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 'iWif- r^St 9 east be wdL**» f reliance ' "^yT a^rda the root • k grows out of ^1 -;t, brotherl°/,iVi :. *o remain ovw J Dr. Fowler's Sd ear at hand. Th,^*i ;fg-anjedyabo^ve?^ --^ivo, ioronto. I R. SALE-5 RUNsfnJ power, flrst-claas m 1 'n.G.T.R. close b?^*^ Oit^SALE^ZT~Rinl oronto. "aAt^ ME AL MlLLPoR-vm 3r power, machine^ n work, sub8tantiai J '.S?ni?ection; price, 17,3 ^TOoH PETERS,' S ALE-3 RUN^STRl f Si.OOO population Si r annum, and local frj ;.p,_switchtomill:Dri .dviNTOSHPET^ SAbE-3RUN-STl puruierandallnecea lant and (rrisiine tr 3rice. S3,00O, hafi :TE RS, Tor ontg R SALE-2~RUNI; pwer, firat-claascompu mga of tenandsixroofl good local trade, thl L), half cash. JVIACKll irontq, ;ST~MrLL FOK SAL iwer, doing over 3C 1 very favourable ter. en annual instalment! est, MACKINTOSH vn, 200 acres, near uthern Railway. Choil 3d. JOHN LEYS, Bil order by letter. lERCHANTS. d Cream is warraBb tor Pimple*. â- â- ' I'n.olghtly ErBp«w k. It positively erw 3 1 ions in a few dayi nd unblemished, un- arst case, no niMWr " beautifying the con effectually «"»"^j smooth, and rMwra ural purity and bearo^ commended by-pny^ Price one doUarJ*^ r mailed in plain WWR ress on receipt of Wl for Canada. ^fY St. Catharines, uni :change, AurfJ iesdale StalU«g»^. These aWJSSab ' of John ^KJ^ will be f orsaJ* w JT m the le«'i^ mares. J^J^n P ACER CO" " 3, Montreal. ^i-aBJM^'s cobnkr. priy Greens for Next SprlsK. .„ markets in the early part of '"â- , pften in a miJd spell in winter, ..gieeus," and there is do reason " ^,°ui,i not be equally abundant *** • „„ Where the meat served is "' tent salted, green vegetables «»' acceptable, but necessary to tin Kbhaeeis for many so indigestible, „t be eaten, and where this dif- ° not exist, a variety is always Spinach, the most delicate and ' /dltbe ^â- egetable8 used as greens, A on any good farm land, and Httle troublei The soil bting well ooes le. ileol liflised on I"'/, 'JjjVuse of the plow and harrow. If'?* .:Ci„«Ti_ini.h rlri)ls_ and artnr t.ho ijp gfteen- inch drills, and sow the llr thickly, covering it with about â-  h of soil- ^^^ roller, or pat the '"firmly 'W'ith the hoe or back of the some carefully go over the rows J down the soil over them. The â- '1 =oou bring up the flants they will râ„¢,1Iv and be large enough to gather 'S«r f"" October. For use at â-  ' ;-;lie plants. Lcut out at intervals, using For use at this where they are thickest, a stout ,;eaviDg the remainder room to grow. py [he winters are severe, scatter straw, 'rother litter between the rows, and 'cover the plants. As soon as the thaws, cuttings may be made, and if hue so as to thin the plants a second ,i,e reft will grow all the larger, and 10 use later. " Sproutr," as it is a the market, is a variety of kale, a (that does not head. This is cultivat- tlie same manner as spinach. If a finds that he has more epinach than consumed at home, a few barrels of lectwith a rtady sale at the nearest preparing Fruit for Market. Ifinners are cheats," we lieard a city Jjuark the other day. " 1 do not buy It of strawberries that has not the 1 biggest on top, and when the peach J comes, I get a dozen or two of fine L at the top, while the rest of the J fined with small, green and gnarled ftieyare all cheats." The very next lifter hearing this remark, we were jthe fruit commission houses, and in riace saw seme young men, who had iseveral crates of berries t peddle. fijd a lot of smaller baskets, to which llMsferred the berries from the larger lliey had bought, and as they filled I they topped them with the largest pfith surprising dexterity. We con- (that all the cheating, in strawberries ;, was not done by the farmers. That fa much " deaconing " (the market I !or topping) of peaches and other I we do not doubt, yet the tendency is other direction. Take peach- Jus, for example, those who are regular- ise business, and expect to continue it, \m make their brand upon a crate or Itaiuarantee of honest packing. This inpon at all the meetings of peach- i; only recently we received the ittions of a fruit-growers' society in |iCaro!ina, in which this point, honest (g, was dwelt upon at great length. katyis the best policy," is not a pro- lofthe highest moral tone, as it implies Jit pays to be honest, but the peach- Jmre willing to adopt it. In packing