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 ^w mmi â- 91 YOUNG to be in year has your pen f interest »y3 ready deaire to ibition to ' power.' IS we are iial quali- n on this does not 3 the good a8t, if it e method, contempt things of ho ever advice to aspired 'â-  position, rgniaents ured that ety, per- sgard for nation to nd, were IS, so f?i- the end to secure hod, thafc and wer hers have md labor- the old, vill tie re- :n esteeni- lized into 1 that the rtues are now, to iy were a tinseled s «Iaiiger- 'actors in So- day. pled with Voviilenee i-ttalioiis.' rtonors ;it c-tly owes ing study Jty exem- rcyal road cc Wales' 1' iustruc- 'hsni they «."4 them sm,"' thus n:;h ])orn tlicy liad uiUy with ice a rope i-- ill the re sense- id So the P'c'taiion 11 Ayi,ige d know- fe.-iius (?) u;olanary is u wise jriuace of the mari- U£. shoal, il act as to avoid sc3 their w i-.r mis- t' Shough i whi.stle -las niis- saceess- y adapt- OthtcB ollowing ;a we in- it of Col- ijon, had â- feuccess- tn yoars. 'ho"'and Is it not ne thou- failures gitimate t)cen far little at- bccause il to uso low Helen Hade Cbortesiefl. Charlie came home from school laie. " What is the reason " asked mamma. " Oh, I got kept in. I thought I'd nm out of the room, instead of walking, and the teacher caught me at it, and told me to come back. It was just fun, though I don't care. " Mamma had a little talk about disobedi- ence to teachers, till Charlie finally asked, " Don't you ever do any naughty things in school just tor fun, mamma " Mamma had to tell the truth, and say " Yes," and in a few moments she was tell- ing the following story of herself to Charlie and some other little folks. " When I was seven years old, I went to school to an excellent teacher. "She had a way of having us all, when we were in line belore beginning to recite, 'make a courtesy,' â€" 'make a curchy,' we called it, â€" and another when we were all done, before going to our seats. "The way we did was to bend our knees and drop a little, then straighten up again. " Some of us had a trick of making another just before we sat down in oar seats, and one day, soon after school began for the afternoon, as we were going to our seats, four of us 'made a courtesy,' and raised a laugh from those sitting near. " The teacher told us to come up and stand before the desk, and after asking us if we liked to make courtesies, and being told yes, she ordered us to begin, and kept on till we were tired. When we were tired enough to tell her we were sorry, we could stop and go to our seats. " So we tour little girls began to bob up and down, up and down, like a jumping- Jack or a churn-dasher. "Of course the scholars all laughed, and we laughed too, and thought it was just fun better than studying in our seats. " But after a few minutes our knees be- gan to get very tired, and it did not seem so funny to us. Then one girl, and another, and finally the third, said they were tired and sorry, and went to their seats, and I stood there and bobbed up and down alone. I was very obstinate" " What was that, mamma?" • "Oh, I didn't like to give up, and say I was sorry. " I would right off," said little May, but Charlie said, â€" "O mamma, I know just how that feels inside I It kind of chokes you " " Well, I was very tired, indeed, but when Miss Dodge, who has since told me benrniat too maidi Irioui) or siek or nervona people^ the Jtoosa. One of Bobbie'ffboy8i»deii'an4diMifei't h^r well when be 'is oU^ %o IcfeMi^ or bidden to do some work or when Papa saya. No. The otiier of tiiat deaUe boy answers so quickly, pleaaantly, and politely when he is spoken to that everybody likes to have him around, In Ned's body lives the laziest fellow, who growls out, "I can't," "Too mnch trouble,' "I don't feel like it;" then he yawns and stretehes and says, " I'm so tired." Along with him lives on active, cheerful fellow who plays with all his' might and main, and sometimes when it is study time sets at lessons with a will and is sud^ a nice scholar. BR that I got so pale she feared I would faint, asked me, as she did several times, ' are you not tired, Helen?' I would answer, ' not so very,' and keep on squatting and rising in the most ridiculous manner. "But all the time I was thinking, 'Oh dear, how awful tired I am 1 wish I could just sit down in my seat and study,â€" what fun it would be I wonder if recess never will come I I am so tired I just believe I shall die, and if I do, I guess my mother will scold Miss Dodge for making me make ciirchi/.'i all the afternoon ' " "It wasn't her