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 (( â- i?! ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." «.â-  CHJtitlER X^S^A Tbip tosStgwy Lakb. Oh l«taT» ip ever-TJurying faoe. By rocky shore, or 'n«ath Ae forsat tree. What love divine, whuc matchless skill, I traoe 1 My fnll warm heart leispoDBiTe thrills to frea. Yea, la my tbrobbirg bosom s inmost core. Thou reign'at supreme and, in thy ateni- est mood Thy votary Ijends in rapture to adwre The Mighty Maker, who pronouiced thee good. Thy broad majestio brow still bears his seal And when I cease to love, oh, may I cease to feel My husband had Irng romised me a trip to Stony Like, and m th s bammer of 1835, be- fore the barvesc cunimenced he gave Mr. Y who kepuhe mill at the rapids below Clear Lake, notice of our intention, and the worthy old man and his family made due preparation for our reception. The little girls were to accompany us. â-  We were to start at sunrise, to avoid the heat of the day, to go up as far as Mr, le- embark with his witk All sorts of dnlinaiy sppantus, wUah« I am incliwd to tlUnk, ^h«d been oaOed into rcqoiiitioaior pitsole.bteefitAad aooommo- datkm. The good folks had breakftuited long h»- fore we started from home, but they would not hear of our procee«ling to Story Lake until after we had dined. It was only eight o'clock A.M., and we had still foar hours to dinner, which nfirre ua ample leisure to lis- ten to the old man's stoiies, ramble round the premiiwa, and ebserre M the striking features of the plaee. Mr. Y â€" was a Catholio, aud the ion of a respectable farmer from the south of Ire- land. Some few yean before, he had emi- grated with a large family of seven sons and two daughters, and being fond of field sports, and greatly taken with the beauty of the locality in which he had pitched his tent in the wilderness, he determined to raise a mile upon the dam which Nature had provided to his hands, and wait patiently until the increasing immigration should settle the townahips of Smith and Dauro, render the property valuable, and brin? plenty of grist to the mill. He was not far wrong in his oaloulatlons and though for the first few years, he sub Y' 's in our cance, sons above the rapids in biich-bark canoes, giated entirely by hunting fishing, and rais- ;o as far up the lake as we could accomplish ' {gg ^t^^t potatoes and wheat be required for his own family, on the most fertile spots he could find on his barren lot,;.yeryJittle corn passed through the mill. At the time we visited his place, he was driving ajthriviDe' trade, and all the wheat that was grown in the neighborhood was brought by water to be ground at Y 's milL He had lost his wife a few years after coming to the country but his two daugh- by daylight, and return at night the weather being very warm, and the moon at full. Before six o'clock we were all seated in the little craft, which spread her white sail to a smart breeze, and sped merrily over the blue waters. The lake on which our clearing stood was about a mile and a half in length, and about three quarters of a mile in breadth a mere pond, when ccmpared with the Bay of Qainte, Ontario, and the inland seas of Canada. But it was our lake, and, consequently, it had* ten thousand beauties iii our eyes, which would scarcely have attracted the observation of a stran- ger. At the bead of the Katchawanook, the lake is divided by a long neck of land, that forms a small bay on the right hand side, and a very brisk rapid on ihe left. The banks are formed of large masses of litre stone and the cardinal-fiowcr and the tiger- lily seem to have taken an especial fancy to this epot, and to vie with each other in the display cf their gorgeous colours. It is an excellent place for fishing the water is very deep olcsetotl e â-  ojky p v?ment that forms the bank, and ic has a. pbbbly bottom. Many a magic hour, at rosy dtwa, or evening grey, have 1 spent with my hus- band on this romaiitic spot our canoe fas- tened to a bush, and ourselves inteiit upon ensnaring the black bass, a fish of excellent flavour that abounds in