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 â- SHMtoHsaE-T ^•.. I in BhoQ] Idler brwithless, always in bmblmg when he u.ight hI*- light not showing cowardittl* head gone, and tingera to :k up the sight of his nfle ne actions, he has seen the hrT* bes lit up with anxiety, looikLff^tl Itening for the word of comrniSH' ' itily, but always under check/k,^- iitatiug when it was an »di s called for. One fat boy b»J longing to some civil depirtm^JI t on the sly, he remembers weU N at face, very placid, with 9LA' •ephke id expression, and TT^ 1 'oicor flashing Hre, as the xSitkc in pictures of battlefields, inj^' kept dose to him all the tim? ng was hottest. Whenever he u wn he found himself look ng i„fl bths of his plaoid eyes, which Lk iiistakeably, what ' sight" he si: to the nfle he grasped on bis knee 1 in. Now and then he gave him wk. 'Ught was the U stance, when be adi bar as methodically as if 01 t, niug it sidev* a s to pee if the line" iid exactly with the figures, and" sing it 83 cooley am ever, (luietly del ' fire and returned to the ready NORTH-WEST NOTE! Hon. Mr. Aikin.swill not-^ssume thi Id of Liout Governor-ship of Manitob^ â- l- 2ntl day of Deceml^er. It i.s tlie intontion of t.he Govenimtti lint licun.sca for the sile of liquor in li-tage and Brandon. From the fo lice tiierc are three api 'ications, andi landon twenty. rrhe C. 1*. v.. South-western reached â-  J on Tiuusday evening, amid generaJl l«ing. It Id proper el to devote Oct. J k- last day of the coming county exhil J a special celebration of the event. jN'ew wheat at Brandon brings 75c, It.s 50c. Barley or l)uck wheat have It put in an appearance. A rough i lite of tile grain available for shipments lison Mould plate, tiui figures alx)ut loal phei.s. The quality ao far is very gooj lOn Monday last, tlie first sleeping carr 'iig in coiuiection with the C. P. K. pafc I'st. It wa.-s the Montreal, in charge^ lyant and t!ie Toronto, in charge of I Lnis, pa.ssc.l we.st on Tuesday, and thej lAva on Wednesday, in charge of S. lown. These magnificent cars are the! lat ;ire made, and are fitted up with e^ liiifoit necessary to railway travel. I The Portage, ^Ve.stbourne, North wj h\ Bailwaj liave now in operation two( â- etc regular mixel trains between Per I Brairie ajid (iladstone. A distance] kirty-tive miles. They have left! the ci lact for the conc,truotion of the balancel le-tifty miles of n)al necessary to the ^ling of their land grant, and before i, ciirati«»n of the time allotted^ Dec. ij pV-' willlMtve complied with all the' Irnment requirements. They have at â-  \ut ovlt "JOU men at work, and are pusl limrs with characteristic Xorth-W'est Itterpi ise. Zo II IS Said. An immense jnastodoiid remains have 1 ^und nenr Baris, Ky. Some negroes ex lating for arailroail, two miles from to^ lamr upon them ten feet below the surfii |f the earth. TIi^ first bone discovered le a-ikle, which, on leing measured, sh 1(1 a diameter of seven inchei. Follow IP tWs bone, they discovnred the •liicli. through tl.o socket, was iiohos iu diameter. From the ankle to lop of the siiGuluer bladeâ€" it bemg Jet iwj inci'cs Mideâ€" was fourteen' â- even inelies. The hea.' was of large prop lions, measurin:, :Ive feet in length and f e ral 1 n w I d t ii 1 i 1 e j iv.- Mas t wel ve incl I. lick, ami tlie tcctli are p.esjrved in Ijnditu-n. Tiiv back bone was then fol... d up, and rurty fiei iVom the head we 13 bore.-j or the tail. The bind-qui 'Cie .wet ding Javiro. and measuring k"ight tuenty-tiuee feet eight inches. Ti p I'jno v.as ten anda-uuarter inches thic llietett' en being weighed, proved M • l)c two or three noundi. Tlio Armorod Tram. B'j^p ctin^ the "armoreil train " or "1 [team-engine â-  which has been doing su 'Od j^ervice 1:1 Egypt, a corresponde nuestomc to ssy '-that idea of a M lieani-cngire being armed and going tc lat t.e iron t, wa.s p..itticallv demoustr- |o l.ir ..ack as- ]s:;j, by tii/famous G:nc |Iaunce ^a-.!l de Lacv (or do Sacy?) 'J«l;n, who served uniler Suvaroff. -, Irawuig oi tiie war steam-encrine was snb-l iKttea to the English (ijvernmont, " witil |ie usual result ot su-h submission "â€"tbtil to say, n.