fault," said little May. " Of course it wasn't, but then I didn't sec that it was my own naughty will that kept me there bobbing up and down for the whole school to laugh at. " At last recess-time came, and while the scholars were all out. Miss Dodge said, 'Helen, I think you are tired enough to go to your seat and rest; don't you think you are?' " ' Yes, ma'am,' I said, quite meekly though I did not say I was sorry, as I ought but i went to my seat and was not at all anxious to go out and play with the rest of the scholars but I never 'made a courtesy' in school again when it was not the proper time to do so. "Is that all? Oh dea.r, *hat's a good story I wih it was longer. How I do wish I had been there to see you, but I wasn't born then, was I " said Charlie. " No," answered mamma. " Seems to me j'ou had all your good times before I was born, when y u was a little girl and had such fun. I wish you had Svaited for me. But tell some more. Vou was naughty again, I think." " Yes, but I can't tell you now " so the children ran to the porch and practised " making courtesies "' Now is it not a pity to have two such different boys in one little body Would it not be ever so. much nicer to have only one, and that the better one, growing into the fairest and most perfect shape I am sure yon think it would, so I am going to tell you that each of you can help the Doy you like best to grow so fast as to crowd the bad ugly fellow into such close qnarters that he will shrink up and grow smaller and smaller till there is almost ncthins: left of him Don't yon know sometimes yonll find in an almond shell a good, fair, whele nut and one tiny, little shrivelled up speck that hasn't had any chance to grow into a philo- pena Now the nnt-shell hasn't any power to control what is inside of it. God makes to grow in it what he likes, one or two ker- nels but God has made yon different and leaves it to yon to help the inside boy to grow. By thinking and taking a little care you can hush that loud boy's voice and step so they will not annoy others and make yon seem rude yon can cure that boy's deaf- ness so he will hear every time he's spoken to. The lazy boy will wake up and stir himself if he is only managed right and the merry, happy boy can just swallow Master Fret if he is only given half a chance. Is it hard Well, yes, of course But hard things are what make men of boys, and you all want to be men, you know, just as soon as ever you can. SCIENOE. Double Boys. T do not mean twin boys, two little brothei-s so nearly alike that friends can hardly tell them apart, but two very differ- ent boys in one little body. You never heard of sueh a thing and do not see how that can be. Let me see. If I were to take a handful of almond nuts and sit down to crack them, with you all standing about me, by-and-by you would see two little kernels lying in one nutshell. When I was a little girl I used to call such nuts philopenas. Do you? Well, just as those two little kernels lie snugly together in one nut, which looks ex- actly the same as other nuti on the outside, so do two little spirits lie inside of your little bodies, making you double boys. Now if you look at some of the philopena nuts you will see that the two kernels are pressed and crowded out of shape one will often be much larger than the other, but neither will be of the smooth, oval shape that belongs to almond nuts. This is be cause they are crowded two in one shell that was meant to be the house for but one nut. The shell is only just large enough for one, and if there are two, you see they must push and press and crowd each other. So each little boy was meant for one dear little boy, and if two boys try to live in it, don't yon see they crowd and press each other so that neither is of a right and per- fect shape Shall I tell you of some of these double boys among you Here is Harry. He has a very sunny, happy boy living in him with such a cross fretful double. Some days the happy boy looks out tIii«odgIi his eyes, talks in his voice, and sings in his l^ugb then whatever mamma asks him to do^r says he may not do, there riiun out the pleasantest "All right." I thiithat is the happy boy's name. Other days nothing is all right, but lesKn8, work, brothers, play- mates, play, even dear mamnuk herself, are all wrong. That is because Hester Fret is the biggest and strongest bo]r on those days and happy All Right is-, crowded close against the waE and the sunshine is all sqneesed oat of him. Frank has two boys also. Oae is a loud boy that stamps and shouts, bangs and slams