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 â- "•-T" • --t^" tWlKWn I •'I I ii;' BeaUalscemcca sf tke -Talk ipreM*r Frame* tk« Valr Sex. THS ABT or COCBSi^IP. A St. Louis reporter hu been prosecating an investigation as to what voong women and widows of that dtj oonsider most desir- able or convincing in the matter of proposals. One living in the vicinity btOmod av«mne, whose offers equal her yeus in unmber, attributed her tcium^ to a careful culti- vation of the premomtory symptoms in her admirers. "I do not commit myself," she explains " but I lawfully put tbom in the notion of saving tender nothinsis, which you know are the stepping-stones to proposal}. For instSDce, a timid admirer is made to understand, by word or look, acoonHag to the progress he lias made in my good graces, that I am glad to see him. If anotho; call- er should follow I do not arouse No I's saspicions by treating him in the same way, but give No 2 my hand, and of course ne teela what I intend him to â€" that No 1 is a nuisance. It is rare that I have to manage three st once who have been developed into an acnte condition that would be spoiled by lack of tact oi^ my part. If a third comes in later I am studiously indifferent unt^l by a low aside I can gently find fivult with him for not calling oftener or sooner. Whenever I observe that a proposal is impending I ward it off until I get into my favorite chair â€" that blue satin one with the very 1 )W back which you see settinff by the window. High-backed or side-arm chairs are often fatal to declarations of the tender passion, and attitude is an important matter. I man- age to have a book or sketch of some soit in my hand. This brings him very close to me to see what I am pointing out. His left arm then has no alternative but to get out of the way, you understand, and if he has skill my right hand will be appropriated before he declares himself, so I can't pretend any longer to doubt that he is in earnest. Then, of course, there is nothing f r me to do but to become as graciously ccol as I can under the circumstances. The only disagreeable thing for me is that, havirg aroused his emotion, I feel such an interest in seeing a satisfactory conclusion that the brief second I enjoy the climax is far too shert for my re- ward, and I dislike rapid transitioi'S of feeling. Once while occupying a crimson rocking- chair I was surprised by a gentleman whom 1 had thought but slightly interested in me dropping on his knees in a frenzied declar- ation. I think that lovers are unconsciously influenced by colors, and that a woman should affect subdued or brilliant shades as he may be respectively impetuous or cautious, 80 as to preserve a harmonious balance." A Chesnutstrcetdebutante says she doesn't like to be courted by sepulchres â€" old beaux with growing bald spots and ill-assorted teeth they are always ready to criticize women for repairing deficiencies of figure or csmplexion, yetactualJy they do more making- up in the end, and then expect the girls to be devoted to them. She likes live young men whose circulation is good and who are earnest loverj. So far shu has uo" received an offer of marriage, but thinks she would enjoy that most where the lover in a rom- ance comes up behind her, as she stands in a conservatory or bay-window, and takes her in his arms as he whispers the words she has been longing to hear. Then she would hide her face on his shoulder and experience the heroine's all-overish feeling that, one of the old girls insists, gives a woman a weak back and isn't a good thing to practice. The Laclede contains a pretty little widow, who declares that a man of sense rarely uses the word " adore" in courtship. Those who do so generally adore no one but themselves. She recently received a written proposal from a strange gentleman whom she had noticed several times in the elevator, and she explains "I didn't like it, and refused to have an introduction afterward. If he would only stop to think about it he might imderstand how I leel. I 'on't believe in marriage without genuine regard on both side?, and if he had but manat;ed to make my acquaintance discreetlyby degrees, work- ing up into that tumultuously delightful period of awakening interest which