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 le a. Pins or «â-  Moires. '"'w mat or ^j indtluktiii, tfi^ i at the offloiiT e oi^ theae OM^ as your lett^ i/ed, of the dii i^ Its place lirtBir Jfflce. KftewS* e allowed forlittS 1 ch Toronto. butSft »er 15th. AU cSmLS r answms two ^SllD on to Tkuth, wSu?J esired addr^SSj ou live, outside tS! ny lime betwefloiSS of course, for them!! ' mewiiigetthoBeflSS )u] Look dp w»5 n find the anawenteL iyouKopd,apart^ 6 of obtaining a Ti^ » Tbuth, which r two dollars. IteoiM* 1 pure reading i«-tjif^ nothing to intanatmi ly. The pnblisaiwS 38 valuable rewaidsudd ur patronage in yMnn xiost certain Wboo^S I if you take it foroo«i Lid weekly (not â€" ' CLUB orrxB. sons join and .flpii9:9u«%»g^ XheHad Ciwr^,, T va) known among bitsnbJMto. I. **% a. the H«l C8M-. It tb« noiverse, I •' „Mey of Covnt Pahlen, his UmcoU, '**{^d theriiigl«pd«rof hu muter appear m insane ak jjeenioaraged him m his ajttke, never ity-flve whose answaa ir choice of a Bdid-nL il elegant design, worOH i Chambers' Btymoioib about same unoont^ 3yclop£bdia, or a " Shakespeare's C,„ 3ach of the olnb win tf of s:aining »« oT lUr list (in addition to, the prizes afatestid), tinsiogly. Thisiatimi to clubs. LSt competition were r Ontario and Qneliec, e was represented in iiitisn Columbia. A la States, ill be given any one ve been stated. So iting, but' send .in now. It yeu happen toi It, you may be lori Qiddle reward, and ones are. Tkuth ha fact that elexgymea npete. neither are im petitions won pi d dollars in value, aid] 3 allowed to compete^r ' a fair and square racei ny one, on the habit ' into. No naoaey wlU Loh, or in any way lisc or by express. ' !d. Try your skill, fl le for your money ai iison. Truth Office, 33 LoroQto. Canada, for Leisure Hoig to the author, iroke St. Toronto, " Mrs Clarke's Cookej bounc' syatei ts numbered, inti |lls readily at $1 lib agents sample |lO to $20 per ed by selling thii I best in the world. I sking glass, which, WB ieath, miy be wiped df facked, can afever be J goinflt aronnd gmmM r all the time who i" hly used Dr. Oaraon's 1 a splendid Blood ly for Neiir»l«J«» r the uiost common '3 incidental to tlui lifined tD any partia 1st gen taI in the »!« satf.r its exorncif» I the sammer. 1* seass hss beCDoae ently the meinsofw J increassd in nuniV lAmong the mosijpo' I combinations, p' lie public for the [n mention no rffl»« rlaiii than • rer ov«r pain is *^ ' we advjsa a taw itr psinful compl*" 11 drugg 8 s at 2o W â-  i at 10 ceat?. .The absurdity cf. Ideep mourning w srybody ki«"',, jf such a boof ' atsofarsaWWUll L them I" .. orhaps they do w lim no ill "' is a ban^fom« !9dat. G«*»?!J, e Z)yc« and color' lose faded stooBB jther garmenWt- ensue. IQ**** I in Bath; Neiry*! kbout t o^^^^^Sp pr marriage, ^^r^ [event. Thetld*' ge with hit sBogJ^ s, and waa •"*^ soon to. '^2^. Hthgretft ii^r~^ k "Ani «» rtMrt. _. ?d^S^^ TinoN Ho __ one Iwazds _„_ mxaacenj 1hotci^laf,j ia fr3»j neoiDflr« «^ h«u' ' bt to be *--^- j that i» to dMW" iaikehis ^^ns a man more, nucirtaiiii ' fJiidons, possessed altersawly by •» jggnd the tngele; in one momanthe I ta found consigning, withoot anyob- use the noblest of his snbjeota to ,ind exile; the next you might â- A tears in his eyeabenigrfy bending me woanded soldier m the nuhtary â- ff As the years went on theae latter J nf tenderness became fewer; he »w •Im bitter, and rcstleea, the unhap- tranin bis vast empire. irtlv aftc' ^*""' »'""•" *o W he arrogated to himself onnUoience f^jllibility- He coo Id not be deceived J T» could not be mistake n. By intuition liptected the sins and thonghtj of hia tLts wbo, indeed, found it luorative to is their desit ns against the state on the jliat darkness could not hide fiem paol, o.