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 s^li 1 \ii^ 11- " y â- â€¢:. I M 1 XIP .?â- ! -J re- B|^y£0ITABI0GIKL8. STSAIE AinFAl ^sA^ â- peaking of hiB^^neriaBoe sfew tvvainga »?o, related a story, which wfll be given here in hia own words. Said be: " Weâ€" there nras a party of four â€" bad reached the limit of the stage line at a little frontier town named Broken Bow,, but our destination was the valley of the Middle Lonb Kiver, a hundred and fifty miles further into the unsettled prairie, where the only thing to attract the eye from the mono- tony of the endless snccession of hills and valleys was an occasional flock of pnurie chickens or a deer, which, startled ^m'his eoneh in the grass, after a momeat of wild cariosity, woiudbonndgnuMfnllyaway over thecrestof the nearest riringgrotmd. The day we left Broken Bow, after several hours of travel, we passed a neat white school- house, where some hali dozen sturdy child- ren were gazing out of the open door nnre- bnked, for a passing vehicle was a subject of much comment and conjectoie in that sparse settlement, and could not go unheed- ed. Behind the children, and scarcely less interested than tfaey, stood their teacher, a blooming, healthy-looking girl of about 22 years, I judged, and there was something in her easy manner and refined face that was in striking contrast to tbe rude surroundings and uuDfbken prairie. The presence of the pupils could be accounted for by recalling two or three sod huts within a few miles, but we couldn't be satisfied with consigning this fair girl to such an origin. " At last we appealed to our driver, who had not heeded our conversation, for some solution to the mystery, thinking that, as a resident of Broken Bow, he might be ac- quainted with the circumstances, and we were not mistaken. "It was learned from him that several yeais ago two plucky girls came to the 'Bow' as Broken Bow is usually called, which was at that time composed of but two or three houses, and was the extreme limit of habi- tation. They came from Ontario, but with andaunted resolution they expended their small supply of cash in exploring the wild- erness and in securing the necessary homestead papers and erecting a sod hut. Then they began housekeeping, and the ri- gors of the long bitter winter came on. How they struggled and the privations they en- dured win never be known, and through all those brave eirls kept a cheerful hopefulness that was positively heroic. The following summer a few other settlers ventured to take claims in the region, and, with true Canadian instinct, their first care after building shelter for their families was the erection of a tiny schoolhDuae, with sod walls four feet thick. The natural drift of circumstances led to one of the pioneer girls being chosen as the first teacher, and thus their almost exhausted purse was reple- nished. By means of hard labor they had, during thu first summer, raised enough food stuffs to last, with close economy, until the following spring, and then with the money earned in teaching, a small team of bronchos and some farming implements were purchas- ed, and prosperity began to seem a thing of the near future and to no longer be a crea- tion of their brave hopeeu Years hurried on, and the little schoolhouse of sod gave place to a more imposing structure of wood. " The farm began to have a value, and an occasional speculater would survey the 320 broad acres, for each girl took a claim, and propose to pay a sum for it that would make the eyes of the owners sparkle, but all in- ducements were in vain, and this summer when we passed the schoolhouse and heard the history of the courageous girls from the lips of the prosaic guide, that farm would have sold for enough cash to have taken the sisters back to East Ontario and have bought them besides a neat little home among their childhood friends. " But they have no inclination to return to East Ontario exept for an occasional visit, and propose to broaden their possessions un- til wealth brings them comfort and leisure, and the country round about them is filled with an intelligent and industrious popu- lation. The British Wheat Crop. The