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 ^^"^fm^^W' m I • \- »â- 'â- â-  I I 11: m THE TBCE BOOK OF MttHOI. D«F Sersnl promiiiaat memfce's of the Beor- CMiied CAntch of Jmhi Christ of Litter Day Saiata are now in B'chmond, Mo., on ft conoos e/nad. David Whitmer, the only Inriag vitaaai of the allied miracle bv which the Book cf Monnon was given to tto world, katwideat of this town. Heii • vmj old ana, bat ho retaiu hia vigor in a aianrelloaa degree, aad hia meaiory ia atill » has a fine old home here, iriicre good. Cahai Hel I haa lived for many yeara^ reapeeted by all. Ko man ia the State slaada higher ia the eatimatioa of hie aei^boi*. He ia emiaeat- ly piooa, aad liven hia idigioa. Mr. Whit Btcra possession of the ocigiaai aiaaaaoript of tlie Book of Mocmoa haa long bean kaown o aembers of the CShnrA, hot he haa stead- ily refnaed to pert with it, though often ao- lioitedio doto. The polygampoa Mormons have n4de ceversl eflforts to gain posteision of thriooveted paperr, bnt Whitmer has de- cUfled to listen so any prsposition they might make. The g n lemeu now here aee C eminent tffioials of tbe organization in issonri, lows, Oaio, mnd New York. Maoy errors have crtpt into the nomerona editions of the book daring tiie last twenty years, and it waa thoof^t dtamble to com- pare the preaent version with the original text before the death of Mr. Whitmer, who holda moat tcnacional^ to the manuscript. This examinatimi ia still in progress. Sevcval verbal errora have been discovered, and in a few instanoea entire sentences have been f oond to have been pervei tad. The original containano aathorizatioa of polygamy, as the version in nse in I7t*h does, and these gentlemen denonnoe the Mormons of that Territory in the severest terms. Mr. V"hitmer's faith in what he claim to have seen is remarkable. He recite^ hia ex- perience at the time of the revelation to hia visitors aa follows " In 1828 when I lived in Ontario oonnty, N. Y., there waa great excitement over the discovery by Joseph Smith, a larmer in onr neighborhood, of a grtat treasure. Nothing was known of it in a definite way by my family until the next year, in June, when Smith visited my father's house. While there he was busily engaged in the tranalaticm of the.book which I learned he had found, in the form of gold platee, on the hill Cumorah,about two miles Irom Palmyra. I saw the plates freqneatly in Soaith's hands, but as the characters in- scribed upon them were Eomethine like Egyptian hieroglyphics, I could make no- thing out of them. Smith, however, had no difficulty in decipheiiog them, and as he dictated Oliver Cowdrey wrote. I asked Smith cnce how be came to find the plates, and he told me that the place on tbe hill was pointed out to him by an angel in dazz ling apparel. They were in a stone cuket and purported to be the hietoty of the Ne- phites, a nation that had passed away. Tqe plates, as I saw them, «cre fastened with three rings. About half of them were loose and movable, bat the others were solid as if sealed. Smith said in (xplanation of this that, the angel had told him \ery im- pressively that the loose plates alone were to be used, and that the sealed portic n was not to be tampered with. " I became interested in the matter, as Smith vas a man of grod repute. After the plates had been translated, six months hav- ing been passed in the work, tbe satne heavenly visitant appeared to Smith and s- claimed the tablets, informing Smith that he would replace them with other records of the lost tribes that had been brought with them from Asia, and tl at they would be all forthcoming when t he world was re^y to receive them. I saw this apparition my- self, gazed with awe en the celestial mes- senger and heard him say ' Blessed is the Lord and he that keeps his commandments.' Then, as he held the plates and turned them over with his hands so tbat we could see them plainly, a voice that seeemed to fill a'l space was heard, sayiog 'What you aee is true. Testify to the tame.' Oliver Cowdrey and I, stcnding there, felt. «sthe white gar- ment of the angel faded from view, that we had received a message from God, and we have so recorded it. Tko or three days la- ter the same angel appeared to MartinHsrris while be was in company with Smith, and placed the same injunction upon him. He described the sight and his sensations