in the house ias well as out of doors. His mate is a quiet little gentleman who remem- A Russian engineer reports that he has discovered a process of reducing petroleum to a form of crystals which may be easily and. safely transported to any distance and then reconverted into liquid form. The oxide of iron is one of the most ad- hesive cements for iron. With this a join can be made so perfect that the iron will break before the cement will part. It is mixed with sulphur and sal-ammoniac moistened with water. The diminished cost of production in me- tal work was illustrated recently by Dr. John Percy, in an address to the British Iron and Steel Institute, by the statement thtt a gross of steel pens, formerly costing $35, might now be produced for eight cents. The cost of making gold chains has been re- duced to an eighth of what it was. A series of experiments at a Russian mili- tary hospital, upon soldiers suffering only from slight injuries, yielded results which indicate that the Tiabit of smoking has a tendency to retard digestion. The smoker required seven hours to digest a meal made up of the same kind and quantity of food which was digested in six hours by those who did not smoke. Probably few persons realize how unreli- able are the unprofessional thermometric reports which are telegraphed in Winter over the country after each cold wave, so untrustworthy are even the best of spirit thermometers in unskilled hands. Dr. John Rae expresses the opinion that the ther- mometer which is quoted as having record- ed 58 degrees below zero in Manitoba is from 13 to 15 degrees in error. An instru- ment for the accurate measurement of low temperatures is needed as much as a reliable pyrometer for testing the temperature of molten metals. The ratio of sickness rises and falls regu- larly with the death-rate in all countries, as shown by Dr. Farr and Mr. Edmonds at the Loudon Congress of 1860, when the following rule was established Of 1000 persons, aged thirty, it is probable ten will die in the year, in which case there will be twenty of that age sick throughout the year, and ten invalids. Of 1000 pei-sons, aged seventy-five, it is probable 100 will die in the year, in which case the sick and invalids of that age will be 300 throughout the year. For every 100 deaths, let there be hospital beds for 200 sick, and infirm- aries for 100 invalids. One would almost imagine that the power of the microscope had reached its limits but it is now claimed that, by the discovery of a new kind of glass, that power will be increased to an incredible degree. The new ingredients in the im- proved glass are phosphorus and boron, and the difference between the new and the old glass is found in the refraction of light. With the old glass the full power of the microscope was the discernment of one five-hundred-thousandth xart of an inch, and with the new glass it is claimed that the one two-hundred-and-four-million-seven- hundred-thousandth part of an inch can be distinguished. There is more in a heap of coal than most persons are aware of. Besides gas, a ton of gas coal will yield 1,500 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water, and 140 pounds of coal tar. Destructive distillation of the coal tar gives 69*6 pounds of piteh, 17 pounds of creosote, 14 pounds of heavy oils, 9*5 pounds of naphtha yellow, 6*3 pounds of naphthaline, 4*75 pounds of naphthol, 2*25 pounds of alizarine, 2*4 pounds of solvent naphtha, 1*5 pounds of phenol, 1 12 pounds of aurine, I'l pounds of aniline, 0*77 pound of toludine, 0.46 pound ot aubhracine, and 0*9 pound of toluene. From the last named substance is obtained the new fHodnct known as saccharine, which is said to be 230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar. • ^|^veiflii|a' twdlbrassltqfvis.':!,-- f^ 'Mtaack ibz-^aaefcen at: JapiciJiJt^'Qme.," last week. An Orainge TJodgp has jnst been oigspized inCalgKry. " A 3;200 pounds steer was d aag^tentd at Victoria, B. C, not long ago. The census ennmwatitm shows the Pro- testant school population of Winnipeg to be 3,683. An insane girl has been sent out from Spanish River, on theC. P. R., to the Oril- lia asylum. It has been decided to close the Manitoba immigration office at Winnipeg for tiie winter months. John H. Tiffin, of Wallacebmrg, took an everdose of laudaniuu a few days ago and died from the effects. St. Johns, Que., has been warned to im- prove its fire appliances or prepare for an in- crease in insurance rates. A tramp at Truro, N. S. broke a $150 pane of glass in order to get into raol for food