wheat crop of Great Britain is this year a -fair average one. The dry weather tibroughout the spring was unfavorable, but the crop ripened under good conditions. According to Sir John Law, who is an authority on the subject, the average yield has been about 28§ bushels to the acre, which IB rather lower than last year's. This fives a home grown crop of nearly 64,000,000 nshels. But this is not:a third of what the people of Great Britain will require for he year. Calculating the consumption at 5.65 per head, 211,359,520 1[U8hels of wheat wiU be needed this year to feed the inhabi- tants of the Uliited Kingdom. There must, therefore, be an importation of 147,359,520 bnaliels. The proportion of home grown wheat to the whole consumption has been rapidly decreasing of late years. From 1S52 to 1860, Sir John Law says, three-fourths of the amount of wheat consumed in the coun- try was home grown. From 1878 to 1886 the home crop has been little more than (me-third of the home consumption. For- eign competition has made wheat raising unpofitaUe in Great Britain hut still, in spite of all disadvantages, a great deal of whept is raised in the country. The Eng- lish farmer has come to look for his profit, not from the wheat, but from the straw. The wheat, even in favorable years, iMurely repays the cost of raising it, but the farmer has the straw to the good. This being a bulky commodity in proportion to its vtdue it does not pay to import it, so foreign com-' petition does not i^ect straw as it does wheat. The area of land under wheat, however, goes on decreasing and the Britidi. farmer has not yet found anything to conr- pensate him for the greatly lessened ^ne of his wheat crop. A great deal of advice has been offered him and he has tried many experiments, but nothine has yet been dis- covered as a paying substitate for wheat. Some have suggested a return to agricultur- al protection, but that the Biitish tax- payer irill not listen to for a moment. The idea of a bread tax is moat repuenant to him and this is'not snrpiiaing, as ne must of necessity depend so largely on colonists and foreigners for his suppTy of the staff of life. Awoiih;^ old lady offers the following advloe to girls " Whmever a fellow papk the question, don't Unsh and stare at your foot. Jnat throw yoor arms aroima his neck, look him full in the fause, and com- mence talking about tiie fnmitnre." ynnnMK when alone, as they were, river Mnsera yet s»-n.wsfS, _, His palace gardens, beantifni he never entered, because tbs flowed through them. His coachman had orders to avud all n^ Whi«di led past streams, and if compelled to cross a brook or bridge the great emperor would sit with closed windows, in a cold 'perspiration. A*"******' monarch, James L, the EngUsh Solomon, as he liked to be call- ed, had many antipathies, chiefly tobacci ling- and pork. Ha never overcame his in- ability to look with composure at a drawn sword and it is sdd that on One occasion, when giving the accolade, the kins: turned his face aside, nearly wounding the new- made knight. Henry 111. of France had so gi«at a dislike to cats that he fainted at the sight of one. We suppose that in this case the cat had to waive its proverbial preroga THBMOIZB Tw*Te Angnst for boiy- and on Tuesday deavorea-te B Ww e i h e m to wpent deaTorwTTo^^ of hardenea wickfldpess A double ezecation hi atAix. The twolad^ andT^uni, aged 19, death in tiie bMinnins lary and a doable mnrdar, suffered their sentence. Bfc-. --^p- -- Impenitent, cnrsing the ch aplam, who m^ SsZ*^nw~-*enrto Mpentancei and Mk^ forr^ Md drank off a large glass jSrtas th^Were going out to "ec^^o" JSSA€»»l4htBd*toNM. •°l,'?«l****S." ^Wwalled up to the guillotinQ. They Wer6atteltdedtoWlaSt*ra^confratermty caUed the Blue Penitents, but popuUr^ known ill Provtooeas the Jfwnw dela Mart. They are no a religious oonfratermty, alSh they vrere oriSnally, havmg been found^ in lie siiteenli century by a holy Driest. Matthieu Amaud, Canon of St. iauveur. He was moved with compassion for the unfortunate cbnvfcts, who, when tdve and could not look at a king. Thu wiU Ubey had suffered capital punishment, were seem as absurd as extraordinary to Udy ' ' 'â-  j v„ ♦».