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"';-ri5EAUTIFULDI with name I*-,/^ itlit. â- 'â- 7 samples 1"«J C'lrJ House, loOloT -^^t -t?^|Wr'lS^£|»^^f^' (â- â- â- i-T-tV Ct? «; ' â-  •S««»nB|,4Sp^ _^^ m ' "' ' • f'^1 ^*^' ^^â- ^'^,..,,^. • ii'Jintia^a'siaeH i- :j|g„^ ' 7*H '^^ â- i»**«^arnS!^j» â-  ' -• *«: •«» *«**«.aL_ .- »M- NEWS NOTES. to the letter from Krapotkine is sufforing from «on ' h«« replied r tprome der.iee tnat he aspires to "^.JaynaBty by divine right. u-hnltRheydt haarec vered and fjKu^ies as Austrian Minister of • no chance of M Falliserea being r thP .stnate during the debate on P K^r of armed explorers, uader Au- fg era 'la^e left Belgium to join L.n'tDeC^rigo expedition. L thousand pounds, balance of the f MirlbDrough's relief fund, will "teti to assisting Irish emigration. I Afford N'orthcote has left Nice for I The Prince of Wales, the Marquis Lbury anil ^^^- t^ladstone, left a day Iilat«r- irautlJury has returned a true bill fciious libel against O'Brien editor of llrAaad; also, a true bill against â- jforthe murder of policeman Cox. fcTJDtions have been opened in the rWicidow to present Mr. Parnell l't«tim(.nial for the purpose of clear- Itke inortgage on hi^ estate. Uprecautions have been taken to en- Ijsjfety of the Ministers. Two Irish f^vei lolowcd Karl Spencer aa an es- â- j/jrd(;ranville's resiuence. „, jnvicts. one 8U[^posed to be Walsh, Irkefl'A-ell Fenian, has been examined IXreasury. It is stated that most im- L evidence was obtained. Lever the vote in the Senate on the tioii bill, ^1- Thibaudin, Minister of Kill leijuest M. rrevy to sign a decree l. the Orleans princes on the retired (the army. Hilaire denounces the expulsion useless, unjust and dangerous. IthiiiiJ sought to b*; accomjjliahed by it liifair. like Folketheng, the left moved the Tntnicut f f acomniittee to ascertain the of Danish subjects abroad, espe- ihosein Schleswig. Ire have been serious riots among the \\i at Warsaw in consequence of the Eior lecturing on Polish literature in '::sian language ' Ameer of Afghanistan has reached Lbad. He will visit India during March ll'erence to the difficulty with the Ilk 01 Kumar. jijerman lieichstag Committee has re- llto prosecute Deputies (Jeyser and Ine, Socialists, for the improper use of jay passe?. It rthiteStar Line Steamship Company liiibscribMl to the Cork Exhibition, and Ito carry free a hundred tons of Ameri- Ifxsihils. |t ^j.ialist-' at Xeies. Spain, have con- a:id murdered a peasant. Four- I persons accused of complicity in the i tave been arrested. loco tons of new shipping has been pi on the (,'lyde in the past fortnight, Viin!,'twa steamers for the North ter- iLloyds Co. Ischooner has been wrecked near Port- fy, Ireland, and five sailors drownej. |tlier is wrecked near the Shetland tls, and the wiiole crew drowned. Inot^ to the Powers announces the rup- of the relations between Montenegro |Tarkey, because the latter failed to E to the accessitns of territory on the ItHT. jBstja Ucntwirdi Dilke, Liberal, has IpieJ the stewardship of Her Majesty's pre Hundreils, thut making vacant his iiiths' House of 'ommons for New- |le-'jpo3 Tyue. pr.mpcrorof (,'liiua ha.s telegraphed his F'Jlatiuus tu the Crown Prince of itMy on tlie occasion of his silver pog This IS the first telegram ever "ya (.'hinesi- sovereign to a European Ice. M Hernhai it's jewels have been sold. f«:n attendance at the sale were princi- P aealers and representatives of the T;'"""' Her necklace of rare diamonds ;!or '24,000 francs, and two bracelets W S.OOO francs each. â- ^^isia's not on in the Hundesrath for an •«8 of the duties on timber is constant- P?P«««il. It is thought it will only be PJ after having been greatly modified. '"' tor fortifying the harbours has '"^PF'-lfor tlrs session. f London correspondent says: The illness «tmptror William and Prince Bis- IS the current topic. There are grave ' for believing much is kept back „' public on the subject. The I, â-  7"^h the Kaiser has dioplayed to â-  ^filial relations with the Powers, his J^sioii ot a fiiendly letter, and the «a rroiiuse lo order the modifications U "â- "â-  "' "'•' thought to point to the j^« bemiany is beginning to feel the â- Si'?«erneutrality en the continent. â-¼ai.sktq^ ifomtKt. Letting $800 Drop. Ic«'a^'"f looking citi/en appeared at V h '""" yesterday, and beckon- %^\ lato a private room said: A,^^" that $800 robbery at mv W "Parted yesterday morning " tmen ^^V "' I 'lave put two cf our â- ^5^ on the case, and-" jje'tj. ^~-^li«mâ€" I have decided not to ier.u""" You needn't take any 'Yoa i^" I^fact-" 'ttfrlT^ ^^^^ to say thot you have ^^athe money?" ;y a clue, eh?