B. the first point should be to assort king as many grades as the cond- |Mthe fruit requires. When brought I packing shed, the fruit is at once ijipread in the shade, in order that it Itoolas much as possible. In assorting, I'iiiatareat all soft are put aside, to be la kome then two or three qualities, firsts and seconds, are made, and liJe best growers, the packages of each l«ike all through. It is allowable to m colored sides of the top layer upper- fin order that the fruit may appear at fst, but not to select large specimens Tif top layer. Those who send peaches Bket for the first time, will find it to [Jdvmtage to observe this rule. In gsrapes for market, the box is open- ftoe bottom, fine large bunches are laid Ptiebox filled up with smaller bunches. I^iioiie in order that the fruit, when PP 18 taken off, may present a good ap- ^te, and if the filling is done with good Mi'enifnot the most select, there is Ndone, But if, as is sometimes the [iwrly ripened fruit, and even loose pare used to fill up, the grower will f'lmd that his brand is not in denMBid ficirket. The fruit-grower, who^x- r* continue in the busicess, cannot '*rd to pack his fruit dishonestly. Saving Seed Cora. f growing of good, sound seed corn, ' '" yield a maximum crop, properly » year beforehand in the shaping of iwacter of the seed. Therefore select rw for ISS-t and 1SS5 from the ears growing in the field, and give it J^^fs. As a rule, any thrifty larmer L' 7'^er seed than he can buy, and it «;nh;s programme everyyearto give "al atttntion to the growing of his Wcorn. There is money in it. The n yield of Indian corn for the whole fjisnot far irom twenty-five bushels to Kli^" '°*^1 yield sometimes reaches â- â€¢^^n seven hundred million bushels. J wst husbandry, which means J' Sood soil, manure and tillage, it ^fflcnlt tn raise seventy-five bushels ^.^' If fine, sound seed corn, with a ^^^*' would add only ten per cent. ttJ • ^^^^ ^^°P' it would increase ^yield one hundred and seventy "^ahels, worth eighty-five million ' kl'" thinking larmer must see '^leed '"°'^^y interest in securing «ta. Râ„¢' ^^^ '° knowing just what H, f ^^ IS suffering loss every year, utotlâ„¢ ^^°" °^ 1^**1" *™®'y **â-  ,(j^,5"'8 matter. He uses unsound • H«tl seed, selects Irom the com j'^t he can find, or borrows frwn a .M careless as himself about the [Mhefi ,?"s. A part of iLe coru mat • ^^^ lie has to plant over, ^^ «xtra expense. The late *ifef,^. IS caught by the frost, and '•*! thi* 1.*'^* ^^^S^ proportion of i»*(ll '^^ harvests. The stover is â-  ^i»T^^ ^°' foddar, and the cattle "liiich i "'°y ""^^s- Heredity counts rm m, " vegetable as in animal life. ' «ter Its kmd, with the normal feea com, as they stand upon the italfe captr Vt S«P^-^-Per^ect^*^5i TA^ ^^"" "^y *^ identified, and letthem mature upon the stock. Toiiake sure of perfect drying, hang th«m u?in bunches upon the south side of a huUding or m a well ventilated loft, or roomvrS:h i fire in It. The perfect drjdng of seed corn jsanim^rtantitem. Thf corn .Sd not be shelled untUthecob is ttoroughtly dried. \^ hen you are ready for phnting, Mar th; seed com mto a vessel of water, andskim off to the bottom ot the water is the best, and with suitable conditions of soilimd climate will generate and bear fruit after its kind. Oom yields very kindly to all inteUigent ettorts to increase its productiveness and im- prove Its quanty. By Ee!ec^ing ears from stai^ that bear two or more ears, you can increase the number of ears. By selectmg ears of twelve or tr-v, --^v,_ vcu can in- crease the number ot kernels upon the cob always provided that you give the cor^ plant food enough to do its bet in the har- vest. Fermers who look carefully after their seed corn,: and raise fOienty-five bushels to the aorife, do not doubt that it is a paying crop,â€" ^n|.rjca» AgncuHuti t. .