-caaionafly inventing miade- J when they were at a pinch for real " jhe plea of inr osenpe of sny crime of 1, th»Czar charged*- you heaned the f crimfs. In fallibility fitted Paul to [° atto.ity m al departments of life Tfbonnht. Theology, war, man millin- -yiology. church lituai, etiquette, iikr? architect: re, education, telt in ithe'toush of his reforming hand. By I he evangelized the lapied masaes of ;iii a day, filling the churches with liippers, and the confessionals with litinU whose devotion and remorse wera J by visions of the knout; the local ac- jjties were instructed to march the repnt- Ijj^ines of their districSs to church in jjjfion between two rows of soldiers, ie iMue of an imperial decree forbidding [fearing of round hats, frock coats, vests jst sleeves, and pantaloons Were sup- 1 to be a means of gratifying a grudge toward Eoglishmen. His aver- Lto rounds hats seems to have been con- onal. It was more expedient tLat the ill garment should be proscribed than Ue tranquility of a czar should be dis- The sudden apparition of OF BABE-HKADED OEKTLKMSN f St. Petersburg announced lievdecree; wherever a round hat ap- .1 it was snatched by ambushed police- j, isd the muscular pedestrian who ven- Ito repel the assault and knock 4own [thief wpiS^carried before the court and The cooibative Englishman was of ethe chief actor in these street broils. isflaence of Sir Cbarles Whitwortii ee, 80 far as it affected foreigners, Lmodified; the chief of the police was in- ked not to confiscate the head dress, but iitain its wearer till evidence was pro- tdtfaat he was not Bus dan either by br nataralization. Paul's hatred of was of old standing. While Graxd and living at Gatschina, he saw a mn wearing one. He caused the man ibronght before him, and administered |h a lecture on his indecent attire. J to the Grand Duchess, Paul asked Ibcme pna, snd raising the flaps of the pdhai, traostorrced it into a cocked one lordered tiie orkman to wear it so, till ]ss past service. The ukase caused a Dtbesbops^for head dresses that were |uivil offense; and as the stock waisocn !ted, people had t3 walk the streets tbcaded, or batter their hats into an- ory. An ambasta dor who ven- ib laugh too loudly at these eccentric- 1 his passports returned. Paul paid |EieiBo{ liiogLshmen the compliment of 1 police decree, The costume he en- was a three c'crnered hat, a long ^tvith a curl at the end of it, a single- ed coat and vest, buckles instead of • at the knee-breeches and the shoes. iffle occasion, seeing cne of the ba^d rearios; long boots, hie sent some police- llocat them into the size of shoes; but |ieman refused to be reformed, they the boots off and left him to go Nil his stockings. It is written some- ttbat a lady at court provoked theim- I displeasure by wearing her hair too |ittiie Deck,and that as apunishmentahe "^ered iLto close confinement and fed land water AgaijL an English tvas dragged from a swdge and can- â-  the street for wearing too thick a Jith. The inhabitanta of St. Peters- iKdiii all directions when they saw the ' carriage in the distance, only to be by mounted Cossacks who brought Jwk, and • THEM TO FBOSTBATS THBMSBLVES IN" THE MUD «liu Majesty. A short-sighted Eng- Jii. who pleaded defective vision when F*hy he had skulked down a back lane l«deredito uEe spectacles. He was "iathe capital ever afterward an "the ^»iiwho wore spectacles by nkue." (Kttsine of cabmen was not beneath ^â- notice, he wanted them among gSi to shave their long beards. fJ^J of tbem objected to part with [e^tair, the ttruggling onlprita had to f"" Jy one police cfhcial while another «eni. The method of harneasing »x also regulated by law; the new •*»dethe fortnneaof the saddlers of '^) Ten days were allowed the ""l get try t3 provide themaelvts prescribed equipments; after whiih '^of every carriage harnessed in the ' fashion were ent; for a time the ^fa littered with disabled vehicler. -Z7"'leDce reigned; the czaok of the m\ X '°*°® ' ^^^ coachman were nn- c*» the new caparisona were ready. "â- ase svept the the street! of the 2 »Dd fashion of Bnaaia; it â- iJS"^^«d prostration. Aa the im- k^« paued, the pedestrian IumI to J'T* on his knees, and the equea- .