« â„¢lt„r«. lovers of that much-petted animal, but what are we to say of the Countess of Lainballe, of unhappy history, to whom a violet was a thing of horror Even this is not without it precedent; for it is on record that Vincent the painter was seized with vertigo and swooned at the smell of roses. Scaliger states that one of his relations was made ill at the sight of a lily and he himself would turn pale at the sight of water .cresses, and could never drink milk. Charles Kingsley' naturalist as he was to the core, bad a great horror of spiders and in " Glaucus," after saying that every one seems to have his antipathic animal, con- tinues "I know one (himself) bred from his childhood to zoology by land and sea, and bold in asserting, and honest in feeling that all without exception is beautiful, who yet can not, after handling and petting and examining all day long, every uncouth and venomous beast, avoid a paroxysm of horror at the aifiht of the common house-spider." The writer shares in this dislike to a pain- ful extent in this case it is inherited from his grandfather. JChe genial author of the " Turkish Spy " says that he would far pre- fer sword in hand to face a lion in his desert lair than have a spider crawl over him in the dark. The cat, as we have previously mentioned, has repeatedly-been an object of aversion. The Duke of Schomberg, though a redoubtable soldier, would not sit in tJ^e same room with a cat. A cour.tier of the Emperor Ferdinand carried this dislike so far as to bleed at the nose on hearing a cat A well-known ofcer of Her ^of Be«|ding, Harjknis'f 0OtJSBHOLI mew. Majesty's army who has proved his strength and courage in more than one campaign, turns pale at the sight of a cat. On one occasion when asked out to dinner, his host, who was rather skeptica' as to tiie reality of this feeling, concealed a cat in an ottoman in tbe dining-room. Dinner Has announced and commenced, but his guest was evidently ill at ease and at lengUi declared his in- ability to go on eating, as he was sure there was a cat in the room. An apparently thorough, shut unavailing, search was made but his visitor was so completely upset that the host, with many apologies for his experiment, " let the cat out of the bag," and out of the ottoman at the same time. Lord Lauderdale, on the other hand, declared the mewing of a cat was to him sweeter than any music, while he had the greatest dislike to the lute and the bagpipe. In this latter aversion he was by no meanslsingular. Dogs too have come in for their share of disl^e. De Musset cordially detested them. When a candidate for the Academy he called upon a prominent member. At the gate of the chateau a dirty ugly dog received him most affectionately, and insisted on preceding him into the drawing-room, De Musset cursing his friend's predilection for the brute. The Academician entered and they adjourned to the dining- room, the dog at their heels. Seizing his opportunity ute doc; placed his muddy paws upo the spotless cloth and carried off a bonne-bouche. "The wretch wants shoot- ing " was De IMusnet's muttered thought, but he politely said " You are fond of dogs, I see " " Fond of dogs," retorted the Academi- cian, " I hate them I" " But this animal here," queried De Mus- set " I have only tolerated it because I thought it was yours, sir." "Minel" exclaimed the poet: "the thought that it was yours alone kept me from killing him " The Discoyeiy of Coffee* Toward the middle of the fifteenth cen- bury a poor Arab was traveling through Abyssinia, and finding himself very wea^ and weary from fatigUe, he stopped near a grove. Then, being in want of fuel to cook his rice, he cut down a tree covered with dm^ berries. The meal being cooked and eaten, the traveler disoovered that the half-burned berries were very fragrant. Ue collected a number of these, and on crushing them with a stone he found their aroma increased to a great extent. While wondering at this he accidentally let fall the substance in a can which contained a small supply of water. Lo, what a miricle The umost putrid liquid was instanUy purified. He brought it to his lipe it was