^A mmmm adlan PeasJants. The French-Canadian peasants are gener- ally rather small, but sturdy, muscular, well-knit. They are dull-looking, but their rather heavy faces are not animal and coarse. Even the young women are very seldom pretty, but they are all wholesome, modest, and unaffected. As thty advance in life they become «tout, and reach old age with a comfortable and placid expression. The beauty of the race seems to be confined to the children, who are bright, robust, and cherubic. Thus the people are externally unprepossessing, but the more I study them, the more I like them for the quiet courtesy and perfect simplicity of their manners, and their hospitality and unfailing kindness. Several types of Canadians were there, each standing as a page of the country's his- tory. There was the original Canadian, the peasant of Normandy and Brittany, just as he was when first landed on the shores of the St. Lawrence over ^two hundred years ago he has kept his material and mental traits with such extraordinary fidelity that a Canadian travelling now in those parts of Prance seems to be meeting his own peop'e. Ue is a small, muscular man of dark com- plexion, with black eyes, a round head, r;athcr impervious, and an honest face, rather Heavy with inertia. He sums up the early days of C^anada, when endurance and courage of no ordinary stamp were required to meet the want, the wars, and the hardships of their strugi^le. And his phenomenal con- servatism was not a wbit too strong to pre- serve his nationality after the conquest of Canada by a race having entirely opposite 'tendencies. There also was the Canadian with Indian blood he is by no means a feeble element in the population, in either numbers or influence. He is often well marked with Indian features â€" high cheeks, small black eyes, and slight beard. The most characteristic specimenb are called " petits brules," liked burned stumps, black, gnarly, and angular. But now and then you meet large, fine-looking half-breeds, with a swarthy complexion warmed with Saxon blood. There were no women of low character sent to Canada in the early days, as there were to New Orleans and the Antilles the few women who came suflficed to marry only a small portion of the colon- ists, so that many of the gallant Frenchmen, and later some of the Scotch and English, engaged in the fur trade, married squaws, and founded legitimate families ot half- breeds. Thus Indian blood became a por- tion of the national body; and the national policy of alliance and religions union with the savages helped the assimilation of Indian traits as well as of Indian blood. There was also the Saxon who bad became a Gaul. There are Wrights, Blackburns, MoPhersons, with blue eyes and red hair, who can not speak a word of English and there are Irish tongues rolling off their brogue m French. " Some of these strangers to the national hody are descendaftts of those Eng- lish soldiers who married Canadians and set- tled here after the conquest. Others are or- phans that were taken from some immigrant ships wrecked in the St. Lawrence. But these stragglers from the conquering race are now conquered, made good French Catholics, by the force of their environment, and they are lost as distinctive elements, absorbed in the remarkable homogeneous na- tionality of the French-Canadian people. The finest type of Canadian peasant is now rare. He is a descendant of the P-^neer no- bles of France. After the conquest (l/brf) some of these noble families were too poor to follow their peers back to France they became farmers; their facilities for educa- tion were very limited, andtneir descend- ants soon sank to the level of the pe^^^J^V about them. But they have not forgott«i their birth. They '^^«°?"°*°""e Kth with features of marked character, ^fj'^^ much of the pose and a.gnity of courtie s Some of them, stiU preserving the trad i lions of their sires, receive you 't'^JJ^ manners a prince might have when m rough disguise.-C. H. Fabnham. m Harpers Magazine for August. A Pimster's Narrow «so«pe. " Mr. Blifkins, I do wish you would give nn that abominable practice of ?«'»«"»«• s£d the good Old " lady to ^er old maS, at br^fast the other rnormpg.'Yoa don't like punning, my d^^'^^^^J^J^ ea? .H"?-*" fjf'J'dnndertheend of oughly exasperated woman. i: doth- to "'• .iSS^rf^ Mi»i»i^ ujg of any kind. fm hdme and dinnrar the other -day, wl^a stranger entered and inttodaced him^lf u Jolm LindeA. wd added " I presQine yon are a smart man, or you *P««dB t be holding this poaitkm. I ^raiit to ask yon a question or two. You own ti horse V ^•' No, sir." •• Don't, eh If yon did own one, and he °^„»yâ„¢P*eoSjof poll evil, what wonld you "J *^*°' **"» " I *â„¢ pst going to din- '• Yes, I know, but I've another question or two Was Cleopatra a married woman " "I don't know, sir." "Don't you? That's bad, for I've a bet ?