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 !HT. '0/^ FAEMER. Bhnbarb Cnlture. ]jte currant bushes, will grow -^^ '^hire and under any treatment, llmc' *°y nently nceives more ill usage -J coD««q ^^ "^retn thing growing." Bat jwy otner 'gretn thing growing. •roved ag*;^ *h«ir deTsk ise of ' â- ay. He a would an if p, 3- Ther« â-  of thej food and o, 3out hinj, ;hese feeL, n hia wil], Tne father Pi^ysioiain ?,s^. but thi Finally Be •3 and he 'ful operati ielo38 0f f- Theyei ncil of phyi Bxhaustive e: tltars' wason it should not be supposed ""tpn erowiug under neglect and aboae " A ili best and produce as abundant t*il^ d of eqnaHy good quality as when ittrttmentia given. it is oDce planted rhubarb requires I "'^^tivfttion, but it must have atall times F° vh floil, the richer the better. In field â-  "the roots are planted about four feet • '.fh w»y. a^*^ cultivated like any hoed " In the family garden they should ' Isnted two to three feet apart, in a ' f jow, at least four feet distant from B"'?* be raised from seed, but as there vJi'e reliance in the seedinijs beint( of the L variety as the parent plants, division â- "1 roots is the method of propagation llT adopted. Any piece of root with a L or crown will grow if planted about two F, deep in meJow soil firmly pressed tniidit- Roots may be planted in antnmn y spring. Plantations are usually re- every four or five years, yet when a !* 1 ijressJDg of manure is given every fall LfflOts will produce a crop for an almost Ljtite peiiod. Heavy ncanuring, clean ij^tioD, and liberal space are the jjtial requisites for raising large, sue- t rhubarb. The varieties beat known ijiiffi/ij, grown extensively for market as " u home nee. It is early, very produc- jnd of a brisk, spicy flavor. Its princi- 'I,jlt is that it seeds so freely that un- il flower stalks are cut off as soon as appear the crop deteriorates rapidly. iftoria is later, has larger leaves and .1, and requires very rich, rather heavy jd for its best developement. firagon. This is a new variety, t riginat- l! England, and now introduced here. m7t^:°°?'°? fceialks are bright red, heavy, and pro- i th icftjiu quick succession and great 'abund- aeon ^^ j{ jg earlier, OJ more delicate* flavor, J decidedly less acid than any other jjty we are acquainted with. But its (I remarkable and most valuable qualifi- f f " '"' ' ^^^^ ^* ^°^^ ""' produce flower «™ ., "'^! iii, to which fact its great productiveness lainly attributable, all the strength of plint being used for the development of !e»ve3. agon caused th His mb at first; thi i it, but th owa life, pre I survive hii illiam Rindg, was transpir :k, his breiti i his friend that the faeni from whicl ., .-, remove i. h Biig before our eyes that most of ua fail 's sister cam d m^ke a fi. r. The doc was useless sotice. Ever 7 one who eats apples knows It they contain seeds, but not everyone eats apples can tell whether the seeds •;e apples as they lie in their little seed 1 the ead "bj '" "nulls," lie with their small end or inp (jy gji je end towards the stem of the apple. I have heard the question asked repeated- ill large concrregations of apple eaters, mat bringing out half a dozen correct 3k. opproaoli' miaidLered 3 bid ou hand, ived s'gos ol ie favorable William B. tually raised rvelous pow' 1 be reidily [and e facts above of sidness, and, suppjS' )0i3ible; the the loss of itives with a larkeu their Dwn that his ^y be alive turcei his imit suicide ;ep'a3 true. e, the truth e are at this 1 as William r rf causing ;nd3. Liver \3 the most any or all ;h6 most de- ,nd horrible far more de- an rarely be icians unless ted to, and to do this. Dssibility of the one who his or her no distinct of lassitude, and joints, k, stomach ing signs of 5 heart, and ted, the* nto chronic aease, from t amount 01 :ape, which Cure. The smedy upon )f the above y impressed 10 desire to Qg life with 1 Bitter* iw* has got tLp people I "° ,t 6Q oaof- s beef that km seas* mix we" nade frflf led flour. 'he trianga- okage, «*•• y have ww m the field. 