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 Stormlne a Sat's Stroi I was once present vfhentkter^ I hich had lain with other !)hancery for a long time, wa* shall never forsret the scene, rere hundreds â€" I believe it woow -â-  Exaggeration to say thousands-nSF H raariddlei, honay-oomljod by th«i'^l It had preserved its shape and an egrity so long was a mystery^ lasses of it fell in and seemed to' to powd ;ry nothtngnoss when it w-i .uroed. Of course, tn^ presence ^J mnivorous vermin and their mal|it2^1 icU known, and all available prepli*" ruide for jjiving them a Avarm irhen evicted. Nets were drawn ^turdv men and boys stood behind* ^rmed with stout cudfifels, and hlni od dog? of all degrees, mustered fni.i larious farms and villages of the a lide for miles aroundâ€" sheep-dogs, betters, pointers, spaniels, retriev«r« llos^ even, with curs and mongreUo/ Ijreed and every breed and no breed iL'l Jheu the work began it was a ratty uaie. At first little was to be seen of iut their tails, a? they darteti in fartJ boviu,rd3 the centre of their strooe); pdcape from the disturbance bat Ltorming of tiie ostle proceeded, they! kd detf.mino'l simultan ously to Am ind ^ured forth as if at a given signill rtrithin. Ther6 was a gre .t heave ilack fl od oveiflowed the top, and ran u torrents black streams spurted* rom the sides and welled and hubbl Irom underneath the rick, the qi the nets, the very lir seemed alive â-  leaping,' tumhing, rushing, fequeokinffl Kvhich, with the shouts ot bystander,! B)arking and snarling of the doijs, the'V hi excitement from their owners, and I Jblows of sticks and flails made up' a pi Inionium of sights and sounds more likJ Ichaotic phantasy of some madman's if â- Thau any matter-of-fact reality. Don] |irieu V. orkcd witli a will, and the resuW a goodiy licip of battered carcasses jl 'et how many ^vere killed, but they diJ IreprcM nt oi.e tithe, r.o, iior one twent Ipartoftlie number that got away line. A Temperance General. It was rtcently reported that Sir IWoIseley is a total abstainer from jioating beverages. A man who sat bjl iide ot him at diuner found that he left Iwiuc glass untouched, and tliat that liiis lia' it,. Of course, the tempei |peoj»le will mak' nnicli of that alleged rhc gicateat, or at Ica.-t the mostsucce, 'highsh general of ttiid day is a teetofc lJLi:s success they will attribute to his l.^teiMiousj^ess, wlucii is all the mot linarkable in a solilier, or, at any rate, Iwill ciainitliat ;he triumph of the Eni lanns in Egypt has been greatly helped! jilie sobriety of tiie general in come And tlievwill have good reason for Ic'.aiin. rudoubteiUy a sober General it| I more tiu'stwortliy than oic who relief Istiniulants toboUtt-r him up Mhen thei sion is try -I'g. No ma:i can be trusted i V ork wliicli icijuires yood juilgnient if :ii".i!i aUlictc'l to (Iriak. Alcohol very i, allccts +lnj balance ot tJie facultied,( tiieretorv; the less people w ho need to their hiads about tliein take of it the I. I tlicy are oil. Drinking is the irreat vio annies, ami yet nowhere elc-e does a require that all his faculties shall be non more tiian when in the charge of troop tlie lichi, especially w hen he is high in nian.l. If Sir (iarnet Wolseley is^a teet^ ler, he is a wise man. He is in better sieal comlition to sta'ul tne different mates to wliich military service may him, and intelle.-' lally he keeps himsel better poiscil than if lie followed the di irg cuiloms of the run of army officers. miud is clearer, aud he can trust his n nioiit. 1 loniiiaiiy tiiousands of lives wd ha\ e been saveil in our v.ar, for instanc the (iciiLT.ils had all been as sober as scley is s-ai I to be. We observe that Knglishmcn of education aud ability,! wlio carry the load c! extensive affairs, tcndoiKy is toward incrcasini; abstemici ness, and t!iat even total abstainers growing numerou" It is a tendency wli weci.iniu«-iid to tile tiioughtful attentionl our men in puLlio life, our professional I usiiieis men.