agreeable, and m a tew moments after the traveler had so far recovered his strength and energy as to be able to resume hia journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many of the berries as he coaM cuiy, and having arrived at Arden, in Arabia, he informed the Mufti of his dis- covery. The worthy divine was an inveter- ate opium-smoker, who had been suffering for years from the influence of the poisonous drug. He tried an inf nmon of the berries, and was so delighted with the recovery of his own vigor that in gratitude to the tree left unburiedto be devoured by the vultures or other birds of prey, and entreated soine charitable persons to join in trying, hrst to procure spiritual help forthopoiw fflreatnres, Md then to obtain decent banal fte them- The call was answered, and good Chrwlwn gentlemen formed an association to visit the Condemned in prison they also asruted them to meet death, and bought a grave for them, where they saw them decently interred. It is odd enough that *o purely Catholic and mediaval an institution as the so-called Jfmnea de la Mart should have survived every revolution, and be still not only tolerated, but recognized by tne local anuiorities. When the news of Tegami's and Jispo- sito's approaching execution was made known in Aix, the gentlemen who belonged to the confraternity assembled in the chapel in the Rue du Bon Pasteur, and, having been inf ormed by their secretary of the coming tragedy, offered up prayers for the condemmed then two antique lamps were lighted and placed before the 'altar, to bum there until all was over. From the day of the condemnation till the day of the execution prayers were offered up for the condemned, and a mass said once a week for them. At the end of every religious ex- ercise in their intention, the members go in procession to the foot of the altar, reciting hymn and prayer. The day and hour of the execution are then notified to them of- hcially by the Attorney-General of Aix. The Attorney General wrote " Monsieur k President de la Con/rerie des PeniterUs Mens â€" I have the honor to inform you that the capital execution of Esposito and Tegami will take place to-morrow at half past 5 in the morning. I know the services your con- fraternity have rendered, and may still ren- der to justice. In inviting you to assist at this execution I am therefore only conform- ing to an ancient tradition." The Blue Penitents at once went to their chapel, and before the crucifix, surrounded by six light- ed candles, they recited the prayers for the agonizing, stopping at the words, jTro/TcMcere anima Christiana. Next morning they were at the prison, accompanied the condemned to the scaffold, saw their bodies placed in the cofSns, and followed them to their dis- honored grave. A great many Free Think- ers, 1 am assured, l^long to this confratern- ity. Embanassing: Geiemomes- People who are unaccustomed to social life and unskilled in controlling themselves are terrible sufferers when any thing like a crisis comes. Weddings are frightful ordeals to these bashful ones, as these anecdotes show: A justice of the peace in Saratoga County recently joined a pair who were so embar- rassed that they hardly knew what they were doing. The man wore a white sixaw hat which he whirled on his finger' before the ceremony began. When told tq stand up he jumped before the justice with the greatest alacrity. For a few moments he did not know what to do with the hat, but finally found his way out of the difiSculty by putting it between his knees. This was too much for the bride. With the handle of her parasol she caught the hat, pulled it from its position, and then, abashed at her audacity, dropped hat and parasol to the floor. The same justice tells a story of another couple who came to be married. The man was dreadfully puzzled and, without real- izing the act, pulled a cigar from his pocket and Degan twirling it around. When that Txnrtion of the ceremony was reached where pride and groom join hands he happened to have the ci^ar in his right hand. What to do with the cigar he apparently did not know, liie justice paused a minute and then again directed the pair to join