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 l*"«'»nooth??? only ffflj. pnMreCanadK'te â- oawicH. Out. "' AND GOLDEN OPMs It..ul lustrations, color. [k thit taienhe eye at hxtra liberal. Wa^' Utic Year begaa*Se*S in pursued i, at on^fn rj-'vfeetinsinave,^ LI 'f P^gressiv^ f anj, f ihe graduatei, Mt results, need be lone JirtraimnsTfchocl 13.881 |n;i lucrative situations. I'riricipal. ifaion 1883 -New im- of Enj^lish Sheeps, jnsrs. Orders filled for for prices. A SOW, Market. Toronto. belting IE DOMIMOX KING ST. [.TORONTO couDta. lall SteamsMpi 'ortland everyTbureday Liverpool, and In Sun- day to Liverpool, calUoft ills ind passengers foi cm Baltiircre, via Hall- Liverpool fortnightly e sttamors of the OUa- to and fmrn Halifax, Iphia and during sum nrreal weekly Glasgow figow and Philadelphia !r infortaation apply lore S. Cunard Co. 3'9, Nfld.; Wm. Thomp Allen Co., Chicago H. Bourller, Toronto W m. Brookie. rhilada- Boston Mor.r.real. LOOK polors, S( per oz. ILUSIAN WOOLS, ic ill colors, 10c ier skein; er ball Embroidery skein's Arrasene, ail )selle, best quality iic me Cord, 15 cclors, 10c yards wide, *1.00 per all colors, 4'ic yard, iter als for fan.^y work, lers have prcmpt and be sent to any part of ice list. A trial solicit- or, 23-2 Yonge Street, paper. tMAMEMT sCompany ED 1855- to St,, Toronto 9 4.S««,«M 9^S99»999 I«,M«M« iroes of this Oomponv, jilities it has recently lers with cheap money, ith pr jinptnees and M irest »U requlremenk estate security- ituer of the Oompanr" •g. Director, Toronto Glass fVELLINGS, BUILDINGS. SON, Toronto* by Toronte. WE ONEH -V V t- ,„- for HAIR CRAY OR IMAGIC. MI80£LLABE0U8. Has a man the right to keep hii hat on in theatre if be chooaes to do to I So thinks a Brooklyn man who has brought suit against the manager of the Park theatre there for rcquiiii'g him either to take off his hat or leuve the buildicg. He left the boilding and now wants $5,G00 to soothe his wcond- od feelings. If some women, both in theatres and other places were required to take c ff their big hats or vacate the premises it wonld be a great improvement. The record of business done by the Ameri can Post ofBce Department last year is something marvellous. There were 1 769,- 8C0,00O Utters mailed, and 372.000,000 post cards, 1.063.200.000 newspapers and period- â- icals and third and fourth class matter to the tune of 372. 900,000 pieces. The increase in receipts was {3,857 566, and the increase in expenditures $5;734,3"6, which does not look as if the distribution of mail matter by the Government were a very profitable inilastry. Among other changes the Depart- ment suggests the reduction of postage to one cent, and a uniform charge on third and foutih class mattetof ore cent for every two onnces. sw •â-  l,. *i. ""a Mr. Samuel Barton of New York has written and cauced to be published a some- what iugenious and mildly interesting book called "The Battle of the Swash and the Capture ot Canada." "The Capture of Can- ada" is rather a misnomer since any original- ity the book poeseiEcB rests in the fact tha it 'shows how the United States has been forced by Great Britain at the cannon's mouth to take over all the British possessions in this western hemisphere with the exception of Barbadoes, to pay the sum of $1,500,000,- 000 for the privilege and to assume Canada's debt into the bargain. The wit of the book is not very apparent. We may charitably euf'poEeitwas meancforwit, as nobodysurely would ever be foolish enough to spend brains and money on anything so visionarily futile as a "prophecy" of this kind in serious earnest. A likely enough view is that it is a ' skit" designed to ridicule the condition of the American navy. Ominous undergrcund rumblings which seem to forebode an earthquake of war, are still heard on the continent ef Europe. To one who watches the current of events it ap- pears as if the nations there were gradually, and irresistibly, in spite of their backward striviucs, being sucked into a terrible mael- strom. Each is aware of the horrible dan- ger. In these days, there is not the brute eacemeES to fight ut of mere love of fight- icg, that was once the case. Civilization has at .last opened our eyes to the fact that « ar is an awful and tragical crime. Uence the unwillingness of each government to take the responsibility of beginning it. Each asserts its own eagerness for peace, and throw the Wame on another. And yet all seem to recognize in a greater or less degree the inevitablenesa of war sooner or later. France appears to be the distutbing element at present. Italy and Germany in alliance are silent but with a watch-dog's alertness. " '"eliver me from some of my friends I" may well be the cry at times of "orthodox" Christianity. A little more discretion might be advantageously mingled with the zeal which some doughty champions are always ready to manifest on h£r behalf. Books, speeches, lectures or wliat not, which are considered hurtful to the faith should be ad- vertised as little as possible by those who think there "s good reason to fear their in- tluence. And least of all should they be proclaimed from the pulpit of all places, for nothing helps to sell a book, or a newspaper, •r magazine article like clerical denuncia- tion, or even mere clerical criticism. Scores of people will then hasten to risk the very danger from which they have been so care- fully warned off, who would not otherwise have thought of doing so. The drum ecclesi- astic is an excellent advertisine medium, and should therefore be used with very •autious deliberation by those who have the control of its thunder. The terrible fire in Rochester last week affords another proof of the fact, that many of the so-called " fire-escapes " are well-nigh â- seless for any practical purposes. They exist for show and that only. When the trial time comes they are sadly wanting. The escapes in that Rochester firetrap were placed in a position where a pretty steady head and firm nerves