â€" A'f '• york Sun. Claims for Coaipeasatioa. Ihv Dublin Odzr/i" contained rcc£_ f urtiicr r.otices of claims, under the Prei tiou of Crime Act, furcouipensation for( ragis coininitted upon persons in the co tius of Ujscommou, Cork, May), Sligo,'CiJ QwcH:i C unty, Tipperary, Gal way Lcitrna. Amongst ttiem is a claim for; 000 by .iolin Dillon, •! C.irnacarta, lor the mur.ler of his ta::her a claim| -Mrs. iLnry I' Blake, jf Rithvdle, Gall on her o-.vn l«half and that of her child tor the muidcrof hcrliusbantl and per .1; juries to herself by being wounded at time of the as^assinatioM one by Jb Connor, of Kilsaiiff, (Jalway, on behalf hersdt an.lchildre I, for tlie murder oi' Iui*bar.d one cfjL-JO,000 by Isadore \Villia:n IJouike, of liihassano Park, v.ay, for t!ic ni-u-.lcr of hia brother, \\ alter M. l0!ako and a claim by Domi^say, of Kivoi^li e, (,alway, on be 01 her--.vl. aud 'andly, tor tiie manler of huolaiid. I.ead lae. My lay3 CO briefly past. in siionce, one by one What shadows have tnej cast Beneath the sun pilgrims found tbem sweet. A. Hint to Lottcr Writers. To Ie accurate in little things is thel way to become accurate in everything. no one knows how many of the great an unccs of lite spring froi 1 little habits of lessncas. and the little inaccuracies of tail, which one is often content to let rather than make, at the proper time, slight exertion necessary to complete seemingly unimportant duty. A hin*' this line may be drawn from a recent I" cf a New England prolessor, whose le are always marked by charness of pen*J ship and minute attention to punotc *^ He writes I do not know that I ever told you in subscribing a letior, I write the ot the State in full. I do so under the vice of a post-i Ihce ollhial. " Sir," M»*'j "clerks in their hurry larel^ look »* '" thing but the name of the State. And j letter gets into tiie right State, it wiU ' i get into the right toirn. I have fo i the advice, a;id ion^d mv account in ' By lengthened ways. By 1 And. resting weary feet. Thanked God w^ith praii-e I Upon these hours of mine Hang great demands What task of faith divine Hath crossed my hands! Have they drawn folds of calm Some heart around. Or touched with pitrs balm A rugged wound 1 I am thine own, O God, To serve each day Wherein thyself hath trodâ€" Point out the way t .^^*» â- Â«Â«^»' •*^^â€" AN AHMY OF COWABDJ. Egyptian Troops- How they tied In rcvlouB Wars and Were Butcheredâ€" luses of ttelr Poltrooneryâ€" Arab! Boy. fortune â€" rood or i 1, it is hard Cayâ€" to spend something over two years VJyvii, in the service of tlie late Khedive, lail Pasha, as an officer t £ engineers in larmy. 1 lived in Cairo with my family, daily in intimate association with the ive population, and had charge, as chief Ihe Third Section, of the general staff of I Topographical Bureau. ince the days of Mehemed Ali and his It warricr son, Ibrahim Pasha, Egyj.t I entirely lost her military prestige she 'had no recent victories ofanyimpor- In 1S75 the Egyptian troops under if Pasha made a successful attack upon frar, a walled town of the Sumalis. With single exception, all of their recent itaiy efforts have been most disastrous nres. 1 '-leed only mention the series of fible catastrophes attending the abortive tmpts atconquest in Abyssinia durirg the rs 1 S75 aiulL 1 870. The writer was one of uuiortuuites who participated in those lorious undertakings, and knows where- Ihc speaks. The tirst expedition into ,-3?inia w;:s under Col. Arendrup, a iish otiicer in the service of the Khedive, commanded a column of troops of all numbering about 3,500 mtn. They apparently excellent troops, were well knised, well drilled, well armed, and II equipped in ev. ry way, and yet on the fy hrst enceunter with the Abyssinians entire torce engaged was literally wiped ot existence. Only a few desperately luded, maimed, and mutilated men, who left as dead by their ruthless foes. iSMrtiis â-  *\Jt re the survivors of that bloody fight. ese wretched sufferers, with wonderful lity, crawled off the field of carnage, hid pmselves by day in the caves and jungles, on wild fruits and berries, dragged their tering limbs along at night, and reached ssowah, some ct them weeks after the e, and told the horrible tale, wipe out tills disgrace and avenge this cat, a large army, which ultimately nbered fully 2J, 000 men, equally as wed jointed in all respects, as the other force, sent into Abyssinia. They reached Abysiiidan plateau without resistance, about 1-J,U00 of them at one time wei e ^aged with ilie hordes of King John. Of that met the King in the open field but ry lew returned to the two forts w hich filled the Hanks of their positions. I have intention of giving a description of this Ittleci Chira, as it is called, but simply of nving the fighting capacity of the Egyp- troops. The position occupied by the ^yptian avniy Avas an excellent one they fcre on the open, nearly level plain, them- Ives i)0sted on the rising ground they »rc Sjdeudidly equipped with Remington icch loading rifles their a'tillery was niposed of French mountain howitzers. igli:ih steel guns, and German Krupps, be- les a line rocket battery their cavalry