this place. Our paddles soon carried us past the nar- rows, and through the rapid water, the childred sitting quietly at the bottom of the boat, enchanted with all they heard and saw, begging papa to stop and gather water- lillies, or to catch one of the splendid butterflies that hovered over us and often the little Addie adrted her white hand into the waatr to gaspr at the shadows of the gorgeous insects as they skimmed along the wave. After passing the rapids, the river widened into another small lake, perfectly round in form, and having in its centre a tiny green island, in the midst of which stood, like a shattered monument of bygone storms, one blasted, black ash-tree. The Indians call this lake Bessikakoon, but I do not know the exact meaning of the word. Some say that it means " the In- «lian's grave," others " the lake of the one island." It is certain that an Indian airl is buried beneath that blighted tree but I never could learn the particulars of her story, and perhaps there was no tale coimected with it. She might have fallen a victim to disease during the wanderings of her tribe, and been buried on that spot or she might have been drowned, which would account for her hav- ing been buried away from the rest of her people. This little lake lies in the heart of the wilderness. There is but one clearing upon its shores, and that had been made by lum- berers, many years before the place 'abounded with red cedar. A second growth of young timber had grown up in this spot, wmch was covered alaa with raspberry- bushesâ€" several hundred acres being entire- ly over-grown with this delicious berry. It was here annually that we used to come in large picnic parties, to collect this valu- able fruit for our winter preserves, in defiance of black flies, mnsqnitoee, snakes, and even bears all which have been en- countered by berry pickers upon this spot, as busy and as active as themselves, gather- ing an ample repast from Nature's bounteous lap. And, oh 1 what beautiful wild shrubs and flowers grew up in that neglected spot 1 Some of the happiest hours I spent in that bush are connected with reminiscences of ' Irving's shanty," for so the raspberry grounds were called. The cleuing could not be seen from the shore. You had to scramble through a cedar swamp to reach the sloping ground which produced the berries. The mill at the G'ear Lake rapids was about three nules distant from our own clearing and after stemming another rapid, and passing between two beautiful wooded islands, the oanoe rounded a point .and the rude structure was before us. A wilder and more romantic spot than that which the old hunter had chosen for his homestead in the wilderness could scarcely be imagined. The waters of Clear liake here einpty themselves through a â- arrow, deep, rodky diannel, not ezoeediqg a quarter of a mOe in length, and tumble ever a limestone ridge of ten or twelve feet in he^;ht, whichextoada from one bank of the river to the other. The shores on either aide are very steep, and the large oak-trees wliioh have aaehorad tii^ roots fai every creriee of the took, throw their f antaitio anna far over the foaming waterfall, tiie deep green ot their naaay SMiage f ormbig a â-  beanwnl contnat with the white, flaaUng wateia tiiat foam vnt the ohnte at hMt fifty feet beloir the brow rf Mm Uaeetoiie rock. By a flight of atepa out in the banka we aaoended to the^tform above the river OD whioh Mr. Y a hfloae atood. It WM -4ug», rcaj^Liokiiigu lof{ boild-^ r^nTSldaofUlh itive ii!at«iiiL~-The ^h VefM tiw door waa ooTsred with hagat and Ae huge fire-plaoe forming vm moat atiftiiu{ fartu re. Oathe haarth-atoiMk hot aa r, Uuwd • gnMfin^ ters, Bietty and Norah, were excellent house- wives, and amply supplied her less. From the amiable women we received a most kind and hearty welcome, and every comfort and luxury within their reach. They appeared a most happy and con- tented fanuly. The sonsâ€" a fine, hardy, in- dependant set of fell3ws â€" were regarded by the old man with pride and affection. Many were his anecdotes of their proweta in hunting