hands. By this time the poor fellow's embarrassment was padnf id. He gave one agonized look at the justice of l^e peace and stuck the cigar in his mouth. Before the ceremony could be concluded the justice had to take the cigar from between the man's lips. ^rdol!; bl^irSllc^o^ 196 «25.10. An Otsego man lost A the woods was aboft ffi^down to die fro» «»*'""J°° wh« a iter's gw sl»rtled. Jum ar i Obwedhimthewayoat. Judge George Hooter 9f ^^" ^^, ord^thTZister at his wife's funern^ to Jtorry through the swrvioes. that Sgbt bi^ in time to attend a sale of city l®** ... *__ A St Clair resident had two tintypes taken. Lad at the foot of ewh P'?*"*. » » rpclinhig position, her head restmg on her Sid, isa^eet picture of theyoung man s dead mother. On the tombstone of Martha Anne Moore, whSe grave is in Old Wilner,^Gi».. » thu. curious epitaph " Boys, don't shoot bpds irwnd Martha's grave." The grave is m wild wood where game is plenty. The town of Saranao is sued by JiUian F. Mills for $20,000 for the lost affections of his girl, who dismissed him after he had been arrested for drunkenness. Jnhan proved he was noiflrunk and was discharg- fid When a Uttle girl Mrs. Helen FraUck was stolen from her parents in Chicago. That wasthirty-two years ago, and nowmotiier and daughter have been reunited. Certain scard that she carried when a child wid still retains make the identification complete. i^ iiOiabitSih oj ?ni*» these iteZ *%J l#ptiplrabidinS2lO* thejieatsrtiaS^,.»»», ,.'rth5jeveralhSSilS Id stan^tnts, by far t^SJjS to the articulated ani^ .^tL omstaceans, these beinij ta^JlSl all animals, are the moat viri?^*" and best suited for the odd^*' â- irhidi the caverns affori a 4*l weU knows, the great probw'** science is to determine howt "'•k o£ livm^ creatures are deten^Jf*, chrcnnwtances of the world ibSSl h»w far this determmationhuW^I about through a process of J!!5M natural way, of those varietiri!?jJI some accidental special fitnea I ditiMis in which they live, afford, us a capital bit of evidea^: the solution of this problem. TiT »ng close aflnity of their formitL which live in the upper world ouJ and changing seasons showg. b»n„j" tion, that they all derivedlSft " forms which once dwelt b the conditions of animal life, \\riut J^ the effects arising from this comi^' in the circumstuaces of tkew Q. creatures? The facts are perplexing b their t and hj no means well worked oBtWl following points seem to be weQ e viz. There is a manifest •Ho. lor r^ktxiMt in your cbuore -iJdSight. kr^_^ p^andard of pnnci 1^ judges. ^h.th«n m smaU j'5J5ishtoknow,8ayr so. .â€" mmU'iB posrible, kijB thi iJjfJSstbemWdo*. is»» â€" „ .rA largely inmindyouareiarg .-Mldren's inherited chara Table Etiquette iu ZanzibaT- A contributor to the Overland Mvntldy gives the following sarpriysing and amusing Scconnt of the table manners of the natives of Zanzibar; ^L ^^ Five or six of them seat themselves around a large bowl of rice, surmounted by a skinny fowl, all being curried. Two sieze the wings with their fingers, and two the legs, and simultaneously tearing these off, leaving the carcase to the fifth, afterward takint out the rice by handfuls and dexter- ously conveying it to the mouth with a peculiar jerk. One mark of hospitality shown to guests when at tabk, consists in the chief's rolling some rice into a ball in the palm of his hand, and aiming it at the guest's widely distended jaws. On one occasion this piece of civility was shown to myself, but not being an adept in the art of swallowing rice balls when so pro- jected, the effect was anytliing but what my kind entertainer anticipated, for, indepen- dent of being nearly choked, the grains were scattered, or rather sputtered, over the table in a maimer that elicited roars of laughter even from the very grave Arabs. This,_ of course, was the last experiment of the kind tried upon me.. Fish and Fishing. In. four days over 3,000,000 menhaden were caught at Somers Point, N. J. Bed drum fish weighing sixty pounds apiece are being caught from the iron pier at Cape May. Six were caught in a few hours one day recently. A tired New Jeisey fisherman laid his pole with line and baited hook on the 