magnificently mounted end perfectly mcd thf y were commanded by the Com- nder-in-Chief of the Egyptian army, and best ilhcers they had some dozen or lore American and European staff officers them, exhort them, and set lem a good exar.i L\ King John attacked iem scjuarely in Iront, with his host of ^ked, bare- tooted, bare-headed warriors, had but few firearms, no artillery, no [•gaiiization â€" nothing military, in fact, but ige. And yet, in one hour and a halt, |1 of 7,000 troops who were outside of the rts, except a bare hundred, were killed or iptured by the Abyssinians, who rushed pon ihemwitu sword and spear ajid shield, id slaughtered theja like sheep in the lanibles. The loss of the Abyssinians was iout 150 men The bare statements ot facts make coni- Icnt ui necessary. How it all happened it diHicidt to tell. Col. Dye, who was in battle, wrote a book to explain it, but lid not sue eed, I think even to his own sat- faction. ^^'hy it so happened is easier to iswer, and the answer is this :the Egyp- lans Mill not, cannot fight. A disaster pually complete, but on a smaller sc le, Icourred to a column of Egyptian troops Jndcr Manzinger Pasha, nearly contempoi' iieously with the Arendrup tragedy. This )luinn was niavchiug through the Galla Duntry to co-operate with Arendrup, and rhcu several days' journey from Tujuirah las attackeil at night by the natives, and Dsolutcly annihilated. The \vriter saw one the victims of this catastrophe, who es- iped because his wounds were thought to certainly fatal. He was an officer of en- ineers. The events thus briefly epitomized pla nly lemonstrate the lack of fighting qualities ot "le Egyptians. Now, the question naturally risest Why a? e they thus utterly worth- less as soldiers? That question it is the [nain object of this article to answer. There ire two classes of soldiers in the ranks of khe Egyptian army. The smaller classes koiisist of Nubians, Darfurians, Sudanese, nut Berbers from up the Nile. Many, in ^â- ict it is said that most of them, are slaves, i.ttier taken or bought from the regularslave lunters and traders of the interior, and iberated by the late Khedive Ismail, by be- ing plrced in the army. However recruited, fhey constituted the on !_ „ tlie army in the Abyssinian campaign, and fhey were vastly inferior to the colored froops of the Union army during the late pvd war. They have some soldierly quali- fies they are strong, hard, able-bodied men, |!aa stand heat and hard work and long marches well they are docile, obedient, and fcecmed to learn the routine duties of mill- tM7 life reftdBj, and pwhapi under good offioers might make £a rly good eoldien. The Uriter part of the Ifeyptian army is made up of reomita taken \y oooseriptiaB from the Tillages and fields of the lower delta. Thece fellaheen are the roost abfoet slaves, and have been so for hnndreda of years. They are not slaves of a single own* er who would be rrsponsiUe for their wd- fare, and would profit by their well-being, as was the case with the farmer slaves of the South. They are the slaves of the sofl upon which they live, and of every man who occupies a higher position in life than they, from their o-an sheik-el- beled to the Khe- dive. Every effenU, bey, and pasha with whom they come In contact m acy way whatever looks upon them as different beings from himself, calls them habitually "ebu-el- kelb," sons of dogs, and kicks, cuffs, and beats them ad libitum. In consequence of this bad treatment, and by heredity, they are low, mean, cowardly, aud cringing be- yond any people on the face of the earth. And the manner in which they are drafted into the army, and the way they aie subse- quently treated by their olficers, does not in the least way improve them. They are dragged from their fields while at work or snatched from their mud huts, chained to- gether in gangs, and carried to the citadel, and there kept in close imp-'isonment until they are di'illed and uniformed. They are not allowed to settle their own affairs, to make any provision for their families, or even to bid their wives and children fare- well, when the time for their conscription comes. When the rccru.ting sergeants lay han^s upon them, it is as if a sudden and terrible death had claimed them, and they are mourned and wept over by friends and relatives as il they were dead. Once become soldiers, and branded as it were by the uniform, escape from the ranks, until term of service expires, is impossible Desertion is generally punished by death, even in time of peace. They are treated by their officers no better than