and fishing. His method of giving them an aversion to strong drink while very young amused me greatly, but it is not every child that could have stood the. test of his experiment. "When^they were little cbaps, from five to six years of age, I made them very drunk," he said " so drunk that it brought on severe headache and sickness, and this so disgusted them with liquor, that they never could abide the sight of it again. have only one drunkard among the seven and he was ^such a weak, puling crathur, that I dared not. try the same game' with him, lest it should kill him. ' Tis his nature, I suppose, and he can't btlp it but the truth is, that to make up for the soberiety of all the rest, he is killing himself with drink " Norah gave us an account of her catching a deer that had got into the enclosure the day before. SSi4' fegj^ CH'^i-"' ' I "1 went out," ehe said early in the morn- ing, to milk the cows, and I saw a fine yonng buck strugglicg to get through the rail fence} in which naving entangled his head and horns, I knew by the desperate efforts he was making to push aside the sails, that if I was not quick in getting hold of him; he would soon be gone." " And did you dare to touch him 7" ' " If I had had Mat'rgun I would have shot him, but he would hare made bia ea- cape long before I could run to the honae for that, so I went boldly up to him and got him by the hind legs and though he kicked and strui^gled dreadfully, I hud on till Mat heard me call, and ran to my help and out his throat with his hunting knife. So you soe,"sLe continued, with a good-na- tured laugh, " I can beat our hunters hollow â€" they hunt the' deer, but I can catch a buck with my hands." While we were chatting away, ^«at were the preparations making by Miaa Betty and a very handsome American woman, who had recently come thither aa a help. One little barefooted garaoon waa ahelling peaa in an Indian baaket, another waa atnnging cur- rents into a yellow pie-diah, and a third waa aent to the rapids with his rod and line, to procure a diah of fresh fish to add to the long list of bush daintiaa that were prepar- ing for our dinner. It waa in vain thai I begged our kind en- tertainera not to put themaelves to the least trouble on our account, telling them that we were now used to the woods, and contented with anything they w«re determined to exhaust all their atorea to fnmiah forth the entertainment. Nor can it be wondered at, that, with so many dishea to cook, and pica and cuatarda to bake, instead ef dining at twelve, it waa paat two o'clock before we were conducted to the dinner-table. I waa vexed and disappointed at the delay, aa I wanted to see aU I could of the spot we were about to /isit before night and darkneaa com- pelled UF to return. The feast waa spread in a lar geonthouae, the table being formed of two broad deal boarda laid together, and supported by rude carpenter's stools. A white linen doth, a relic of better days, concealed thia arrange- ment. The board waa covered with an in- describable variety of roast and hoilcMd, ef fish flesh and fowL My readers should see a table laid out in a wealthy Canadian far- mer's house before they can have any idea of the profusion displayed in the en^tidn- naent of two visitors and their young chil- dren. Bendea Teniaon, pork, chiekena, daoka and fish of aeiveral kinda cooked in a var- iety of ways, there waa a number of pump- kin, raspberry, bherry, and cn ir e nt pica with freih butter avd green oheeae tea the new eream oheeae is oalied), maple mnlsaaoat, preserves, and ^ckled onoumbera, beoidea tea and coffise â€" the latter,, be it known, I faalwatAed the Anwrioam woama boilhig in the firjfiHgpan. It waa a bbui-Iookfaq[ com- pound, and I did no4 attempt to diaonaa ito BMcitB. OSm Taaad In widah it had bean prepared had pt«j«dioed ac^ aad iwdand me Tuy aeaptml on Hut We ware aU ve nofliiagaleoe fire aad oontrivad, oat •( â-  b iiBra aa» to. our oldpaa« that ha maaot to make one of party, Betty, too, waa to aooompany na ' MeraUa^ ativfair balited to th« havhig the mbnbfc' «f hmmI •Mlepl, We