to me and they corresponded exactly with what I had seen and beard. In his translation of the tablets Smith used a small oval or kid- ney-shaped stone, which teemed endowed with the marvelloos power of converting the characte s on the plates, when used by Smith, into English. He would then, dic- tate and Cowdrey would write. Frequently one character would make two lines of manuscript, while othtrs made but a word or two. I can assert emphatically, as did Cowdrey, that while Smith was dictating he had 00 manuscript notes, or other means of knowledge save the seer ttcne and the characters as shown on the plates. " As an evidence of our btl'.ef in the div ine origin of the book, I can say that Martin Harris, one of the witnesses, mortgaged his farm for $1,500 for the purpose of naving it printed, and we all contiributed time and money for the purpose of circulating it. A few yeais sge Orson Pratt aad Joseph F. Smith, who had been sent irom Utah to se- cure the or'ginal manuscript came here, and after a careful examination £ der Pratt ts sored those present that the writing was in the hand of Oliver Cowdrey. He decbved that the archives at Silt Lake were incom plete without it, and he offiered me any rea- konable sum for it, bnt I refused to part with it, as I regarded it as a sacred trust." Mr. Whitmer's beliefs have undergone no change. He haa refused to affiliate with any of the various branches of the Church that have sprang up through false teaohinga, and he reatshis hopes of the future •*on the teachings of Christ, the apostlos, and the prophets, and the moral* and principles in- onloated in the Scriptures." He also de- clarea that the Book of Mormon is but the testimony of another nation oonceming the truth and divinity of Christ and the Bible, and that that is his rock, his gospel, and hu salvation. Having been misrepresented by the various branches of the Church, he re- oently had the following proclamation print- ed, and, having many copies in his possess- ion, he gives them to all of his callers Unto fll nations, kindred tmigues aad people us so whom these pr^sente shall come: It having been represented by one John Mnrphy of Polo, Caldwell oonnty, Mo-r that 1 ill a conv«rsation w^ him last sum mer denied mr' â€" '^^' '" ' lit wera in tie very SBBBS* of He and in the fear of God, cnce for ail to make OiB ttattmsat Thai I tasva never as any time doafed that testimony or any pert thereof, wUoh has so loag since been mblished witt tbe book i a o^e of the tiiree witnesses. Iboseiriio know «o best well kcow tbat I have alwi^s adbeced to that testimooy, aad that ao man may beTadsled or donbt my preoeat visas ia r^ard to the sams, I do agita afBrm tbs tinih of all my statcmmts aa then made aad pablished. " He tbat hatii aa oar to hear, let him hear." It was no delasiflo What is written is written, sad bo that readeth 1st him aader- staad. And, that aooao may be doooived fav this statement, I wish bore tostato thst I do not endone polygamy or spiiitoal wiCsisai. It is a great evil, shookiag to tbe moral ssnss, and the mors so beoaaso piraotiaed ia the nasM of retigioo. It is of man aad aot of God. aad ia especially forbidden in the Book of Moimon itsdf. I do not sadorca tho cbangs €d tho aams of the Chnrch, for as the wife takes the name of her hnsband, so should the Charob of tbe Limb of God take the name of ita head, even Christ himself. It is the Chnrch of Christ. As to the high priesthood, Jesns Christ, himielf is the last great high priest. This, too, after the order of Melohiaodeo, as I nn- derstsnd tbe holy Scriptures. F.nally, I do not endorse any of theteaob- logs of the so^Miled Mormons, or Latter Day Saints, which are in conflict with the gospel of onr LojI and Savionr Jesus Christ as taught in tho Bible and the Book of Mor- mon, for the same gospel is plainly taught in both these books as I understand the Word of God. And if any man doubt,8honld he not care- fully and honestly read and understand the same before presnming to sit in judgment and oondemnmg the light which ahineth in darknees and uoweth the way of eternal life as pointed out by the unerring hand of God? In the Spirit of Christ, who hath said, " Follow thou me, for I am the life, the light, and the way," I snbmiftthis stitement to the world, God, in whomil trust, being my judge as to the sinceriqr of my mo- tives