they were by their task -masters in the fields. The cour- bash is th« instrument of punishment for every trivial offence, in spite of the fact that flogging is prohibited by law. Not only is the common soldier whipped by his com- pany officers, from Sergeant to C «ptain, but even the subaltern officers are subjected to the same indignity by their superiors. The writer once saw a Lieutenant held down by two men of his own company, while his Colonel beat him unmercifully with a walk- ing cane. When the beating was finished by the bey's becoming exhausted, the Lieu- tenant arose, took off his sword and handed it to his superior, and said " You have dis- graced me in the presence of my own men 1 am no longer worthy to be an officer put me in the ranks." For this, the only manly act I ever witnessed among these people, the Lieutenant was charged with insubordi- nation and mutmons conduct, was tried by court martial, was sentenced to be shot, aud I saw the sentence put into execution. No wonder, then, that such a people â€" so treated when in civil life that every spark of manhood is crushed out of them, and so abused as soldiers that they have not even the courage of a crushed worm, which strives to sting the heel of its destroyer â€" no wonder I uch a people will not fight. And the in- glorious termination ot Arabi Pasha's wretched attempt at revolution is but the legitiniate result of his and his deluded fol- lowers' antecedents. No eny who knew him and his people had any doubt Low the affair would end irom its very incipiency. I made Arabi's acquainta ce in Abyssinia. He was then a Lieutenant-Colonel. After the Egyp- tian army was defeated by King John. Arabi was made an envoy, and sent to the King with presents and bribes, an 1 propositions for peace. He was so far successful in his miss on that King John gave the Egyptian army an opportunity to retreat from his country without molestation. Sir Oarnet Wolseley has conducted the at- tack upon the Egyptians in a manner alto- gether admirable. His taking Ismailia for his bass of operations put him on t he short- est line of march to Cairo. His gradually forcing the enemy back until he could get all of his forces together at their strongest point may have looked to some unwise and unmilitarv, but it was exactly the right thing to do with the foe he hatl. In this way he was enabled to deal one deadly blow and end the war at once Finally, the man- ner of engaging the Egyptians showed his knowledge of their calibre a. sd his skill. He went at them with a rush, as the Abyssinians did, and that was the end of the whole mat- ter. â€" S. II. L. ill the Nevj York Evening Post. iBeK-c^4J9|i AS wx^mamm^ ff9nio\\ r.' Not that Kind cf a Slan. Tiie seventh passenger was a lady. There was an abundance of room in the car, but as she entered an elderly man rose up with a great flourish and called out: "Take my seat, maiame, 1 am not the kind of a man to keep a seat in the street-ctr and oblige a lady to stand up." She sank down with a half-bow in acknowledgment, and he held out his hand for her fare with the remark " Some men are brutal enough to permit a ladv to stumble to the 1 are-box and back, but that isn't me." He took her ticket and deposited it, and then hunjr to the strap, and continued • ' And I know men who think that passinjg aladj's fare to tne box gives the r. the privilege of entering into conversa- tion with her about the weather, crops, rat«ot mortality politics, etc. That isn't me, however." The speech had its due effect upon all the other passengers, includ- ing the victim, and the man let out another link by remarking " Giving up my seat in a car to a lady does not entitle me to offer to assist h r off the car, or ask if she is married or single, or in any manner break down the stern barriers or iocial formality, and I know it. It i« simply an act of courtesy, and I shalj so consider it." There was something painful in the bituation to the other six, but relief came by the man reach- ing the end of his journey. As he was ready to get off he looked back and siid "I have seen men whose conceit obliged thein to lift their hat and bow to everybody in the car before steppug« off, but that isn't me. I shall step off wfthoutsuy formality and without hoping that I will be miss-d." uunc^^E .â€" When the six looked bacX and saw him ly fighting part of sprawled in the dust they were glad of it.