followed a path along the top of the high ridge of limeatone kh*, until we had puaed t£e faUr and themplda above, when we found Pat and Mat Y waiting for us ou the shore below, in two beautiful new bitch bark canoea, which they had pmrohasea the day lefore from the I ndian a. Mias Betty, Mat. and myaelf, were safely stowed into one, while the old Miller, and his son Pat, and my husband, embarked in the other, and our steersman pushed off into the middle of the deep and ailent iitream the shadow «f Aetaft woede, tewering ao many feet above us, caating an inky hue upon the waters. *i. The aoene waa very impouog, and after paddling for a few minntea in ahade and alien 30, we auddenly emerged into light and aunahine, and Clear Lake, whioh goto ito name from the unrivalled brightneaa of ita waters, spread out ita asare mirror beforeua. The Indiana regard thia aheet of water with peculiar reverenoe. It abonoda in the fineat aorta ef fish, the aalmen-tront. the delioiona white fish, maakenonge,and blaek and white base. There is no island in thia lake, no rice beds, nor stick nor atone to break its tranquil bevnty, and, at the time we visited it, there waa but one clearing upon ita shores. The log hut of the squatter P com- manding a beautiful prospect up and down the lake, atood upon a bold alope frenilog the water all the reat waa unbroken for- eat. We had proceeded about a mile on our pleaaant voyage when our attention waa at- tracted by a singular natural 'phenomenon, which Mat Y â€" called the battery. On the right side of the shore ross a steep, perpendicular wall of limestone,j[that had the appearance of having been laid by the hand of man, so smooth and even waa ita surface. After attaining a height of about fifty feet, a natural platform of eight or ten yards broke the perpendicular line of the rock, when another wall, like the first rose to a considerable height, terminating in a seconl and third platform of the same description. File, at some distant period, had run ever theee singularly beautiful terraces, and a aecond growth ot poplara and balm-of gileads, relieved, by their tender green and ught, airy foliage, the aombre indigo tint of the heavy pines that nodded like the plumes of a funeral- hearse over the fair young dwel- lers on the rock. The water is forty feet deep at the base of this precipice, which is washed by the waves. After we had passed the battery. Mat Y -turned to me and said, " That is a famous place for bears many a bsar have I shot among those rocks." This led to a long disctiaaion on the wild beasts of the country. " I do not t ink that theie is much danger to be apprehended from them " said he " but I once had an ugly adventure with a wolf, two winters ago, on this lake." I was all curiosity to hear the story, which sounded doubly interesting toid on the very spot, and while gliding over those lovely waters. " We were lumbering, at the head of Stony Lake, about eight miles from here, my four brothers, myself, and several other hands. The winter waa long and severe although it was the first week in March there wan not the least appearance of a thaw, and the ice on these lakes was firm as ever. I had b^en sent home to fetch a yoke of oxen to draw the saw logs down to the water, our chopping being all complet- ed, and the logs ready for rafting. I did not think it necess ary to encumber myelf with my rifle, and was, therefore, iroTided with no weapon of defence but the ong gad I used to urge on the cattle. It waa MMut four o'clock in the afternoon when I rounded Sand^ Point, that point ia which ia about a mile a-head of us on the left shore, wjon I first discovered that I was followed, but at a great listance, by s large wolf. At first, I thought Uttle of the oiroumatanoe, beyond a passing wish that I had lironght my gun. I knew that he would not attack me before dark, and it waa atill two long houra to avndown so I whistled and urged on my oxen, and ao ^n forgot the wolf â€" when, on atopping to repair a little danteffe to die per of the yoke, I waa anr prised to find him close ot my heela. I turned, and