^"loteer to alight and do i^nulw PS w ^^ "'^^ *°^ *^^ "" ^^^ vengeance of an aatoorat o^Mrtook -7iUj "^^Rleoled his duty. When neid a drawing roomi |h4«|*ject l^.'inprint a resonant Idb «• tb« iu»7 " *^oe« Itnee aliiditei gin 1 ^t «"• *»" tau^t by »eaff tnat TJ/e^trberated through thkball ^0 certify to the genu!tt«fii1u of *^ and genuflectioq; i T'orgot repHMTttw ^ar, 'I woita^^i '«««wereadmonWiid and ehUhfOBltr the Utpmj»tj:6ffiuit f^lhe convened an Jnst stumbled with hm-^* the* » bidden one-was sent^: *•« by the riding The Rfghi Railway, on tb* TA^ rf r ». oe«ie may be referred to « »1S^ rf railway entorpriw^ To makelSfto the summit of a ttoontain, 500etet.h£b, «)Sd o.r tainly have been no ordinary undSrtakiDi Tn«r«ijroy^^«»openedinthe ySTlSTl' 5 l^nS""' ^T^ »'^««Mti. alsJthe po^t of Jandmg for steamers. The railway goes man almost oontmooosand direct bnetive miles long, not as might be imagined by a «"g2ag route up the mountain, tb^ view of the snnoundmg country extending in inter- Mt^^ae the-heighth increase.. The route in- olndM an mclmed tunnel. 325 feet long, and agirder bridge aorois the SohnnrtobelGorze. An extension ©f four miles from Kaltbad has been added to the original line, proceeding a?ongthendgeofthe mountain, 5280 feet above the level of the sea. The line, which 18 a single one with a five feet gauge, eon- siata of three railx the centre one is fitted with cogs. In otjer words, the middle rail IS a ladder up wuioh the engine obmbes by mean? of oogwhce's fitted below the floor. The engine, has a very remarkable appear- amoe, resemblirg very much a hu^e black bottle, and when on level ground it leans on one side as if about to fall. When ascending the incline the crgine assumes an upright position. Only one carriage is attoched this is ten feet wide and somewhat resembles our tramway oais. There are nine seats puced transyeraely, atranged to aooomodate fifty-four passengers. In ascending, tiie carriage is propelled instead of being drawn* but in the descent the locomotive precedes the carriage, and acts as a powerful break. The train proceeds at a rate of about eight miles an hour. Great care is necessary to ensure the road being kept in order, hence each mile of the line IS under the superintendence of a man whose sole duty is to precede the tiraina and re- move obstructions. The Righi has been de- scribed as a maaa of pudding, with mUIiona of stones for plums the danger is lest any of these stones should aoddently get into such a position as to prevent the proper working of the cog-wheel on the engine. A jjuroey of this railway is looked upon by many as quite an adventure. Timid folks are advised to mt in the middle of a sea*^, nti as avoid the tight of the gnlf and precipices over which tiie 1 ne ruis. Balnboirs. The oldest hii^ric reference to the rain- bow is known to all: "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And the bow shall be in the cloud and I shall look upon it, that I may remember the everlastins; covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is up- on earth." To tbe sublime eonoeptions of the theologii» succeeded the desire for ex- act knowledge chjuracteristic of the men of science. Whatever its ultimate cause might have been, the prqximato caitte of the rainbow was physical, and the aim of science waa to account for the bow on physi- cal principles. Progress toward this C3n- summation was very slow. Slowly the anicents mastered the principles of reflec- tion. Still more slowly we- e the laws ot refraction dug from the qCarries in which nature had imbedded them. I use this langtiage, beoanae the laws were incorporate in nature before they were discovered by man. Until the time of Alhazan, an Arabian mathematician, who lived at the beginning of the twelfth centary, the views entertain- ed regardiiig refraction were utteily vague and iKcarrecc After Alhszw came Soger Bacon and ViteUio, who made alod recorued many obeervations and measurements on the subject of refraction. To them suc- ceeded Kepler, who, taking the rMidts tabidated by his j^decesaoTr. applied his amazing iniustry to extiabt from them their meaningâ€" that is to say, to discover the physical principles which lay at their root: In thia attempt he waa leea success- ful than in hia astronomical labors. In 1604 he pnblished his "ViteUio," in which be virtiially acknowledged his defeat, by enunciating an approximate rule inatead ot. an all-satisfying natural law. The di^overy of such a law, which constitutes onejot the chief comer atonee of optical soien«e, made by Willebrord SneU, about 1621. Speed of Thonfl^i quickness of thought in »«"»»«• *»®y • Sgatory, with iBiSy detafla »nd eirtendjng STefa J'eat perioS of t me, wiU da«h Shrough- them in a few "Wn^*^* thoy seldom have any means o«W»«™h tely m*asBri»g the qoiokness wrtli which SSwStoieidrwmC There iinow«»n| £:'»^Srof the pws. story P^^8^ teU the dream of a raUway engueer, whwh, if ttae, alfcrds •mesas of maiwrenieii^ and the story itself has every appewanoe of be- ins a aennine lelirtfan ol txpenenae. The !SL-2«r had been withon* sleep and on OOBflUBCn a »*""' *^ *^{«to ra^'i'25fito"»^t;,j-^^ wa, th«wn -into %«r»d^a«gd h.