â€" ' Detroit Free Pfess. In Mr. Spurgeon's church in London the regular hea ers absent themselves one Sunday evening every three months, and the house is given up to strangers. But in many parish- es in this country the some thing is done every Sunday evening. Vioe- Admiral von Hecc' haa pub iV. ad an article in a military periodieal on tha rulne of irtm-dada with rafaraaoe to the boatibard- ment of Alexandria. As military Luitory has as yet furnished but few materialB for forming a final judgment as to the value of irou-pUting for shipa, the purposes umed at in its introduction, and thequeation whether these purposes have really been attained, the writer thinks it desinble to draw as many lessons as possible from every event in this field, and thtis to increase our experi- ence. He begin-i with a history of iron-plating. The introduction of shell guns, soon after 1850, much dimini-hed the value cf Nelson's battle ships, with 89 or 100 guns. The ne- cessity of protecting nhips of war better sgainst artillery became still more urgent when the mtrodaction of steam made their construction more complicated aud thus in- creased their vulnerability. In the Crimean war the Russian shells did great execution on ships. Opinions differed greatly, how- ever, especially in England, as to the vaJue of iron-clads and the necessity of their intro- duction, until the fight of the Confederate ship Mflrrimac with the wooden ships of the Union in Hampton Roads, and her fight w ith the Monitor, placed the great superior- ity uf iron-clads beyond a doubt. On the 8t;h of March, 1862, the Merrimac attacked four wooden frigates and completely de- stroyed two of them. Next day she unex- pectedly met the iron-dad b.ittery-ship Mon- itor, a mere dwarf in comparison, and was compelled to retreat, severely damaged. The impression made by this fact was enor- mous, and it showed two thingsâ€" the neces- sity of iron-plating fcr battle-ships, and of arming the n with guns of large calibre and great piercing power. The first opportunity of estimating the value of iron-plating in a conflict, ship to ship, on the high seas, was afforded by the battle of Lissa on the 20th July, 18G6. In that action the relations between armor and guns were about the same as they are now. Seven Austrian iron-clads were opposed to 1 1 Italian, The armor of the ships were pretty equal in strength on both sides the Italians were stronger in artillery. The re- sult is well known. Deducting 630 who pe/ished with the Re d'ltalia and the Palas- tro, the Italians lost only 110 men out of 5,000. The total Iops on the Austrian side was 39 killed and 124 wounded out of 7,000, the loss on the unarmored ship Kaiser being 22 killed and 82 wounded, that is, two- thirds of the whole. The battle of Lissa was an eloquent advocate for the incipient system of iron-plating ships of war. In the war in South America in 1877 two unarmored English ships had difficulty in re- pulsing the attack of the Peruvian monitor Huascar, and had in the end to let it go un- molested. Of that new, malignant, and deceitful weapon, the fish torpedo, we have as yet no exjierienc^ for the publishod re- ports of the Russo-Turkish war are so un- trustworthy that one can found no opinion on them. The result of observation up to this date may be condensed as follows First, unarmoured ships cannot maintain a fight of any duration against the heavy guns of ships and forts secondly, iron-plating is still an effectual defense against the heaviest guns, and consequently indispensable for battle-ships thirdly, rams and torpedoes are, indeed, formidable weapons in sea fight- ing, but cannot hupersede artillery as the chief weapon, and they promise more chance of success in iron-clads (because of their better protection a.,a nst the enemy's artil- lery) than in unarmored ^hhips. â€" Berlin Special DiJipatck to the London Times. Queen Caroline and her Scapegrace Ha» band. The most extraordinary glimpses we get of the unhappy married life of the Princes Caroline are to be found in the dit*ry kept by Lady Charlotte Bury, and published an- onymously in 1S38. This diary has fur- nished the chief materials for all the works which have been written upon the times of George IV. On one occasion, says the writer, she dined at Kensington, m hen "the Princess gave a long detailed account of her mari-iage, and the circumstances which brought it about. "I, j'ou know, was the victim ot Mammon the Prince of Wales' debts must be paid, and poor little I's per- son was the pretense. Parliament would vote supplies for the heir apparent's mar- liago; the King would help his little help. A Protestant Princess must be found they fixed upon the Priuce's cousin. To tell you God's truth, (a favorite expression,) I