3 the sejdi reasonaWy foraqni**' Weight of Milk. i great many little things are constantly re easy, anc ""' 'be large majority appearing the number who did not pretend to ^vhile of those who thought they (w, more usually voted wrong than right. 0!t per.'ons, probably, know as much milk as they do about apples, and 8 cue ought not to be surprised that 1 mixed githering there migtit be a diff- m of opinion concerning so simple a mg as milk. Yet we are nardly prepar- to find, upon a recent occasion, where a nter of farmers were discutsing the milk Btion, that scarcely one could tell for a famty which of the two liquids, milk or w, was the heaviest, while of those thought they knew, the larger number "â-  in the w roBg. Because milk contains wiiich is lighter than either "water or I, many think that the milk itself must ighter than water. Probably very few aers ever took the trouble to weigh a gal- oi either water or milk to ascertain their athta or difference. The dLfftrence is com- litively slitjht, though varying according ;ke milk is rich or poc r in the several i solids, Takg a vessel that will hold aly 100 pounds of pure water, and fill it pare milk of average quality, and the at will be found to be about 103 pounds. saer words milk is 3 per cent, tieavier crater. 0. S. Bliss, who is good authority on '7 natters, gives, in a recent letter to .?'jra/ ^Y( ir Yorker, the specific gravity pre milk, as found by many tests, to be, Tlie standard gallon of pure milk, '5 at a temperature of 60 ° is now gen- 'ynnderstGcd to weigh 8.6 pounds, or pounds per quart. By this rule ten of pure milk at a temperature of 60 "ifeigh just 21 A iounds, which are easy Jiato remember, andfrom which itiseasy on the number of quarts given by a '•Iter finding the number of pounds by jjaing. A good many owners of large *is have come to reckon two pounds of ** 18 a quart, vf hich is wrong and very "•eading, Barbed Wire Fencing. Bural New â- ; correspondent of the y' gives the following experience: â€" "my own long experience with barbed- " encirg and still longer experience with â- P8, 1 can find no weighty oDJectioas to ctmer. have heard some complaints wme xprt saed fears of possible danger ^^ but these objections have been few comparison with the commendations â- nhi^"^^ fencing, its advantages as to wiity, loiv cost and capability of resist- 'Dd storms, are certainly evident. Eco- i«ii •rjd sf^" Dj^redi^ orti otafe^ rited armooio'f jspot, «*• irfect eta* tea. ^h ccnsidered, there is no fence that .â- â€¢^nipare with it. We do not in this vi- '5 1 as a gfneral rule, build fences of wire htL f "^^"'â- ing to use two six-inch t^" »t the bottom The with three pine wired KbtH ^.""'P*l objection urged against 1 ierion '^- **"'°g' is that stock is liable ijiBjt .? '^iury from running violently Di^°* barbs. So far as my observa- ' ana ' ^^' objection arises only hei Q- PPysbension of danger, and is noit â- "'^iveof facts. Of course, one oan longht of ^V^ ^^^^g' and shudder at the *i at ow ^^J°"*« animal being maimed lines ft '^® objection theoretically be- ftsong hav °°* ' ^^^ '^^ " ' kave not r '^^^"ed loss in this manner. »ft of the " °f *^ch an instance in this ' "^^ of h°v?^ ^^ ^^^^ " hundreds Ml ' "^es Rf i?.^"'"® fence within a very *i.i **'»ny »,„ ".P^ I notice that stock ' W »J the """ tbemselves with the na- "^y sLm^'^\^^ aft«r that leave it '""e. The difficulty is largely ©^'^i***" by the board and wire f«.«." abont 400 Wd. of the^li?" **^* the bucktCaLd UkT tti SSer^*^ better, except for «ped«l pJ^w^^LS^*"' a pi« fence or a tojw^ STw^f^ " When I -houM prefer th^doiSfSa°"f ewd and driven down from 16 tosojirt L^'*°K*liI!'y°^* "dtenThposttt ewht-mch «l«eatnat or oak strwuBg wH^ pitted th«e feet, and weU^SS*,^^. ^d stminmx posts only are bwS 1^ the beskway «, braee'is to SS'i^ post eight feet from the end^w -^uTl brace from near the top of one tAthl'iS.li of th^ other, at the rerfac^ rf*fi,l li?**T then nail a thickeighSh Wd ^T^l top of one post to tie top of «S othc^ pSt up in this way the rtraSS,^*^^ ?