^\, ®® to one that yon knew all about it. Well, we 11 let that pass. Do you think that Shakspeaie lived happily with his wife, and 18 there any truth in the rumor I heard up on Michigan avenue half an hour ago that he hated cats ' » " What do I know about these things 1" exclaimed the official. " I am in a hurrv. sir f •' " Si am I, but wait a minute more. Let's see 1 Oh, yes, I wanted to ask you if it would be ot any use to try to revive a person who had been drowned three days " "No, sir " Shouted the officml. " Wouldn't, eh Sorry for that, for I have a bet of ten to five that it would be. Sit down a minute while I ask you another question. Do you believe that maternal instinct descends to fish worms?" " I believe you are a crank, sir, and " ' ' You do, eh Then I win a bet of twenty CO five, and will never cease to be grateful. History tells us of the youth " " I am going home 1" " Certainly, and I'll walk up street wita you. History tells us of the youth who fired the Ephesian dome." " I don't careâ€" I don't care s cent, sir " "Yes, but what was his name, and was the dome insured Did the fire department come out, and was the youth arrested on charge of incendiarism I want your decis- ion." "Go away â€"go offâ€" I don't wan't you " shouted the official as he tried to out-walk the other. " You know, don't you?"' "No, sirâ€" no, sir â€" go 'way from me " " You don't Then I lose a double-bar- relled shot-gun on a bet that yon did. One more question." The official rushed for a car and entered it, but the man welked along beside it and looked through the window and said ' What is meant by the term ' spontaneous outburst?' I have frequently seen it in print, and I thought I'd ask you to explain." A silver half-dollar changed hands in the car, and a broad-shouldered laborer jumped out and spit on his hands and ran the iofor- mtion-seeker into a hardware store, where he bad no sooner recovered his breath than he said to the clerk who came forward "I've always thought if I ever got time to call in here I'd ask you if it was true that Henry VIII. invented Saratoga fried pota- toes " Cblnese Courtesies. The sallow Celestials who gave us " the best letter in the alphabet," who were of old the inventors of the co.npass, and who, even at the last splendid Paris Exhibition of 1878, astonished and humbled French ingenuity with a wheel-barrow such as no Paris work- man bad ever seen, altogether surpass us haughty Europeans, it seems, in the humili ties at least ot social courtesy, if we may judge from the specimens brought home by Mr. Cooper the English traveller. From these it would appear that the greatest po- liteness between Mongolian fashionables consists in addressing to your friend the most high-flown compliments, which he is expected to receive with a similarly exagger- ated humility. Mr. Cooper jotted down the following colloquy he overheard between a citizen of Ki-zan-ki and his friend Chang: â€" " How does the illustrious and most glorious Chang " " My miserable car- case is as well as can be expected. " "And where have you built your superb and mac- nificent palace " "My wretched mud-hut isatLuchan." "Your divinely beautiful family must have increased since we met?" " I have but five ugly, deformed brats." " f trust that the inestimably precious health of your exquisitely charming lady is all you could wish?" " Well, indeed, the disgust- ing old hag is full of health." After giving this specimen, we feel comment superfluous and improvement hopeless. M I a m ^^mm A Bnainess Son. "Yes, ther's a heap o' difference in boys," replied tie old man, as he tied up a bag of oats. "There's my son John, for instance. Everybody beats him in a boss trade, swindles him in the watch dicker, and leaves him out in the cold when he farms on sheers. He's goodhearted, buttber's no bizness about him. If I had to depend upon John I'd die in the poor house." He wrestled the bag aside, seized another, and continued: "And there was my son Philipâ€" keen as a razor â€" eyes wide open, and so sharp that no man in New Jersey dare offer him a paie of old boots lora ?303 boss for fear of being cheated." "Is he dead?" "Yes, he's gone and that was the sharpest trick of all. He found he'd got consuniption and what did he do but hunt up a life insur- ance agent, take out a $5,000 policy, give his note for the premium, and come home and fall off a load of hay and run a pitchfork clear through him. Some sons would have hung on and doctored around and wanted curr*nt jelly and chicken soup for eighteen months; but this wasn't Phil. No, sir. He didn't even ask for anything] better'n a $20 tombstone, and he said I needn't git that unless the marblCiKsutter wonld trade even up for a blind c3iI."