and shelter for the winter. Mrs. Gbas. Sugden, formerly of Thorn* dale, recently shot at Grenfeli, K W. T a lynx measuring six feet in length. The Medicine Hat, N.W.T., Times, states that it has got hold if a sensational morsel of news, but it declines to publish it. Not long since a Dorchester, farmer delivered to a London butcher a fat heifer, eighteen months old, weighing 2,400 pounds. There has just been found at Rat Portage the skeleton of a man named Taylor, who was drowned while bathing there two years ago. Mrs. Eliza McCague, of Mono, has been fined $20 and costs tor having in her poses- sion property stolen from St. Luke's Church, Mono. Edward Johnson, of Eden Mills, arrested for the illicit distilling of whiskey, has been sent up for trial by Police Magistrate Saim- ders, of Guelph. A case nefore the Stipendary Magistrate at St. Johns, Que., had to be postponed last week becftuse no »i» present could understand the signs of the chief witness, who was deaf and dumb. A pulp boiler weighing thirteen tons, twenty-three feet long, seven feet in diame- ter, and which it required eight horses to draw to the depot, has just been turned out by a firm at Sherbrooke, Quebec. Medicine Hat has the name of being the most peaceable town in the Territories. No lows, in which whiskey takes a part, occur there. In the towns surrounding people are continually hanled up charged with vio- lating the liquor laws; but here the laws are not violated. A Campbellford lady, well known for her kindly disposition and her earnestness in working iu any good cause, was much surprised a day or two ago on being address- ed by name and having a sum of money placed in her hand, with the request to apply the money to charitable purposes. A farmer at Dundee, Que. recently under- took to take home, without payment of the- $5 of duty to which it was liable, some fur- niture which he had purchased at Fort Covington, but he was intercepted by a Customs officer and it cost him to ^ettle about nine, times as much as he paid for the furniture. The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba has declined, on the ground of having no jurisdiction, to issue a mandamus compell- ing County Judge Prudhomme to pronounce on the re-cohnt upon all ballots cast in the North Dufferin election. At the re-count the judge declined to consider any but re- jected ballots. A young man by the name of W. J. But- ters was killed in a saw mill in the Tp. of St. Vincent, on Friday of last week, by the burstmg of a pulley which he was turning â€" a piece striking him on the forehead be- tween the eyes. He lived but two hours after the occurrence. Deceased was 33 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children. â- hat -zisting ^xaJlway f trains^ day reak dmm oni oiiiyua Ber twenly^.trainiper^V.: SW^s %it iflA^rc- ed on my attention nearly twenty y^trs ago, by t^ frikitare of a number- of iron girders of ordinary strength, under a five-minute train service. Similarly, when in New York last year, I noticed, in thecase of some hon- dreds of girders on the elevated t»ilway, that the alternate thrust and pull on the central diagonals from trains passing every two or three minutes had developed weak- nesses which necessitated the bars being re- placed by stronger ones after very short service. Somewhat the same thing had to be done recendy with a bridge over the riv- er Trent, but the train service being small, the life of the bars was measured by years instead of months If ships were always among great waves, the number going to the bettoni' would be largely increased. It an pears natural enough to every one that a piece, even of th« toughest wire, should- be quickly broken if bent backward and for- ward to a shaip angle but peThaps only to locomotive and marine engineers does it ap- pear equally natural that the' same result would follow in time if the bending were so small as to be quite imperceptible to the eye. A locomotive crank-axle bends but one- eighty -fourth inch, and a straight driving- axle a still smaller amount, under the heavi- est bending stresses to which they are sub- ject, and yet their life is limited. During the year 1883 one iron axle in fifty broke in running, and one in fifteen was renewed in consequence of defects. Taking iron and steel axles together, the number then in use on the railways of the United Kingdom was 14,848, and of these 911 reqnirea renewal during the year. Similarly, during the past three years no less than 228 ocean steamers were disabled by broken shafts, the average safe life of