we call love, I might have given another answer. My first husbsnd won me by sending a box ot confections in which was hid a diamond riuq: with our initials cut inside an engraved ^1 k on the reverse side of the slaff. When he came that night I wore it on the proper finger, and, though no words were exchanged on the subject, we grew into the habit ot disjussint; our wedding day, so that the end seemed perfectly natural, I like modesty in a man. The more he looks and the less he says in courtship the surer he may be of winning, and you know there's no time like a slow promenade in the moon- light to encourage sentiment." One of the society girlp, whose engagement has been announced, denies that the man said to be interested has ever proposed. Indeed, she doesn't know anything about it. "The pleasure of getting a love-letter," she adds, " is only excelled, I fancy, by the act of answering it. Bat that hasn't been the way I have been approached by admirers. They seem to think that personal attentions arc more impressive and safer. One of my friends received a written proposal, and the postscript said that if she refused his offer to please return him the letter. He had even inclosed two three -cent stamps, which made her so angry that she not only sent back the letter but the stamps, too. About three months afterward one of the other girls in our set had a copy of that letter from him and brought it to show us. Of course she refused. He is one of those self-oonscious creatures whose highest aim. next to getting a wife with money, is to cultivate a mustache and goatee." HOW A WOMAN KKEFS ACCOUNT*. It is a touching sight, to see a m oman begin to put down every cent she sp nds, so as to find out how to economize, and where all the money goes. Procuring asmall book, she makes a idue entry, and m the Monday after the first Satorday in which her husband brings home his pi^, she carsf uUt tears the margin off a newspftper and, wnh a blunt pencil, stril|es mi^ balance something in this way: »!' i* \i " ' ••John brabii^ft«M doom #18 40, aad $1 43 Ihad i8 94903»»alfiaBI lent Mas. Dixon I is $30 93â€" but haid en, loagbt not to enter tbat. beeaoae wikt|» ahe ^«b««a it,it'U~^ wn. That WM $49 93^ ami whl h»rel done With that f^ Tiken she puts down the figures, leaving: oat tbe items to save ti m e a process which enables her to leave out most of the iteoM to where a ronnd sum is involyed, on the supposition that they have already been put down. As thus *M3tz dollars and fourteen cents for meat, tisd 10 cata for celery, and 10 cents for the street -cars, and a bad B-oent piece I ffot in exchange, and f2 6l cents I paid the milkman â€" who owes me 19 cents â€" that's $3, and 15 cents at chorch, and the groceries â€"they were either $15 60 or $16 50, and I don't remember "9 hich they were, but I guess it must have been $15 60, for Uie grocer said that if I would give him a dime be would give me half a dollar^ which would make even chanee, and I couldn't, because the smallest I bad was a quarter â€" and $2 75 for mending Katie's ahoes, which is the last money that shoemaker ever gets from me, and 10 cents for celery â€" no, I put that down." Finally, she sums up he** trial-balance sheet, and finds taat it foo^s up to $64 28, which is about $15 more than she had origin- ally. She goes over the list several times and checks it carefully, but all the items are correct, and she is just about in despair when her good angel hints that there may be a possible mistake in the addition. Act- ins upon the .suggestion, she foots up the column and finds that the total is $44 2S, and that a cording to the principles of the arithmetic she onght to have $5 65. Then she counts her cash several times, the result varying from $1 40 to $1 97, but then she happily discovers t!vat she has been mis- taking a $2 gold piec-* for a cent, and remem- bers that she gave the baby a trade dollar to cut its gums with. On the who'e, she has come within 86 cents of a balance, and that, she says, is close enough, and she enters in one line of the account book " Dr. â€" by household expenses," so much and is very happy until she remembers, just before going to bed, that she lasouit- ed $275 for her husband's hat. CBIT-CHAT. This is