and the faith and hope tbat is in me of ettrnal life. My sincere desire is that the ^orld may be benefitted by this plain and simple state- ment of the truth. And all the honor be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which is one God. David Whitmkb Appended to the above are the signatures of many of the most prominent citizens of Missouri, all bearing witness to Mr. Whit- mer's probity and purity of life. It ia not known what disposition he will make of the mannscripto in bis possession. The papers have been cut up into printers' "takes," and sre soiled to some extent, but the handwriting is very plain, and not a word is m-'ssing. The non-polygtmons Mormons in this section are increasing in numbers, principally by reaton of the pro- found respect for the faith which Mr. Whit- mer's blameless life haa incnlated. DB. KOCH'S CAIOIEB. The Life Story of tbe Dlaooyoror of the Cholera Germ. An interesting sketeh of the life of Bob- ert Koch, the ditciverer of the cholera germ, the man whose name is at present in everybody's.mouth,appear8 in a recent num- ber of the Oartenlaube. Dr. Koch, who is now 41 years old. is a son of the Hartz Mountein. In 1866 betook his MD de- gree. For the next six years he slowly and l.biriously worked h s way.upwardas assist- ant physician in out-of-the-way hospitals. Fortune did not smooth hia load, and When in 1872 he got an appomlment at Wollstein the struggle for existence had again to be fought for seven years. Under circnm- stinccB so unfavorable for scientific research he prosecuted his studies with a success which secured a world-wide recogxition of his genirs. His first dirtincticn waa won by the publication of tke results of his quiet labour on the metiiods of the artificial dye- iog of micros opic objecto, especially of bac- ter a. fiy the general public his discovery could not be appreciated, but those who understood the value of these researcbes in the procecution of the study of bactaria knew that with it a new era had dawned for science. This conviction has hetn brilli- antly confirmed. Daring the last five years he has succeeded in identifying the germs of cattle disease, cf consumption, and of cholera. These discoveries are not incident al strokes of good lack, but the natural fruits of his own system of research. The aignificince of thete discoveries is felt even by those who have no knowledge of medi- cine. Expeiimento in vaccination with the poisonous matter, experimento in disinfect- ion in laL oratories, wholesale exper mrnte in disappearance of epidemicsâ€" all thtsj ate but links in the chain, the last link of which the destruction of the germ of the disease, is now more attainable, bnt has become even probable. Hoaors havo been oonferred up- on Dr. Koohand.his colleagues on coming heme from India, the breeding p^aoe of cho- lora. They have received titles and orders to which, in honour of the personal danger of the voyage of diaoovery, were added auoh distinctions as otherwise are only o^nfetred on toldiers. By addresses and baaqnete colleagues have honcrared them, and it it said that the new Professorship of Hygiene, at Berlin, will be given to Dr. Koch. In short, outward acknowledgements have been plentifully made to the modeet, quiet sohol. ar. Although the Grermans call nim theirs' with pr.de, he will always remain what he IS, universal, and be deserves the full and the honourable title of ' benefactor of hu- manity." The saArangs of the snrvivon of tiio Greely expoditioa reoaUa the thrilling ex- perienoe of a part of tho crew rf th* rt"*â„¢" Fdaris. As told by seaman Wfllia»Nide- naaB,wiMao booio oendoet ia tho^U-n**" Jeaaetfeo sxpeditioB hM given bu »«*• » plaoo in tha histary of cxpknataon. »* »™ tho wUdsst story sver penned by »!»«» writer. "I caa never forget," he said. 