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 w*? 'V~-^ ^im ^i. i U" t ' â- ^m i i:A " DJASMUCH. n What Pann* Brigg's Brotight Home on Gfaiistinas £ve. " Wall BOW, children, how would like to go hnm weth me, where yon'd plenty to eat an' wear, an' a good warm ye f said the fanner. yon hev fire to ftfter swallow- "Hanner, I verily b'l'eve somthin's goin' to happen to-day," said Farmer Briggs to his wue as he stood before the small look ing glass in the kitchen arranging his strag- fling locks, preparatory to a day's trip to oronto. "That big white rooster's bin follerin' me about, an' crowin' et the t p of hez voice, an' the yerlin' heifer, she's bin bawlin' et my heels, an' I 'low sumthin's in the wind, ef signs don't fail." " I dropped th edish-cloth, tn, thes morn in'" responded Hannah reflectively, as fhe stood with her hands resting on her hips, " an' thet's a sure sign of comp'ny, though to be sure I don't know of any body'd coane to see us either. We're all alone in the big world, Sam'l," she rejoined, with a touch of pathos in her voice, " an' some way it seems dretful lonsome to hev Christmas so niph at hand an' not a chick er child in the world to enjoy et with us." " ' Twouldn't a bin so ef she'd lived." and she noddtd her head in the direction of the distant grave-yard, where, above the snow, the tops of the tombstones were visi- in the morning's Bunlight. " Wall, Hanner, the Lord knows best what's good for ua," replied the farmer, giv- ng her shoulder a sympathetic touch with his great homy hand " taint fur us to be dic- tatin' to the Lord about his deilin's weth im, is it, now " "No, Sam'l, no," replied the wife, r.- sponding to the tender touch with a sad smile as she busied herself in brushing the best coat, which hung over a chair by the fire to warm, " but I can't help a-thinkin' sum- times." " Wall now, Hanner," said the farmer, after the preparations were all complete, " what wuB it you told me to git Sugar, tea, spices, caliker, and red flannil," and carefully counting the items on his fingers, he laboriously wrote them down in his well- tiiumbed note-book. " Ye might as well get thet pair of woolen blankita we wuz talkin' of for thet kitchen bed- room, an' a bar'l of flour," Han- nah suggested, and, these items added, the list was complete. Brown Bess and Old Snowball had it abont their own way as they jogged on toward the city it was a clear, frosty morning, the trees glittering in the sunlight, each. tiny branch tipped with a frost dia- mond but Farmer Briggs was woefully in- different to the beauties of nature, and his mind wandered backward through the vista of years, and in spite of him lingered re- gretfully around the " might have been" which death had rendered impossible. It did not take long after his arrival in the city to make the purchases so carefully noted down, and the store of apples and the fat mutton he had brought in were disposed oi to good advantage while it was compara- tively early in the day. " I b'l'eve I'll take a walk an' see what I can see, while the bosses are feedin'" said he to himself, as he stood in the door of the anarket, which was hardly a stone's-throw from a neighborhood where the poor were â-  huddled together in bleak tumble down houses. The spirit of unrest seemed to have taken possession of the usually quiet breast of Farmer Briggs, and he plunped down into this poversy-stricken portion of tiie great city as if he had business there. On, on, he walked, passing street after street, and many a filthy alley, when sud- denly his attention was arrested by the sound of singing, and Etopping short he looked about eagerly to fin-l whence it caste. '•I want ter be a nangel, En weth the angels etan " piped a little tremulous voice, and to his in- tonse astonishment he found it came from an old, broken-down omnibus, (vhich stood in a nearly deserted alley its wheels were gone, and the body of the vehicle stood upon the erounc"., and the window glasses were all cracked, but the actual holes were carefully staffed with rags. "JerusJem! ef I don't b'l'eve thar's ohildring en that air old ark," said the farm- er, stealing closer to the novel affair to take observations' '• A crown upon my torrid. A harp wethin my â€" " "O Toby, I's so told," wailed a tinier, girl's voice, as Farmer Briggs brought his ear closer