1 ank while he took a dose. Upon waking he found a young robin had taken the bait and been killed by the hook. A lar?e salmon in attempting to climb the cataract falls at Biddeford, killed himiself. H. M. Kelly of Saco witnessed the accident, and captured the fish. It weighed sixteen pounds. A man Qshing.on the Kinchefoone Creek got a bite and saw his cork go down like a shot. He began pulling in, but had to c!ill for help, and landed a turtle weighing 200 pounds. While Maurice Bergeron was fishing for shrimp at Bruly Landing, La., a hurge alligator, made an effort to throw hiin into the water with nis tail, but the blow miss- ed the mark; The boy ran. The monster caught him, however, by the leg and tore his trousers off, but without inflicting any serious wound. he called it cabnah, which in Arabic means " *^ provinces, has jiist died from the "force." And this is the way coffee ,^ng *-«-*--* *»• =-â€" â- Â» **â€" »v-â€" -jj=â€" discovered. A fine glass vase, jtfikt discovered in an Etruscan tomb at Bologna, is. of a sea-green color, like a sodawater Dottle, liiick and of a aiw)ue form, with two handles. It is nine inches hi^ and without omamenta- tion. There is not a ringle defect, flaw, crack, or eh^ abont it With it was fonad an ivoiy diair, made after the fashion of a modem camp stool, havias all its screws and rivets still in perfect ooniiitkm, and a sbmU casket eontaiimig beads and some voxy elegant articles mbfonze. The artidas are saH yosed to date firom tbe fifth oentuy. The tomb inwhidi thqr were fomd waa closed at the tqp by an enormoDs globalar mass of stones as frerii as if it had o^ been fauriiioned ysstarday. Absinthe and Its YiotimB. Absinthe is used by nearly idl moderate drinkers in this capital as an appetizer be- fore dinner, and ita opaline tut in the tumblers set before Bonlevardiers at the " absinthe hour " is pleasant to look upon but ita immoderate use is productive of un- told evil, as the chronicles of the hospitals can vouch for, and its slaves are becoming more numerous every day, partictdarly amon^ the poorer classes, w^o fly to it be- cause it is cheap and soon intoxicates. A man, known in the noighbonrhood of the miltary school as Pere Frederic, who was once an opmtic " primotenore " of repute The Bnildeis of the F^iamids. A personal inspection of the pyramids of Egypt made by a quarry owner, who spent some time recently on the Nile, had led him to the conclusion that the old Egyptians were better builders than those of the pre- sent day. He states that there are bloons of stone in the pyramids which weigh three or four times as much as the obeu^ on the embankment. Be saw a stone whose esti- mated weight was 880 tons. Bat then the builders m. the pyramids counted human labor lightly. They had great masses nf subjecto upon whom to draw, and most of their work was done by sheer mannal labor and force. There are stones in the pyramids thirty feet in lensth, which fit so closely to- gether that a peucnif e may be run over the surface withont disooverfng tlie bredc be- tween' them. The^ are not laid with mor- tar either. There is no machinery so per- fect that it will make two surfaces thttty feet in leiwth which will meet together in unison as these stones in the pyranudsmeet. It is supposed that they were rubbed back- wards and forwards niton each other until the surfaces were assimllatod. effects oi the noxious decoction, thus adding one victim more to the Ions list of persons called frueeurs (foftnnffte. nederic destroyed his larynx W his favorite drink, Imt he managed to «ce oatamiserable exbtenoe by singing in " third-class eafe» concerts. H!e was engaged lately in~ one of tiiese places, but the proprietor of the establishment be-, came bimkruptand paid off his tenor with a 'tbottie of abslniaie." The braken-down ringer, who had norSMmey for food, went bome to his garret and poured the oontenta of his quart Dottie dwioi his diroat. In the mirtoiiMr liewas'*M;dMdasa doonuML"-^ Paris De^MOAjb J^fndlm itliaif^tMe^rq^ ^, ' •" ' ^p ' ' • • ' • • " My lad, alws^ trap for big mmeâ€" ^h is joat ss easy to catoh a wooddraok as a moass, sad thsDoa^ look at tile diffiBCWM* in tlM