-thniL' came of it. In the fol-l iwmgyear j'lst befon; tlie outbreak of the! 1 'mean Mar, a ilraMing of tl:c war steam-l lipne was forMarded to the K.Tiperor N*! -Jloon I II. From the Imperial Cabinet cMi«| hotter briefly thanking the inventor for hi«| hmruuication, and that was all. I harel [1 m.l:sti ct lecollection of some kind oil war st^^amcrRine" having been used dm- ]- the Civd Wnr in America ii 1S62-3- li Piysioal ToTvers of the Auata-laa 3S»| prcea. I Ihe Empress of Austria, even puttingasiii* iJ tact that s!ie is a grandmother, is a mo*: lurvellous Momau, and has recently been I 'rough a more than usually severe ' course training fur the hunting season, which, Y tae I.ye she will in all probability spend in •iiiga y. Duriiii: the time that her Majesty as at l-er sunmier residence at Ischl, in ppor Austria, s!ie generally rose at6 o'cloi tlie morning, and devoted- a couple of •urs togy.nna3tic3 and foncinjy after whick e morninu tub, and a' plain but bp»rty| eakfast Mere supplemented by a walk or le, which lasted some hours. Lately the Empress has actually been roo- ng for two hours a day and to enconx«j« er m the exertion, a pack of beautiful foot l^-^i l^^'® recently been sent to Godoh, hich her majesty intends hunting hertelf. lie walking costume, in wet or cold wea»fc«f. I a long waterproof Newmarket coat, ht^n raw hat, thick navvy boots in hot wea«fc«f 16 long coat is changed for a hunting slip » bin stuff. At Godola the EmprSw haf circus, m which she trains her own hotter ndndes then a la llcnz.-From the L^' 'on n orl'l. ;f ED AND TRACKED. PABT I. â€" TBiCKID. ome years ago aince an inciderit H in my life whiiJi may powibly prove Cnc to those who, like myself, are llv imposed upon and although by Ital I hold nr.yself open to the ndi- themind masculine, which, by it» owing, is never duped or deceived by pre yet, in order to warn those of 1 sex who are more readily wroacht Will narrate aa nearly aa I can a adventure which befell me during Dter of 18C9. I the wife cf an English offi»»r, and at ae of which I write was residing in Late in June my husband had re- orders to be in readiness to sail with [imentfor C. the following month, lis ab scnce was not likely -to be of aration I had decided not to accom- tim, and had decided to make Paris adquarters during the time of our en- Ihusband's body servant fell suddenly ll sent in his resignation the very I they were expecticg to start. We at lade inquiries on all sides for a man «ntof filling the vacant post. In stance fortune favored ua. Juat aa re beginning to despair of success a iman who spoke very tolerable Eng- jlied for the situation, and his re- a bung satisfactory we hastily en- aim, heartily glad to have brought an ant atfiir to so fortunate a conclu- lout'h I had many friends residing in had no near relations I could ask to with me during my temporary exile; [band's people all lived Tn Ireland, ;h the exception of a few scattered my only existing relative was one (some years younger than myself), ml I was greatly attached, but who .rs pjst had been a source of constant to me by reason of his wild and 13 manner of living. My husbMid listed him in numerou? diflficulties, patience had at last become exhanst- d he had to tell my brother plainly isively tliafonly incase of extremity, 5 an illness which would really incapa- him from work or from such urgent would he supply him with pecuniary Several letters passed between them period then followed an interval of which remained unhroken up to the lof Mhich 1 write. This naturally nie much uneasiness at times but I nly hope he had at length felt the ty of putting his shoulder to the and M as striving to regain the good lie had lost b nis own foolish con- passed slowly away. One evenirg £niber it was the 22nd of January) a i-as brought ire by one of the servants [hotel, who said the Vearerwaswaiting ply. The letter wits neatly folded and fcsed in a woman's handwriting to I Lady of Captain Ralph Branscombe," as marked " Fiivate." I read the ling â€" 1aiameâ€" T write this to you on behalf broiher, Monsie ur Richard Willough- hio lies at this house dying. Would be him alive you must come at once â€" It hesitation. Madame, the poor man is very sickâ€" sick to deatii in md bodyâ€" for he lies in fear of airest, Jorse than arrest, even in his dying He prays you to ask your husband Ist liim, as he promised in his last sore No one but Captain Branscombe cc.nipanyyou, or fenow ofyourerrand ,t bring with you fifty pounds in Sf possible. English money will do, It notes. Your escort will only be a child, V)ut he knows every turn