- ' tonev""'"' ""^^ "a^tly. Ti-.c fact is ' ^.' taken out cf my trousers 'ife h,"i" ' '^dâ€" andâ€" this moraing "*^' Eent home a new sealskin ton-'T*^F't» at 1 °^" ^^ "'y trousers rU*^S^E*ife \T] ' "l-and- this moraing »toX«t« yoa can get verse you can sort of model F'r instance: for TU. a«j,«i mtt »«rty tm __ "A PoeteM" hM been mdvertirine toirrite SrJ!^ *°* " ** principle mMra- factnr«rt of TalentineBT "^^ â- eaaon^ and « ntfle earlyTor neS?^ TtoS are not many valentine Witer^^d I^?? throk If you hunted them overypuwo^d find one diatinguiiUied name amonR thJm ?orr*\?".**f*y°' '" everhearfSS il^V^^^"^- Sl»e writes X were in the business, and she Dosaeaao/l ^latural talents for it; «idw m?K!y "?* 8°* »»to it, and, once in, keeps rieht along. The late A. J. Fisher whfw J a ^ding publisher cf valenti'nes. u^"to write his own mostly. I don't know exactly what his b^t hold was, whether it was the purely comic, the vengefullj satirical or the gushingly sentimental. Tae lady in Bangor IS best in the last Une. It doesn't requir! I really very powe.ful poetic genius to grind out valentine poeirv. ^Vhuu an idea fit for a ve ' it over a few times ^o f1'i„^®^°" the diamond bright doth «hine So tlum upon my heart doth glow, my Vu'en- t},rt°^**^^° *^'""' ^y «^'g*t twist of the wrist, you get: As in the gold the rubv's gleam doth ahino So in my heart thy image sits, my Valentine: "Or, by a slight wrench to the crank: Al^^%hVP*'""'*S *f'°^^ i'l the juice of the vine Are thy eyes m my heart, my sweet Valentine! "Same idea, yoa see; reels oflF just as easy as yam off a ball. Lots of our valentine poetry we sort of pick up. Newspapers sometimes have poetical fancies in them that we happen to drop on, and occasion- ally we can chop out a good chunk of heart throb and burning love where you'd hardly notice It, and where the poet who originally wrote It would himself be sort of surprised at the discovery. Of course we might doctor it up a littleâ€" make it trump in a little better for our uses, you know but we would keep the original idea fairly, never- theless. Another dealer in the most expensive sort of imported and hand-made valentines said: "There is hardly any novelty in the imported lace-paper valentines. The same things that were good enough for us when we were young and spooney, if made over fresh, are good enough for those that are young and spooney now, and will for their grandchil Iren when they begin to get soft about the heart fifty years from now. But for a few years past there has been a grow- ing fancy lor hand-painted valentines, some of which are very expensive, and for them there is some demand for original poetry. That is probably the trade that 'the poetess' is striking fcr. Acrostics are popular in them. They are poorly paid for us a rule, for they are not much in demand â€" the verses, 1 mean. The nand-painted valentines are well paid for, you may be sure, and their manufacture is conducted in quite a private way. But the people who order them, as a general thing, grind out their own lovesick doggerel, and no matter how bad it is the girl who gets it will think it divine if a diamond ring is j^art of the valentine, as it sometimes is. That poetess won't go to Europe next summer on the profits of her valentine writing, I'll bet. â€" N'}r York Sun. In tho" *^" " '"i^e about concluded ""'and^"?.!^" '^rop- let the matter f^-^^' driff J *^^^P "«l the bereaved I ""ft^dcut.-.9„;i Franrhco Pott. j^^*"5»u»gton girl can Uoah tm her noee The French War Oflice has reitorad tb« arnin to all infantry regiments, and each ooir patiy ia again on its Up*. Yw, man ia a creatnre of habit. Once tet hi.„ contract the habit of begins hia toba.;. o and he'U never bny another ounce. A French writer says the art cf rivinK a dinner ia a lost art. Then why not adver- tise and find it again? *.k i " aâ„¢ people malicious enongfa to say that the rest which Jay Gould wants is the rest of the railroads. The one gi eat fault of this life u the readi- ness with which man accepts the cirsus bill lor the show inside the canvas. An Indianapolis man broke two ribs While making a boss blow on a lung-tester *^« otber day. What a blessing for Indiana that he never took to oratory. A Brooklyn grocer put 6,260 beans in a glass jar, and the guessing ranged all the way from 550 to 25,000. ft ia one thing to Know beans and another to estimate num- bers. The Oswego Palladium was sued for 5o,000, and the verdict left only the single hgure 5. It looks sort o' mean for an editor to beat a man out cf $4,895 and then crow over