'the terriUo ozperieaoe of our party of nmeteon whoa we wtr* earned away f«»n **« ^o*' aria. It was on the 15th of October, 1872 wo ran in among iojbergs and were c.u,tht fast. Every momoat wo expeo: alto see tbe â-¼sosel emshed, so wo began to got pr^" O'J oot on tho ioe. Suddenly the ice broke and away went the Polaris, leaving nmetewi of OS ioo'ading two E«quimanz with their families. Ablmding snowstorm was rag- ing, aad ia fifteen minutes the Po'aris was out oi a^ht. Wo had on the pie jo of ice m which wo were driftiag provisions enongh to last as a month, and tor 196 days we drift- ed abont, sonetimes sonoandod by grsat ioeboigs toworing )iigh above oar heads, again driMngin theopsn water; some- times compelled to move hastily to prevmt our being osrried away when the ice teoke, or again awept and drenched by the heavy seas breakiiig over our Iceland homo. Soon our provisions got so low that we were put on allowance oTone biscuit a day. We used to ait by the hour telling tho moat silly stories, listening to yanwspaa by Peter Johnson, a seaman on board the Polaris, about catching seals, but we did not otre to talk of home. We thought that we were lest, and lost past Ending, but wo lived on JQsi the 'same. Oooe in a while we would eatoh a seal and drink ito blood. Then we would eat the seaL We threw nothing away except the g^I. The entrails were thrown on tho ice to freese, and when they were solid we sat them. And when wo had not even this, we chewed the se alskin hair and all, for there was life in it. Early in the April following we were on a piece of iceforhaps 300 feet square, and were starv- ing. To add to onr misery a rain storm set in, and continued for three days. Our tent was swept away, and for three days not a person slept. We were soaking wet, and oar piece ot ice tolled and tumbled in snob a way that we expected every moment to be washed overboard, ^en the ice came to- gether again and we started out hunting, Hais Coristiansen and Joe Ebeliiig. the Esquimaux, and I. We were terribly hun- gry, for we had nothing to eat fcr some days. Fortanately we saw a bear and suc- ceeded in killing him. And what a feast we had that night. I cm never forget onr fil- ing when one day we saw a steamer. We danced with joy and fired our guns and shouted, but the people on the steamer did not see us, and she passed from our sght. Oar hearts ssnk snd we give ourselves up for lost. Ti^en, whenin the lOg, Linqaest, one of the party, gave the sb oat, "Ship ahoyl" you should have seen us jump. There she was, and we could just see her boom. We again fired our gun i snd shouts. Bat we could get no reply, fcr a ship going through ic3 makes a terrible noise. Oar heu'ts again sank as we saw her passing away from our sight. Suddenly she came into view again, and they saw us. We were token aboard, and finally reached St. John's. It was the steamer Tigress, and sbe had picked us up in the m'ck of time. Strange to say that every person in the party caught a heavy cold when ones on board of the Tig- ress, and all the time we were drifting on the ice eaoh man preserved ggod health. How ]iidii8trioiu ItaUan Women Are. T» tha end,' therefore, that he may nnd stand mo now if ho did not then, aad that the world may kaow the trath, I wish now. Janes Freeman GIaike*s Latta, "Thirty yesrs ago," says Jamea Freei Clarke, "I tried tbe aew method of pro- nouncing Latin. I was travelling ia Italy. Mywtte, h ajpe ni a g to see a priest pass by,' aakedmethe meaning of tha toasure. At that moment, not leoolleoting it Rign!ficaaee I said, *I don't know bnt £ere ia a prieat,' and I will aak him.' Not knowing Italiaa then,' I nrst uuuatraoted a Littin santeooe. I thoaght I had made it very well, aad then I put it exactly, as -Imoaghsed, into the Italian pmnoqaciatioa, ^t it ready to say, aad said it. 'Eh How little we know of people unless we live with them. Our idea of Italian women, for instance, is that they spend their time like Turkish fsultanas, sleeping and bang- ing listlessly in soft couches, tueir only oc- cupation being love making or perchance learning how to sing a song. Never was there a greater mistake. Italian women, even in towns and in good cirjumstanoes, work harder than any other women I know. Not a stitch ia done in the hons^e that they do not do. They spin and make their own linen, rear their own silk wcrm?, knit their ovn stockings and the stockings fcr the whole family, make their own dresses, bate, bonnete, cloaks, and snpsrintend all the baking, cooking, and cleaning of the house, if they do not possibly do it them'-elves. They rarely go out except on Sandays, aad holidays, and rarely receive visitors unless in the highest society, where* one day a week is set aside for receiving. They are perfect slaver t} their husbands, whose com forts they study from morning until night. I have heard much of Itah'au illicit love making, but I have never