^ in«ihi«|wf%|» ^m^^^ bsing used insist sf thtt Iteilaad Ml ssyed iMuat n^^tk dght, and ten days £«^peotfTeIy. ^*«sliijibr ^nwWsi B«Bto.«gx n %Maiif sole or hat- itaaidto^SBiffi fievatty-fiyts pec^eent. of tiie paper mad* Even for the better qualities of paper \n^ pulplsu^asasubetitotoforiiiSr -.iS"'^*"*â„¢*"*â„¢ »»geJwraHy charged Witt carbonato of Kme or carbonate of s3da and water, with a combining qosntity of .sulphuric add in a poatfcn to be dischanired mto the water at tte required time. Richird A. Procter calls attention to the fac: that the late Prof. Draper succeeded in producing phoographic fitktfm showing stars which cannot be seen ttroughthe telescope by whioh these photographs were teken. Human tkin and that of young rabbits have been successfully appUed in small pieces to large healing surfaces m wonnds. Dr. Wilson, however, in the Medical Nem, claims to have obtained much bettor results frjm the use of the internal membrane of hens' egga. The s^iggeetiem has been made that sanitary advantagee would result from the use of sewer pipes of glass. They would, doubt* less, be expensive, but they would, prob- ably, be very durably and their hard, smooth surface would offer no lodgment for re- fuse matter, ttus off-setting the question of coat. The vapor of tobacco juice has been test ed with success as an insect 'destroyer in hot-houses. The tobacco is soaked or boil- ed and placed in an open dish over a fire or flame of a lamp in the conservatory. Deli- cite plante are not injored as by tobacco smoke; the atmosphere is inoffensive; thrips, scales and slugs are effectually di»-' posed of. One quart of tobacco juice, evap- orated in a house containing 350 cubic feet, snffioee. If it is troe, as Dr. T. Stephenson asserts in Quy't BotpUal Seports. that water does, under certain conditions, act energetically upon zinc and galvanized iron, a simple test for the presence of zinc will be useful. Dr. St3venson adds to the clear water, slightly acidulated with' hydrochloric acid, a little ferrocyanida of potassium (yellow prussiate), when, if zmc is present, a whitish Cloud im- mediately iorma. Sheet-iiietal boats have recehtiy been patented. Sheet-met d sides are bent under precsore to the reqoired shape, having fiuiges oa their lower e.^gss for riveting to the keel'bar, and the stern ends may be joined either with or without ^m-plates. The bent plates forming the boata sides may be packed in small space for transportation, and easily put together on reaching their det:n)ticn, the design being to so constra^ boats hghter than of wooa or of numerous plates of metal riveted together. Christian Progress. Nob much more than one hundred years ago Voltaire declared that the twilight of Cbristianity had come. Ij^ ia less than a oentnry since Thomas Paine boasted in his " Age of Reason" that like a woodman- in the forest, he had gone throngh the Bible, cutting down ever^hing in his path. The priesto, he said, might stick the trees in the ground again, but they c:u1d not msikethem grow. These predictions have been fulfilled in a way that would make thei.