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 u w t •i I v-t Borneo utd Jnliot In the K«*t-lIiUion- aire Widows of FliUkdelpUa. BmaU-Talk for tke l«dle»â€" ClUt-Clial. „, „» ., look I-dT T».l.. 8.**rrf. I ;|5."i»f„«^«J^'J^^^,'^S' jored. w«v« A St LoniB woman never deepa, U »^»»» Am Sastem Iiove Tale. The story of Joseph and Zuleykha, says The Gentleman's Magazine, is the ideal love tale of the east. The loves of Khusru and Shirin, and of Leyla and Mejnun. are in- deed famous in Peisian romance, and the poets of the sweetest of eastern tongues never weary of recounting the sorrows and joys of these heoric lovers. But even their moving histories cannot compete with the love of Zuleykha in the affection of the multitude. She and Joseph are the ideals of woman's love and manly beauty to the Persian; they, aie, with a difference, the Juliet and Komeo of the east. More thn. this, with the mystical poets of the Sufifl, who were ever seeking for analogies be- tween the passions of this life and the holier emotions of the soul, Zuleykha is the type of the yearning of the human heart for the iTieffable beauty of the Creator; and the woes and vicissitudes of the Egyptian princess are emblematic of the weary struggles of the soul in its search for that union with the Universal Spirit which is the end and aim of the Persian mysticism. The ardor of supplicating Zuleykha and the cold purity of Joseph represent the eager- ness of the soul and the inexorable demands ot God, who will have naught but a perfect service. This double character has given the romance an unrivalled hold upon Per- sian poets. Whether aa the history of hu- man passion, or as the symbol of the yearn- ing of the soul for the infinite beauty, the story of Joseph and Zaleykha was equally attractive to the half-sensual, half-mysticai spirit of the Persian post, and there is no theme that has received so many tributes from singers of the most diverse orders. To the present day a "second Joseph" is th^ highest title by which beautiful youth can be praised, and the love of Zcleykha is the eastern ideal of woman's passionate devo- tion. The romance has the additional merit of religious authority, lor it is recounted at great length in the Koran, and Mohammed does not tear to call it a "most excellent story." As told in tha Koran, however, Zuleykha is merely what we know by the name of Potiphar's wile; in Persian poetry she is idealized into something very differ- ent. The character of this eastern heroine a3 drawn by Jami, in the beautiful poem which Mr. Griffith has recently translated into charming' English verse.is purified from the coarser elements which the Biblical nar- rative coutains. By subtle indications of motive and arrangements of the circum- stances the purity of Zaleykha ii upheld in the face of apparently conflicting facts, and thu tiual imprciiion of the whole character which is left upon the mind is entirely noble and womanly. It is strange that so beautiful a poem lias never before been translated as a whole, into English. certain kind swarm* j!i«t now wHh b8^ " struck girls and frisky matrons, determmea to obtain fame with a rush, and obrtmateiy inclined to believe that they can do in an hour what it costs others years of }*°°^^ accomplish. They are suirounded ny swarms of injudicions friends, who take theatres for them, pack the house, and im- portune the critics as a favor to waste their mornings over the teeble maundenngs ol these flattered maidens or exciteable grass widows. But there is some conscience ev^ in critics. Irritated by loss of time and bored to death with pretentious women, they occasionally tell the truth in the interest of their employers and the public, whereupon there is a dismal howl in fashionable draw- ing-rooms, and the wretched critic is imme- diately ostracized. Acting ladies, in my opinion, should be severely left alone. There is co pleasing them or their friends. twinty-twohonrsaday. and dotw » ^tie ' She is strong, healthy, «»d ^obe- fortwo hoars. •:!«_«, has a good appetite. A '"do"®'.„ „ x,« ^28 to a lodge wishes to marry her. aa he Sks she wouldn't complain of b«»«« k«P* awake waiting for his commg homo. A who has been married once ought to know better than that. curiosities ol tHe BaUway Cemms. According to the raUwsy census return there were 1,165 companies, bav A Neat Rejoinder. A Washington letter says that Miss Bay- ard is not only very pretty but exrtemely bright. She was the young lady who aston- ished Oscar Wilde by her own repartee to his patronizing remarK: "Are you going to the German, Mr. Wilde?" she asked, the night ofhis lecture there. "Yes," drawled the iesthetic, "If my lecture doesn't fatigue me too much. Are you going,Mis3 Bayard. "Yes, if your lecture doesn't fatigue me