It. There must be a conspiracy of tix differ- ent persons in orders to beat the govcm- nient on the w-hiskey tax.and yet if it need- ed a round dozen it would be no trouble to form a ring. The Washington monument will stop this season at 342 feet. And thU is the differ- ence betweea it and the average Washington politicran for he stops at 0. P^. Wild, of Toronto, announces that Adam was seven feet high. This would seem to indicate that the earden of EJen was located somewhere in Kentucky. New England contributes nothing to the history of horrible accidents this year. But there's no use taking this to the spinster lady whose cat was run over by an ice cart. Three hundred and fifty tons of ice will be stored for coolme Auburn Prison next sum- mer, says a Statn paper. Ah! Now we know why a jail is called "the cooler." A man at Lawrence, Mass., didn't know how he was to spend February and March in Florida, but some one proposed a fair; he was made Treasurer, and the $450 enabled him to skip. An exchange says that dogs under favor- able circumstances, live to be 30 years old; and Puck suggests that "favorable circum- stancts"' probably means a family without boys or neighbors. An Iowa grocer who refused to trust a woman for a pound of logwood was nearly killed by a blow from an axe-helve. When a woman wants to dye an old shawl she is prepared to surmount all obstacles. A man in Summerville, Ga., sneezed so vigorously that he yanked his spinal column out of place. If he had swallowed the sneeze instead of letting it fly he would have burst into more than a million frag- ments. One of the fire escapes in a New York hotel leads to the cellar, dark as pitch and having only one door and a narrow stairway to reach the street. But it's a fire escape, and guests snooz3 away as contented as salamanders. A peasant in Sweden never passes a fel- low-peasant without a polite lifting of his hat. This explains why so many Swedes come to this e .untry. They come to avoid catching cold in the head. Human bones have been found in the debris of the old postolfice in New York. They are supposed to be the remains of people who were reckless enough to bother the stamp clerk while he was reading the last novel. The Lancet says that women often wear a weight of clothing such as few men would care to carry. This is sheer nonsense. There are many men who would carry the clothes, with the women inside of them. A pension agent in Natchez secured a negro widow a pension of §1,000 and promptly handed over §150, taking the remaining §850 as his fee. It is a pleasure to hear of a man now and then who believes in the good old adage: "Live and let live." The Buffalo Express has its opinion of a clergyman who insists upon kissing the brifle after the groom has taken him aside and requested him not to as a special favor. The groom should not make such a request unless she has a cold-sore on her lip. The latest addition to the British Museum i.? Nebucluidnezzar's door-step, careful ex- amination of which shows certain ma.ks of wear which indicate that Neb.'s daughter had a young man. Human nature doesn't change much, though years roll on. Claremount, N. H., h s a cooking club composed of young lady graduates of the high school. After passing four years in eating pickled limes and wTiting notes to the boys, with a few incidental recitatiocs, they are settling down to something prac- ticaL A poor young girl in Mexico is given It at all but the Teapot, itself, 1 aisco.cr- the cold shake by her lover and wanders by ed drew admirably. VVhen I say ' 'drew^ ^g murmuring sea with intentions of drowii- NEWS IN A NTJTSHELL LIVING UP TO A TEAPOT. A Tale or a Lonely Life. Wishing not to appear eccentric, but to follow the fashion, 1 resolved to live up to a Teappt. Therefore, my own little tin-plated one^'price sixpence, having sprung a leak, I bought me another, a blue-andwhite Jap- anese Teapot at a grower's shop in the Strand â€"cost, five shillings. I had previously lived on a scale of living up to a sixpenny Teapot only â€" on oatmeal porridge for breakfast principally, and sometimes bread and but- ter. A legacy from a lamented distant re- lation enabled me to live up to a superior Teapot â€" a crown Teapot. So 1 not only be- gan to breakfiist on eggs, but added bloaters likewise to my mc ruing meal, kipgered her- ring also, and smoked s;-.liuon, salt haddock, sardines, ham and tongue, brawn, potted meats, and rashers of b icon besides a con- siderable variety of other little tiny kick- shaws and toys. I did. I flattered myself, live up to my Teapot in some measure. But very