which is said to be about three or four years. Experience has proven that a very moderate stress, alternately from ten- sion to compression, if repeated about lOJ,- 000,000 times, will cause fracture as surely as a bending to an angle repeated only ten times. Calvin's Influence Still Lives There. The small republic of Geneva spends an- nually one-fourth of its income for public instruction this policy is not modem, but it has existed since the Reformation, when it was taught by Calvin that knowledge is the strength ot a nation. Calvin himself created the college which bears his name, and installed in it the same building which is still used for the same purpose and called St. Antoine it is the Geneva boys' pride to finish their studies in that establishment. The first degree of ihstruction is given to children from three to six years old in 56 schools, divided among the whole canton and counting over 3,000 scholars. The prim- ary instruction is gratuitous and obligatory from 6 to 13 years old. At the end of each academic year (beginning of summer) exam- inations take I lace, after which prizes, con- sisting of books and silver medals, are de- livered to the best scholars. This distribu- tion of prizes is followed by a fete given to all the children of the different sclioois in the town. After meeting all in one of ihe public gardens they are led in procession through the principal streets, with bands and escorted by soldiers, to large shady grounds where games of all kinds are pre- pared for them. When playing is over they receive cakes, wines and fruit, and later in the evening a magnificent exhibition of fire- works closes the day, which is talked about during all the holidays. Speanngtiirouah «i^ ice in winter af- fonis coMideralfe'i^ at a time when otf^.^nethods^ve ^pn^^by the severe coldr _li niiy be l^»c*fced1rith comparative ea^rty and on the hundreds of amS^lakes tattle noi^ of us, with, certainty of suc- CMs. Tobegiu then construct a small shan- ty of common siding, about five feet square, and with a smaU door for entrance. It should be made without other opening and without crevices, which would admit the light. This 18 floored ha\-ing a hole a little larger than a flour barrel. If so inclined you may provide a luxury in the shape of a small 8 cove of sheet iron with stove pipe of about two inches in diameter. Being now rea4y for operatitms, convey the shanty out upon a frozen lake or river where the water beneath is from five to fifteen feet deep. Cut a hole through the ice to correspond with the hole in the floor of your shanty. Place the latter over this hole. If light enters between the bottom of the shanty Mid the ice, block up with snow. If the lake IS covered with snow scrape off a space around the shanty to admit ^ylight mto the water. ' On entering this shanty the eye can dis- tinguish nothing, in the almost total dark- ness, but the ghuing hole and bright water beneath. In a few moments the outlines of bjests are distinguishable, and on looking downward into the water, the weeds and bottom appear with almost startling clear- ness. No matter how cold without, or how ' wildly blows the wind, your may here take your comfort as thoroughtly as in you own snug home. Having provided a wooden minnow, load- ed at the bottom with lead, gaudily spotted with red and blue and having a bright tin fin on each side and a tin tau, fasten it by a line from three to six feet long (depending on the depth, of the water) to a stick about eight inches in length. This is held in the left hand, the minnow is dropped into the water, and by bending the fins and tail a little, it is made to " rove" over a circuit of several feet by a slight continuous jerking of the little stick. A littU practice will en- able the novice to "get the hang of it," and a day or two will make him an adept. The minnow is thus made to dart hither and thither across the hole, and three feet cr six feet below the surface. A pike perhaps discovers the minnow and. makes a dash for it, but the eccentric move-^ ments of the latter deceive him, and he misses the prize. Again ' and again he re- turns to the attack each time more slowly until a convenient opportunity is offered to str ke him. Very often he comes to a dead stand-still below the minnow, following it slowly to the surfat e, if it is gradually raised and kept roving. The spear used neccessarUy has a short handle. It is kept with its point resting on the edge of the ioe-hole ready for instant use. A stout cord is attached to the handle for its recovery. Excellent sport