â€"WaU Street News. A Safe Xttdc. " I want to get my life insured for $10,- COO " said a southern editor to an insurance agent, " but, to be frank with you, I have accepted a chidlenge to fight a duel next week. If you care to take the chances yott can make out the policy at once.' " Who is the other man t" askea the agent, as be handed over the pikers and pocketed the preminm. He was toH, and when he went to bed that night he telt that the two policies issued that day were tte safeat naks be had ever accomplished. â€" RoeketUr Po^ Ex;pnu. Id tlM Angost^^cfMv, Mrs Kandacdt's iniwbraMd article 'Uiider die Olives," ocm- tata^'%eaide8 an i n ter estin g aceonat of the meAodvof ooltiTating it in Suope, the fol- lowii^( ngaiding oUve culture as an Ajmsia- can industry: "The olive has lately acquired fw Americans a new and practical interest from the discovery that it ean be be easily and profitable grown in Calif omia. Residents of California have been accustom- ed to consider a small bottle of ' Mission oil' iat their salad as a treasure f or it enrpasseo in purity and sweetness any im- ported uL But it is only within a few years that private owners of land in Southcum California haVe seriously considered the question whether olive culture could|^ be made a paying enterprise. So many possi- bilities cling to the broad lands and rich soil of the Golden State, that it is not won- derful if some of them have been overlooked. And, though experiments in olive growing have been made on a small scale with good success during the last twenty years, popu- lar interest is only now beginning to \f6 awakened. In the first place, there was the drawback, peculiarly great to the Amer- ican temperament, of the slowness of growth and irre;ular productiveness of the olive in Europe. The old Tuscan saying is, ' PUnt a vineyard for yourself, an orange grove for your children, And an olive orchard for your grandchildren.' As a people, we are not fond of looking far into the future and be- sides, judging from ourselves, we are not at all sure that our grandchildren will wish to live where we do. But the olive is good enought to adapt itself to the rapidity of American demands. It matures much earlier than in Europe, and bears oftener and more plentifully. The system of propagation from cuttings, as far as can be judged at present, gives, in our rich soil, robust trees; and there is no need to employ the slow process of raising them from the seed. Five years is surely not long to wait for a fruit crop and after that time, according to the best California authorities, the trees will yield a full, and in many cases an annual harvest. At a late meeting of the State Horticultural Society in San Francisco, it was stated that one olive farm yielded $2,200 to the acre. These trees bore every year, and were situ- ated on 'adobe' hill sides, the bottom lands being found, as in Italy, less favorable to the fruit. The variety was the 'Mission olive,' which has not teen identified with any of the varieties cultivated m Europe. The olive was introduced into South Amer- ica in 1560, by Antonio Ribera but the California trees sprang from trees sent from San Bias in Mexico by D jn Joeeph de Gal- vez with his expedition to rediscover the port of Monterey." Voonomy In Dress. An association, counting among its mem- bership some of the high born ladies of so- ciety, has receut'y been formed in London, whose le.