soon the Teapot I had been living up to as well as ever I was able by the gratiti- cation of my appetite with all manner of good things, came to grief^n the kitchen. My maid of -all- work broke off the tip of its spout. The jigged edge* of the fracture caused the tea to dribble on to my table- cloth and then that Teapot was to be lived up to no more. Never trust a Teapot to which you intend living up, to the care of servants. She to whom I had unwisely confided my Teapot suppliel me, pending doubt as to procuring -notker, with a temporary substi- futeinherown This was a «ioaerately- sized, globula., glazed black Teapot of earthenware. There was. no^ pa.utmg^upon soluble I mean that it extracted the stituents of mvtea so effectually as to make my tea twice asstrong again as it "fed to be made in the Teapot I had ch*^° *^ 'r^^" to. I wUl not, therefore, now P'"""** new expensive Teapot for my servant to breaw, but shall stick to the old/»^^"i eighteen pence-a^ ')_eapot which ^h w U =oii-~King T^'S'l^^:^' "'â- Â«Â«!'â- â- ' â- Â«-â- "•'"â- â- â-  A Scotch terrier, belonging to '^l^^" lato iT^usekeeper ai the Legislature bm d- ing Toronto, has died of gnef at his death. The Lord Mayor of London -ei.-in '"f^^TtL'lu'^in We'tVrn Ireland "•!l thLneecSfO'Donnell and others at said thespeecnes oi yj^ deoutotion em- the meeting from .which*he^Ke success the Irish deputations. herself. An oyster washes up, she carelessly picks it up, and lo! a pearl worth $5,000 slips into her palm. That's the way Mexican papers palm it off on their readers. When an American war vessels reaches Washington from a point a few hundred mUes distant the fact is telegraphed all over the country. That a government war vessel should reach Washington safely, after a voyage of a few hundred miles seems to be regarded as a remarkable achieve- ment. m*^-* I " â€" â€" The Hand of Deatb on a Baby's Face. A correspondent telU of an event happen- ing many years ago in the country near Hagerstown, Md. A baby bom with a fire mafk on her face was taken to where an old colored woman was lying dead, and her im- cold hand was rubbed repeatedly over the mark it being a superstition that by so do- Si ^n3kwoalidisappear. The mother ofthe girl declares that from that moment the mark faded away and in a few months was entirely gone. The girl is now 19 years fid, with a complexion of rare punty.â€" Lovlsviile Courts Journal. ssAomo. au» «r. TAiAaTDOB. â- teaseâ€" Caaelse, Pltky mmA faftcJ. The ice has vanished from Odessa har« boor. The Dominion Conference has opened at London. Prussia is agitating for an increase of the timber duties. Archbishop McCale, of Ireland, is better, but is still feeble. The ship Bramletye lost four of her crew on the voyage to Hull. Ex-Gov. Davis, Texas, is dead, of pneu- monia, after a short illness. At the close of the present session the Marqais of Lori;e will go to England. At St. Louis, Henry Dress killed his wife and then himself by cutting his throat. The treasurer of the Garfield monument fair reports the net proceeds about $7,000. Two Americin companies have applied for charters to build a ships' canal across Cape Cod. Mr. Andrew Broder has received the Liberal-Conservative nomination for Dun- das. A report has reached Cairo that the Egyp- tians in Soudan have yielded to the False Prophet. The Leishman-Beattie case has been dis- missed owing to the flight of the prose- cutrix. The alarming message fom the steamer Nederland is regarded by her owners as a miserable joke. The missing steamer Quebec has been spoken, and is expected to arrive at Liver- pool in a day or two. A fire broke out in the (J rand Trunk sheds at Hemmingford and in a few moments they were destroyed. Thus fir 200 Quarterly Boards of the Methodist Church of Canada have voted union to 14 against. It is reported that Mr. Smith, Deputy Seargeant-at-Arms, has also been appointed Secretary to the new Speaker. The feeling of uneasiness in Paris still con- tinues and business is statniant. The public yearn for a strong government. Charles Lewis, of Detroit, took three- quarters of an ounce of laudanum, but prompt meiical attention saved his life. The Spanish Council of Ministers has de- cided to treat 40,000 slaves, whom their masters neglected to register in 1870, as free men. The floods in the Ohio Valley, which it wai hoped had subsided, have received fresh additions, and the river is now rapidly risinf. Postmaster Towneend.of Wheaton, Mich., is in a critical condition, from the attack of a rough named Saunders whom he refused to trust. The Washington Ways and Means Com- mittee of