the latest for wedding invitations •;iome round and see me capture a mother- in-law at 8 o'clock, sharp." They were at a dinner party, and he re- marked that he supposed she was fond of ethnology. She said she was, but she was ^ot very well, and the doctor hid told her not to eat anything for dessert but oranges. "Yes," said the gilded youth, "Fred snubbed »nd cut Jack in a frightful way. Of course it was a rude and uncivil thing to do, but then there were extenuating circum- stances. Jack had been making love to Fred's wife." "Do you like candy, ma?" asked a little Austin boy of his mother. ' Ho, my son it makes me deadly fick." "I am so glad to hear it. You are the kind of a woman I can trust to hold my candy for me until I am done playing." " Have you no love for the beautiful, then " queried she in winsome tones. " N-n-o, but I think I should have if I only dared." "Have courage young man. " "Oh, I wasn't thinking of you at all, I " But she hustled out of the room, hating herself for having sprung the trap too scon. A society journal says it is only one young man in a dozen who can leave a house in a graceful maimer. This is doubtless owing to the reckless habit eleven fathers in a dozen have of swinging th»ir feet when the young men are leaving. The society journal snould endeavor to bring about a reform in this matter. We never have had the exp'jrience, but we should think it would roll an editor fearfully afterhe hadworked'themostof the day getting up an editorial declaiming that a man is bet- ter off for being married, to go home and be jawed all the evening because he forgot to bring two dozen clothes-pins or some such thing. A contemporary asks "How shall women ca ry their purses to frustrate the thieves?" Why, carry them empty. Nothing frus- trates a thief more than to snatch a woman's purse after following her half a mile, and then finds that it contains nothing but a re- ceipt for spiced peaches and a faded photo- gi-aph of her grandmother. A Paris husband, plagued by his wife to- buy her a new bonnet, strolled into a sales- room and, by way of a joke, purchased a bonnet of a very old date. He took it home to his wife and she drew from its crown a piece of paper which proved to be a bond for 500 francs. There is a strong argument in favor of husbands buying their wives old style bonnets. "Don't swear so, John. What if you should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips I" said his wife soothingly. 'Swear so? Jimminy crickets, by all that great, I'm not swearing, but I'm going to express my opinion of this confounded, nine- cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal bit of stove-pipe " Exit the wife with her hands over her ears. Some genius has invented a little article called "fire-kindler." Unless it is made in the shape of a coal-oil can, the newly-im- ported girl will not touch it. If it contains something that will explode and knock the domestic end over end "two or three chairs, and bum off her eyebrows without doing any other damage, there may be a large demand for the "fire-kindler." During a Dead wood quarrel the other night a woman was seen to rush between the combatants, and throwing herself before one of them exclaimed to the other: "Dont shoot, oh, please don't shoot him." Greatly affected, the foe lowered his revolver and asked in tremulous tones. " Are you his sweetheart, wife or sister?" " No," answer- ed the peacemaker, "but this man has a room at my house and owes hie three weeks' board." A Bsminlaeeaee of Xogenie. ' Mme. Amelie Ernst, the French clocu- tioniat, has rece tly been publishing in the VoUaire a series of her reminiscences of the celebrated personages whom ^le has met. Am iha wife of the great violinist Ernst, as well as on account of her own talents, she has always mai|^ed with that bnlliant ao- dety which is composed ottha literary jier- -innagesand artists oi Xi^tOi^ H«fe is a riimpse of ene of the nc^ed figures of ^^er day: **I received an invitation to a soiree giyen by Mme. de Girardin. She was living at that time in the palais Marboeuf on the Caismns Elysees, a baij|diBg wfaieh Ivm smoe been destroyed. iLt the soiree I metlfme" de Montijo and her daughter. The future empress and her mother had come