^* ;*uT"the1"°".* **•* boar5.Tis"?pt"£ push the second post over «h«a ooli weather arrives. I have not found SS fences dangerous to stock so far I fir«t used three strand, of wire, but now^Dse four one foot apart and the firs* one f^t from the ground. This m.kes uood fence, wd IS about the right height. Cattle *ill put their heads through to reach grass outside the fence, but do not get hurt in doing so. I have never had an animal attempt to break through except an eld boar, and in this case the fence was too low and he jump- ed It, and m domg so puUed the wire from tne post. BOilN POTX HlTSme. ^i. WIT AND WISDOM. "Why is love like a potato Because it shoots from the eyes. It is said that girls who sing "Baby mine" seldom get married. Leap year adviceâ€" Be sure your victim is rich before you jump at him. Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it Those sentiments of love which flow from the heart cannot be frozen by adver- sity. "Ye pays no more attention to me, ' said Patrick to his children, "than if I was a dumb baste talking to yez." She that has never known adversit is but half acquainted with others or with herself. Constant success shows us but one half of the world. A health journal says that you ought to take three-quarters of an hour for your din- ner. It is well also to add a few vegetables and a piece of meat. Many people economize the wrong way. They will worry the pennies and waste the pounds. A fortune, or so much si;ved and put away, is not made this way, Out by a careful outlook all the way round. Lady of the house (to cook) â€" "Maggie, I want you to be sure and baste the duck you are cooking." Cook â€" "Oh, yes, mim, I will. And ye see I was jist afther comin' for a nadle and a thrid to do it wid." A ge itlemaa once asked Abemethy if he thought the moderate use of snuff t^ould "injure the brain." "No, sir,'" was the doc- tor's prompt reply; "for no man with a single ounce of brains would think of taking snuff." A bookkeeper riding through a street in the Wakt End of Lonaon, and seeing "Dr." on every other house, remarked that it would look a little more regular if there was an occasional "Cr." on the other side of the street. What a lovely example of domestic sim- plicity is set by that sweet animal, the do- mestic cat, which rises at three in the morning, washes its face with its right hand, gives its tail three quick jerks, and is ready lor the day's cares and pleasures. "If your wife faints, do not spoil her dress by dashing a pitcher of water over her. Loudly kiss the back of your hand. She will immediately revive and want to know whom you are kisiing. Do not tell her, and she will not faint any more. "Any good shooting on your farm?" ask- ed a hunter of a farmer. "Splendid," said the agriculturist "there's the tax-gatherer in the parlor, and my mother-in-law in the kitchen. Climb over the fence, young man, load both barrels, and shoot the lot." Distinguish exactly what oi^is, when he stands alone, and acts fcr'^mself, and when he is led by others. We know many who act always honestly, often with deli- cacy, when left to themselves and lik^ knaves when influenced by some overbearing characters, whom they slavishly submitted to follow. An Ayrshire farmer who had been out in the late boisterous weather and got himself very wet went into a public-house in a coun- try village and ordered a glass of whiskey. After taking off the contents neat without an effort he said, "Man, that whuaky's un- common mild it's a wee like mysel' I think it's been oot in the rain 1" A minister, when visiting a farm-house observed one of the inmates begin to a large cog of porridge without having fiist a»ked a blessing on the food. Desirous of teaching the lad his duty in this respect, he said to him, "Without asking a blessing, are you not afraid the porridge will choke you "No," fAid the youth instantly; "there s nae fear 0' that they're no sae thick."" A gentleman who considered himself a crack