to the crazy old door. " Now yon mustn't cry an' fret. Sissy," said the boy's voice-in chiding tones, " when Tve bin an' fixt ye up sech a nice Chrissmus- tree, an' gin up my bizness ter day to rock Ml' sing ter yer. Go to sleep, thet's a good girl 'I want ter beâ€"' " " But I's so sick, Toby,' wailed the fee- ble voice again, interrupting the sinrer. " I know it, sissy," said the boy, and the grief and terror in his tones were pitiful, " but do try an' git ter sleep, and mebbe the good Santy Kloss will come an' put some- thin' real party on yer tree. I'll take off my jacket an' wrap round yer, an' thet'll keep yer warm." " Will the dood angel tum an' tate tare of me while I's asleep?" asked the child as the boy was taking off his poor garment. " I haint a very good-lookin' angel," said Farmer Briggs to himself, " but I can't stan' that," and opening the dOor his big heart swdled with pity and surprise as he viewed the forlorn scene. One of the old moth-eaten seats was far- nished with an older and more tattered bof- falo-robe, which served as a bed a one- legged stool, the miwring members supplied by a friendly brick in one corner a bit of a touich of evergreen decorated with a few bits of tissue paper, and, staring in alarmed surprise at the rough, kind face of the far- mar intruding into their miserable solitude, were two little pale, shivering waifs who •ailed this fantastic sJtxde " home." " Jerusalem cricketeis " said Farmer Briitgs, with a long whistle of dismay. " Now, duldren, ye don't say thet ye live kere." "Yes, sir," replied the toy. " An' ye dont freeze to death Wall, ef tbet don't beat any thing I ever heard on," renuned he. " What 'ad Hamaer aay f ' " If 8 gittin' awful cold now, air," vea- tared the boy " throngh the summer we dedat miiul, but SiMT*! fain ailin' an' can't â- tan the cold." • Hamt ye got ao folki V atarofti^ uike4 tbe fanner. " No, air par got run over ao' kilt, an' â- ar jeat omighed and oooghed taU she died leal quickâ€" jeat oiioked nj^t vf tir, an' waa gone afore we kaowed it," n^ed tba boy eameatly, drawing near the feienfly lag an inconvenient lump in his throat, and pondering a moment over his new-bom plan- ... " I dnnno, sir," replied the boy, clingmg to his accustomed misery with childish tenacity. " Shell we go. Sissy " Bnt Sissy declined to express an opinion until Farmw Briggs had her in his arms, when she posi- tively refused to go unless her beloved " Kissmus-twee" could go too, which point conceded, the trio hastened back to the fanner's starting-point, while at intervals cime the ejaculation, " Jerusalem What'U Hanner say " " Why, Sam'l Briggs What under the sun an' airth hev you oin up to ' was that good woman's exclamation as Bess ane^ Snowball came trotting into the yard, and Farmer Briggs appeared in view with thp children bundled in the big buffalo robe by his side. " Wall, I never " she proceeded as he jumped from the seat, and, opening the robe, disclosed the half -clad, half fam- ished objects of his care. " Do bring the poor little creatures in; they look een- amost froze. Where hev you bin, Sam'l " "Wall, Hanner," rejSlied the farmer, coining in and putting his hands reverently on the heads of the little ones, who had been seated so near the blazing fire that there was imminent danger of their scorch- ing, "you see the star of Beth'lum went afore me to-day, an' et led me to a heap wuss place than a manger, an' ther I found these little orphins, sick an' cold an' friend- less an' Hanner," here his voice broke and tears stood in his honest eyes, "1 did jest es I tho't you'd want mo to, an' we wont be childless any more." " The Lord led ye, Sam'l," waa Hannah's broken reply, and going up to him she put her arms around his neck and kissed him reverently and tenderly. " Ain't it good, Toby," whispered Sissy, as she ravenously devoured a steaming bowl of warm bread and milk. " You bet " replied Toby, smacking his lips in delight. " I guess. Sissy, the angel hez come arter as, jest as mother said." " But I tho't thet angels bed wings and wored white," objected Sissy. «S)Kt»i/j»(i " Wall, mebbe a angel sent this good man then," atnended Toby, reflectively ' any- ways, did ye ever see sich a nice warm place in all your life afore. Sissy " " No, never," replied Sissy, " 'cept onct, when I went inter a saloon to see ef