from the Spanish embassy, where a fete had been Sven in honor of the Queen's Urthday. me. Mm^o was dreued in white, with a red scarf. Her daughter had on a superb toilet of white lace, ornamented with tafts of wild grasses attached to the corsage and the skirt with clusters of diamonds. Not- withstanding heif great beauty and her splen- did dress, there was less attention paid to her than to her mother in that serious so- ciety. As both Mile, de Montijo and myself were relegated to oa» end of the room, we commenced a e(mversation in Spanish. I spoke then the language of Cen^antes ven^ well, and my companion amused her- self by making me repeat after her sundry coarse carters' expletives which she thought were totally unpronounceable by a foreign- er. I did not saeceed, to my credit be it said. She talked to me then about her taste for the drama, and about the comedy she had played in at an entertainment given by the Queen of Spain, and so from one thing to another we came to talk about Louis Na- poleon, th n president of the republic. She called him ugly and ridiculous, and as that very morning he hal riddon out in the Bois de Boulogne with a comforter around his throat, that comforter greatly amused the lively and charming girl, who laughed mis- chievously at him from whom she was so soon to receive the cro"u matrimonial of France. Jenny Llnd in L^ve. " lam a Quaker, as you ktow," aPhiladel- phian s j i writer in e Cen- tury, " and it is reported that, shortly be- fore Jenny Lind's visit to the city, an aged lady arose in one of 'our meetings and said she had heard that ' Jane Lyon, a very wicked woman, was on her way to this country to sing,' and she hoped that none of the young people would be drawn away to hear her. Nevertheless, an uncle took me and my brother to the SxUiurday Matinee. We had seats in the balcony and so near the stage that we could in a way see behind the scenes. Early in the entertainment Jenny Lind sang Home, Sweet Home,' and the audience was beside itself. Amongthe mem- bers of her company was her future husband. Otto Goldschmidt. He was to the audience simply an unknown pianist, and to be oblig- ed to listen to anything but the voice of Jenny Lind was provoking. Well, the man played, anl from where we sat we could see Jenny Lind behind the certain listening most intently. When he had tinished, the audience seemed in nowise disposed to ap- plaud but Jenny Lind began to clap her hands ^•igo^ously, observing which we boys reinforced her and, observing her face light upâ€" I can see the love-light on it yet â€" we clapped furiously until the applause spread throughout the audience. W heu he had finished playing a second time, my brother and I set the ball in motion, and the applause was great enough to satisfy even the fiancee of Otto Goldschmidt." Prince de Wagram's Estate. Bertha Rothschild, who renounced Juda- ism to marry the Prince Alexander de Wagram, 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 Gros Bois though not so pleasantly situated as when Napoleon gave it to Marshal Berthier. It had belonged to a noble family that had emigrated, and ic had become national property. The first emperor was liberal in giving such estates to his military followers, who, in accepting them, bound themselves over to join in no conspiracy which had for its object the bringing back of the Bourbons and the old aristocracy. The Prince de Wagram suc- ceeded 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 em- peror was declining, and has since been ob- liged to ask her father for that income with which it was expected the emperor would keep his cousin Joachim supplied. A Klad«Hearted Princess. Seldom is it that " stories " about the princess of Wales are circulated but a recent issue of the Whitehall Review recalls one, of an accident that occurred a few years ago, which is worth repeating, as giving an in- sight into the practical kindliness of her truly royal ' heart. An Austrian general, visiting at Sandringham, while saying " good night " to his royal host, chanced to stumble and sprained his ancle so that for several days he was confined to his bed. Not only did the prince call frequently to inquire after his condition, but the princess also came every day