shot with a rifle "at a mark" tw)k a deer-forest last autumn. The first days stalking, says a Northern .contemporary, seemed to him "a day bewitched, for he missed every chance and several of them were good ones. He asked the headkeeper if he could account for his missmg so often. Like a tnie Scot, the keeper replied by a^k^ iD«ftW)theE,qaestion. "Are your nfle and SfSrepde " "Yes, quitegood-West- kyBi^arls. you know." "Then yoore no gude yonrsel. Andrew Douglas, author of "The History of Ferryden." nted to keep an evening school diring the winter for the benefit of the fi-faer Mt who were engaged with their fathers daring the summer. 0°«?"» r^v rSla had got as far advanced as cloth mea- f^, in rSncSn. when going up one day to; "tKster withhis slate, the •^t^g^^o hji an impediment ift his speech), after look- " "r*^^^-i J u;â€" k{. answer was wronff says the»h6lir. "W'ljy. «raon you »â- Â«Â«, ftit"wm"i'be*^n»' «'•"' ' «^* big hole i' my breeks. I«a«efaiid'aPiay. JF^ ^**°'" â- â-  » â„¢'« do not "go in" for S^ft'2?^^"" Th«reis«n£^gfa to l^iJT*"**'^*^ "' predi.po«« tlem jL^i""" y^^y "• quite ooSwt Witt I!Sfti.£!?*P" " *â„¢* *» time, by u d*ysshooti»g over the AH*a Wll^ |at l^T" A^^J" °°« « ^^ other, ttemort T^^\ "^°"' "^^ here-fox hnntinfr SliSS! fT' *^ or t»«*e times w*ek^ thronghont thr«a«)n. aadtbeie is eeneraf- ly » good master. On aome mai^s a. many as forty or fifty riders may beieii on iiie teail of poor reynard, and not nnfreqaent- ly tnere are twice as many people go oat ;• °» ^^!?l-.;' espeoiaUy if the S h,^ to be at Cecilia keteUa, by the Vialffi: or attheTre PpMl«»-Ae two most^ uiar rendexvoas in the Oampegna. It istte fashion amoog mmi4 smart sportsmen who never saw a meet to sneer at Roman fox hunting and Koman foxes. But they would and, If they condesoended to try it, that the sport is perhaps often more exhilarating than would suit tneir fancy. The foxes nre bona fide, " mtaral " foxes. They are not, as Ml Englishman insinuated the other day, shaken out of a bag," or " numbered," or " put down " a couple of hoars before they are "sighted." ' The hounds are kept at a farm outside the Porta iSalaria, about three miles from Rome. It is chiefly supported by the subscriptions of the Roman nobles, though a dozen foreign ers are members of the hunt and contribute their quota. Duoa Qrazioli, the M. F. H., IS a great favorite. To look at hia delicate face and figure in a drawing room you would never credit him with the dash and endur- ance he really has in him. But put him in the saddle and he is a changed being. He is a splendid riderâ€" takes the stiffest rails and walls as though they were kitchen-fenders. His only riv^ are Reynolds, the huntsman (who hails from Leicestershire), Count Zuc- chini, a hard but rather unlucky rider, and a gentleman in the Italian foreign office named Simonetta, who osually bestrides a superb chestnut steeplechase mare, which has played him several ugly tricks lately, and, indeed, nearly broke his neck the other day. Count Zucchini, by the by, also had a narrow escape a short time ago. While hunting a particularly knowing fox at Conto CtUi one morning hia horse stumbled into a hole, and he came a regular "neck and cropper." He was picked up with broken shoulder-blade and a damaged collar-bone, which obliged him to go mto hospital for over a fortnight. Among the other patrons of the noble sport Prince Odescalchi (Mario's great friend) is one of the most constant. He is the only man in Rome who wears an ukter, and he wears it ostentatioutly, even going the length of riding to meet in it. Very often Prince Rossano Borgheae and his brothers also join the " pink 'una." Daoa Magrignano and Prince Dora have been less assiduous of late, and we have too often missed Princess Doria, the dashing daughter of his grace of Newcastle. But though one fair huntress has thought fit to desert us the field has rarely been quite deprived of feminine attractions. Only very important engagements cr illne*s would induce Countess Booinsky, for