- aathors blush if they were now living. Native Pro- testantism in Fiance, aided by Mr. Cook's evsngelists, has burst the fetters whioh Romanism and infidelity had united in fastening upon it while in England, and especially m our own country, the evang^- cal denominations have much more than kept pace with the growth of the population. The heratical secta, meanwhile, are staticn- ary, or dying out. Neither Unitarianism nor Universahsm has the strangth that both possessed a quarter of a century ago. The modern churches may not be withoat their faulto. There is no earthly Eden across which the serpent has not trailed. Yet the religion of to-day, even when ite defects are made the most of, will compare favourably with that of one hnndred years ago, taken in the same way. Slave-trading, slave-hold- iog, liquor making, selling and drinki^ miniaters, kud laymen are not now found m any church. Thoie guilty of the least of these offanses are very few and and very un- pleasantly conamooons. Pride, avarice, and other forms of wosldlineas, no doubt, exist, but they we compelled 1^ public opinicn. as well as ecdesiaatiflal diacipUne, to manifeat themselvas in deonrons ways. The most worldly man expecti Ghristaansto act consistentiy with their professions, and in tims ddBg nnMoseionsly pays tribnto to a creed whioh he m^ repudiato both m tbtory and piastice. The ohu«Aes are nowitig in grace, bnt tiiere » absndant room for gre»tw progress, for profonnder convictions, and more thorough conseora- tian. â-  r ibwhiiM €(«u. Machine guns in the fleld are now entire- 1, dbaadoMd. The French niilraillaose, 6om which such wosrfsta wne expected, was as hs»vy as ft field gw and rni««4 g« boMCStodi^it. Xt^»mews wranho a ny STilne as that of inf^ry, -d had Jto SLlvantlllts, g,tifeeBigpw»aoo mct «ld â- '^^ ' • wt tte sliBmn esnc^iyoala tais1k3aw iiesMl USforielaboabaa one. ind ^b datar to tm'g^OmhWfimm " oaftseoMdeMaoragtibdiMfloUer â- ^ to U» UsaaHy sr *is Ssigliiior. M^ S M f M s hanra oves^; M sposipofi, •ari4tog,fiid drying his taat^ and eisrti to now •vary nail in its hall, and 0wmf torateh i^ai its stssi or brass, rhare^ heard of aganddiariHio idssttiBad^ mmm to; andreoeveNd«pa^'olaBa-koca(Bs ttat had heenstolea froBahim, on the straqgtt of certain afanort invi^le scratjhes, wUA had escaped tte notice of theth^. or wbksb tte thief trusted would be unknown to ft* owner. With so much imcovered metolin the fittings of a gondola, it is ctsar ttat the ehlei labor oonaeeted witt the nudnteuanoe of tte boat will be to keep theee metals in n high stato of polish. TIm braeswork does not give so much trouble but tie least drop ot sain or dew, if it is allowed t3 settle for some hours upon tte ferri, will produce a rjst spo!; which may teke months of somb- binj to remove. This 'implies a polishing and oiling of the st3elwo» twice a day in wet weather â€" a matter of at least an hour and a half. Indeed, the readiest way to de- term ne whether a man who offers his ser- vices is a good gondolier or not is to give a glance at his ferri that will s'low his pr fesslooal character in a moment. Bat be- sides tte metal fittings, tte hull of the gon- dola required constant attention t9 keep it free of weeds whioh foul its botton, and to protect it from the deadly teredo whioh ao rapidly bores tturoagh its plankiagf- Ooce every three moAths in winter, aid at least onoe every twenty days in summer when tte ssa is warm and the weeds grow fast, the gondola musf; be seitt to the sqnero. There it is hauled on shore, scraped, dried, eitter by tte sun er by a fire of straw, and plentifuUy anointed with greasa. Tins op- eration niakes a most aarpriaing differanoe to the speed of the boat and a littie prac- tice will Eoon let one know whether the gondola has lately been to the squero, or ought to be srat there. The prioees of cleaning ocoopits a whole day so tba^ a gondolier not only loses a ray's work, but has to pay besides about f jur lir s, the coit of the operation and this in saramer is a serious tax upon his monttly earnings. Bat, on the whole, it repays a eondo'i-sr to attend pinctually to hisboat. If he docs so it will last him m excellent order for at least five years. At the end of that time he can sell tte hull for 80 or 100 lire, keeping, of ooursi the fdze, tenda, cushions, and other furnish- ings for hU new boit. A gondola of five or six years old will* probably find its way to one of the less frequented ferries, wbere it will do duty for another five years, gradn-^ ally losiog i-s graceful curve and for Ji as' the woodwork fails, till at length it becomes a goBbo, with I'm bows no Ion ];er sweeping up in a proud curve, but burled iii the