and read aloud to him at his bed-side to divert his mind from the pain he was suffering. " I know of none of my own family except my mother who would have done the same for me," the general always adds, with a grateful tremor in his voice, when he relates the story. A. Helpmeet. There are, no doubt, cases where a man earns a great fortune, while his wife's exist- ance is that of a butterfly, writes Col. T. W. Higginson. These cases are rare taking ohe family with another, the wife works ashud as her husband, and the fact that his share involves the handling of the money does not make it his money. It belongs to both, and what he pays over to her is not a gift, but a matter of right. • "This vras a present to me from wife," said a rich man, showing an or- nament. "Bought with your money/' said a friend jocosely. "No " he said, "out of her own hard earnings. She keeps house for a man of your aequaintance "' Mr. Tennyson contemplates sellinn Ald- warth. his place on the Surwy Downs. 7^?^ " i'l^Z.^^" as he finds that the I^le of Wight air suits him mncH bet- OUR INLAND WATERS. Prion with the steamer Northern (^l^i !^^.^P*Â¥if^ opposite Poverty iSj* tiie 24th «f Nov. durina a foe knT^»' lA P«U1« PraleetlMa Ce««Ulton stringent Un InsperaUve. •S Tlkoagh the consideration of the danger re- sulting from the overoowdingof steamboats has been forced upon the attention of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for a number of years, and means have been sng gested to preveoit such a state of affiurs, no rule has yet seemed sufiSciently elastic to suit the conflicting interests of owners on the one hand and the travelling public on the other, or to reconcile such interests to the various conditions of navigation. An approximate rule, based on the length and breadth of the vessel, has been recommend- ed, but as no two vessels of like dimensions in this respect would have the same stability under a load of passengers, it has not been adopted. Several steamboat owners in this port claim a safe capacity of 1,500 passen- gers, but have not life-saving appliances for the fourth uf that number. In fixing a limit to the number of passengers to be car- ried on any boat, it is but reasonable to sup- pose that the public should demand life- saving means for each person within that limit. One thing especially should be pro- hibited, that of overcrowding the upper and romenade decks, as the danirer is sumcient- y great in the generally unsatisfactory con- dition of the vessels without enhancincr it by overcrowding or overloading. A notice- able defect in the construction of nearly all the lake steamers is that the ei^gine-room is ,not sufficiently connected by combinings or substantial bulkheads. As at present con- structed the combinings are very shallow and the sheeting of inch pine, instead of be- ing made of heavy pine or oak, or better still, of iron, so as to be able to stand the force of the sea after the gangways are washed in by the storm. Such a defect as that remarked caused the oollapse and foundering of the steamer Asia, with its ac- companying loss of life. There is also great danger of the vessels taking fire from the Eroximity cf the wooden combings to the oiler, the distance between the two being only 18 inches. The firing is all done from the front end of the boiler in the majority of lake boats, the back head being never isit- ed except when requiring cleau'ne, and as sparks frequently are emitted from this part, the danger of communicating with the inflammable pine combing, eighteen inches distant is imminent. The City of Winnipeg. and Manitoba took fire from this defect in construction, and at a less recent period the City of London and Mary Robertson, all trad- ing to Georgian Bay ports. MARINE DISASTERS. A brief mention of the more s"riou8 dis- asteis to Canadian vessels during the pabt -three years, within the limits ot the West Ontario Division, extending from Whitby to the Ijead of Lake Superior, will be appropri- ate under present circumstances, and will convey to the public an accurate idea of the appalling loss of life which has during that period distinguished travel on our waters. LOSSES FOR 1882. The following are the losses so far during the present year on