instance, to forego her periodic run with the Roman hounds. Countess Celeri, a go-ahead Roman lady, has been out pretty often during the last two or three winters. iShe has five English hunters in her stable â€" regular " flyers " some of them â€" and will ride at anything when her blood is up. Tne low, rolling plain between Rome and the mountain is ratber ticklish ground for a novice or a stranger to hunt over. The soil is treacherous, pitfalls are plentiful, and the ruins strewn about in the grass constitute awkward stumbling blocks â€" especially if you alight on them after taking a flyer over a four-foot rail or a good hedge. Near the city the land is comparatively level, how- ever. The danger begins about Roma Vec- chia. where the relics of the dead past lie so thic k together that you have to pick your way as it you were riding through the ceme- tery. And, indeed, tne Campagoa is a cemetery, the greatest, grandest, and most crowded in the world. Besides natural obstacles, you have to reckon with artificial obstacles in the shspe of rough stone walls (very like those in the Eagliah lake country), fragmenta of tombs, and forgotten chips of fallen temples. There was some exciting, though rather disappointing sport out toward the Roman race-conrse the othermorning. We muster- ed about thirty strong, among the nuniber being, of course, Daca Grazioli, Prince Odescalchi (in pink, like many of the men, but unlike the rest, disguised in the ineyit- able ulster), M. Simonette, etc., and last, but not least, one ladyâ€" Countess Celeri. The fox was sighted shortly after 11, and away we swept, over the brow of a rather high hillock and down again into a deep dip, the hounds owning the scent faithfully for some time. After a sharp run of twenty minutes, however, they were seen to be at fault, and after all reynard succeeded in get- ting away with his brush, to the intense dis- gust of Reynolds, the huntsman, hunt generally. IHllhrait A^redatlmu Best. «f tlM Day til jr^M and the Lavish Hospitalitr* Bntex^aining. even when it is simply done, if earned o excess, wiU make great inroads on a limited property, and in Vii^inia hos- pitality was literally uubouoded. Even to fkja ifcy, to ask a Virginian to come and Bt»Y fKim Monday tiU Fridi^, or from Wed- awday till Saturday, menti'jming, that n to ta^f. m lindt for his visit, would be consider- ed m mart barbarous outrage. There is aomething almost ludicrous, if it were not 80 pathetfo, in the pictare of poor Mr. Jef- ferson's declining years at Monticello. Mu nropftWy, t?hich had amounted to something Sver £40,000 when he left office, was Uteral- ly eaten up by the swarms of visitors' of all kiiidfl, whom his ideas of hoimitality for]«de him to cIJ8e his doors to, and When he died, the sale Of, his property faUed to cover bis debts, -f, ' ' ,M Therf w»a » toorioal eoterteioment in D-nver Bhwt time ago, a«d a lo^pabli- JSwrtta. deMribee it " Sweet jtarn. of masio floated oat apon the gentle btfeeae of SScWtoae «,aIofm«^.th^°ygr Ii«ft» ^sMuunan eBjcymeet. to.^IuMint m- timpation. of those «!*|^o^e««». In Time mioe pMwd never tetnnu the mo- ment whioh la lost is lort for «â-¼Â«. The great Befonm ri, the esriy fattets of the oharoh, and, I ventore insS hmnblcnea. to think, the Fonnder of oar religion, en- tertained very different view* as to the atili- tyaf thedayci rest to thow whiah ha^ molded the Uwi rem^ltting Sunday obEerr* aoce among as. Toe modem Sanday is distinotly the oatoome of the ({reit Paritan motement^ The opinions of t^ Paritan di- vine, on thi. point are formoltted in the Wertmineter confeuions. None can im- peach the loftiness of conception and pcuaty of motive that actoated those divioes^ But their conception was too l^y; it ootn not be realized. It was above and beyond the compass of human nature. It was an ideal attainable only by ideal men and women. The Puritan Sunday never has been, iaap^ and never oan be, obwrred among ns. C it was nnsaitable to the wants of human na- tore more than 200 year, ago, it