of the ku Mill have to traverse. Come on [to drive might excite suspicion. Mon- lepeats, no one but ' Ralph ' may come Vou he is too ill to write any more lis name which I enclose." folloMcd a few directions abou*-. the le M ere to take and an injunction to ;e letter to guide myself with. Then line "Marie Toisseau." Enclosed was I c f paper bearing my brother's signa- ..khich 1 at once saw was genuine. Lrned cold asl finishedtheperusalof the but, coinnncding my voice as well as fable, I bade the servant send the I me at once. I was not long in se the door of the salon soon re- id and a little figure appeared on the [iold. A fragile looking boy, about years ot age, dressed in a dark blue Mhich hung lootely about him, and tw on his head a red knitted fisher- I cap, M-hich M-as pulled down low on reheat!â€" a boy whose pale face was ^d up Mith large dark eyes, their loag bin^j lashes sweeping his delicate cheeas. Vu: the door softly behind him and gave f c searching glance around the ro'jm as though abashed by my presence, he M ith doM-ncist eyes and his hands iy folded before him awaiting my [ioning. ly lx)y." I said, addressing him in 1, " can you conduct metothisgentle- rho is so ill " lin the dark eyes wandered round the as though to reassure himself that wo [alone, and then he replied softly in -h. though Miti a foreign accent â€" iurely, madame, I will but you must Ith all speed, or it will be a lost jour- lling him to M-ait for, me where he waa, the room and hastened t-o prepare for ipcdition. I had ttiirty sovereigns in Possession, as it happened, and, missing \e sum required aa nearly as I could in fch money, I plaged it carefully in a bag, whichjt^ng on my arm. Dicis- lyself in a dirk bonnet and travelling I descended quietly to my apartment tout giving intimation of my departure jy one. The child stood precisely as I {left him, with the light faling on his face, and his hands loocely locked in mother. I told him I waa ready to and walked to the table by which I Deen sitting to get the letter the woman nitten and which had caused me so anxiety. boy then approached me, and taking liasd in his cold ones, said, in a whisper piteous eyes filled with tears â€" idame, the sentleman bade me say to f r the love of heaven, and for the sake It dead mother, bring the money." Showed him the little lack whisk I m carried under mj cloak, juid be wwstttiified we then left the hot«rl sOntly. scarcely noticed by the serrants bnaind about the entrance Hall. Once out in thi cpaa air I aeeoied to bre^he bkhv freely bat my h art waa too Eeayy for speaking, and we pursued our way in kilenoe. After a time we turned into an unfreqnemt- ed part of the town and the lights beeame less brilliant and the streets more deserted. Suddenly the boy stopped and seemed un- certain as to which road he would take. He pMsed a moment; then taming to me Slid â€" " Madame, I fear I have missed my way a little but my mother told me she would givesomedirrctions in her letter willmadame give it me that I may right mvself " Withouttbinkinglhaaided him hit mother's leLter and standing beneath a neighboring lamp, he read over slowly the directions contained in the note then, holding it Etill open in his hand, he resumed his walk, referring to it every now and then, cs though still in doubt as to our whereabouts. There was a certain mysterious quiet about the neighborhood we were in that prayed upoa my spiritsâ€" a c^rtaiu silence I could not fathom, and my ccnrage began to flag strangely as we continued our lonely road. I experienced a sensation of int enae relief, therefore, when my young guide stopped siiddenly before a tall dai'k house in a quiet street, and I listened eagerly for an an- swer to his gentle tap at the closed door. A voice from within asked iwftly in French. ""How fares it, my son " and in English the boy answereid, "Safely and fairly. Open the door." The door was then un- barred and opened without the least noise just wide enough to admit us, and we en- tered a hall lighted by a small lamp held by a tall woman poorly cLd. The flicker mg flame of the lamp gave forth so dim a light that I could not distinguish her features, and shespoke in a voice scarcely above a whisper. T inquired eagerly for my brother, and begged her to conduct me to him at once. She shook her head sadly, and thee said â€" "Ah, Madame, your coming may do