MDomt of msat yon trt" gayly colored forms to lose their has J caverns, and to become of an eveiid This may be explained by the Bmi sence of sunshine, and on it no onX can be based. The changes of the si al parte are of more importance;*. might be expected, relate maulytf^ gans of sense. The eyes show an eij tendency in all groups to fade »»n1 the characteristic cavern -fishes they biiii tirely disappeared, the whole iiij which serves for vision- being no hmi duced. In the crayfishes we may oil a certain gradation. Some species i abound in caverns are provided witiiH others have them present, but so unK that they cannot serve as visual ^tra yet others want «hem altogether, species of pseudo scorpion, as shoni Professor Hagan, has in the outer i. four eyes, while in the caves ithulj^ found with two eyes, and others in u J tirely eyeless condition. Some cii beetles have tbe malps with eyes, whikJ females are quite wiiliout them. Aski the cavern -forms exhibit a singular t cy of the visual organs, not only to lost i functions, but also to disappear askg parts. At the same time there is an t or even more 'general, development oi^ antennse and other organs of touch ;tl parte become considerably lengthened,^ apparently of greater sensitiveness, ad which is of manifest advantage to thtii viduaL PEESONALS. Queen Victoria has presented iHmt with the jubilee commemoration meMi diamonds and sapphires. Gladstone is a firm believer in th{ giocl athletics, and his son, Herbert Gladsmj the President of a National Phyrical" ation Society that has recently been ized in Liverpool. The cloak and helmet of red fi given by Capt. Cook to the King oi^ Sandwich Islands and worn by tiie " was recently found in a closet at Yoti England, where they had been lost for years. The School Committee of Caml Mass., has just had a second woman to membership. She is Miss Alice M. fellow, a daughter of the poet, and known for her interest in edncational ters. She is one of the trustees of the vard Annex. ,., ,i Sir John Lubbock's bank holiday tn not conducive to unmixed good, accorJ to a London clergyman, who saysthi:" it became a law hasty marriages have ly increased, and who tells with horiM«] scent in the east end recently where^ marriage service was read over forty P*" at once, at a charge of sevenpence ha! cch Mont Blanc, the giant of the Alpa, been climbed by sixty one women. first two were French women, one pi*' cratic, and the other of plebian bu» these were followed by 32 EngW French, 4 Russian, 3 American, i^p Prussian, 1 Danish, 1 Hungarian, n' and 1 Austrian woman. A faiiblui Lb made of the ascents, and a cross against the name of every one wM «*â-  reach their journey's end. There h»n thirty-two excursions to the »nn»" ^*A Philadelphia lady says that the B folks have dropped Browmng ana and the like, and have ^Jl^gfi Uterature. "You are expwtedw^^i she says, "aU about Tolstoi, Gop^ niak, and other political »nf" Bchohffs. Your table must ^^J^,, photographic vie vs of every V^'^^ Moscow and St Petersburg. My tt^ trying to keep abreast with au »r; bM^ much mind, and I'm siraid »»- An Afidcan Prince Visits Italy- Some excitement has been created at Naples by the arrival by the Str. Gbttardo of Aff Wark, nephew of the Negns of Soloa. He is under the guardianship of the Com- mandfmte di Simone, and is going to Rome, where he will stody art. The Prince, as he is' called, has bntoght rich presente for the King and Queoi of Italy, for the Geographical Society of Rome, ior the Prehisbnric mnsemn, and for the Minister of ^ffionlture and Gommeroe^, all raclosed in seventy-c^ht large packages. Thev consist of shidds, lanoM, teeth of elephaats worked.skins 9f lions andlecmards, JBups of the horn of .the hinpopotamns deo- otated with gold and silver, and other pre- ci*na objeete. He has bnra^t, slso; as presente to the King three AraUatt horses. Aff Wark is 20 yean of soe. He speaks only a few Wnrdsol ItlOiiaCMid bat fw^ oabtdlMlfalek b BwwJm wilt' Im^ the must of Coant AntoBsBL aad prdhaMg wfll bea nstfatiiDiihaiMat SMSTfainlsta^ m"^J^ »**««»• between Italy and Headek, tiie Nepia ef Sdoa. That little »tri»» to the sSSSi et A^Maia aay U them in ttis dde el the kSrâ„¢ ' he-JK tbe Uttle she has." The largest lormnasium in the sud to be that 5f the Young M^ .