is inadi mote inconsistent with the needs of men in this present «ge. Greai multitodes of peo- ple were not divoroed from nature at that time, nor ware the minds of men and wo- men so active and so intolerant of mere idle- ness as they are now. Tne straggle for ex- istence, and the consequent neeesiity for tme recreation which is only to be obtained by change of ocoapation were not so pro- nounced then as now; the surroundings and occu^tions of the piopl? »r3 tar more de- pr s-:ing now than m tbe days of the Pari- tun divines. The day of rest mast be made to suit the times, or it cease, to be a day of rest. Human nature is many-sided, and nn- lefssjme latitude of observance is all3wed, Sanday as a day of rest caanot satisfy its various needs. No institotion of divine ori- gin can fail in its objects or clash with the requirements of man. If it does so the fault lies not in the commsnd, but in the inter- pretation thereof. It is in the mistaken construction put by our Sabbatarians upon the command to keep holy theSibbath day that the danger to Sanday as a day of rest lies. Sabbatarians accuse the advocates of Sunday opening of being unmindful of the value of Sunday. The accus-ition is not true. It is on account of my appreciation of the value of the day of rest that I approve of Sunday opening. The feeling 01 reve- rence for Sunday as a divine institution should be preserved; aiything tending to weaken it should be removed. If Sunday ceases to be a day of true rest to the weary, of real recreation to tbe eshansted mind and body, the sense of reverence will surely weaken anddie out. and one of theEafegnards of our Enelish Sanday will have pat sad away. The religious objection to Sunday opening has been tacitly suffered to drop out of the controversy in Parliament, and 1 have touched but lightly upon it, partly on that account and partly because ic is a sub- ject naturally difficult for a layman to deal with. But it must not be forgotten that the religious objection is the real backbone of the opp3sition throughout the country. It would not be hard to show how mistaken is that opposition. I only wish that the spirit- ual leadera of the people ef all denomina- tions would speak out tbeir minds freely on the subject. Surely not many of them can hold in their inmost souls that such reason- able recreation as is involved in Sanday opening is contrary to Scripture cr hostile to a profier and religious observance of Sanday. Bat they fear to offend the weaker breth- ren. The weaker brethren theory is, like all other good things, apt to become incon- venient and dangerous when carried to ex- tremes. Respect tor prejudice or mistaken principles sh3uld not be allowed to weigh down the truth. Even if conscientiously be- lieving that it is a sinful thing to spend an hour in a museum on Sanday afternoons, many ministers of religion and numbers of those committed to their charge must allow that it is a matter concerning which a man may justly claim to be guii^ by his own conscience and to exercise his right of pri- vate judgment. The fact that a certain number of English men and women visited art galleries on the Sanday caanot be as obnoxious to the feelings of their fellow- countrymen as to the existence and tolera- tion among us of forms of worship which are held by many to be false and damnable. And yet the most violent antagonists of Sunday opening, the strongest cpp )nents of liberty of conscience in this small respsct, the most intolerant of our adversaries, are to be found among those who fought the hardest for liberty of cotssience m their own behalf, and who owe immunity from civil disabilities and religious perseoution to the tolerance of otheri. Eaough, -how- ever, has been said on the religions a8p3ct of the question; the seculir objection is in some respects the most important, since it is on that field that the battle is now usually fought. â€" Earl of Dunraven, in the Nine- teenth Century. not be thrown by them Ibat oonaiderable skill i. required to