al- ways hated it but to oblige my father â€" anything. But the first moment I saw my /«^«rand Lady Jersey together I knew how it all was, and I said to myself, '0 very well.' I took my partie â€" and so it would have been if â€" But, Oh, mine God ' she added, throwing up her head, *I could be the slave of a man I love, but to one whom I loved not, and who did not love me â€" im- possibleâ€" c'c«re autre chose. One of the civil things his Royal Highness did j ist at first was to find fault with my shoes, and as I w'as very young ana lively in those days I told him to make me abetter pair and bring them 10 me. I brought letters from all the Princes and Princesses to him from all the petty courts, and I tossed them to him and said, ' There, that's to prove I'm not an impostor ' " On another occasion, r f Tring to her wretched marriage day, the Princess said "Judge what it was to have a drunken husband on one's we J ding day, and one who passed the greatest part of his bridal night under the grate, where he fell, and where I left him. If anybody sa- to me at this moment will you pass your life over again or be killed I w6uld choose death, for, you know, a little sooner or lat r we must all die, but to live a life of wret .h- edness twice overâ€" Oh, mine God, no "â€" Belgravia. PManala fkcala ci Nanlas, bcqaeathed to Qoean Vic oria. aa imDablislwA «p«ni, ^to be pwrfonned for tbe biaaefit of tha poor of London,' and 93»fl00 lor tha parpoae of gramfcang yearly fatvnr tLna nanriaga por- tiona of $60 each for three poor girla of £oa* don between tha ages of 16 aad85, who are to be chosen by )ot. The doaUe beqoeat has been madekn6wn to the Government of London through the r^nlar channels of for- mality, and the tortnoos official course of getting po aneas ion of the treasures has be- gun. Meantime the English nress has diown a disposition to make light of this benefaction. Mr. Sporgeon, though La much better health than when he preached last spring, still bears traces of the sufferings he has un- dergone. His feet are gonty, and this de- tracts from the promptness and agility with which he ascended to the pulpit in former times, when the female memb^ of his con- gregation would rise and peep over each other's shoulders to watch his movements. His hands are swollen and tnisted with rheumatic gout so that his gesture is no longer free and unconstrained as of old, but his voice still possesses that charm and variety of tone which in times past have overcome the scruples of the most obdu^te. A London paper says that the Midil^ir^h Dhuleep Singh nas signified his intention to contest Whitby at the next general election. The Prince, who is well known and highly esteemed by all classes in Whitby, was ask- ed to oppose Mr. W. H. Gladstone, the eldest son of the Premier, but was obliged to decline the invitation for the reasons that he was not then prepared, Now, however, the Prince is determined to be in good time. The Maharajah rented for several years Mal- grave Castle, Lord Norbenby's seat near Whitby. He is about 46, and has an allowance of $125,000 a year from the Brit- ish Indian Government, but has been much embarrassed of late years by reason of his expensive style of living. Bertha Rothschild, who renounced Juda- ism to marry the Prince Alexander de Wag- ram, bringing to him an income of $150,000 a year, is spending her honeymoon at his chateau in a suburb of Paris. This is a grand place, called Bois, though not so pleasantly situated as when Napoleon gave it to Mar- shal Berthier. It had belonged to a noble family that had emigrated, and it had be- come national property. The first Emperor was literal in giving such estates to his military followers, who, in accepting them, bound themselves over to join in no con- spiracy which had for its object the bring- ing back of the BourbonR and the old ai isto- crac The Prince de Wagram succeeded in having the grounds cut across by two railroads, in order to replenish his treasury by obtaining excessive damages, which he did through official connivance. The money enabled him to secure brilliant matches for two of his daughters. The third married Prince Joachim Murat as the Emperor was declining, and has since been obliged to ask her father for that income with which it was expected the Emperor would keep his cousin Joacbin supplied. uu C'i f The signal service is now ready to an- nounce the approach of cyclones over six hours in advance This will give most men time to pay old debts and retu u borrowed tools. A Pony Bancb in Tkxas.