ran towarda him ahouting aa loud aa I could, when he alunk back, out showed no inclination to make oS. Know« inc that he must hare companiona near, by his boldness, I shouted as loud aa I could, hoping that my criea might be heard by my brothera, who would iniagine that the oxen had got into the ice, and would come to my aasistenoe. I waa now winding my way through the islands in. Stoney Lake the sun waa aett^ng re#brfore.me, and I had still three milea of my journey to accompliah. The wolf had become ao impudent that I kept him off by pelting him With anewballa; and once he came ao near that I atruck him with the gad. I now began to be seriously alarmed, and from time to time, shouted with all my strength and you may imagine my joy when theae criee were answered ly the report of a gun. My brothers had heard me, and the discharge of a gun, for a mo- ment, aeemed, to daunt the wolf. He uttered a long howl, which waa anawered by the criea of a large pack of the dirty brutea ftom t^e wood. It was only just light enough to diatuguiah objeota, and I had to atop and face my enemy, to keep him at bay. (TO BK OOKTnrUBD.)' mki- ' The American Sault Canal has cost the United Btatra |3 087.S0O Last year there passed through it 5.494^49 tons of freight, a quantity nearly equal to that passing through the Suez CaqaL The freight on hie maaa of Btitff oame to $10,076,153, and it is eatimated that if the railwaya had had theoaniageof itthey would have oharoed t3«.557,000 for the aerrioe. It may be claimed, therefore, that the Sanlt Canal i aavod in one year abont aeven timea ita ooat. A8HASESCHEW, Tee Mndi Tebaeeo nntohe# â- las. In a abort while we have cattght a nice meaa of amaJl snappera, from ton to twenty inchea long, and ware having a real -good time. We had iMt fished very long, how- ever, before a larce^ark put in an appear.- aaee, and stopped our aport. We first knew of his presence by his greedily snapping off the fish from one of my neighbors' lines, having followed it up from the bottom. He executed this preform ance several times, and then the snappers stopped biting entirely. Not even a nibble could we get, so we hanlted in our lines and commenced to p»y our attention to the ahark. He waa a monatroua fellow, about fifteen feet long, and kept awimming round and round the veaael, aometimea on top the water and aometimea away down deep below ua, but alwaVa ata reapectfui diatanoe. Hia reddish brown body could be plainly seen through the elesjr transparent green water, and you may be aure he was the cynosure of all eyes. A great many plans for his capture were discussed, but none appeared practi- cable within our limited means. The engineer suggested that if the^ sbark would give him time he would ferge a proper hook and chain, but as the shark was unable, to give him a gtiarantee he abandoned the project. While we were thus talking I noticed the native pilot every now and then throwing overboard one of the snappers we had so recently caught, and as the current carried it a little distance clear of the vessel the shark would gobble it down, and in fact the intervals were so regular that Mr. Shark seemed impatient when the regularity was broken by a little delay. We saw that our pilot had some ultimate object in view, and it drew our attention to him. I had not particularly noticed the man before this, more than that he was a fine-looking, dark- akinned man, with good European features, but evidently of mixed blood. As he waa born and raised on this coaat, and had pro- bably served hia pilot's apprenticeship as a fisherman, he knew how to deal with hia in- veterate foe, the ahark. Anyhow, we all thought so, and gave him credit for it and although he did not say much, he went abont It in a very earnest manner. After having thrown over ten small fish, he selected another a little larger than the others, and with a stick of wood rammed a roll of chewing tobacco, nearly aa large aa a man's hand, down into ito belly, and pressed its throat together again. He held.it ready to throw, and as the shark came up, anxious- ly looking