pitch the noon jart in front of him when he i. at foil galiop, w that next step he treads ia^ it then, on it. bel g tightened with a nidden jerk, loUs over in the dost The horM, too, has to leara his part or the bovMS., and bear at the right moment in the io^osito direction, or he might be ttrown 'ihstted of the ball, to which indeed he is often inferior in weight. It is considered digracefal to have to looMn the Umo, and to let the bull carry it off with him. A good hand will catoh by either leg alone a ball galloping part at any angle. The mortds;^in|^4i|t°af all is to Issso him mond the qoarteiq^ iHien at full gallop at the moment when his hind leg. are doubled np under him. Usually the noose slips off, and nothing happens but if it be thrown precisely at the right instant, his hind leg* an pund tb[M np uhder his belly, and he is brought to a standstill in theppetekm of » rittg d«ic, looking inde- scribably silly in such an unwonted position. These and other feats of lassoing are seen at their best at a hacienda, on tte occasion of the annual herradero, when the young bulls are driven in from the plains, thrown down, and marked with a hot iron with the initials of tteir proprietors' names, Friends and neighbors come together from afar, and vie with one another in the display of dex- terity and horsemanship, â€" The Saturday Review, The Mexican Lasso. iw The lasso itself is a rope made of the twisted fibre of the maguey, or aloe, known in Earopein markets as Sisal hemp. There is a great difference in the quality the best and strongest are twisted so extremely tight that it is almost impossible to uotwist tka strands. One end is worked into ' a small loop, lined inside with leather, through which, when about to throw the lasso, the other end is passed. The roie is about 30 feet long, about one-third of it formed into a noose, which is grasped a little above the Icop â€" i e., where.the Irope is double, the rest of it is coiled rouud and held in the left hand, ready to let go, the extreme end be- ing kept separate, and cf course retained. The noose should hang well oluar of tbe ground when held level with the shoulder, and, when open, forms a circle of four or five feet in diatneter. The laeso is swung over the head add left shoulder, and back over the right shoulder, a pjculiar torn of the wrist a. it begins to return keeping the noose open. It is thos made to circle roand and round his head by the thrower until he is within distance of hia object, when it is launched and flies off at a taI^[;8nt, the noose assuming A ciroalar form, and settling qidet ly aroimd the object aimed at. Before^ it settle, the thrower seizes the oth«: end with the right hand, and gives it two rapid tnrns round the caibeza of Hi. saddle, so" as to get apoichaae. If he il ftot qalck «aoagh at this, and the ball tighten, tuevope before a good parohase ha. been effeateR^ the resolt IS that the fingan get oaaj|hVbetwesn the, Beligions Items. The Christian women of the United States daring the past year gave |600,000 to Coristianize the heathen. Mr. Spurgeon's Pastors' College, in Lon- don, in 27 years has educated 652, of whom 486 are employed as pastors, missionaries, or evangelistj, in connection with the Bap- tist Church. The new church erected in Pont street, Bjigravia, London, for the Crovra Court congregation, was opened on March 28th by ehe Rev. Principal Talloch. Ss. Andrews. Tne coat of the edifice was £22,000. The number of churches of various de nominations in Canada in 1881 was; Church of England, 1257; Biptist, 944; Catholic, 1485; Congregational, 110; Disciples, 55; Lutheran, 98; Methodist, 3017; Universa- list, 7; others, 326. A sect is said to have been discovered in Bostov, South Russia, who poison children with narcotics. It was founded by a wo- man who murdered her children in order to relieve them from earthly suffering and pro- cure for them celestial happiness. Rov. George F. Pentecost, pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklin, in response to an