the waters within the limits mentioned â€" The steamer Manitoulin, of the Great Northern Transit Line, took fire when about foAr miles from Manitowan- ing on the 18th May. The vessel became a total loss, and twenty-five persons, passen- gers and crew, lost their lives. The vessel was valued at $35,000, and was only running on her third season. On the 10th June the steamer Vanderbilt was discovered to be on fire when opposite M Idrum Bay, Mani- toulin Island. The vessel was beached, and bejame a total loss, but the passengers and crew were saved. A vessel Eupposed to have been the schooner Nellie Shenrood foundered on Georgian Bay on the 20th September, all on board being lost. The steamer Picton ran ashore and was wrecked on the nirhtof the23:h September. The crew were all saved. The shocking disaster of the steamer Asia, with the loss of ail on board with the excep- tion of two, is too recent an occurrence to require any detailed mention. However it may be proper so state that the loss of life resulting from her wreck could not be much under 120. DISASTERS IN 1881. The fearful disaster at Lo: don on the 2'4th of May, 18S1, by the upsetting of the pleasure steamer Victoria, and the loss of 181 lives was the result of overcrowding the boat beyond her capacity to bear up under such a load. With 200 persons equally dis- tributed on the main and upper decks the vessel would be safe, with 400 she would be dangerous, and with 600, the number st -.ted to be on the vessel, the majority of those be- ing on the upper deck, the wonder is that she did not upset immediately i loaving the wharf. From the shape of tuo hull, a flat-bottomed scow, if loaded dowM under the wharf's edge, there would U Ijttle ten- dency to right if the guard c t below the water, which it did soon after lodving the wharf. The propeller Columbia, of the CoUing- wood and Chic go line, foundered «.ff Port Frankfort, Lake Michij?an, on the 10th Sep- tember. The cause of thia disaster was not rt-ported. Two bo its, one with eight and the other with nine persons, got aw y from the vessel as she was going down, and of those seven were saved, the others be- mg drowned on the surf. It was not as- certained how many were actually lost in this disastrous affair. The propeUer CUtf of Winnipeg was burn- ed at Duluth on the 19th of July The engineer reported that the fire stated in the wood pocket at the port side of the boiler, at 3.30 a. m. He at obce gave the alarm and the fire pump was turned on, but the fire having too much headway aU efforts to quench the flames were unavailing, and in a short time the steamer was burned to the unable to escape perishing in the flames. The propeUer ^o»« Miller was lost on Georgian Bay on the 25th of November, with passengers and crew, the entire num- ^*i^ •^Ppo«5dtobeabout twenty-five or thirty persons. The details ooooeninc the loss of the vessel wei« exoeedinglf 2J^w^ she seems to have gone downi^tk Tha steamer Zrofo J^ was sank u VAm with the steamer Northern ^* i t storai. Ihe No^tar% QueoT ttrnck- Likt Urie stem on abreast the smoke Theshodk broka the steam-pipe a«J* chest, the escaping steam scaldinTT^ Forbes a deck hand, so severely that hJl!\ seven hours after t^e accident. The j^riesank two hours after the coUjiiofc. deep water fifteen miles from shore ' the hands and passengers on the LcJce' were taken on board the NoHhern Q^ bat while the latter^was making the eobL to Manisqoe harbour she struck the pier! became a wrack. ' Whilst the tug PrtKee Alfred waa on way from Goderich to Samia in July J* in one of the boil« tubes flew out, c^;^ the death l^ aoaldinz of a fireman,' the of the engineer, Benjamin Filtean. The loss of the steamer Waubuno on tK Georgian Bay in 1879, with the conwque loas of life is still fresh in the mmds ot pubhc, and the more recent loss of the l pellers Zealand and Simcoe in Novemh 1880, the former with all hands lost andt latter wirh a loss of twelve out of a crew seventeen. LOSS OF LIFE FOB THBEE YEABS. During the past three years the loss of i .