water. Then its d«iy is over. It is fit Tor notbiag but to be Eollfor fivelir^, broken up, and burned in the g'aw furnaces of Morano, the crematoiry of most ansient gondolas. Tb a wiMili^MiHFilriiM^s it«^ an at- y f jBJjPI' H^. iiftl'li*' .ia^Mstt wko totherioh,aBAtdto'tlMyoueg, aada aap- fort .and «Q«)t^ to t^ fged. MMo opwi io ^paa aa-midaeovered retiaa, a moM iHiieli hiM iMtting in com- aMsrwftttiMoi^arwoiMof tehse. ' Tbaaffl thing to ha ashlmei iof one's povel^^ bat maob wiwae not to nuke nss «f lawnil cndaayoBS to av;ad it. Anoftw ssaaf'sadniiBatioff is a background Msiaat which many an onya uy wottan has shone, clad in^ an«03aatom3d graosa to her lover's eyes. Haste and rashness are storms and tem- pests.' breaking and wrecking buaiiieu, but nimblsness is a full, fair wind blowing it with apeed to tte haven, A modest puson seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, be- cause nobody envies a man who does not appear to ba pleased witt himsel f. D not pte s your young children into bok laarning, battearshtnen poUteniss, including the who!e circle of charities which spring from the oonscioasness ot what is due to their fellow beings. There is nothing S3 elastic ai the human mind. Like impnsjuad steam, tte more it ii pressed the more it rises to resist the pres- ure. The more we are obliged to do tte more we are abli to aooomprsh. Though we se«m grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every per- iod of it an end. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a bosiness man, then to nvake up an estate, then to arriwAt honors, tiien to retire. In our pursuit of t'le things in this world we usually prevent eoJ3yineat by expecta- tion; we anticipate our own happiness and eat out tte hewt and sweetaen of worldly pleasures by delightful forettoug^ta of them, SI ttat when wer come to possess them they do not answer the expsctttton, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothin.g Day and Night In Egrpt â-  The air is simply perfect bracing, yet no7 cold, except in the early morning. It is a delightful experience altogettor and ~we allenjoy it ttoronghly. I think I like the early mornings best; for I generally wake alout half-past four, and, jost drawing back the cur:aine of my window, enjoy the gor^ geous Vision of an Eaatwn night, quite dif- ferent from any thing we ever see in our cold, nort^t^ern clime. Great as is tte cm- trast betwisen an English and an Egypt win- ter, in the heat of the sun, and the cloadless- ness ef the sky doring the day, I think the nigbti £r3 even mora lenarktbl-j. The at- mosphere is so clear that each tt%c of any magnitnde seems almost like a moon, and casts its indepdudent track upon the water while, as to the moon herself, how can one describe the beauty of that pale golden sphere, ttat ha^gs suspended like a huge globe from the deep szara vault of heaven shedding so strong a light that it is easy to read by it 1 Towards six the stars begin to pale, aind even the moon to lose some of her effolgenoe, befwe tte bright light of the coming dawn, which, in ite turn, has to give way to the rising son, the esrliest rays of tacking troops in their rear, behind whom ^hich gild the mountain tops, and throw a they may rally after they have placed thew ioseate tint over the desert wastes of sand "" •^' ' â€" stretehinginto the far diitance, and over the fields of dszzling green nearer at hand. Soon tte old landscape is flooded with life and light and another bright cloudless Egyptian day has beonn- Bat if the sun- rises ar3 beautiful, what shall I say of the Bunseta About the (me there is umost an air of chillinees â€" a hope and promise of what is to come, mingled witt a feeb'ng of respon- sibility and a sCrt of half dread of what tte day may possibly bring forth. Abcutthe other there' is a sense of fulfilment and re- pose, before night comes and throws her Skirmi8liers« Skirmishers are troops who, not being in- tended for close. comb;it, are employed to cover those who are so intended. They are independent of the attacking troops, whose front they cover, and may be at any number of spaces interval without deran^g tte at- behind whom Eart. The object of employing skirmisher^ as been to oblige the enemy to show ite hand, and to cover tte advance of the line of battle in their rear by attractiiu; the at- tention and fire of tte enemy. Andthe rapid fire of breech loaders has immensly increased the value of "skirmishers," bott in attract^ ing tte attention of the defenders and in veiling by ite smoke tte march of the line of battle behind ttem. By our drill reg nlationd "scouts" seem to bo intended as a sort ot Bubatitate for "shimushers," which on the scale of 10 or 12 to cover a battalion ^^^^ .