-ding object is to influence public sentiment on the side of economy in dress. The term, of course, is a relative one. It is not to be supposed that its originators pur- pose to array themselves in prints or ging- hams or coarser materials, or to abandon the purchase and use of silk, satins, and velvets, or the delicate and beautiful, if somewhat costly, accessories which are at once the de- light and appropriate adornment of woman. No doubt it is too much to expect that wo- men of great wealth should sacrifice their own inclinations for what certain classes migh characterize as great extravagance simply to "set the fashion" for economy for those whose means will not permit them safely to indulge in the same direction. There is really very little to complain of in the so-called "extravagance" of ladies whose unlimited means enable them to dress al- ways in costly attire economy, then, is really to be preached only to those women who,, through envy, or vain desire to appear what they are not, bend every energy and make every sacrifice to compete with, if not to excel, their friends more favored of for- tune. 'This is folly and extravagance wluch needs a society with more eloquence, nerve and power than Providence has e%er yet vouchsafed to mortals for when a vain and fashionable woman, with an inward desire for luxury and display (sad be it to chron- icle !), once resolves to compete with her more wealthy women friends in dress and style, why tnen dynasties may fall, empires may crumble into dust, "societies" for the prevention of criminal extravagance may or- ganize, pass resolutions, and take "notes" to the end of the chapter, but rich raiment will that woman have while there is a dollar in the till. BeaneatUns Hla Heart. Kraszewski is a man of ample means, liv- ing in good style in his own villa in Dresden and besides the handsome income which his writings bring him, he receives large sup- plies from his son, who is one of the {,reatest contractors in Rassia. His villa is situated in one of those picturesque spots for which Dresden is famous, and the exterior alone shows the peculiar tastes of its owner, the balcony oucside bis study being fitted up as an aviary for doves, and the surrounding gardens beautifully laid out, in a great measure by his own hand. In his waiting- room numerous articles of vertu are scatter- ed about, most of which were presented to him on lus literary jubilee in 1879. In his study the walls are literally covered with landscapes, sketched by the poet himself during his long travels; and on the tables there are albums of caricatures with which he has amused himaeU in his leisure mo- ments. For some time past he has been op- pressed by some occasional fits of melancho- ly, during which he sits for hours and hours engaged in composing music. Before leaving 1 jr Pan, as with some presentiment of coniinij evil, he m^e a will, for the first time in bis lif^ in which he directed that his heart should be taken to Warsaw and deposited in the church where he received his first communion. â€" London Life. Texas has furnished some tall stories lately. A few months ago an account wati tel^^phed from that State of the fail of a mete(»nc stone which covered a whole acre of ground. ' Now we are informed that the skeletons of five persons have been foond sitting bolt uj^right in a carriage under a tree which had been stm by li^jhtninsr. Ugfatning plays so many steang« tncks that hardly any story ot its doings ean be too wm^oilnl for belicdT, but rmdeia of this Texan btwy are likely to be shy ot it fur a few days when they recall the metewic atoaeyam.| OAJUIKKXD wirricuKs. '^Aii. â-  â€" s. ...--r^T A tailfflr'B goose: The dnde. The sea shores are now cool and c!am-y. A picked nine The quart of early peaches. Tramps now use ths trade dollar for coat battens. A pivotal state is a good place to swing a boom. The elevat'on of the negro Lynching a colored man. It is the early water melon that citch^s the small boy. An up-town policeman named Crystal is always on the watch. The potato, with all it^ eyes, U the most susceptible of vegetables. It i! so easily mashed. Cowardly It was rather coivardly in the apoplexy to slirike a iictle felow like Tom Thumb. A citizen who lives at the end of an ele- vated line says there is at least one great advantage â€" he never get c -.rried beyond his station. Inveterate poker players may be both modest and sad. They iiave been known to show evidence of a flush, and sometimes to give out ace-high. "Ma, is Long Branc.i an awful ditty place?" " Why, no, my child â€" what made you think so " " Why, here's an advertise- ment that says it is washed by the tide tWxce a day." Soyer, the grest French cook, used to chew gaiiic and breath on a salad to give it a flavor. In America the boarders chew the salad awhile and then go to heal quarters and blow on the cQok. " Ma