can be obtained in this manner all through the winter months, and large fine fish taken, which being thrown outside the shanty soon-freeze, and are " than OfOoiune. " If you had a note to pay to-day," he said as he sat in an insurance o£Bce looking straight at the agent, " and yon had all the money but $5, wonM yon nu a friend to lend it to you, or would you let your note go to protest and ruin yotir credit?" " Let the note go to protest, q^ course " was the pron^t rej^Iv. Then the clock ticked and ticked, andtiie noise of a hkir falling to the floor sounded like a crow-bar, and' the man with the note said he guessed it was goia^ toandw, and the entrance at a oraple of visitors mereifnl- ly permitted him to escape. One day last week the people of Victoria, B.C ., were treated to the novel spectacle of an imposing Chinese fuueral, which was conducted with all the barbaric pomp pos- sible. The hearse was preceded by gong- beaters, men on horseback carrying flags and banners, and curiously -attired figures. Immediately following the hearse was a black horse, saddled and bridled, supposed to be for the use of the spirit of the deceas- ed celestial. A line of carriages filled with chattering Chinese brought up the rer. On Thursday of last week Mrs. Stephen Van Worden was found dead in the woods at Port Saxon, N. S. about two miles from the main road. The circumstances are re- ported as follows â€" Since the death of her husband the deceased had resided with her son, Mr. Abram Van Worden, at Port Saxon, and at the time had been paying a visit to her daughter, Mrs. William Chis- holm, at Clyde River, some three or four/ miles away. Having stayed beyond the limit arranged for, Mrs. Van Worden had sent one of her children to inquire if the grandmother was all right and still at Mrs. Chisholm's. It was then ascertained she had left for heme two days before. A search was immediately instituted, with the result stated. The deceased was a native of Aber- deenshire, Scotland, and was more than eighty years old. During the past year 77,221 cases of lob- sters were packed on P.E. Island, valued at about $406,410. The number of fish killed amounts to over 25,9Mi256,'averaging in size about seven to a can. The greater portion of these goods were shipped to England. Betides wese some 14,703 cases, pat up in NiewfoundUuid, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were brought there for shipment. On ihe whole the season has not been sat- isfactory, and io all probability the packers will soon hold another eonvention to con- ^der tibeir course for the future. Compar- ed with last year the output has beat about 1,430 cases more, but the fish have decreased again in size for whereas in 1885 it tock SIX and a half lobsters to fill a can, during the past year it took seven. In fact, ever since 1879, when it took but three to a can, the fish have steadily decreased in lize, sometime by three-fourths of a fish to a can per year. Connubial Sarcasm- Husband â€" "Bell, your feet suggest a capital paraphrase to me of those two lines contained in Goldsmith's ' Village School- master ' And still they gazed, and still their wonder grew, That one small heal covld carry all he Icuew. " Wife (sweetly, expecting a compliment) â€" " How so, my pet " "Thusly, (edging toward "the hole the car-penter left):" And stUl I iazed, and still my wonder grew That big '9' hoofs could wear a small ' S' shoe." The piece of bric-a-brac that she grabbed from the mantel did not hit him, but it cracked a panel in the closing door as he vanished. Woman in the Home. A woman's life should be written in her home, her past with its warmth of sunlight, its shadows of memory, her present with its strength of service, its grace of sympathy, and her future with ito calmness of coming twilight, its restfulness of hope beyond the night. No woman's life has fuU, visible ex- pression without a home. Homeless women are denied their natural language, and speak with conscious effort, with sense of loss, a language less vital and human, like deaf mutes by sign and gesture. But emotion is more than utterance, life more- than utter- ance, life more than its utmost expression. We may miss the rightful insignia of our home, but we cannot be disinherited. Those whose spirits are at home in the truth, the faith, the love which are immortal, have built for themselves, not tabernacles on the Mount of Transfiguration, but eternal homes. Tte 9mt Keacldiic Perfume of a good name heralds the dsim that Putnam's Fsinless Com RctHMctec ]«» adre, certain, and