urgent call from Mr. Moody, bas sailed for England to aEsist the evangelists there in their great and con- stantly extending work. He is accompanied by Mr. Stebbins, and they will probably be absent four months. D.;an Chisholm says he became acquaint- ed a few years ago with an old man resid- ing in the Causeyside of Paisley who re- membered the time when there were cnly a dizen Roman Catholic families in that town; now, according to the Daan, Paisley is favoured with the presence of about 12,- 000 Romanist s. The late Mr. White, of Overtoun, has be- queathed £34,000 to religions and charitable institutions. The sum on £5,000 goes to the sustenation fund, £3.000 to the Foreign, £500 each to the Home and Livingstonia mission, to the Aged and Infirm Mmisters' Fund, and to the S )ciety for the Children of Ministers and Missionaries. There bas been an increase of upwards of 30,000 members of the Wesleyan body in Great Britain during the last three years. The returns for this year, which are now being made up, are expected to prove that during recent years there has been the great- est development of Methodism since the days of John Wesley. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, organized in 1810, con- ducts missions in India, Ceylon, Hatraiian Islands, Turkey, South Africa, China, Micronesia, Japan, Spain, Mexico, Australia and West Africa. There are 21 missions, 804 stations, 154 ordained misBionaries, six of whom are physicians; 270 other assistants, making 433 missionaries from America. The native helpers number 1827, of whom 512 are pastors and preacherj. There are 278 churches with 19,364 members: 58 theologi- cal and training schools, with 153S pupils; 832 common schools, with 31,016 pupils, making a total of 35,625 pupils. Tae re- ceipts of the Board for the year ending; Au- gust 31, 1883, were $590,995.67. AN ELEPHANT AT LARGE. Demolishing Fences and Breakuis Into a Houseâ€" Tbe Inmates FJylns. An elephant belonging to a circus at pres- ent located in Coventry broke loose early one recent morning, and went in the dark- ness toward several detached cottages. Finding his progres barred by a feace and a gate, he smashed the gate into fragments, and carried a portion of it with him. Hav- ing gained access to the gardens which sur- rounded the cottages he discovered a tub containing food for p'ga, of which he made a meal, and then, in continuing his explora- ticns, he became wedged between a tree and the -va}]. of one of the houses. In his efforts to turn round he burst open the door of the house, the noise alarming the inmates to such an extent that they dared not leave the upper rooms Proceeding to the next house, tbe elephant broke open the door with his trunk, which he pushed into the room, and when the man of the house came down stairs to ascertain the cause of the noise he was struck with consternation, and quickly re- treated to the upper room. The man threw first a flower pot and then a board at the intruder, who manifegted the utmost indifference, and eventually quietly walked away. He was followed through the guden by several of the alarmed house- adders, one of whom was despatched for the keeper. Meanwhile the elephant reached the street, and was met by a policeman, who turned on his bull's-eye, the flash of light drawing from the elephant a con- temptioas gruat as he moved onward. Be- fore ne had proceeded very far his keeper got within hailing distance, and at thesound TOM md the cSfteWand aSVtfy mucjMn- of U. voice the elephant tamed about aad «^ It i. no Bafwaaehrtitog^m -% m,«rched qm*tly bwk to his qaarter8.-Paa manwhohHlottoBeartMoflngnsinla^rh-, MaUGq^^tte, ing tbe art. It i» beantifaLte m^A* ^M|- itade with which an adept wJU^^oW- -tte lauo from or*) any point.oyer either moai- der, behind or in front There is no credit in catohing a ball by the horns, for he can Fdt a few ear. of com into the oven and let them remain until reduced to charcoalt' Feed thi. to the fowls and notice the in- oreaaed egg prodaotion. i I â-  r,