the house of representatives have resolved to recommend that the duty on iron ore be placed at fifty cente a ton. The investigation into the loss of the Cimbria attracts much attention at Ham- burg, and a criminal prosecution against the Sultan's captain is spoken of. The Canada Manufacturing Company, Montreal, appears to have found a deficiency of $20,000 by the acti on of Henry Thomas, their late manager. A prominent Montreal saloon keeper is- 80 cd placards announcing that he would bet $75 to $5 ac;ainstany and all single numbers in the Ijondon Lottery. Mr. George Beaudet, a sou cf one of Que- bec's'leading French merchant?, is about to put into practice the knowledge he acquired at the Guelph Agr.cultural College. The Quebec Ultramontane journals are endeavoring to throw cold water upon the proposed public banquet to Mayer Lange- lier of Quebec, because it is to be given in Lent. An attempt was made to eject an Irish family named Carignan from a tenement in Montreal by the authorities, when a mob gathered and attacked Mr, Prezeau, the landlord. A bar-tender named Howard is in charge ofthe police for attempting to commit sui- cide by throwing himself into a hole in the ice-bridge at Quebec while laboring under delirium tremens. The mail train going touth from Owen Sound stuck in a snow drift at Markdale recently, and remained there. The pas- sengers stayed in the village. Dowling, a coloured porter on the sleeper. "Monroe," when leaving Essex Centre, was iu the act of putting coal in the stove when he fell over bleeding profusely from the mouth, and died immediately. A Ltuatlc's Ufe In Prison. The following very pathetic story was telegraphed from Union town, Pa., a day or two ago. William Stafford known through- out Fayette county as "Crazy Billy," died this morning in the county jail, where he had been a prisoner over fifty-one conse- cutive years. In 1831 Billy drove Alexander Brow and his wife out of their house in Spring Rill township. The neighbors came to Brow's rescue, and by strategem over- powered Billy, who was^armed with Crow's buteher's knife, and axe. Billy was sent to Uniontown for tria' Soon afterward William Updegraff was locked up for dmnk- ness, and during the night Billy asked a stick of wood whether he should kifl Upde- gniff. The biUet said "Yes," and Billy crushed in the diuukard's skull. The fol- lowing Jane Billy was tried and acquitted on account of insanity. For eighteen years he was chained by the leg to the floor of Lis celL S'mce 184S he has been allowed much liberty, being harmless. Eighteen sheriffs have gone in and out of ofce while Billy was a prisoner. Four ex-sherriffs will serve as pall-bearers at his funeral, and the entire bar will attend. Billy was about SO years old, and was bom in England, but beyond this nothing is known of his early history. Just before he died he eaUed for his mother, saying "Dear mother." This was the only time he was ever known to refer in any way to anyone connected with his childhood. Hardly has the beaaty of the book-store wi adowa with their varieA splcadoar of Qutataaas cards, become fmmi"*ir to us be- foca good St. NidKdM is co Jipelled to give plaoa to one who ia jnst as familiar to every anaâ€" good St. ValflBtine. Whila tho fonaer hMthe team of reindeers, the latter has no companion but a little cherub with a bow and arrows, who has woonded more hearts and set them throfaing wildly than any othi er mythical god in ancient or modem history. The stocks of valentines have been disfdayed in theshop windows, and many a coy maiden has stood before them perplexed to think which might be sent to her, while at the same time her little fingers were feeling the coins in her pocket, and inwardly wonderins which would be the sweetest, the nicest and the most appropriate to send to him she loves the best. How many y jun^ ladies have looked forward to the 14th with im- patience. What a beautifully foolish old custom this is of sending valentines, to be sure It may tend to make Po(t-office clerks and delivery men profane, but how many bright eyes are the brighter, and happy hearts the happier for it BEHOLD tHB LITTI 15 KAIDBN receiving it from the postman, who looks at her shyly, while she tries to appear uncon- scious that the billet in her hand is a valen- tine. Behold her hide it in her bosnm and fly at the first opportunity to the sacred in- ner temple of ner own room, and if one might be permitted to follow her there he would see a sight. She would open it and adnure it and if it was from the right one maybe she would kiss it. Girls will bs foolish over these things; you know, and Valentine's day, like Christmas, comes but once a year. She feels it is a little tri- umph, a pretty little conquest, and that valentine will be stored away in that mys- terious little receptacle which contains all that she cherishes most, and every article in which is a chapter in the beautiful story of her heart. And some day in thit shad- owy future that is yet to come she will show it to her children and cry over it, just a little. She may never have received a valentine before, she may never get one again, but that fcolifh little nothing of a valentine WILL M.