for his fish, he tossed it to him and aa it barely touched the water the shark turned over on ita back and sucked it in. The shark then swam off as usual to the side of the vessel, and then below us, and was apparently riding again in expectation of ano ±er fish when the nicotine commenced ita work. His struggles and contortions were terrible to behold, as he darted here and there in a blind rage, and vomiting blood, but as he swam, or wa« carried by the current away from us, his struggling grew graiually less, until it ceased altogether. The tobacco had killed him. rOBElG-N NOT When to be Silent. A woman in oomfortable health naturally rises in the morning in a cheerful, happy frame of mind, inclined :o uprightly conver- sation, and, were her husband able to be equally so, could, in those few moments of morning converse and greeting, drink in enough nectar to make her eyes bright and her step elastic all day long. But a life of business or public duties is seldom conduc- ive to a pood night's reat or a cheerful, happy wakening. It often happens that the short time devoted to waking and dressing are the very momenta when a wise 4rom«n will hold her peace, content to know that kindly attentions and pleasant words have more power and are bettor appreoLited after a hot steak or chop and a rood cup of coffee than before. â€" [im. £L W. Beecher. Oeogiaphical Infoimation. The following are bonn fidt replies to qnea- tiona of a written examination in geography in the aeoondary grade of a public acmool in Pennsylviania :â€" Question â€" ** Tell how many oceans there are in the world, and name them." Anawer â€" "There are aix ooeana: the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, In- dian, and Adjacent Ocean." Queationâ€" " Give in your own worda the diffsrenoe be- tween a cave and a mountain." Anawer â€" " One is a bump in and the other ia a bump out." Qneetion â€" ' Tell in your own worda map, and how a river ia represented on the then give the definition of one." Anawer â€" " When yon aee a blaok thing on the map like a lot ot angel worms all together, that^ a river but a real Yer, of oourae, ia water inatead of angd-wc. '-«;." TheDolefdlDonkej, A London alderman telle a atory at hia own expenae about a amall donkey which he sent to his coimtry houaeforthe uae of his children. One of hialittle danghtora, going out with her nurae to admire the animal in ita paddock, waa aorely distressed when the d(mk^ lifted up his voice and brayed dd^ully. ' Poor thing, poor thingl" exclaimed the aynrpathe tic child. But, auddenly brightening up, ahe turned to her nurae, and aaid, " Oh, I am so glad I Papa will be here on Saturday, and then it won't feel ao loneaome." Let na hap* the Caandian Oot^l will be eqoaPy profitaUa t6 u as • ptopla. ' The ntaaner in wfaieh the Alaaka Indiana Thia winter's hate will be different from thoae of laat year they are flat, with low orowna and broad brima the tcque of velvet w pluah ia alto ««ry fashionable. One half of £mma Abbott^ilifs is spent in a htiAk of glvoarine and rpae water and the other half in keeping out of draughto, ths raaait tf whioh Tfgilaaoe ia a very white â- kin and » iwset tolos. Whsnsver she has i a auapioion that ahe the auapioion ia ,oatohiiig4k cold, and frequamtiy mth her, ahe famdM^Matmkfnlsf bdlaa bbaketa and naagi them about her room o^w every orask and orevios. In ^irindow and door. Thenahe .^ ^: ^w^â€"r-i. ^f*?* • ««««1 ofloog hat pins and fastens Biag eomptaa- vf Urn ptottigaoy «f d«WB:th« ooTeriiuta to iMr Md. Isatlas a» is t "'^4i^*^\^^^jMam. I «»ttarpptow. tt^h whkh'dis tots h«%Ii Mrs. yafochtas, a Ifew York lady in fa^t%«i. fbetawid tlMB wooeodk «» SU one M^ in faetqHisi. Zbe Itwid tlMB prooeodk «» M3» it h Jmt up atith MtjaurvmAAwmn^th m vXbe revelatkna ahe. Instant aatfam bf the ia eallsd farnnlaas tiwehjsat ta Jjm. «9«Mo jmf., i d|iM*M unpded Ml th«. bsd and jOaxikcd and !^f n *F*lT« or 1 cwmfoita^ lltettile with ^«h bthar nnttl j ^aiticAs nH gwl t ht c i pi ff aiH» aBipw»A«ff â- wihSfifL^TO^lA^4oiMMl|%Mi:4ll ha^lW artiatia is mbbsd and sombbad thirrnrtdn »wrMa«|] AUtUe Innoh is aerrsd, witii ooibe^ll to dsateny; cordia l, sad thsa feUmrs aa oatingol two oiTSt' «lltV| "The Lord ^.Tem murmured Miss Wilt..