seen it. It may exist, perhaps among the aristocracy, but in the middle and lower clasaes it is mora imagination than reality. Bonny brides, even in high society, still maintain the cus- tom of making their own wedding outfits. A young friend of mine, who (as just mar* ried, has brought her hiuband four doxenof every article of body and house linen, all made aad embroiderM with her own hands, even the laoe which trims tb» honse linen being her own work. All the stockings, al- so, weie knitted by herself. Nor is this the exception it is the mlel' in Italy. Who, after this, shall say that tiie Italian women are idlers? Na one. certainly, who has known and seen them as I htve will ever say ao on the contrary, I would hold them up as models for all other women to imi- tate. Why, even in Bome^ onoe the al of the world, the women spend tiieir time between their honse and their ohnroh, vary- ing these with an occasional walk on Son* daya and great holidays, while everything in the house is done by themselvos, servaato being too expensive for most iooomes nowa- days. llMiger8«fBleyeltog-ABlg BMclie-A Hew Cfctaew Order â€" Heida of the Germn Brnf^mst fte., Ae. A Livtrpool bicyclist who was riding downastoophiU near thatcitor was shot thiongh a cottage window by tho breaking of his maebine. Tho district around G«lena, Kuisa% ia ctoditod with being tho lsrg-st » °%'Tf'2Si ing loaality in tho wor'd. Last year 70.000 tons were mined. Qief n Vic'oria bas Issasd a ooinm«nd th^ whsa tho Prince aad Pr.J»oess of Wales ditfe out in London tho number of gnista invited to moot them is not to ezoeod fonrteen. T«o Danes havo nndertaken tho taak of paddling, in » skin covered oailoo, frrm Al- aska to Sw Fransoisoo, a distanos of abont 2 SOO miles. Tho oaaoe is nine feat loag, and covered with tha skins of ssa 1 ons. The dog. says tho Bostcn Jomnul, is tiie only animal able to follow man as far aad as high as he oaa go,;.bat tho finer breed of dogs cannot long cndnre tho oonditiona of height of more than 12,500 foot. A enwmous ranoh in Mexioo has jost been pnichased for £200,000 by a syndkmte of English aad Sootoh speoiUators, of whom L rl Twoodmoath is ono. It extends over sixteen hnndrod tonaro miles. The Doke of Mariborongh made his maid- en speech in the Honse of Lords on the Fran- chUebilL. It is desoribod as "Lord Ran- dolph Chnrohill aad water." The Duke is the head of the hoaso of ChnrohilL Gaa. Booth of the Salvation Army intends entering London at the close of his ptorin-. cisl tonr at the head of one Imndred brass bands. The Home Secretary has been ap- plied to to stop it, bnt he has doolined. The crash most oome. Tho State Traasorer of New Hampshire has issued a notice to the Seleotanen of towns that in presenting olaims for boontios on woodchncks theymnst certify that none of the animals were hilled on Sunday, olao the claim will not bo allowed. A member of tho Honse of Commons, when recently oomplimenting a popnlar actor on his clever creation of a now nut in which he had made a great hit, conolnded a lively criticism of the impersonation with the characteristic remark "Bnt what I ad- mired most of all was yoor shirt frmit. Do tell me where you got tbat abirt " Part of the Lsioester, England raceoonrse coasiste of glebe land belonging to the living of Oadby. The present vicar does not dis- approve of racing, bnt, with a view of pro- venting disagraeable consequences which might occur it hia successor were to be a more straight-laced individual, the rMO committee have induced Cannon, a well- known jockey, to buy the living. A curio3B yet true tale ia current at Mu- nich. Kmg Louis of Bavaria is eaten up with debte. Some days ago he tried to ef- fect a loan with the famous Berlin banker, Herr von Bleichroeder, and a'so with the Daimstadi Buik. Unsuccessful in both ap- plications, the King, refusing to comply with the proposed conditions, sought three Munich Innkers, and has settled with them by giving a portion of the Crown lands as security. Statistics show that the tendency to sui- cide is much greater among regular gamblers from lo see than other businois men. The sharp strain of the gambling table, short though it may be, spoils tbe nerves, and weakens fortitude more than the strain of business. Cavour, one of the most serene of men, was within an ace on one great gamb- ling night, of throwing half