daddy wuz ther." The warmth of the fire and the meal Were better than medicine for the child, sick with cold and hunger, and Toby soon had the satisfaction of seeing her play with a frolicsome kitten, which was brought in for her, with unusual vivacity, and when as niglkt came on, and Hannah gave them each a motherly scrubbing with warm water and plenty of fragrant soap, and tucked them up in such a bed as they had never dreamed of in their wildest imaginations of luxury, fur- nished with the identical new blEnkets brought from the city, their little hearts were filled with content, and Sissy reached up her little puny arms to Hannah, saying sweetly " Mammy said ef I'd be dood a nangel wud turn an' tate tare of us, Toby an' me, but I dess I'd rasser hev you." A mysterious big basket was brought in after the children were fairly asleep, and Hannah and Sam'l unpacked it with beam- ing faces. " I'm so plad you tho't on't, Sami," said Hannah, as she brought out warm mittens, hood, cap, stockings, and shoes, and suadry bundles of material for garments as yet unmade, and lastly a bag having a suspicious smell of oranges and candy, " and in the mornin' you'd better hitch Bess to the single sleigh an' go over 'n' get Hetty Mereness to come over 'n' do a week's sewin' an' we'll get' these poor little bodies clothed as well as warmed an' fed." "I've bin thinking, Hanner," said Sam'l, pointing to the bit of evergreen lying on the table, thet we'd trive the little creeturs a taste of a rale Christmas to-morrer night. Hannah, ye'd a cried in spite o' yerself to hev seen thet little bit o' green stickin' up en the comer of that old omnybus." " I'll cry now ef you tell me any more," cried Hannah, with a tearful smile, " but you go to the woods in the mornin' an' git a little hemlock, an' Hetty 'n me'll trim it up an' hang it weth the toys thet's packed away," and she nodded her head toward a sacred drawer in the tall old-fashioned ba- rean, " an' ef it aint jest as grand as it might be it'll be a foretaste." " Jest so/' replied the farmer heartily, " an' I guess I'll kill thet big turkey in the morin' et begins to look as ef we might git it eat ui.. Powerful knowin' bird, that white rooster," he pursued reflectively, as he pared a big red apple. " I tole ye some- thin' wuz goin' to happen." Such a day as it was 1 Hetty Mereness came early, in company with a trim hemlock, and then such odors as began to fill the house, as pies, and doughnuts, and cakes began to accumulate and take their places on the capacious dresser. "Why, Mis' Briggs, ' said Toby, as he peeped curiously into the large pantry and spied the barrel of flour, " what an awful lot of flour to hev et onct. Mar never got but twenty-five cents' wuth." " Land sakes alive " exclaimed Hannah, with uplifted hands, " it duz beat all how some folks live, er rather don't live en how many pounds o' batter, do tell?" " Founds " said Toby, with a puzzled air. " I dnnno we get five cents' wuth a Saturday nirht sometimes ez that butter?" pointiiw to a great {olden roll on the dress- er ancThis eyes dilated witii wonder and delight upon being told that it was. "I tell you. Sissy, we've got to the land o' milk an honey I heerd mar read about outov the Bible onct," said he, as they were left in the great kitchen alone, while mysterious things were being done in the unusedparlor. Words cannot desribe the surpriae and faaippiness of those peor, neglected little hearta wimi, after tiuwondofol awper, they were nahwed into the room wnkh would have been a fury-land to them with- out the Cbriatmaa-tiee in Ae comer, " a ral9 KiaunuB-twee,^" aa Sia^y delwhtedly whiapered to Toby. So modi bappbeaa id. «teaee mrnwrnn tiiaatheyooald find e: dm f«r,|utd;ira»reoe|yfdi a« amii^ ^aair* betn exp(cte4, with starea ofpei^ot amaae- Itiuat. --•'-â-  â-  â- â€¢'â- : '•â- ' •'â- : â- . At last, when it waa all over, aal-lii^ â- tumbeted peaoefally beaida Siaiy, who idnag even in her dreams to a wonderfal dott wUoh had once bekauBedto rad-diaaked FoOy Brims, and a Hg yellow orange. Hannah and Saml aim. nA faU ketSL xvtiiad to thrir bed, and Oa ndiart guard- ian angel of the household bent lovmdy over the homely, kindly faces, »«d g^^y fanned them'with the sweet breath of peace, murmured, "Inasmuch as ye the least of these, ye as she softly have done it unto have done it unto me. "TRUTH" AKD C[eat LAiNEa' journal: Annie and Willie's Prayer. BY MBS. SOPHIA P. SKOW. â- Tvrag the eve hetore Christmas " Good nigbt" had been said, » v j And Annie and WilUe had crept ".