I" screamed a little boy on Lexing- ton avenue yesterday, " I ain't a going to play with Tommy Miller any more." "Ain't going to play with who " ' Tommy Mil- ler." "Why?" "'Cause he won't play with me." Explicit Scene â€" An humble country ho- tel. Male guest "I'd like to be called at 4 to-morrow morning I'm going fishing." "Female domestic (stupidly) "Eh?" Male guest (deliberately) " I'm going fishing to- morrow morning, and I wish to be called early â€" not later than 4." Female domestic (stolidly) " Will you ring?" Dissolute Hibernian •' Why don't I go to wurruk, is it ' Suie, it's a pithriot oi am an' is it meself that 'ud be afther wur rukin to help kapc the Saxon Not a bit av it Wudn't ye advoise me to go to Amerikcy, now " Industrious Hibernian " Well, I don't know that I would, Mickey. I don't owe the Yankees any grudge, d'ye see " I Somebody put a small mud-turtle, about the size of a silver dollar, in a bed at a new Jersey hotel, and the stranger who was as- sitined to that room, on preparing to retire, caught sight of it. He at once resumed his clothes, remarking "I expected to have a pretty lively nieiit of it, but if they're as big as that I don't propo:e to get in with 'em." " Compli-nentary "What sorter pic- tur' do you call that " asked an Arkansis farmer, pointing to a terra cotta bust of Charles Dickens. " That is a busc of Charles Dickens." " Intended to look like him, ain't it " " Oh, yes " " Wall, I can sympathize with him, for I lived in the swamps a long time myself. Zouns, how bilious he must have been when the thing was tuck." College students don't please as table waiters. When you call one a miserable jackass for spilling the soup down your back and giving you a salt-cellar filled with sugar, he of course can't answer back, as it is against the rules of the hotel, but he can say something to another waiter in Greek which you can't understand, but which you feel sure is horrible abuse of yourself, and it's awful maddening. -^ â€" .-^ Vioartons Benevolenoe. An editorial in the August Ceniur^ calls attention to the abuse of asking outsiders to do your own charity giving. It says: "It is beautiful to see how quickly the prompt- ings of this new kind of charity spring into the mind when any human need arise?. The first thought of most men seems to be not ' How much can we do towards relieving this need ' but rather 'How much can we get other people to do ' Each man begins to think of other men who can be induced to contribute each neighborhood looks, at once, beyond its own borders to other neighborhoods upon which it may confer the blessedness of bearing its burden°. Mr. Hale's motto, 'Look out and not in,' finds in this habit one of its most striking illustrations; for when there are contri- butions to b3 made the modern, phil- anthropist begins at once to look ouc fur contributors, and not to look iato his own pocket at all. "If there is a ^church debt to pay, a hospital to build, an orphanage to found, immediately the thoughts of those who stand nearest to the project, and who are to be most deeply benefited by it, are turned to distant places, inquiring how they may obtain this good thin? at the smallest possible cost to themselves. Those ben- evplent gentlemen who have had large ex- perience in the work of raising church debts testify that the people who have contract- ed th(S8 debts and are responsible for their payment are almost always well content to sit and wait, in the expectation that other people, somewhere and somehow, will^lift their burden forihem." ages of the oldest Tbe Ages of Royalty. The following statement of the various monarchs, ranged from to the youngest, may prove interesting: The Emperor of Grermany, aged S6 the King of the Netherlands, aged 66 the King of Denmark, aged 65 the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, aged 64 the King A Wurtembnig, aged 60; the Emperor of Brazil, a«ed 57 the King of Saxony, aged 55 the King of Sweden and Norway, aged 51 the Emperor of Austria, aged 52 the King of the Belgians, aged 48 the King of Pwtagal, aged 44 the King of Bonmania, aged 44; the Saltan of Turkey^ ued 40 the King of Italy, aged 39; the Emperor of Rasina, aged 38 the King ot Bavaria,'aged 37 tho King of the fidlenes, aged 37 the King of Servu. aged 28 and the Kiugjof ^•m, aged 2a. ^» .• I t i I %i V ,..,^jSi m • â- ^ J '