great things for him you may be able to ease the poor mind that runs on nothing but money, money, day and nighc without ceasing." She barred the door by which we had entered, and then preceded me up a broken stair caee, the boy following us with the feeble oil lamp. The house sounded hollow, and our footsteps echoed drearily as we went. Presently we stopped before the door of a room which I imagine to have been at the back of the house and the woman, entering first, beckoned me to follow her. In one comer of a large almost empty apartment, was a bed, shrouded by thick dark curtains, in the grate ap low charcoal fire was burning. I made at once for the corner where the bed was, and was about to undraw the curtains which concealed from my view the poor boy 1 had come so myster- iously to visit. Suddenly from behind me u cloth was tied tightly over the whole of my face, a strange burning sense of suffocation overspread my senses, and I remember nothing more all waa silence, darkness, a hideous blank, until I awoke in my bedroom at the Hotel de L., wich my head aching strangely and a benumbed sensation perv.- ding my Mhole frame. My maid, an Eng- lish doctor with whom I waa slightly au- cjuainted, and another who was a stranger to me, were anxiously watching for my re- turn to consciousness. It was quite light and' the sun was shining into the room. As one by one the events of the preceding night rose before my mind, I was utterly at a loss to imagine how I had from that horr.ble house and to the hotel in safety. The story was soon told. ter,coming on duty at one o'clock, had found me lying on the steps leading to the side door of the hotel, which opened into an un- frequented passage or street. Finding I was unconseyous, he had summoned the day porter, who was waiting for him, to render assistance and this man knowing me by sight, identified me as a lady staying at the hotel. He at once roused the house. My maid (who was waiting up for me, wondering at my prolonged absence) speedily procured the services of two medical men from the adjoing neighborhood, and they had since been using every method to restore me to consciousness, when I might perchance un- fold the 'nystery of my strange return. There was uj trace of any violence havipg been used, nor any proof by which they could discover where I had been. The only thing they had found upon me, which was not my own, was a handkerchief tightly clasped in my hand, on which was em- broidered my brother Richard's initials, and which I at once recognized as having been worked by me some years previously for my unhappy brother. The money had, of course, all been taken also the rings, brooch and Iccket I had worn. My wedding ring was left, and the bag in which I had put the money was still hanging on my arm. As soon as I was able I told the doctor all I could remember of the past night'» ex- periences,and at the conclusion • f the recital, they both advised me to put the mat er in- to the hands of the police. I entreated that it might be done as privately aa possible my brother's name bemi; so fixed up in the affair that outsiders would mo8tprot)ably be led to believe that he was an accomplice in the robbery, though in my own mind I felt certain that he m as more sinned against than sinning. The sergeant of police who waited ou me showed great interest in my adventure, but I cc.uld plainly see that, notwithstanding all his civility, his suspicions pointed atoace to my brother as chief agent in the case. I CO aid swear to the signature being genuine. The handkerchief, too, I recognized. Alas I it really seemed only too certain that my brother had at all events been the compan- ion of these people, and must have discussed our affairs freely with them, even if he were not more criminally concerned in the dark transaction. The Parisian police made every effort to trace the offenders, but in vain house after house was tearched in the quarter to which I believed myself to have ueen taken, but no trace of the woman or child could be found. And so for a time the matter drop- ped. PABT II.