««*- ... There were tears on their piU-ws and tears in their And ewh Mttle boEom was heaving with Bjghsi For to-night their atern father-a command had been given, i ' That they should retire precisely at seven. Instead of at eight for th*y troubled him more Wi^h questions unheard of than ever before. He haa told them he thought tuisdeli'sion a sin, No "uch being as "Smto Claus" e^er had been, And he hoped, after this, he should never more hear How he scrambled down chimntys with presents each And this w'as the reason that two littie heads Sorestlcssly tossed on their soft downy beds, Eight, nine, ard the clock in the steeple toUed t* u Not a word had been spoken till then. When Willit's sad face from the blanfeet did peep. And whispered " Dear Annie, is you fast asleep " Why, no, brother Willie." a sweet voice rephea, " I've tried in vain, but I can't shut my eyes Fo. somehow it makes me eo sorry because Dear papa has said there is no ' Santa CWus.' New we know there is, and it can't be denied. For he came every year before mamma died But then I've betn thinkintr that she used to proy And God would hear everything mamma would A' d p?rliap8 she asked Him to send Santa Claus here. With the sack full of presents he brought every ytar." ... " Well, why tan't we pay dest as mamma did then, And atk Dod to send him with presents nden 7' " I've been thinking so too " atd without a word more. Four little bare feet bounded out on the floor, And four little knees the soft carpet pressed. And two tiny hands were clasped close to each breafit. " Now, Willie, you know we muft firmly believe Toat the presents we atk for we're sure to receive You must wait just as ttiU till I tay the 'Amen,' And by that you will know that your turn has come then. " Dear Jesus, look down on my brother and me, A'-d grant us the favor we are asking of Thee. I want a wax dolly, a tea set and ring, And an ebony work-box that shuts with a spring; Bless papa, dear Jesus, and cause him to see That Santa Claus Icves ua far better than he Don't let him get angry and fretful again At dear brother Willie and Annie â€" Amen," " Please, Desus, et Santa Taus tum down to-aight. And bing some pesents before it is ight I want he should dive me a nice little sed. With bright shinin' 'unners and all painted 'ed A box full of tandy, a book and a toy â€" Amen and den, Desus, I'll be a dood boy." Their prayers being ended, they raised up their heads. And, with hearts light and cheerful, again aooght their beds. They were soon lost in slumber both peaceful and deep. And with fairies in Dreamland were roaming in sleep. Eight, nine, and the little French clock had struck ten, Ere the father had thought of his children again. He seemed now to hear Annie's half -suppressed sighs, And to see the big tears stand in Willie's blue eyes. " I was harsh with my darlings," he mentally said, "And I should not have sent them so early to bed But then I was troubled my feelings found veot. For bank stock to-day has gone down ten per cent. But of course they've forgotten their troubles ere thiR. And that I denied them the thrice asked for kiss Bat, Just to make sure, I'll steal up to their door. For I never spoke harsh to my darlings before." So saying, he softly ascended the stairs. And arrived at the door to hear both of their prayers. His Annie's " bless papa " draws forth the big tears. And Willie's grave promise falls sweet on his ears " Strange, strangie I'd forgotten," said he, with a sigh, " How I longed, when a child, to have Christmas draw nigh, atone for my harshness," he inwardly said, " By answering their prayers ere I sleep in my bed. Then he turned to the stairs and softly wen* "own, Threw^ofl velvet slippers and silk dressing gown, Donned hat, coat and boots and went out on the street, A millionnaire facing the cold, driving sleet, Nor stopped he until he had bought everything. To the box tuU of candy, to the tiny gold ring. Indeed he kept adding so much to his store. That the various presents outnumbered a score Then homeward bR turned with his holidsty load. And with Aunt Mary's help in the nursery 'twas stowed. Miss Dolly was seated beneath a pine tree, By the side of a table tet out tor her tea A work' box. well filled, in the centre was laid. And on it the ring tor which Annie had prayed. A soldier in uniform stood by a sled, " With bright shiniog runners and all painted red " There were balls, dogs and horses, books pleasing to in ^ny case, even if no rewa«i aa^BCTH is a weekly S**«*^l two pages, and is the ch^S' «f^ considering size and merit ^Q The LADtEs'JocRNAL To ;ann*\^l aa an attr.