„.„*-, ...,„, «,-«- â€" «.*«.. front, they cannot be. The G^msn teaoh- mantle over the world. â€" Lady Brataey, ing â€" ttai men onoe engaged can never -be wittdrawn â€" doee not i^ply to "skir- mishers,' bat to tte first fighting line of tte attacking troopsj respecting whom they say is true. During the Paninsula war neither the French nor onraslves ever ventured to engage wittout covering tte front of the at- tacking troops witt skinniBhers, and the ar- gument in favor of -that practice is greatiy strengttened by the. conditions of breech- loading fire. It Bcemn to fcroir, ther.-fors, that troope destined to attack, whetter formed in one closed line as of old, or in four orpen linee, shonld alWaya be pceoeded by skimushers in tte old sense of the term. And this once estoblished, we bdieve it would be found tiiat the loas Buffsred by a closed line during its advance under five would not be greater than that of a system, as now praotised. of, open lines baeksd by small ouamas of reanve. And the closed line would poeaess t'le immeato advantage of preserving tte diflscent eompany and wing commands unmixed. â€" Biaemiood Mag- A recent BiUical scholar writes as fol- lows :â€" Perhapa not one of tte evente r«- oordad in Sjriptote has given tte to asora froitlesa caatrovarsy that tha allsgad act of Jottna oommaJBdiaig the am and the mooa "to stand stiU," in the meuoddde roato of tte five Kings, aad tttttthisa bodies ebsfad Did ttls ataads aooor ta liiia way tte mdiasiy traaalailkm reads aad as tte of the ortliodox bsBsvo ft didK An witiMriBtte (Aarcft Quarterip Avine ea^ deovors, Witt a hMi dsgl^ ot molMbiltt/, liaiawtshi ttatrvriu* «• Isttfefiiisb^ Isaiar prayadforwasaotthaliliaaBftaad ' !%taad«tiU," tat that thay ntf4 " esrfi"-4iist is to say. 'c*se to ahli tt ttaBskkmr test has It A ___ ban BJMls Tnirflirr-"-^f' •" el tSSiwrt ill tte •iW.lfiiga^ TheHor^s Can of Parte. An amusing featare of Paris to a foraiga- er, is the hocs3 cars. The appearance of the car, driver and cwiductor, would almost assure one that tiiey had been imported firom America but cartun rales to be observed in mnnimr the cars, very quickly remind him tihat he is in France, The c trs are al- lows I to carry onty a certain, number of pas aogerd â€" ten standing on the front plat- fori!, ten on the rear platform, uid as mauy in tte car M are aUowed to havK aeata, Thoae inside pay fifty cent me^ (tea cents,) and those out- side twenty- five centimes. When the car has iis compleasent^ tte gatee are ttut, a angn nnig oot, "coa^'ef" aad no one can ea ter. Daring tte buay time of tte day, bea tweea five and six o'clock, when crowds are waiting for a oar, it ii neoessa r y to apply at tia cffiie fm* a muabsted ticket. For initanoe. aay you ^n*"**^ ^^d r«beiv- ed No. 21. Yon wait for a dv, and the driver, when read begina tocaliaae, deux, troU, and. BO m until he reaches yoor num- ber, when you must be ready to eater, if not, yan mnat procure aaothar ticket, ud wait your tarn again. Tiia mtom has ito advaatages as well as ita dkaavaatpgas, aad tiia KraBoh think ia a great thing; bnt the amnsiag part of it to fore^pMTs is ttaoalilag irf tks anmbsa and a oa* is irsfe^ iMl ap in Fraioi^ he as apt to get la^ and haa to go aad gat iwVckSk iurilsat iof liiq^f beU Uka onr eondaet- or, Mm^ aaaa mti« iHan. wMuU issittatih- ad to tha aasfcbiiSfd» aad Mawa a.rnbber bs« whiej^ij^Ariyar fqgsssa, vfta t^i^hÂ¥aMiidika ttat of a babearddisliBettyiBra bleefc. It is aot ObjeetTnastliaalsisttBlmsliiw iaastoal. "_gS|i^js ie " *:jp«g â- tf. ' Wl â-  LI vi. [;: M" 1. ' '"1 ^1" f' \% I i 11: II m if â- f h â- J if 1 ^•â- . si- w 1 11 m tu '