too much." A TeU-Tale Mark. A severe lesson was taught at a New York party to society men who carry the crush hat in round dances in place of gloves or a handkerchief. A young man who had his monogram embroidered in the lining of his hat in large blue letters danced with a young lady who wore a light-colored satin dress. After the dance astonishing results appeared. A circle of black had appeared on the creamy satin, surrounding a large monogram ot the letters "A. P. Li.. and the young lady was compelled to be thus branded the remainder of the evening. CHIT-CHAT. Millionaire Widows. Philadelphia, according to The- Record of that city has a good list ol lady niilhunair es. Mrs. Thomas A. Scott leads off with at least $10,000,000. Mrs. BloonUeld H. Moore is near the top of the ladder. Her husband's personal estate was valued at §5,500,000, and this, besides his other investments, leaves the lady in possession of an immense income. Mrs. Anna W. Baiid and Mrs. -Mattiiuw Baldw.n, both of whose husbands were in the celebrated Baldwin locomotive works, are worth §2,000,000 each. Mrs. Adolph E. lioire is a millionaire in her own right. When the late George Fales died his personal estate was worth over $2,000,- 000, and his wife and daughter divided this as well as hia other possessions. Two daughters of Henry Rawle were left §1,000,- 000 each by their mother, which is a good start for young ladies and is likely to draw attention to them. One of the lady attend- ants at the Church of the Epiphany drives to the house of worship in a modest car- riage. Her income is §260,0UO a year. If men make the money and women do spend it, a list of tie various charieties about the city show s that the ladies know whore to put it so that it will do tome good to others. A Xrick Flayed A Bridal Fair. The Fund du Lac Journal teUs the fol- lowing story at the expense of some Milwau- kee parties: About twenty pears ago oc- curred a wedding in this city, upon a grand scale. lu the course of the evening a guest suggested that cne of the wedding-cakes be sealed in a tin box and be kept until the marriage of the bride and groom's first-born. One of the most delicious cakes was selected and sent to a tin-shop with the proper in- structions. As may be supposed, the tinners yearned for that cake; and sooe it was divid- ed and found its way to their stomachs. The tin box which had been prepared for its reception, was then filled with water-soak- ed ashes, carefully sealed, and sent to the blushing young couple, who, remembering what was expected of them and their pros- pective offspring, took it tenderly in charge, and have a^ce guarded it well. In course of time a son was bom to them, who is now 19 years ola, and, it is said, will ere long be married. It will be an amusing sight when that box is solemnly brought before the guests, its little romance related, and the seal of years broken in the presence of the company. The consternation may well be imagined when he of the can-opener suddenly drops his instrument and exclaims, with the disappointed lover in "Hazel Kirke," "Nothing but ashes I " The parties reside in Milwaukee, and are doabtless re- membered by many citizsns of Fond du Lac. If congress adjourns without reducing the duty on false hair the women of this country will never forget it. The goddess of liberty is about the only American woman who isn't looking forward to a new spring bonnet. It is said that rats immediately disappear from the house as soon as a young lady be- gins taking lessons on the piano. The question is asked us if there is any- thing that will bring youth to women Y'es there is. An income of say $2,000 will bring any number of them. "No kiss," he said, pleadingly, "no kiss from my darling to-night?" "No!" she said emphatically; "no kissâ€" I hear there's mumps in your family." A girl just returned to Hannibal, Mo., from a Boston high school, said upon seeing a fire engine at work: "Who would evah have dweamed such a vewy diminutive-look- ing apawatus would hold so much wattah? " When a fellow gets a letter for his wife out of the poatolfice and he forgets to give it to her for a week or so, the safest way of letting her have it is to tie it on the end of a long fishing-pole and poke it through a window to her. Angela's father wrote to Adolphus that^his presence at the house was not especially desired; but Adolphus would not take the hint, and was helped out by the paternal boot. Moral â€" No letter is complete without a foot-note. "No, sir," she said, with emphasis on the sir, "my husband won't be a candidate for the legislature next year. He has learned more deviltry during the few weeks he has been in Bo3ton than ever before in all his born days." A sober Philadelphia omnibus came near upsetting, and the