„tive ladies' ps^°'""» Any p. .-on can nc^l BIB G3MPETITI0N, ziro. dLT, Closes December 31st» A Fine Brick House Given Away. At the solicitation of hun.lrc-.ls of friends of Truth ar.d Ladifs' J.htkn'-al, the r^uW'sh^ er of these popular Toronto inat; z nes wiJI offer oae more coir.f etition, whi'^h, m the value of the rewards offered, as well as m the number of them, far exceeds anything hitherto attempted by any publisher in the world. iivcrything named in thelist below will be given away without any reserve or post- Bonement under any conditions. The leading reward is a really first-class, exieptiinally well and solidly built brick residence. No. 46 Lansdowne Aven«^, Park- dale, the most beautiful suburb of Toronto, in ail but name actuaUy a part of Toronto, as the city now surrounds it. ^. The house is the middle one of three, ana is ki irst-class order, newly done over, papered, painted, and contains large parlor, dining-room, kitchen and haU on first floor, and tliree good bedrooms and large teth- room on sewnd floor in short, all modern conveniences, and is a residence good enongb for anyone to Uve in. It will be given away subject to a mortgage of one thousand doUara at seven per cent, which may be paid off by arrangementormayremainanylengthoftime. ThS competition will remain openontU the 31st of December next, inclusive. t is earnestly hoped that our readers wfll teke advantage of these. most liberal o^« at once. The questions this time are Where are the f ollowins; three words first mentioned in the Bible :â€" First, Snow second. Wind third, Bain. The senders of the first seven hundred and eighty five letters received at Tbuth Office containing correct answers to those questions will take the foUowing seven hundred and eighty-five rewards, and they I will be given out strictly in the order the letters come to hand â€" And birds of all c^lots were perched in the tree. While Santa Clau laughing, stood up in the top, As it getting ready more presents to arop. And as the fond father the picture surveyed. He thoiight for his trouble be had amply been paid, And he said to himself, as he brushed off a tear, " I'm happier to-night than Fve b!!en for a year I've rnjoyed more true pleasure than ever before. What care I it bank stock fall ten per cent, more Hereafter I'll make it a rule, I believe, To have Santa Claus visit each Christmas Eve." So thinking, he gently extinguished the light, And tripped down the stairs to retire tor e night As soon as the beams of th« bright rising sun Put the darkness in flight and the stars, one by one, Four litUe blue eyes out ot deep opened wide. And at the same mcment the presents espied. Then out ot their beds they sprang with a bound. And the very gift? prayed ter were.sll ot them found. They laughed and they cried in their innocent glee. And shouted tor "papa" to come quick and see What presnts Old Santr Claus brought in the night (Just the things what they wanted), and left before ligbt " And now," added Annie in voice soft and low, " You'll believe there's a 'Santt^Claus,' papa, I know: While dear litUe Willie climbed np on his knee. Determined between them no secret should be. And told, in soft whispers, how Annie had said That their dear, blessed mamma, so long ago dead, Used to kneel down and pray by the side ot herchair. And that God, up in Heaven, had answered her prayer. " Then we dot up and prayed dest m well as we .tould. And Dod answered our prayers now, wasnt He dood?" " I should say that He was, it He sent you all these. And knew Just what presents my ohildren would nleasd (Wen. weU. let him think w. the dear lltUa elf. Twonld be cruel to tell him I did it my-«elf) " Blind father 1 who earned your (ten heart te relent^ And the hs^ty words rpokcn so soon to repent T TwM the Being who bade you steel softly upstairs. And made you His agent to answer tbeir praycia. THK JIRST BEWABD3. Lâ€" One fine toned piano, a superior instm- ment •'W 2 to 6.