punleasremadyrlor.pmna^ nf ty imitationa prove it to be idie be^ At dZKggisti. A Bemarkably Bhaip Witness. Sam Johnsing, having attended a night school for a few weeks, believes that he la the smartest nigger in Ansdn. He was a witness in a burglary case, and created a sensation by his intelligence. " Do you think you would re agnize the burglar if you were to See him again " "Why, boss, of course I would." " You are stare yon would identify the thief if you were to see him again " " I tell you so ag'in. Pse not one of dese fool niggers what doeant know nnffin.' I oould 'dcattifv dat man eben if Lumber seed him ag'in. I don't hab ter see faun ag'in'^to 'dent^ h im." Fo Light intheWindoir. As the train sped alraig in the night, with drowsy passengers outatrotcfaed npon the seats, the condqctor was ofamrved mqneay peering out ci the frosty window into tibe darkness. The night Was black, and nothing could beseen but a sheetof snow over fie shadowy landscape, and yet the con- ^actatstu^ed his ^es witii bis two ha» and he]4 kis faceâ€" a w«u^ -IooKQ^ face it was, to^-r-cloee to'le wina9ir-|iiKiie. "JUMiki^ to see If .y6nr mpi awake yet^" tbquii^ an titqliliM^-^ witii a ooorae Ian j^ Ijioiiglit to the table in better flavor at aay other season of the year. It is as- ton'ishnv,' that this plan is not. more gen- erally known and practiced, being wholly" free from the objections to netting as it is no butchery and does not unduly thin out the game. There are several lakes nearMcHenry, in the State of Illinois, which are dotted with scores of these shanties from the time the ice becomes fairly solid until spring warns tbeir owners to remove to a better founda- tion. The conductor looked around and shudder- ed, as with a husky voice he replied simply, "yes." And then the inquisitive passenger be- came garrulous and familiar. He sat down beside the conductor and poked him in the ribs as he lightly said " Ah, I see. Going to get married and quit the road. Going to mirry a farmer's daughter. Worth much " " She's worth a million to me." Further remarks ir. a similar vain did the passenger make, but the conductor deigned no more replies. Suddenly the whistle of the locomotive gave a long, low moan, the conductor stuck: his eyes still closer to the window, seemed to fasten his gaze upon some object in the darkness, and then fell back in his seat with a cry of despair upon his lips. The passengers gathered round to inquire the nature of the trouble, when the brake man assisted his chief to rise and led him into the baggage car. The conductor's fac- was as white as the snow-banks which fringe ed the iron roadway, and his eye was a look of tearless grief. " Poor Sam " said the brakeman, upon his return "it's a bad night for him. Four weeks his little girl had been ill. Night after night he was at her bed, but then she fot better and he came back to his train, fe arranged with his wife that if all was well with the little one she'd display a light- ed lamp right iii the window of the sick- room. The boys all knew it, and every night we looked for the light almost as eagerly as Sam himself. He lives by the side of the track back a few miles â€" and to-night there was no light in the window for Sam." â€" Chicago Herald, An Eleotrioal Giematorr. An electrical crematory is sisiid by the Philadelphia Ledger to have been devised by a process described as follows â€" ^The body. Being shrouded in sheeto made of as- bestos, is laid upon a frame composed of fire- brick, while at the head and foot are large copper plates, to which the leads from spe- cially constamcted dynamos of large electro- motive force are attached. The body ap- parently occupies the position of tiie filament in an incandescent lamp, and, upon the cur- rent being pesaed through it, would be in- stantiy carbonized whue, as tiie air would have free excess to it, the process of destruc- tion, or rathor deconqxMition would be inu mediate. Thiaproceea i^ipears to have the recommendation of great rapidity of action, and freedom from many of the objections to crenaation-in the ordinary way, and admits of seiwral little improveinents upon all re- cognized lotvoB of bariaL ttix milliqi barrels of beer are coivumed annually in city,' at a coat to tiie con- sumers of at least ^0,000,000. Since more .thui half the population never drink beer atafl, thoae who do vnng^ ovw $100 a year apiece for it, even.^^lowing, as the Swn anggsatfc tkpt $lp« Pf^F^ ^^ "B'a from qat of to^fm driidc a good deal of it. Tbi» rather an expansive ]xxvarf,~N, T. Maa aitd JShepnUi ttiiiiii