* ^•Wil i right." she added. ..fc "tt ing sound." ' ""tWiii^* A curious device tr.. v i ,. «™wingflo.erslt?lfec. blue Chine,e_proce ain .twJ^Si of porcelain. noveL The efiiotfa'^Jj; A Japanese hangim, !»-,„ "1 a balloon. It iTof t! '^P " "kiw J in golden fretw^^k^'^gCr*' with flowers ofS"W^rt I, ntkitgi silken cords fromVwW?^"Si»' le eff -*•«»- mgini of 0) erk,' wi»u uuwers ot metal u'l ' « parachute of p Jtf orated Jn^?" very light ana graoffi,*"'-^ AMainegemn8ha,d!«o„™, sawduHtwan.xetUent.'J^' m making common morlTfo,^ houses. He hia used it K- m Granville, and oth«„i?^ are expermenting with it/" The largest artificial ba*, .», andrepa«rmgthehnlisof8uJ£ States IB bemg completed ^1 i Va. ItiBeOOfeetirisofe^ a depth of 25 feet oveX /S^ It k furnished with pump, 1 1 '^« it in two and a half K"'""" A Michigan man who decided to i Jasper, Ala., shipped hi. g.od, tb rad,and then, with hU wife Tdr' dren, drove the whole di«tano» i They had a splendid time, ^idn, of th9 country and the paop;eth*. of railroad travel would hav^ n.r« peroltteil Mr..Willum McLanjrhlm ot Albany has been bragging about hii big Wto It was planted on May 10, andunleu has cut it down is growing nov accounts it was thirteen feet krk i branches covered an area of twentjfeei] the main stalk was three incha ine fereoce. Mabel Hastings of Uliet, Montuu,] guarding her father's sheep tlie other « when a air of big gray woItm atlil them. he ran to the hoose, gott rifel herself between the wolves and the 4 and, after firing five shot« and woondiiil of the brutes, had thesitufactbnof J them run. It is believed that the city ef Parii i the most successful and remaihble r;i of clocks worked automatinlly bf i pressed air, several thousand being « on according to thia pricoiple fninti central station, the comprened lii I conveyed under the stieets by mml small pipes. In the centre of a roll of good cently bought by a family in RatlBjid,V was a little tin box, and in the bciii apparently written by " a girl 13 ;« age, good Icoking, and an exsellent i keeper," who thought Bbe wonld â-  good wife for "some unmarried Clu gentleman." A Michigan farmer, who had Ibt I pigs that a bear stole from the pes,; big boar in their plaee and awaited n The bear came and attempted to hig j hog, but the bpar used his long tasks s J fully that after a hard fight hegotfci of the beir, and rendered him so iieH' that the farmer finished him withuii â-  In the blizzard of last March agio limb was broken from a largeehntree of the residence of Dr. WUe of P Conn. The limb was not levered from the trunk, but hung head down," ported by the bark on the under ada. the sap ascended in the spring m ceived none, and hung leaflen ill Now, the tree has shed its leswi, sap, descending, has entered theluno, u covered with the soft, U?ht pea of June. Therestofthetreeubw J branch was bound to have iti tm» took all winter. Bxperte in house buading hsvei* that grates in second storiei are jwW safe flian those below, as *eii»rnw)^ give Uttie room for the boniigo»»r ft U also urged that g«tf«».HSi ilue k simply of four-mch waj, ^^. ways dangerous at the baok ot »^ frame house. Thu can be JteJ^ measuring the dUtanoe the tejn out from the wall, and, « »S bre«it runs through fl»»' wi*hgg wall in the next room, thecaiciu»*» be made accordingly. Daring the war of the,Am«toJ'X 10,000 of the Maine wdierem^ of their pay to the StateJR^Mgi drawndaringtheirab«m«by »_ Ue, or by themselves on ^^(^, George Kitchen of he^tM«-^^ who enlUted m 1861, '"'-r,e»««i in 1864. The «««»'»°^„„Tand th Kitohen's bahmce was foun .^ witii accrued [P.^"**' J^»Vhar«».! sent to him. Kitchen wm » ^^ i this story is told of hjm- ..p, yoa mish he said to a comrade tiiatkng,lackreb with* ^^-â-  Well, watch h.m jump. fired, and as the »°f ^.ijnui* â- eif leaped into ^be Jtf ^^Uth»t« thunderthe ^^'?^/'^S ^^^^ Kitchen was carntd from » that lean "reb that stood e-^^ Young A. L. BreMler «f "'e^nntfr. b.;«S5priaoneauiM^°ift«4.bt,' Tpretty serious pr«"^j, ofto* " ed Geian officers.