â€" Five ladies' soUd gold watches, beautt- fully engraved, good timekeepers «6B 7 to 11.â€" Hve gentlemen's soUd gold watches, excellent value • ♦M 12 to l^-SeTen sxtra fine ^ver-plated tea ser- vices, fourpieoes •; fW 19 to 28.â€" Ten Warner family sewing machines. 640 29 to 41.â€" Twelve ladies' fine black silk dress patterns, full length 600 43.â€" Brick KesMenee amd £ot. He. 4» Iduisdowne Avenae, Pantdale, eat ........ .....s,aa» 43 to 90.â€" Forty-seven new and elegant orues â- tands. *M 01 to 210.â€" One hundred and nineteen individ- ual salt and pepoer cruets. S67 211 to 429.â€" Two nunclred and eightaen fine. heavy silver-plated napkin rings. 436 438 to 595.- One hundred and sixty tins solid gold gem rings, beautifnl designs 960 596 to 786.â€" One hundred and ninety-one ladies' roUed gold lockets... 673 After this magnificent list of prizes are all given away, there will follow the great middle list, when to the sender of the middle correct answers of the whole competition, from first to last, and the seven hundred and fifteen correct answers next following will be given THE MIDDLE KEWABD8. 1.â€" One hundred dollars in gold. $100 2, 3, 4.â€" Three magnificent grand square pianos 1,660 5_ 6, 7.â€" Three fine-toned ten-stop cabinet or- gans... 700 8 to 16.â€" Eight gentlemen's solid gold stem- windingand stem-setting genuine Elgin watches 760 16 to 28.â€" Thirteen ladies' solid gold stem-wind- ing Jc stem-setting genuine Elgin watches 1,170 29 to 40.â€" Twelve solid quadruple plate silvw tea sets, six pieces 780 41 to 70.' â€" Thirty gentlemen's solid coin silver hunting case watches 900 71 to 100. â€" ^Thirty gentlemen's solid aluminum gold watches. 600 101 to 135.â€" Thirty-one solid quadruple plate cake baskets, new and elegant patterns. E2S 130 to 306.â€" One hundred and seventy heavy solid silver-plated ladies' pocket fruit knives 1,000 306 to 609.â€" Two hundred and four elegantly bound volumesot poems 610 610 to 715.â€" Two hundrM and six fine silver- plated sugar spoons and butter knives. 206 After these will follow the last, or con- solation rewards, when to the sender of the last correct answers received at the office ef Tbuth, bearing postmark wherever mailed of day of closing (December 31st), will be givtn the first one of the consolation re wards, and to the next five hundred and seventeen correct answers preceding the last one will be given the rest of this very at- tractive and costly list of last rewards. THE OONSOLAIION SEWABDB.. 1.â€" One hundred and fifty doDars in gold ,_ 2, 3, 4 and 6.â€" Four square grand pianos, by a celebrated maker 2,100 6, 7, 8, 9.â€" Four fine toned cabinet organs, by a celebrated maker juw" lOto 20. â€"Tengentlemen'sflne solid ^d stem- ' winding and stem-setting genuine Elgin watches .TTT.. 1000 21 to 32. â€"Ten ladies' fins solid sttm-irinding ' «... e??"l!?*.°""°fK*°'"«^3KJ'» watches. 1,000 38 to 60â€" Eighteen soUd quadruple aUver-plated tea services. 1 440 61 to 70.â€" Thirty double-banel EngUsh twist breeoh-loading shotguns 2 700 " **• "?T-!!2^ »et» (lO volumes to set) ocnn- .,.\Vi^Cbaiabet'BTSaeyciopmii». .... 2.000 m to IM.â€" Twenty-three gentlemen's solid i5«t„?!S"2°*'°£-**»'^»°-*«» »»**••.- «0 U5 to 162.â€" Twenty-seven solid aluminum gold ,«. """tto^-oaee watches " sm 168 to 860^â€" One hundred and eighty-eight lietures... 108 â- â€¢'" can compete a«„ I times, arri the papers mUI S^J^W J desired ar' dreas. *«« to " As a direct inveetment *!-;=.. ataU.butthepnblirfe^^^^^^ his publications into everv h!^ â- *«» land. andwhenonceafo^Lfe't tl.M-r--"Muetobeconsi;r^5 Ad(lre^8, S. FRANK WlLsn^'*^ 33aad35..deUirs;\ .â-  ., ._ "'"^^,Z' SCIEHTIFIO MISC£LLAB1, Decimal Units.â€" As the M»h,- I of Weights and Measures g'oS V^ favor, the need of a uniform de?:!' rency and cf a decimal mtm measurement is becoming gene ' '" Most countries already posSg, of decimal money, and even ^^suf-r mg up to the advantages of d.cim!i A recent scheme for decimalizine Zl sterling was well supported, the%li„ i to adopt the mill at- :,« unit and di^^^!. sovereign into 1000 r..,iis, thuB makl half-sovereign equal 50() milh, the I 250, the double florin 200, the half 125. the florin 100. the shilling 50 "y"' sixpence 25. In Wiesbaden a stJiHV mal time-keeping has been taken. A, clock divides the day into 10 ho hour into 10 decades, the decade m, i rays. Similar units take the pUse ol i usual degrees, minutes and seconds bJ division of the circle. Pneumonia Explained.