â€" TKACKJKB. Two years passed, and the night of my strange adventure wss like a dream to me. We left France alter my hosband's return f r«m abroad, and, on kis quitting the army been rescued brought back The night por- ttmmm we took np oar residaaoe in Umdgn. I had msanwhik VMcirMl WTeral k| en from my brother, writteii iron the Oapn,^ and, in an- swer to one I wrote him in rsimtaoe to tiie robbery, he tepiied with tke mont solemn â- Murfions rf bis entire iraoraneo of the transaction. I believed him. My httriaad was silent on the subject, and I Mt tbMik fnl that the Gape was so Lor olE. WeseldMs referred to the circumstnnesa before ri cord- ed, for I could not bear to reoall tius hor- rors of that evening in the daric, desolate house. One morning, howerar, I was sta tied Ly my husband crying suddenly, as Le looked up from a letter he was reading â€" "I say, Madge, they think they have found a clew at last to your Parisian ex- ploit read that." He passed me over an offix'al looking let- ter, and I read what follows â€" " BCKEAU DB POUCX, PaSIS. " To Captain Bavscombk " MoKSEiUK â€" We believe we hav* in cus- tody the boy who acted so prominent apart in the robbery committed on madame your wife in January 1869. He is concerned in an affiir which bears a close resemblance to the one in which your lady was the victim. Will she come herself and, if she can identify him, thus help to clear up the mat- ter which has long puzzled us all r (Signed) C." The thought of proceeding in this case was at first very distasteful to me but so much might be brought to light by making the effort that I resolved, by Ralph's ad- vice, to face the disagreeable task and acr cordingly we started for Paris that night. I wiU not enter into ths details of the case then under examination. Sufiics tb say it was a robbery committed on the wife of a Colonel Styles under circumstances closely resembling those of which I was made the dupe. In this instance, however, a boy had been seized on suspicion, and it waa this same boy I was called on to identify. I had not much difficulty in the matter, although he had altered in the time that had elapsed since that memorable evening, there was still those remarkable eyes, with their long drooping lashes, and the pale delicate face, to bear witness to his identity and without the least hesitation I declared him to be the same boy that had guided me to the house where I had been robbed on the evening of January 22ad, 1869. The boy did not seem at all disconcerted at recot^nition, and even smiled in a slightly supercilious manner, aa though he had felt himself secure from any discovery resulting from any identification. The authorities had been unable, as yet to elicit any infor- mation from him, he bafiled all their at- tempts at questioning him with a skill and cunning almost incredible in so young an offender. All at once I was surprised at an exclamation from my husband, who stood near me â€" " Good heavens " he said half audibly, "I believe I see through the whole plan what a blockhead I was not to have thought of it before But it was neatly planned and carried out, by Jove it was 1" He crossed the hall to where Colonel Styles was sitting, and after speaking to him in a low, hurried manner, he asked leave to cill a witness, who he believed might throw some light on tho matter in hand. Permission having been granted, he said, in a loud voice â€" " The man calling himself Jules Fetier, body servant to Colonel Styles, and now present in this hall, i) requested to stand for- ward." For the first time since our entrance the boy's face fell, and he looked perplexed and rather dismayed. There was a movement in the crowd, as thousrh some one was try- ing to effect a departure from the door, but the attempt being promptly frustrated, I saw them lead into the witness box the French servant who had accompanied my husband abroad, and who 'had left his ser- vice on his return to England. After some time passed in making inquiries, and elicit- ing very little from the cautious man be- fore us, he was searched, and many letters of his present employer's M'ere found upon him also a pocket-book which contained memoranda, proving a great deal i^ainat hims df and his two acsomplices â€" his wife and the boy in the dock before us. No one else seemed concerned in his fraudulent transactions. On further search the whole system of his roguery was unfolded p'cce by piece. He would take service with gentlemen about to travel, imposing on their credulity with false references and gaining their confidence by his well trained demeanor and intelligent convetsation. Once safely out of the coun- try he would