his fortune away rather than call a card, and only called it, as he relates himself, because a drop of per- spiration r Me on his opponent's forehead. Announcements have recentiy appeared that the order of the Double Dragon has been confered on two or three distinguished personages, Tois is a new order institntad by the Em^erer of China in harmony with Western ideas. Is is divided into five grades, the first three of which are subdi- vided into three classes. The first grade in the three claasee is reserved ftr tovereigns, princes, and other magnates, with a remark- ably quamt, beautiful, oblorg decoration, in which respect it differs from the others, which are round, with inverted edges, except «ie last two, which are roand and plain They are enamelled, and of variojs colors. The Paris police ara carrying ou most ac- tive operations of late agiinst » regular or- ganized baud of young rcffitns of the very worst type, who havis for a loog time been a terror to Neuilly and all around it. One of their dodges was t j congregate near the Arc de Tnomphe, and wateh for cabs witii lug. gage. These they followed to a resideaoe and wera most obliging in asaisting to take the luggage into the house. WhUe there they took oognizuoe of the bolts snd fasten- ings of wmiowe iud doors, and gained in- [i.'"^«?*u""""l3^ Talnablo to tiiose burgbng there in the course of a night or A BerUu correspoBdent writes that the malady of the Empress of Germany, which ha. a«umed a oancrons oharacte^, da^ back forty yrars. to tii« birth of her dinghter the Grand Daohess of Bidca. To the reSat- ed recommendations of her physidanVto quit BerUn. she has always iJvfn^^ «?. •WW-: "A home needs a hoasewife «id" comt a Qa««" Her reeidcnoe some ti^4 years aoo at Coblents ia said to have heS -ng~^in an unmistakeabir mJSer bj SSLiTT • "» JoM^qwnoe of her having ahown a disposition to oppose the vi«lr. nl i;:;Jsr«f*°or;'""^^'^»^'»»«s ate. The pin was hid by^ t!^ 11 an adjouung rcwm. in \hl "*? i ctmm;ttee, among which wL ^^^enJ ate. The student. susneoti^i'^ooBL* his look^ ayly t^k th^'^SS pliOB. On the return to thi*?'^te «»»0»«J»,t "«der gazrf into the JjiS^ aad imtting his hand to hiahLr^*"" 'Id^d and led the stud^t 'S'.^l place, but of course eould fin4«/' V retiuned, »cknowledging hh jJ**- looking darners at theconfX,r'»l MBtlemaaTsaid tk. .iLJr^^"***. n ""A.-ia^' 'Nk gentl take to man mind' will do as I^t'.lTlh-" ' andicnoo.. without a siogle hmtfl!? " kaosr whore Uie pin is.' and tn^**^ thought reader, he said • ••SiiT*«*» did ao. Tnere was a yell. ,m ?;»»•." tho thoopht reader hastily pl\^T^^ seat of hu troasers the mwQ Jb. *• The Panama Canal. In spite of the obstacles due to fi hoalthkoss of tbe district. nu^S popalation, and the meohaaictl ^A «f oonstraotion progress ia being m»rN line of tbo canal is divided into ^^ superintended by four engineera biJi The iwoliminsry work of organizing fl praotically oompleted,. and actual the canal begins to make a show. ount of exoavAtion cooiphted up to last is about six million cubic metrai ' is anticipated that three timei ag ma.'|,*J' will bo completed. Six dredges of tlas! on ^ps (.are being constructed in Pii phiaat a cost of £25,000 each. Ii^t., able of dredgmg alluvium and aof tcotiln Scluat and grit can be dredged after I ing. Two dredges are expected to !„» frjm New York, one dredge was borasT January bnt has been replaced by |mL' ono oommenoed work in May. Theiba ponded daring the past 3^ yeara aaum to between £6,000,000 and £7,000,000 ' eflbct of the oanal operations has bMt double the traffic in both pasaeogen, goods m tho Panama Railway, p^ itsolf Is inoreasing in population, aad b ing is very active, whilst at Colon, tbe«t3 extremity of the line, the place ia huhl be recognized from a small hamlet in l$j it has become thriving town with 1 1 trade and atreeta swarming with pe. Houses, stores and other editioes, hive i constmotod all over the island of Mg ilia, and the swamps and marshes sre I reclaimed. In the harbor as many u â-  ships may be seen at times lying at am waiting for their turn to be discharged, t accommodation m quays and wharrei bd quite insufficient for the rapidly grown tul Upwards of 82 000 tons of machinery t stores were discharged last yearfortbeC al Company at Colon. Tiiere is thus i c siderabie activity, and the constractam i the caoal is