^RK A Sl'OT on the road she travelled when a girl, where there were nothing but roses, and birds, and a smiling sky. Perhaps sue will teep it on the parlor table, so that she may en- joy the exquisite pleasure of being teased by the other girls about it. Who knows indeed what she will do with i.? Perhaps she will put it in a fresh envelope and send it to one she loves better. It's hard to say If some young lellows who are much addicted to sending valentines only kuew what became of tncm, they would straight-way become wieer and sadder men. The ivalid sister will get one from, her brother on the sly, for he knows that it will flush her pale cheek and set her »andering into fairy land. Perhaps one boy will send one to his mother just tor a joke, and then giggle the secret out be- fore night. How many girls will take a deep and awful revenge on truant lovers by sending them those hideous caricatures that the small boy admires so much I When one looks into the shop windows he wonders where they â- will all go, and if he hasn't money en.jugh to bny one he will call the whole thing a nuisance and pity the post men. ^111 tm I I ' Teaâ€" Its Varieties, Ao. In rep'y to the questions of a corres- pondent, the .American Cultivator says that arranged in the order of their excellence, the different kinds of tea are as follows: The Green teas are Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young H,sson, Hyson, Hyson-skin and Twankay; the black teas are Pekoe, Souchong, CoDgoji and Bohea. Hyson con- sists of leaves gathered in the Spring; Young Hysoii, of leaves collected in tie early pait of the same season. Gunpowder is a more carefully picked Hyson, the best rolled and rounded leaves beins' selected. Hyson-skin is the refuse of Hyson. Pekoe consists of the plant gathered early in the Spring, and is sometimes called "White- blossom tea," from li»ving mixed with it, to give it a higher pei fume a few blossoms of a species of olive, a native of China. The inferior qualities are made, as in the case of Hyson, from the second, third and fourth crops. For green teas, the leaves are heat- ed in shallow pans over a brisk wood firs almost immediately after they are gathered. They are then thrown upon a table and rolled with the hands. Lastly, they are put again into the pan. and quickly dried, being kept in rapid motion by the hands of the workmen. Thus prepared, they are of a dullish green color, but become brighter afterwards. For black teas, the leaves are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered. They are then tossel about until they become soft and yielding, then they are thrown into heaps, and allowed to lie for about an hour, or a little longer, undergoing a slight fermentation. After- ward they are rolled upon a table, in the form of a ball, the object being to get rid of a part of the moisture, and at the same time to twist the leaves; and after being roasted in the pans, and exposed to the sun and air for a few hours, they are dried slowly over charcoal fires. The produce of different districts varies in quantity and flavor with the climate, the soil and the variety of the tea-plant cultivated, as well as with the period at which the leaves are eathered, and with the mode of drying them. An extraordinary security was offered by a man who recently advertised in a Berlin newspaper for a loan. The advertisement ran as toUews â€" " A medical student whose means are exhausted would like to meet with some one who would advence him the necessary sum to complete his studies at a moderate rate of interest. If necessary he would as a guarantee at once marry his creditor's daughter, or, if he prefers it, would give an undertaking to do so on pass- ing his examination." Experienced lumbermen say that the supply of wj^ut is rapidly diminishing, •land that fully three-fourths of the good stock throughout the country has been con- sumed within the last ten years. f 1 I i ' 'i' i I •- f. V :r-* i â- : .hi â- .{ â-  i-'i-' i "fall' â-  Ji â-  â-  X mKUi