commence his nc'ariou^ schemes, and with the aid of his clever wife and child, carry them out successfully. Nothing was ever forgotten that could lead to the desired end. No fraud was started until the details had been thoroughly mas- tered by his accomplices and the plan well matured. It Mas impos ible to say how many people he had defrauded in different ways. He had soon found out how matters stood between my husband and brother ^^partly from his own researches, and partly from a conversation he overheard between his master and a brother officer â€" and conaider- iug the sittiation a capital one tor practising his system upon, he had at once communi- cated with his wife, and unfolded his plans 10 her, sending her the signature abstracted from one of Richard's letters to act as a de- coy and also the handkerchief which Ralph happened to take among his own, to throw suspicion on my brother as being accessory to the robbery. Before the ex-imination concluded the sergeant, who had been so long on the look out fcr ^e perpetrators of the deed, asked my husband how he had recpgnizsd the boy •8 being the son of his former servant. Kilph laughed slightly as he replied :â€" ' I believe I should have made the best detective of you all had I been on the spot. I thought I recalled the boy's features as be- ing in some way familiar to me, bat could not determine cf whom be reminded me however as he stooped to speak to the war- der the mystery was revealed in a moment by a strange stroke of luck." Turning to the boy who had lostall his cour- ageous air and was looking crest-fallen and frij^tened, my husband bade him hold down his head. For the moment he refused, but on the order bring peremptorily given he obey- ed reluctantly. FrMD one side of the hand to the otiier, oontrssting atavgsly with hai thiA dark culs, with *iCnak«l: wWto hnicnhnnt half an inch wide, which shone Uko direr in the sunlight then bidding the eldar man ro* move tike cap he wore, ho bade him aiio to stoop fn^ward, which be did with a matter- ed exclamation and t ere •^an we saw the aasM ffenrafe wiiito bvid shme out on his losaly-croppcd head. No link seemed wanting to comnlet) the chain of evidence against the offendws, and the elder was at length forced to admit tiie proofs were too strong for him to battle against He b^ged that his wifeâ€" to whom he seemed really attachedâ€" miffht be treat- ed lenimtly, as she was slowfy but surely dying from cancer the statement was dfter- wmcd proved to be c»fect, and the woman was removed to a hospital, where she linger- ed but a short time. The father and son were fully cotnmitted for trial and duly found guilty, The sentences imposed upon tiiem were of a severe ' nature, owing to the number of accusations brought against them. I c in only hope when ueir term of im- prisonment has expired they may find people less easy to impose upon and better ab!e to resist their machinations than was "theUdyof Captain Ralph Branscomb," who fell so easy a prey to their duplicity and cunning on that memorable evening of January, 22nd, 1869. The Spina Stnd. We see that there is a new shirt stud in- vented which goes through the gimlet hole in a shirt bosom in sections, and snaps to- gether, leaving the under side smooth, so ijiat there is no raw selvage to stick into a man's vital parts, the way there is in the old spiral stud, and we look forward to the happy future when we can buy a. set of the new atuds and give the old spiral studs to the poor, who have no feelings to be lacer- ated. We have thought for many years that the Government ought to caU in the old spiral shirt studs and issue a new kind, with coupons that will go together with a snap but nobody has seemed to think the Govern- ment ought to take the responsibility. The man who has invented the new stud should be placed on the pension roll with the man who invented the telegraph and the India- rabber baby clothes. For a hundred years the spiral shirt stud that screws in Las held the stomach of a man in its grasp, and has made sore spots on him, when all should be sunshine and co forth. It ib said ^that women share our joys and our sorrows. That may be so to a cer- tain extent, and they may suffer some, bat they don't know anything about the horrors of the spiral shirt stud. Many men go down to their graves, and never complain, who have had their lives made