^ .wiu*, pirt'brongW .-uir children flSrwiththem. 'ff*sa h»ve a. lost child, rcme S2«ieirho is gone there IS f.toSoeeleft.everythmg. "rS^e yoar boy. and «rls stud rwhentheyareiU,tryto m 'Jh^dwhy, ho-r the compli f5?SJedy«f«-yo-l-oi \»«si upon them frona earl ^S actions have resulte, and ♦ ^Mcape consequences, even fwhmW have done wrong 5t their little secrecte if „enw, fretting them wiU n ii but time and patience w oTthem, as they grow old ef their own make th« i^d not mere echoes, out aU their special taste onUiem, instead of spending to jWncein forcing them •" tt ue entirely repugnant to lathers, what ever else you « fliris, do not neglect to insti Je mysteries of house keel you pat tnera in the way shsppy. -, in- thei irorW.l tiiat they will go out into the siui^ ^j dnce the street arabs to come s ten^t the use of their musclM- ragamuffins have been taught w j n u rf tied Methods of OooMng 1 h have all heard from chUd iety is the spice of life. N ate this saying better than ^.joper who, on account of I of her purse, has been ringin apple-sauce and baked applei plttate cheap. To her it must to know that there are man} I in which this delicious and e It^an be utilized, both for d ' A dessert, simple and app I as follows _owN Betty. â€" Lay in a puc i a layer of finely sliced apples Itute, and dusted over with ion; next a layer of coarselj buttered at intervals, ilayers until the dish is full. layer consist of apples cut ir on sufficient water to i Me- Cover and set in the ovei apples on top are tender and cook until brown, i oat sauce. PFU Fbittebs are easily prep I of sifted flour, one tablespooni mg powder, one pinch of salt, lenp of n^k. Sift fiour, salt at ether, add the eggs beaten, the Ipintof chopped apples, and i se. Wx into a batter as for gri i drop spoonfuls into lard mac poipose. When a delicate Te. Serve with sugar. FiPiocA PtTDDiNGS. â€" Two kinds very delicious, are thus aid core sufficient apples (•dilh; put into each a piec toak^ half pint of tapioca i pAmi|ii^ water iae one hour t ' ' Ifver^^th lemon pour ov hsks until the apples are te Md^ with cream and sugar, ^(loiifuls of tapioca soaked I in tepid water when the t Md add a quart of cold water I t*ltepoonf ul of molasses and I peded, cored and sliced 1 dish and bake in the ove •tteing occasionally th* fjf, etui stirring. In hal ipoddnig should be a aeep bro' '**'*J«r dish, and serve hot '*â-  The hard sauce is made 1 ^Qtam one cup of sugar, on of butter and one teas '"ter. Flavor with lemon L**«^ dirii for tea is made b *JIj J"'**'â„¢* apples, SI W adding sufficient wate "«â-  burning. Place in ^^in the oven and Jwhen done the quart* â„¢tot and float in a ti Association at Liverpool, to have the next largest Ladi« •» men are admitted to the Liverpool inm. and so enthusiastic f^^J^^^i. dnce the street arabs to come ^^ thi»**3 one week. UntiTless than two y^^l the assoeUtion refusccP to •uo^j^^yr' its gymnasium, but now it « •• dulged in as are other sports. Workmen Laying the i^f^^ raihroad shed in Portland, Me., found ice thirteen feet below w This shows that in a hot ««"«» thaws out for a distance down- Hie San Francieco Examiner .^' the steamship City of Sydney, ly aihriVed 5i that port hi worth of Chuiese giru to lilaye quarters «rf that ?tV- p^ importation is against the Cbui j tion act, against the Contract •nd agafaist the stiU o^er J**^ the Emigration ot^?ra^^;^ immoral purposes, their owii ^^ no serious difficulty in 1»«U^ chattels. Afew dollarsf^^jg â- omethbg more '•JU^e*!*' spieoe for oonrt fees wiU â- â€¢Â»" jyesBant dish for tea ii r?S« »d quartering apj 'P«*S»g-disfiinlayI^, V |2-«J?ew on water enough t Lt?! ewer with an old plate ^xedby that time retc tatUifcii. "^ipstiibig way of o tojeel a»door«th fill the hole Vm enffioient Darafng. Cool Serve withou Bdceipti C*»at--Thewh BMkt theyel wwlj. Then d wgar. Las of flour, but d( •!»d have two â- ^Md of a pin **n starch, di 'of twoej^ i**?^with vani ^ela^rs oJ "h eggs for Ites the â- a dish of from di it ini a final of fan «fae«i o«k i m \1»i' -^"^4!**..