â€" A Texas paper describes an 8,000 acre r^nch in that cjtate entirely devoted to tho breedipg of ponies for children. The breeding stock consists of seven Shetland stallions and forty- five mares, all thoroughbred, and two hundred small spotted pony mares. These little ponies range o/er the prairies like sheep, and are described as very gentle. Tbe camp-Meeting. The old-time camp-meeting is no more. So much has been suown by the experience of the past ten years. They were very earnest gatherings in the olden time. The devil was wrestled with and souls saved from perdition at least good Christians thought so. As the Methodist says " The camp-meeting of fifty years ago no longer exists, and that which we now have, while it bears the name and the traditions of its ancestor, has really developed into quite an- other thing. Our new-fashioned gatherings i at the groves or by the seasideâ€" for rest and recreationâ€" possibly in part for gossip and display, with a very mild infusion of re- ligion â€" or else for the promotion of some specialty â€" must not be looked to as to any considerable extent among the evangelistic agencies through which souls are to be saved. As an inexpensive device for sum- mer outdoor holidays, with the accompani- ment of religious restraints to guard against dangerous excesses, and of religious exer- cises for agreeable and not altogether un- profitable pastimes, these gatherings may have their use." Then it is also a fact that a land speculation is often at the bottom of these summer religious resorts. Still they do good and should be encouraged, even if they are rot what they were. A Subterranean Abyss Swallows up a CbUd. The Zirknitz See, in Carniola, is remark- able for the periodical disappearance ot the water every summer, subterranean passages serving as the channels of escape. A rapid- ly-ripenitg. crop of grass and some qui v. k- growing vegetables are gathered during the autumn from the dried bed of the lake by the neighboring peasants. A letter from Laybach reports a singular accident of which this place "was the theatre. A peasant wo- man and ter daughter were beirg conveyed in a cart across the bed of the lake, which was still covered with water in some places. Suddenly the cart and its occupants were precipitated into a chasm, through which the water was being swallowed down in a great vortex, and which had not been noticed till too late. With great difficulty the wo- man was rescued, but the child and cart were sucked down into the abyss below. â€" London Times. • â-  1^ â-  â-  â€" Tliritt or Frencti Womoa. French women, often stigmatized as the most frivolous of their kind, are. in reality the most thriftyâ€" a virtue that frequently degenerates into absolute parsimony. I saw a striking instance of makincthe best of un-' regarded tnfles the other day when dining with one who certainly has a reputation for prudence. A cherry pie hod been on the table, and the mistress gave strict injunc- tions that all the stones were to.be scraped from the plates and placed in I er store-room. I ventured to ask the reason, and was told that not only cherry, but plum, peach and all manner of stones, whether cooked or raw, were invariably saved, gently dried in the oven and kept in a great jar. " Then," said niadame, "in the winior, when the fire bums clear and bright in the evening, I fetch a handful and throw them among the glowing coals. They crack and splutter for a moment, send up a brilliant flame, and the wnole room is filled with a delicious odor." â€" Paris Letter. A Boston sdiooi girl describes a status as' fk boat with two lega under it. laqairer: What ia tbe extreme pcnal^ for bigamy I TwQ tnothers-uirhkw, a a Latin ia a dead language, and this is why dooto^ use it for writing out their prescrip- WhsBi Adolphns placied^is arms arounA the neck of Angelina^ he said it was for s neoik's press purpose. It was a Detroit girlfiiat married at 15 so as to have her golden-wedding when it would do htt some good. "Storias of the Wore," would be an appro- priate heading for the report of a society bjU, in more than one sense. Nothing like being well up in arithmetio* A Vassar college girl has ^oue into half mourning. It is for a half brother. A Toung lady attending balls and parties shoald always secure a female chaperon until she is able to call some male chap her own. When a woman wants to get rid of her husband for an hour she sends him np-stairs to get something from the pocket of one of her dresses. A gentleman whose vocabulary was mix- ed wished to praise a certain lady reader. •' Yes," said he " besides being