--•-o Victor Hugo pre fSv«at Venles, in Francj eighty poor children,/ orphans of drowned aflol It took place at^^" B dinner was follows* oy\ the prises were in moAey. iks. and the highjat pri Victor Hugo, iu/ddressii told them to b/ieve m )^-e each otlier, a^ not fearJ [anywhere else to/hich duty has issuel sing a fund rence Dixi^ stance iu iestitute smai farirers and stem ooast Ireland. The i id is, firs*, to give assis farmers who are under the for non-payment of rent, [take advantage of the Ar their inability to proiluce idly to assist those who ha^ the non-payment of arre ;h misfortune has renderc discharge and, thirdly, to| le destitute cottiers, and in the case of the small similarly situated, to cornel of the Arrears Act. (hibald Alison, who commanc on Lakes Ontirio, Erie, Huron, and Sani?^»l«i^ Brijrade at Tel-el-Kebir. h or through accidents to steamboats vJ ot late Sir Archibald Alison, "' ^-^ shire, and author of the hid He has been deputy A6| Ireland, 1874-77 "omr Staff Cillfge, 1877-7S ai Quartenni9t«*r-(ieneral unj Tolseley when tha war brc I in the Crimea in tlie S| ighlanders in India as to Lord Clyde durins; the ca and as Brigadier and se^ (rther vessels has amounted to 470 persons greater number than those lost during ti)"*?*^ entire twenty years preceding. Twentf ' years ago there were but 46 steameri ii Canada, Upper and Lower, and the nam ber is now 800. Of course any comparisot' of the loss of life during recent years wii those precedin?, without taking into cot sideration this great item of increase m tk' ^r^^^^ ^^ »»«- who commands the OTHER NOTES, Irisli IflWran is a flne-looking soldier ^ged iiam, who commant led the Royal Irish to the chai; The fuUowine is the number of vessels lorina* otKcer and also a Scotchma or broken up during last year â€" West Otv ba^vy blow and great discou tario, Huron, and Superior District, Wis* upon R. C. Tichborne 'a vessels, 2 paddle and 9 screw East Ontarioi*p#l baronet at Dartmoor. Hi 5 vessels, all of them screw Montreal, *2 iianojiberal friend, Mr. (Joiltord paddle and 1 screw Quebec, 3 vesse^ \\ftX That gentleman s fanat; paddle and 2 screw Maritime Provinceg ^liswrt imposture cost him fromi vessels, 3 paddle and 1 screw Manitoba' • iCWbOOO, not to mention an e vessels, both being paddle British CoIuil «»^i*hre of time and trouljle i bia, 4 vessels, 2 paddle and 2 screw. vorto work r.p influential syin A secona officer who has sailed the lake, oNi**^'^- There is nothing for fifteen years, generally on schoonen n"" ""' "^^ ' sufler his .!u stated to a Globe reporter last evening tha-t ha i»n. He wiU be out in spite he ' • «^ "â€" uni by a Government Inspecto. .^v-. „«. tated about granting her a certificate, beiir^xi i*«^' ^o*" '"" "'^^^ f "*^" ' weU aware of tne rotten condition of h? c***"?*'^*^' °^ Bntish bun. lac timbers, but his hesitancy disappeared as tht'-® AIP'""°® V° ^®^' '^^^^' captain and part owner transferred some *»«^*»"8 ^^ ^^^y*""' ""^."'H'^^' thing from his pocket to that of the lospec «*«*^*y' ^^^' ^^"' ' "" tor, who made out the certificate witlioLi* "•P'?^*^ "Samst the luxury further demur. The whole transaction wa:"*«y ^^ »°?« persons who lay c witnessed by the mate, who as soon as L "'*^^' ,^°^ °^ â-  "' ""^^ secured his wages left the vessel. Tne tiii««»,*'f*^'" leading his country tn ber was in some parts so decayed that it wa^c^^^J^^ rnaterial rewards nMuc. friable t the touch and would not hold a P***" offered him, and retiree nail. Such defects were, however, covered '^^^^S*^ by putty and paiut â€" Toronto Globe so as not to bd visible to live as a comni The King of H'jUandl jt ojf having achieved any mphs, but he exhibits tlie sainel ^xayer. j to pomp and erandeur as the ilj Tf.,.^„„ „_, • u *u 1. • t- •" We are told that instead i Every prayer is a wish but wishes are uo:"^,, .^ay he personal prayers In the heartof every prayer i« tb. P^^J J .ryj,^iy^^^.,I^^tatoei ^^Ir P ' *^ \-'°'^, ""' T?. ' "f'ther with a tew glasses of bee prayer. Prayer is atkiug f r a felt "ted.i^u j .g g^^ not asking the universe, but God No onthe fc^iiy to which Prince Bisu can inteUigently ask who does not beheve he j^ remained members cf the can and may be heard. No one can pern \j,,^ ^rder of nobility, from venngly ask, who thinks that asking wil hy ancestors with Kin- He bnng nothing Pe-sons who believe that ,„|^ed the Alt Mark (.f Bn, the w..oleinfluenc3 of prayer IS simply thtT^t^^ihe 15th of ScptenilKr, 1 effect of tneir own thonghts upon them Qtto was created Count for hi selves, never pray. They cannot pray i^e »Jng in his struggle with The mouth may utter right words; the hean^ Padiament and for the wav in IS not in them. Some prayers are not pray carried Prussia through the Dj ers for those who say them do not really jhefcilowing year the sharp am WHh for the things they menti -n. But the. .,Hth Austria took place, and I difficulty with some prayers is that there u „ the gigantic struggle with Fr no grasp of the idea of Godâ€" that is no ask atAlor hie share iu the splcnd ing, "Ask that ye shall receive."