miserable by spiral shirt studs. No man can be cheerful, full of fun and frivolity, and keep a com- pany in a roar of laughter, when he is con- stantly reminded that three golden cork- screws are firirly but gently entering his body from three different places and three different shows are getting in their work under one canvas and one price of ad- mission. It is asking too muoh to expect a man to be entertaininsr when three artesian wells are being sunk in his person at once. Wo- man do not mean to be cruel, and to cause unnecessary pain to man, but if they knt- w how they send the quivering an'ows to his very soiiJ, ia three places, they would be cereful how they throw their heads on men's shirt-bosoms, and root around to find an easy place to lay. No doubt many of our readers have noticed that men shrii.k from them wlien they lay their little darlii g heads on his breast, and have thought the man was shocked at their actions. It is not that. It is the spiral shirt stud. Of course a man will stand a good deal, pud not complain, under such circui|Utances but if the wo- man in the case, or on tlj e shirt bosom, rather, will look np into his fond eyes, she will find there, beside a Ioq a of satisfaction, And don't-get-up-on-my-ac count exprfssaion, a far away, penetratins; look, as though his soul was on fire, or he had been eating cu- cumbers. Woman can have no idea of the .sacrifice man makes in such cases, and they should not be surprised if he faints away. Other thingsin the world may cease, but the bor- ing of the spiral stud never ceases. We have known a preacher to get a vacation for six months, with a trip abroad, because he looked sick, when all the world that ailed him was spiral shirt studs boring into him, though in this instance there was uo female head acting as screw-driver to drive them in. lit* could preach a sermon on faith, and look sick, as the studs went into him, and the congregation would pity him, think it was his liver, and raise money enough to send him ai over the M'orld. Oh, the spiral stud has done much to demoral- ize the world, and it should be suppressed. â€" Burlington Hatoheye. A Heroic Priest. On the 12th of July last, at Muskeg Lake Canada, G. Cbappelline, Roman Catholic priest, missionary of that place, having no food m the mission, left with an Indian family in quest of ducks and geese around the lake. The father and five of the Indians s died in the same canoe, and tM'O other In- dians in a second. It was b 'owing a gale, and the riest's boat upset. The other boat came to the r scne, and succeeded in pick- ing up the mother of the family and one of the litt e girls. They hastened to put there ashore, and went back to save the others, but all had disappeared. The last seen of the priest be was swimming with a vonng girl on his back. The bodies of the three In- dians' were found shortly after, but that of the unfortunate priest had not been found up to labt accounts. KEW8 Iir A IfDTSHJBliL, \T Oa Veveisn, Items-Cecelse niky. r«anl«4. IndlTldnality of Newspapers. Every newspaper man knows there is no other such delicate and se sitive com- modity as news. There is 1 othing else that depends so largely for value upon the «ouroe whence it einanateis. There is noth- ing which comes before the public on which the " label" is so carefully scrutinised. Ne\r8paper have characters as va- ious as the ind vidnals who conduct and control them. It is just as true now as it was in the mom- ing of the Christian (ira, that " men do not n^er grapes of thorns or figs of thistles.' The character of the news not mly depends upon the label â€" the name of the journal in which it appears â€" ^bat upon the character for toruth uA veracity of the persons who furnish it.