a very fine elocutionist, she has a great deal of ejacula- tion." Little Lottie to her friend " I have so many cares. Yesterday a little baby sister arrived and papa is ou a journey. It was but a piece of luck that mamma was home to take care of it." " How came such a greasy mess in the oven " said a fidgety old spinster to her maid-of-all-work. "Why replied the girl, " the candles fell into the water, and 1 pat ' them into the oven to dry." A Hamilton lady refuses to permit he^; daughter to go away on a visit. lAst nigh^ she visited she came home and insisted upon eating with her fork and having an extr^ plate for her pie. ' There is a young man in Port Hope whose surname is Lot. And though he is an agree- able fellow and well fixed financially, he re- mains a bachelor. The girls are, somehow, kind of shy of the name. The daughter of a Texas cattle king has just returned from Paris, where she says she walked through the Tooraloorai^^and visited a shottoe where she saw the 'statues of Pysic and Catherine the Medical. The most fashionable thing in society now is a baby, and a young mother with a pretty infant is the envy of her sex. N. B. â€" Both mother and baby must be richly dress- ed, otherwise the couple are only a woman and a brat. "How are the supplies, Dinah V asked a gentleman of his colored cook just before starting down town. "Well, sah," respond- ed the sable mistress of the kitchen, "I tink dah is combustibles enough to last till to- morrow." "See here, my dear, how beautifully the sun brings out the dew drops this morning. They glisten like â€" like " " Like diamonds, pa. They remind me ever so much of some I saw yesterday. " The old gen- tleman turned the conversation immedi- ately, but tbe diamonds have got to be bought. " I say, old fcUow, where is your sweet- heart â€" the girl you're engaged to She is here to-night, ain't s e " "She js, Do you sec that b onde in pink over .there?" "Tliat magnificent creature witH the dark eyes?" " Y.s." "By jove, cdd boy " " My girl is the one alocj^ide of her ou the hft." • ' "Oh, I've just had such a scare " ex- claimed a prim and pale housewife "I fetl as if I should laint." " Why, what's the matter " was a«ked. " Well," she replied, "you may not believe it, but as sure as I live that new girl deliberately opened the parlor shutters and the sun wa^ shining right in." A society drama was presented at the theatre at Salt Lake City recently, but when in the third act the husband began to rave and tear round because his wile had run away with another man, the audience with one accord arose from their scats and ex- claimed "The idea of making all this fuss about one woman '" and left the place in dis* gust. When the conductor tore off the coupon from the ticket of a lady passenger on the Grand Trunk i-ailroad the other day, she threw the remainder out of the window, and subsequently explained that she had seen him tear the ticket up, and thought the piece was of no account, and we'll wager she laid all the blame on the conductor and called him a fool, too. It never rains but it pours. A^ Newport visitor, after a long struggle, managetl to get foothold lu society, and all of a sudden found that she had been invited to nme dinner parties, allou the same evening. Utterly unable to decide which to acoept, she sat down and had a good cry over it, and that made her eyes and noee so red that she was ashamed to go to any. An elderly Scotch woman went one cay to an apothecary's shop with a prescription for two grains of calomel for a chikl. Seeing the druggist weieh the medicine with scrupu- lous exactness, and not thinking he did this from anxiety not to get an overdose, but from his ienuriou8ness or desire to give as little as possible for the money, she said "Dinna be she mean wi' it, man, it for a pair fatherless baird." Novel Seaoing, Exce8si^'e novel reading is a rapidly grow- ing evil. It has been called a sort ot mental dram drinking, and truly its effects are not dissiiiilar. The appetite for fasciuatintr literature grows as it is indulged, and it ap- pears that the taste becomes vitiated altera time. Just as a man starts drinkisg light wines finds these grow insipid after a time, and resorts to something more fiery to tickle his abused palate, so the novel nutder adds that he must resort to more and more sen- sational food to gratify a debased mind. The evils of novel reading are insidious, and can seldom ba clearly traced home, as in the case of the highly connected clerk of tbe United States Senate who became insane Gwing to tl^e practice. â- Â«^nvwi