â€" CAn«iiafi aiduig that contest, Count von Advoc ate. co^rred upon him the highei '" ' '** ' ' "' 'sslathe power of his sovcrei, A Heartless Joke. „, He was elevated to the A young lady, who is very hea\-y insureii »»» '•"^^ 'as endoMed wit! by strangers in the matrimonial insurance 8,^^ estates comiiK^nsunitc companies, says a southern paper, on the re i**# port of her approaching marriage, went witk '-f^ a friend into a dry-goods store last weei:. '«»* and middle-aged men. She knew that the clerk who was waiting oi n«^ou8 debility and kindrdd her had invested a year's savings in a policy ** ** memory and hypochond on her coming marriage. While exairining ^« ^^« stamps for Part Vli a piece of sUk she said to her friend, in ai; P*^*y ^^^^ Series of pan pi aside perfectly audible to the clerk • " Sinct â- â-  WtfcLii's Dispensary Mepi] my engagement is definitely broken off 1 will "**^ BuAFaIo, N. Y. have no trousseau to buy. I think I might Boston clergyman's wife ici afibrd this." When she turned to ask the rged by a Buffalo hatkman fol clerk the price, he had fainted. ween, two railway stations, liaj -^-T ^-. â€" m^» â€" -^_ »d, «j)peared against him, sawj For the foundation walls of the new Ens- '^* "" S^t back in time to lish church in Rome, the comer-stone ci **•„ ^^'s i" t'»e genuine Post^ which was laid in April last, the entire " Pjople will want more of itj ma,terials of the old convent have beenre- frst IJL ivl. Gifford, of Pi rt R quured aud many loads of mortar and brick maag^ years a sufferer m ith \\ m addition. From the chaplain's recent ^^ iut,aild a serious cynplicaticn port of the financial state of the church it ^^^l*^^ letter she says that slJ appears that a sum of 17,000/ has beeu en li» bott es of Burdock Blod raised that the groimd, with legal expenses. iMIf nearly recovered her hj has cost 6,000/ that the removal of former hnpw s w to use her name in buildings, the foundations and lawsuits have mfltlig humanity. .3. Sw?*^'(^/^f: '^1*^* ^^^' l^"^r ^-^^^ two years m hand 5,000/, the latter a sum that the «Mj[|uTis satd " No " whfln ^e*t^^" fitted' h^'^^ " '^^ ^^ir^ 3^r"a^ obey^c^ ir.Vj S^,*? %^/^^^^ Jy January next, will ex- rgg^stood aghast. ' ' Ne ' f?,S,;r T?^'^^^ ""^V^/^^^^^""'" "drive on. HI further funds be provided. Besides the ui^iSjhow." ^nd the otherl li^lj^TT^ hand, there is required, says nj^t and killed him bccaul the report, for the pilUrs of the clear-story ,gto log her with a horsewhii wmdows, roof, floor; heating apparatus, and » chicken when he wanted it nttings, a further sum of 5.000/ at least, u^^ •_ "We should bear in min^» 3 the Tbap- g?! ^Pf^r?*"?^*- ^*/^ ••*k«* *!... I^^, ., J: i\\ '•W Cai borne, a deodorized rolciun, the great natural hai^ w*w it is absolutely perfect and del'ghtfuUy pcrfi id restorer. Every J th it. Sold by all druf in a public Fqual ed painting. An an for nothing, provided] h time as be pleased fence to protect him ' 'le at work. The cc terms. But it sold the surface aad nobody kno g the fountain. m mind. Urn, "that the room outside Porta del Popolo, which we at present use for divint servipe, and for which we pay a rent of 100. a year, is held on an uncertain tenure. Un less the new church be soon completed the eongr^tion may find themselves without abuUding in which to meet for pubUc wor- « Prahc* an d Madag ascas. â€"The Naiio*^ VK% the Cabmet will dikcuss Debraz»« trtaty with the Congo River chiefa during tjBweek, and its ratification is assur*!- National understands if the Queen o^ ••â- â- p»Z,do«« not formerly recognize tfce its of Franca in the Island, energetic res will be taken with a vie v to tb«r nation. ,k