â€" It is supposed that pneumonia is due to'tk dental penetration of upecific microbes the system, but the observations of M, coud, a French student of the subject, that the disease really results from tl velopment under favorable condition microbic germs permanently present b system. A chief condition of such devi ment is a sudden chill, which explniu frequent coincidence of lung affjctiom abrupt chamges of temperature. A Developing Aet.â€" Probably mm cation of science is advancing more rai than photography. Among recent m ces are a detective camera in the fomiij watch, with a charm to hold a snpph miniature dry-plates, and a telescopic mera in which distant objects are broi near by telescopic aid and photog Modern dry-plates have made the quite available at night, and eiqnidte tures are now taken by moonlight andei by starlight. DwELLEBS IN Daekness.â€" The cave mals of North America, according to Pi A, S. Packard, comprise a toUl o( species of blind creatures, nearly aUofvi are mostly white in color. Tracing the Circclatios.-S1 with the idea that the hand varies iei size with the amount of blood He iru Out With tiie Both. " Jnliiu Caesar," said the ooloied mma'M wife, " Yea were ont wid de boys las' night" ' " I waa," said JnUna, hnrnbly. " And how do yM find yo' bead das uunrn " Abont de same ai yoa wants yo' ^riien yon go shoppin'" "Howamdiatr «AUwoolaa'aya'd wide.' ' in it at any moment, Prof. Mosso, the II physiologist, has made some mostiii ing investigations. In his first experimi the hand was placed in a closed water, when the change in the cmulii produced by the slightest action brain, the smallest thought or moyaw] was shown by a rise or fall in the the narrow neck of the vessel Witiil large balance on which the horizDnta! tt| man body may be poised, he has found one's thoughts may be literally iteif and that even dreams, or the effect slight sound during slumber, turn th to the brain sufficiently to smk the at the head. When the brain of the ed person is relaxing from thought m is toward the feet, with a correEpoDdiii cillation. The investigator has com his studies of the circulation untilit that he may almost read one's thongte sensations. A tracing f i oih a single P«; beat shows him whether a person wW' or not two beats serve to del whether the subject is a thinking or »jf less one, whether asleep or awal" ""' warm, agitated or calm. The pulse even told him when a pro" friend was reading Italian Greek, the greater effort for the latter affecting the blood flow. Work of Five Yeaks.â€" Prof- 3-^}, ing, the English electrician, shows « 1882 an electric dynamo for '-^ weighed 44,820 pounds, the weighed 9800 pounds, the sp ce was 320 cubic feet, the horse lowai«. I ed was 155 and the commercialjB= was 67 per cent. The 1887 mv^, an armature of 1568 pounds, we«M pounds, occupies about 180 cub^ J* quires about 112 horse Vo^^^^" commercial efficiency of o/e^ W^i given current costs one fourth m in 1882. A Cdkious DiscovEKY.-In the teeth from skeletons of the s oWj Charters White, of the Odontol J ciety of Great Britain, has found 'f of the food eaten by our prchjston tors 3000 years or more aeo. in« ""^j, identified include portions of wr^^, spiral vessels from vegetables, 8w». fruit cells, the point of a fish s"" KG in mind it ia made goods Ti,.- :, â- ' Tbaat^MmSMok Pyfhiaa," Mddm Mwiu| dniiei." "Yea, Jenadab ba» dain." **IitbatioT Wera^Oen rtttettnar tbroo^ aU tba "J •« i_??**'*â„¢"'***er color pictures........ to 618.â€" OnehundMdand sizty-eightlMUa^ solid rolled gold bar piuN litaril deSgu. Now onr friends will please Sthat HoM {i a ftona i»e o%r tâ€" ., „ u«^ a reputable pnblidier right bece in Can- a, and one who haa a large atake in the coontiy that it ia in no way to be oon- founded with any local or forei«n«oheme of a^kind; that^eretythinftpromiaed wiU ponavely be performed onr readers taaiv nrronthia, â-  Oo not forget that every one ooupMing ««t iwd one dollar for tbzee monthi' m? â- "Vnoo to Tbuth; aliong trttb tiiefr an- fiftyonti ii aU tb^ fa i^oi»4 t^ba aent! 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