indirectly benefittiag the i try generally, developing and briogi within the boundaries of civilizition i commercial entsrprise. CapacUn Monieys. Some of these little monkeys reallj i pear o rta'on, and are very clever, fie ger states that when he first gave eggi i his monkeys they smashed them, and I lost much of the'r cantente afterward t gently hit one end against some hard bodf| aod picked off the bite of shells with tbi fingers. After cutting themselves onlfou with a sharp tool they would not touch ij again, or would handle it with the grata care. Lompe of sugar were often them when wrapped ap in paper, andl ger eometimes put a live wasp into thep 80 that in hastily unfolding it they got 8tiii|| After this had happened once theji| ways first held the packet to their eati t detect any movement within. This broil ipg of the egg in a proper manner is as i esti'ng as two well-known fa^ts, one of i may be observed by anybody in the of American, abd other monkeys. Sw times a little monkey has a nut given and he is not strong enough to crack it. will look up into your face with a meinii|| glimmer of his eyes and hand you the nil again. Craos it for him. and he rdoeirei il| as a matcer of course. Formerly one of I largest monkeys in the Zoologicil Garda had weak teeth, and he used to break q the nnte with a stone, and Mr. Darwin ' assured by the keepsra that this anio after using the stone, hid it in the itn(| and would not let any other monkey toachit Bengger taught ons to open palm-nuts k breaking them with a stone, aad so sitiifiii was it with its performance, that it 80onbe| gan to experiment on other kinds of nott and then it began upm boxes. It ' crashed off with blows of a stone the io4 rind of a fruit that had a disagreeable flT«l in order to g«t at the luscious food withal a boer ahon m th* v^niSL. c -rT .** arahopintho FanWu« aad then went to him n^teotilonysfene of tiie th,^ ^^^f^^USGX^St^ l^lJjll^il^Mj^. ^^ to Book rf Moiinon i tiiismaatoa â€" ' â€" ^^^*^*^ ,_,-- • â- *!.-•-' Howaatetoooa- fesshis sms.' ^tUwaaaaasor as Iov£ totha Contiiasirtal proaaoaaeiatiaa of I hafva never tried it siaoo." Wasted to OtBtiHiie to fCTQw Old, Old Mme. Botiisohild, mother of the ndghty oapitaliate, attained the age of niaety-dght. Her wit, iHiioh was reaiark- able^ aad bar intelketaal. faenlties, wUch wete of no common order, were ^preserved tb the end- Ini her last ilhiess, when sur- rounded by her faaifily; bar pUysi^ being p r sss nt she aliiipsred in a aappliaat «^ to tiie latter. "Dear doctor, te? tTdo sometii^ tof me." " Madame, irbalt can dBete*,-'I ddiM^^»ail-tMU jonag agaia, bat I waat to oontinue to grow old.* mon aad dominoes. tM" ojfe -re^iStSrari; tt:;nhir.S'â„¢ "" Tho ponelar Chinas of Ifan opera in Utah a "Tho "l^wai-**.^ Safari ' iWwara, »Miig whom WW a British Export Trade. The exports of British and Irish proiMjl an 1 manufactures during the first five montlfl ot this year are valued at £96 971 999, ml increase of £40,036 rn the retams last yecj A Vling off of £1,204,245 -n tbe expo.-h«| iron snl motals is the only cnfavon fOAtnre of the export trade worthy of notw^l either a o»n.iderabls increase or a lipl| falliuoS bein^ shown. Tbe most rMntfrl able ohaage has occurred in the import trwl the total value of onr imp arte having dedo-l ed £10 897.173. The figures for the Wl five montha of laat year were £180.555 4uil and tk's year they are £169.958 239. Ttfl remarkable decline is entirely owug to tvi decreas'ng imports of food, the value bemi £12 000.000 lets than last year. Itc"»' be supposed that the nation eats less, dpi the natur..! inference is that the country vs| ooutribnted more tosrards the fool aaPr I during the past five months than it aid »l the corresponding ptriod of lastyeM-. ^^I dionld never neglect to buy our food in^i ohe^est marke .. although when that rn^l happens to be America, we may nfiC^l^l our msnufaotures are not taken in payt^l for our food bnt it is none the less f**t|| to believe that our farmers are conpe^l suoosisfully to supply tbe home iD*""t^l ff o1- The agiioul^ral interest has satt**!' from the cnoroaohment o! fore^n c)^F^| ton, bat the nation at large is bcnefited^l snpplica of food at cheaper rates t*^rLi\ •t wWoh it oonid bo produced at h«^ I WiUi an improvement m the •«n"""'i, ftidii^ wiH oome an mcreasedhonw"' maaiLlim inm^Lantbm IroA Trade t^