- Swh i"^., «• heinous in the eye" « "^^^^^ til -^ i. ai«y-iS Something '^v^rZtReen io •" ""«!*•* them to belong to offi^ Api^ head b the G^^^f^S* «**!2??^ oifcnoeagalnrt.an f^-^^^if very gra?e •SaS^J' 5nt» ^„ ;SiSdier f!*}oftkSl*i* BNsaler oompW"*! "Sj, b, ^^ tbssoUlsr aaid, *•*.- Jt^" up for several weett, ^^^ ^tpredij^J^y^ ofoom] that miUti»yohs»oW^S;,„*ii Germany last year Ir.^pir: The Eiffel Tower H now ^e remaining 400 will i jtnnary. •The electric li?ht w'ltijh Karlborough has put 'a Bl -i jijen completed. The German military bud {tern oi $9,000 ^^' 'he breed! carrier pigeons. The Prince of Wales, who xjj^oonrtaof Europe, atill w jitad inbia ahirt front. It ia a^d now that Eagl Qgrmana a copy of her new tbe redpefor making melin Parry Sullivan, who is Weat Brighton, has entirely "SatiOopi^tBai not eves his Die London harsom is at duced in Paris. L rd S are w est cab owner in Lmdon, the company. The new Italian p:nal ca gacb an assertion as t lat right to Rome as hia seat punishable as a crime. A brother of Mr. Rider H C. P. Haggard, now servini ,fritten a book said to be i SB his brother's works. In order to avoid cfi"tfndii party in Spain the Q leen I young Irish woman. Miss port, as a governess for the The testimouiil preetnte Cunard in Loictsttrshire fo one of the county hunta for a solid silver ?cx weighing Sarah Beriihiardt stUl around with her on her It was observed ia her Ylbnna encased in its box. Alfred Stevens ^na a F Gervex are paintii g an in for the Paris Exp^ .Tsition n represent the Freioh celei century. The Crown Prii oe of Ge and a half years c id, is dri half an hour by Sergei First Regiment ol the Gu extremely handsome little It has hitherto '3en thoi Ayres was one of ihe mos to live in, a medium siz there for $2,503 a ei Ic that an eightroom house i Sydney brings $1,750 a ye The French ha\ j a cnsi graveyards wherein th buried on the let of Nov there were 270,000 vibicoi this year there wtre 190 the most terrifis d. wufail France has now a Njktio promotion of physical cdu fit her citizsns to La "o'.di« me which has |beea comp door games throughout cti the local jkuthoritiis will si whereon the children shai Dr. Eisenmann of B.-r piano which, by the aid ism, can sustain, incre sound. This has been a experta, notably Boehm, metal flute. Another no by moving the electro-mf of the tone is changed hat of a violoncello to a The Masonic Grand Lo( their last quarterly ineet expulsion of two brother: couple of ladies to a lodg* where they could e-je siud portion of the proc ediagi was " tyled in the third let into the organ lof :. commended that oi^e of i pelled. A new field for Frf nch been rather impecuaioua, ranels in the sections For example, the Argei have one of the richest walls of ita section are decorative panels, whicl to that country doabtlef tion is over. Thus the the River Plata will ha^ artist in case he ehoul order to Paris. In the new market artists of i are offering to paint long for such sums as a The estimate of tbe dnoe of wine in tbs va.- eountries of Europe is k representing hectolitre! France, 45;00O,0C0; Spain. 25.000,000 A 000.000, Portugal, 4, 500,000; Germany, o Rnaaia, 2,000,000; Sw: ServiafcTOO.OOO Europ Roumanie, 335.335, produced in Europe fai at 125,084,335 hectoliti 752 miUion gallons, wi the gaUon. is 16.512, about four dcvzen hot inhabitant of Europe. Hungarian gypsy na heard in greater volnm at Pesth, at the unveil over the grave of th "Primate," Beikes Felmaxy, 1885, at tb were present, ia addi Scagnatea, the entire Theatre, and some fo with their instrumi commenced with a fu actor. The conclasio by the four hundred on tiieir violins and o favorite melody of th thamaet cdebrated c The title of .Primate, tiiathewaaatthehei siaSnnen. The final having been exoeedii puaiaa Aed^ng tea milrdmntlcof whic a»fi«d. SCke character of ttij be learned from 1T bar Majesty's h ft SB Ot, ths ntfble ci â- â- iaetiaM, thenmal ittthsnalf hard pre MldUoinpandjii dm w«mld n iEiii^fe;- ,7 g.j Mam iiliii imi M