~-Tr€HUm QauUt,- v 1 »0]|XSTIC. Mr. Senscal hasMUed for I^eanee and is expected bsck by the middle of Novem- ber. The name of Mr. Ford Jones, ex-M. P. for South Leeds, is mentioned in connection with the vacant seat in the Senate. The axreat will be made of Osptain Filgate, Mr. Bnrgesa, thelnspeelor, and the engweer Frechette, of the Bicheliea. The weather is against the sick, at Win- nipeg, and a few more cases of tyi^oid fever are reported, but the virulence Is abat- ing. The unfortunate young man Jas. Devlin, shot recently at Windsor, is said to be a s(m of ex-Mayor Devlin of Uymei, Qdebec. Farmers om the parishes in and beyond the mountains report that three inc esof snow fell twenty miles north of Quebec a few days affo. Suit has been taken by the St. Lawrence Navigation Conpany against Mr. Brush, founder, for $29,500 lor alleged failure to deliver two boilers. Mr. Charles Fallon, of Montreal, who fasted 33 days lately, under the hallucina- tion that there was a command from God for him to do so, is very slowly recover- ing. Herbert Gagnon and Henri Herbert, boys 17 years old, who stole apples from an orchard at St. Vincent de Paul, were sen- tenced two years a^o to four years imprison- ment. After serving two years they were liberated. GENERAL. Sixteen representatives have arrived at Cobgne to attend the bi-metallic confer- ence. The late cyclone did much damage at Vulvelata Ablo, Cuba. The tobacco crop suffered greatly. A comet is visible at Cape Hayti at noon to the naked eye, notwithstanding its prox- imity to the sun. Ingestre Hall, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, near Stafford was burned down. The loss was £500,000. Some discontented miners at Monceau-les- Mines, near Macon, France, blew up the house of their foreman by dynamite. It is persistently rumored at St. Peters- burg that Count Tolsti, Minister of the In- terior, audBunge, Minister of Financa, will resign. Negotiations between Chili and the Pro- vincial President of Peru have failed, and it is probable Chili will treat with Pierola, ex- Presidcnt. The depression in the cotton trade has led to the posting of notices in the Lancashire mills of the abolition of the requiring a fortnight's notice to be given to tlie opera- tives. UNITED STATES. Valuable silver deposits have been dis- covered in the bed of a creek near Secor, 111. Secret service agents have arrested eighteen coin counterfeiters at Tipton, In- diana. Dr. Norven Green was le-elected Presi- dent of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. The tenth Congiress of the Association for the Advancement of Women met at Port- land, Me. Walter Crust, part owner of three Ea^rlish agricultural newsiaper8, died, at St. Luke's Eiospital, New York. The construction hands on the Northern Pacific Railway have struck for more wages and driven the Chinamen from the works. At Lebanon, Pa., recently, alwut 8 o'clock George D. Rice, cashier Dime Savings Bank, was robbed of a satchel containing $30,000 in bills. A correspondent says â€" '• I learn that the Standard Oil Company, in popular parlance known as the 'Great Octopus,' has cleared $80,0(X),000 by working the market." A young Canadian, hailing fron Mitchell, Ont., named Harry Black well, was found the other nizht in the office of the old Detroit Theatre Comique in a starving con- dition. The annual report of the director of the mint will show that the coinage has been in smaller denominations, and the absorption of gold coin into circulation has notably in- creased. At New Port, R. I.; great excitement was caused by an attempt to lynch George H. Tew, a young, man who while actihg as spec al officer made an unprovoked assault upon a boy with a club. Arequipa recent advices state that there seems to be no reason to doubt that there has been adjusted in Chili a basis of agree- ment that will effect a strong cessation of hostilities. The preliminaries of peace were made by Calderon with the inter- vention of the United States Minister. Both will go to Bolivia to discuss the ques- ticn there. A Constantinople despatch says the mod- evAe party has gained a victory over the*- fjnatical party. Said Pasha made two conditions for his remaining in office, first, that each Minister be responsible for working of his own denartoient second, that the Austro-German alliance be abandon- ed, accomplirhed facts in Egypt accepted, and a good understanding with Eogland and France on the eastern q estion recs- establisbed. Large Yield of Wheat.â€" Mr. Matthew Hadwen, of lot 16, concession 7, Culross, whose farm adjoins the village of Teeswater, writes that he has this year raised and bar- vested off an 18-acre JSeld after summer fallow the large quantity of 830 bushels of fall wheat. There was aboat eleven hun- dred stocks of twelve sheaves each, which took sixty -four waggon loads to draw in and two and a half days to thresh by a ten horse power. This gives a little over A% bushels per acr«. Mr. Had wen says, ' 'Let Manitobn beat that if It can.** • â-  oC