possible victims, with one exception, threw up hands of protesting leverage. The exception sat motionless. "How could you be so calm " "My dear, my gloves are a misfit." "Why don't you eat like you do to home?' said the rural bridegroom to his bride at the table d'hote, as she nibbled this and tasted that in her embarrassment; "them folks over there don't pay no more'n we do, and you are a goose to be afraid,"' A Cincinnati woman had her husband ar- rested for abusing her, but the man was discharged upon proving that she used to back him up in the corner several times a week and beat him with a broom-handle. When the broom-handle broke and hit her in the eye she considered herself frightfully abused. The loving mother loves to see her little boy make great progress in writing, and is pleased to see him give her samples of his writing at home â€" except when he does so with his finger on a window pane. Then all that pride and love was turned into â€" Mr. Webster hasn't got any word in his diction- ary that will fit here. for 1^80. i*ucio wvx** *,*vw 1 -- .. i^g. in round numbers, 85,000 miles of rail- wlya in operation in thiacountry-an aggre^ gate almo^ equal to a track extendmg four times round the world. „„„ „«-r The cost of this gigantic system was near- ly five thousand six h'lndredandsix^ymil. lions of doUars. ot which about two-fifths has been paid for and the compmies are m debt for the balance. In the good time conung, when the enormous debt of oyer t^^ee thou- sand millions of dollars is paid off. and the interest thereon ceases, it is probable that railway speeds wiU be improved, travelling rendered safer, and the charges for freight and passage reduced. The «ortality upon our railways is fright- ful to contempbite. According to thecensus returns, the killed and maimed for the sin- gle year of 1880 formed an aggregate ol 8 215 persons. If the companies were com- pelled by law to pay an average of ^fy five thousand doUars for every person killed or injured, only a short time would elapse, pro- bably, before this dreadful account would be reducedalmosttonothing. There are very few railway accidents that might not be prevent- ed it real care were exercised and the best safe-guards adopted. The passage of a law subjecting every company to the payment of a substantial fine for every accident that takes place upon its property would doubt- less stimulate the managers to give more at- tention to the safety of life and limb than they do at present. r 4.u The demand upon our inventors for the discovery of anew and better means of sav- ing life and preventing accidents upon rail- ways increases every year, in a ratio even greater than the augmentation of tracks, be- cause the population is more rapidly increas- ing, and the present railways are not em- ployed at anything like their full capa- city. The freight carried in 1880 was two hun- dred and ninety-one millions of tons, for which the railways charged $1.29 per ton per mile, and made a profit of 53 cents per ton per mile. The number of passengers earned was two hundred and seventy millions, for which they each paid an average of 2.33 cents per mile, and the companies made a profit of 0-62 cents per mile. If the passengers are counted by weight, allowing 14 passengers to the ton, then the receipts of the compan- ies for their two-legged freight was $32.62 per ton per mile and their profit was $8.68 per ton per mile. This large profit when set opposite to the small amount of 53 cents profit per ton realized from dead freight, seems to indicate that a great field is open to the genius of railway managers in devis- ing ways and means to encourage tha people to travel. The haulage of our railways now employs over seventeen thousand locomotives, and the aggregate cost to run them, such as fuel, water, oil, repairs, and engineers, is about ninety millions of dollars, or not far from five thousand dollars a year for each ma- chine. The item of fuel alone is thirty-three millions of dollars. The larger portion of the fuel is wasted much of it is blown out of the smoke-stack unconsumed in the form of smoke and dust. There is a grand chance for inventors to improve the locomotive by discovering means to lessen its wastes and expenses. The same remarks apply to th« other branches of the railway rolling stock, consisting of twelve thousand passenger cars and about four hundred thousand freight cars. In the year 1880 it cost the railway companies fifty-five millions of dollars tor repairs for rolling stock. Is it not possible for inventive genius to study out some new mode of construction that shall reduce this enormous loss. â€" Scientific American. 