nonie from St-hweiz^ the name ut THE THREE CANTC?W that first asserted their independence of Austria. S^iain, Latin Hispania,i come-s from the Phoenician spahau, a rabbit, the couinlry in I'arly tiiiiea abounding in these animals. Portugal is derive<l by some from Portus Calet the ancient name ol Oporto ; others find iln the word â- w>rtiis Gallae, the gateway of Gaul. Italy ctmieM either from Ua- luis, an early trilbal chief of the coun- try, or fronuj the Greek italos, a young bullock. The Greeks called their coun- try HellaH, .-uud themselves Hellenes, l>ut tbe Ronuiitu.'i named the land from tbA Graeciii, a trilie of Epirus. Turkey meains tri^nitary, people ; Per- sia, the laud of brightness; Arabia, tiM district of tlie desert-man ; Hindustan, fixed dwelliing phu'c; Siam, dark land, from the color of tbe soil, and Ceylon, lions. Jaj[ian is a corruption of Zip- augu, I lit-, name of the country as given! by Marco X'olo, the Venetiian traveller, w ho visited it in I Iw thirteenth cen- tury. 'Ihe derivation of I'^ijpt is unknown. Morocco is thiv terrilMry of the Moors, M\d B;irlmry that of the Berlx>rs. Sour dain uiearvs the* ilistrict of the blacks. "'liDt\ Die.sert of Sahara" is a needlesa repetition, for f>ahara means deserts liiiliraltar is "the mountain of 'X'arif," \» ho, with a .Saracen' army, liuilt a cas- tle on thi.v ro 'k in the eighth century. In South >Vtrica, Transvaal is the (xninlry lieyoiid tho \'a«i River, aud Natal uiwea its name to the fact that it was dis'.'overed on Chrisluia.s, thediee antaliN of Christ. THi; THBA'PRE HAT. At last the the«itre hat is about to lie "circumwented," a» Sam Wteller would have said. .V l^adoa optician has invented a stereoteJescoipe (which enables a peiuon to see a perforiuance on the stage, no matter if a woman wearing an Eiffel tower, with a casiMide of lace, two or three waterfalls of rib- Imn, and a whole ornithological and tloiial exhibition on it, does occupy tbe seat in front of him. The instrumenit is a form ot biuocu,lar, by means of which a correciod aud highly magni- fied view ot anything at a distam-e may he seen either at the Bides of or over the ol»truftiou, even when the lookei* is looking thaxjiigh the glasses diroctly at the obstructioh. Ihe new (njiiera glaew attains its objoit by an arrange>- ment of teJesi"iDii>ic lenses in twt) s-ruut six or eight inqbes long, which bring! a reflection of the objlect aimed at t4 a point in front of the eyes. WE,LL QliAIitFlEX). What makes you thiink S^Mioothly le a(ti experienced fiisherinant BecMWi"« lie ia one of the most n*/,^r»l and arliatif. liar.s I have evwr hffi the 4'lcasure of meeting.