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Q WHITNEY, Eitate jAjjent- 25 Toronto-st. Toronto. mine Acting Ladles. "Chicken and Champagne," indeed ex- claims the London TrtUh. I have received a note from a dramatic critic, who discloses a troly miserable state of affairs. He says that scarcely a week passes but an attempt is made to "get at^him" in favor of some irrepressible and incompetent amateur who considers himself a Ixnm genios, and who has not hesitated to engage a London theatre to show bow utterly incompetent ahe is to understand Juliet, to re«i PtoliBe, Miss Phcebe Cozzens is lecturing on "The Correction of Certain Mistaken Motions Regarding Eve." It appears that the story that Eve began to cry and threatened to go go home to her mother because Adam re- fused to buy her a $3,000 sealskin sacque in the early days of their honeymoon, is a weak invention of the enemy. "I notice," said one Austin lady to an- other, "that at our social gatherings you are always the last one to leave." "f know it," was the reply, "but I have an object in view." "What is it?" "I want to pre- vent the rest of you from slandering me." "Oh, you mean thingi you never like to see your friends enjoy themselves." A young physician informed a pretty lady patient, who was suffering fron chronic sore throat, that the only sure cure for it was a beard. "That's of no interest to me," she replied. "I've get no beard." "True," he replied gallantly, " but you can use mine as often as yon want to. " They were married a few months later. A bark that arrived in Xew York a few days ago reported that three of the sailors washed overboard one day by a heavy sea, and the retnm swell swept them back onto the vessel again. That might hare easily reoftlls tha inoidoit of a girl who fell onVof a fontth-story window, and Morsels for Sunday Contemplation. Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Everybody is willing to take religion when he has got out of the world all it can give him. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Scandal is what one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing, and the other half equal pleasure in believing. It is not enough to have reason; it is spoilt, it is dishonored, by sustaining a brusque and haughty manner. The man who is in the wrong uses hard words and soft arguments, while tie man who is in the right uses soft words and hard arguments. He lives longest of all who looks back oftenest, whose life is most populous of thought or action, and on every retrospect makes the vastest picture. We are natural believers. Truth or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us. We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things; all worlds are strung on it, as beads; and men, and events, and life come to us, only becauss of that thread; they pass and repass, only that we may know the direction and contmuitv of that line. ' Romance is none the less true because it 18 BO common. We should not scorn ro- mance because aU people may have it, any more than we should scorn color because everybody else can see. If the dukes and pnncesses may have romance, and the kitchen maid and the garbage man have a airtation at the back gate, it only XwJ that romance u as necessary a part ot human me as food and sleep. S5.000.000 AQENTS-IN EVERY COUNTY IN ON- tarioâ€" to sell a necessary and profitable article â€" send three cent stamp for particulars. Address L. B. CLEMENS. Waterloo. WORTH OF FARMING and other property in Ont- ario for sale by the CANADA WEST LAND AGENCY COMPANY, U Adclaide-st East, Toronto. S end for li st T~ HOSB WISHING^TOTdSPOSE OF OR purchase a business cf any description in the city or elsewhere should call or send parti- culars to C. J. PALIN, 53 and 55 King-street K»8t,lToronto. ^uai neae Agent and Valuer.. \rORK FARMERS' COLONIZATION CO., JL Limited, Theflratparty of settlers under the leadership of Mr. Boake, will leave for the •olony about 20th March inst. For Tickets and full information apply to JAS. ARM- STRONG, Managing Director, 1 Victeria-St., Toronto. LADIES BEWARE ^ifs'l^^SS corsets will not break, or lose their shape. Wear corsets made by Crompton Corsct Co. Toronto. CANADA LUMBER Thepresident ol Tnfts CoUege was recent- )y made a happy father, andthefoUo^g mommg at prayer m the chapel he intro- troduced this rather ambigo^ sentonc* • " ^^e ti««k Thee. O iSrd. foftoe sue: cor Thorn hast given us." which cans«i a general smile to eroep oyer the faeee «f the Use " Teaberey " an^ ,. Your Teeth becoS J*'^. 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Their Magnificent Is without »W|»A in iieDon^j;^ to this Est»i*IAfc*' Y^'LTv ii^\ intendins' with a call. immense s Jewelry, Musical Glasses, plain figuri sold at the WHOLI 168 YONift' ,r who inay Vatciesi â-  .0 cioCR SpecW*-. All ted asl IpOKibld P.S.â€" s Watch and J»w€3ry ,miBio»'.I well m