would have been re- quired to reach them at any time, when it could have been done deliberately. But when death was in pursuit in the shape of cruel tongues of fire, .not one person in a hundred could have reached them. To be good for anything, fire-escapes ought to be put where they can be reached with the smallest amount of trouble, and there should be plenty of them. There should be a law, however, forbidding altogether the employ- ment of persons in such hideous places as that which furnished the Rochester hole caust. The Dominion Government does well torn- rite Australia aod New Zealand delegates here for the disAsion of intercolonial trade questions and direct cable communication, Q'he project is worthy of unstinted praise, and we trust there will be loyalty enough in Canada to bestow this praise, irrespective of narrow party considerations. Closer trade relation with these other great colonies, and a cable communication that wonld make us ii-dependent of the United States would be vary beneficial to Canada. If, too, the Cana- dian Pacific Railway decides to make regular steamship connection with Auckland and Sydney, and secures the contract for carry ing the mails, which the Pacific maU steam- ship company holds but for one year more, another step wUl have been taken towards a very valuable form of Imperial Federation, perhaps the only form that is practiqable or desirable. ,. If the Chinese don't retaliate upon both tke United States and Canada by expelling aU misiioaaries snd traders and travellers who haU from this continent it will be very strange. It appears so ntterly monstrone that after forcing the Chinese to admit foreigners to tr^Je and travd these very Yankees and Britisbwa should turn round and say, whUe we send our iniasionaTOS and merchants to you, we forbid any of your countrymen to come near M. Sach » com*. of conduct has nothing which o«i £• "»~ â„¢ ila excuse. If the Chineee •««^*W^ *» huddle too much together whyno* »»»â-¼â€¢ â- *â„¢- gent municipal reguUtione, «P'^*^' Btate of thfaSnot only ««««-»8*«^?'*2riSS, among allo^erB»tki8i»ii«i««*weIL Nobady asks an immigrant from o^^^f^lS^tl^ ther or nothi proposei to •^^•f^?! country, many, and m asm hwo "Z^T^-^ citizen. All that is W*t «o »Tery /me » own free will, and there are many uMwe nnwnow- •ome people tiua the Chine** In nny oe«e let u all try to be ir. Eogland, it seen^, is to be "startled," as the newspaper have it, by what they call a groat ecclesiasticid scandaL Strange how muciiof that sort of thing there is just now. Wars and rumors of wars in the world. Bict- eringsand dissensions in the churh. Portents in the shape of convulsions in the realm of nature. What do such things signity T In the meantime this "scandal" which is likely to break out bef.'re this paragraph reaches the printer, is simply this that the Arch- bishop of Canterbury has decided to cite the Bishop of Lincoln before him for following divisive courses, and thereby bsing a cause of stumbling and offence unto many. It ap- pears that the Bishop is one of the ultra-rit- ualistic sort of church dignitaries, having a strong i^rsnadedness as to the viJne of ela- borate milLnery in official Sirvi3es. In fact, he b thought to " savour of Rome" far too much for Evangelical Episcopacy, and steps are accordingly to be taken for his ditdplue. He is a celibate also, and a believer in un- married clergy. Young women who serve in stores have as a general thing no happy lot. They have long hours, often harsh treatment, always on their feet, always expected to be civil under the deadliest provocation, always smiling though the heart be ready to break, and often tempted to the ways of sin by scant wages and from a desire to please the foreman who has so much in hb power, or to curry favour with the employer who too frequently does not scruple to levy tribute oa poor girls in a way which may be pleasant to him but is death and dishonour to his victims. It is not very many veus since a prominent Toronto merchant fell in with one of his former victims who had escaped and reformed and was returning to America to fill a responi ible position in a large dry- goods Fsubbiishment. The miserable, greyr haird reprobate after learning all t'ais put the alternative to the poor girl of either re- uming her former sinful relations or of shaving her new employer informed of he antecedents, and her good position qi course sacrificed. Such cases are not so rare as one would think, as all behind the ssenes kno«r ht weU. It is pleasant enough cei thinly, to have the assurance oi a man like Lord Salisbury that everything is peaceful, and that on Britain's horizon at anyrate there are no ominous war clouds to disturb the serenity of the beholder. It somewhat prejudicially affects one's confidence, however, to remember that this assurance from so high a quarter, was given at the Lord Mayor's dinner, and at Lord Mayor's dinners, of course, the prophecy of " smooth things " is generally matter of course, and needs to be taken cum grano. Without looking nearer home than Egypt, there are indications in that quarter that all trouble is not yet over. General Grenfell has announced himself in favor of a policy of passive resistance at Suakim, which clearly means that the Eng- lish are not to be withdrawn yet, but that with their present forces they feel hardly strong enough to cope with the Arabs. No doubt Lord Salisbury would explain the latter part of his speech, in which he insist- ed on the necesbity of increased armament, by the usual plea that the strongest assur- ance of peace is thorough preparation for war. Hpalth and Shoes. " It is very hard to find any woman who will confess that her shoes are too tight, too short, or too high-heeled. Her shoes are usually ' miles too big,' and hurt by their looEcnesB I If women complain of lame backs or aching feet, they are always sure the shoes have no part in it because women are really not aware how they have deput- ed from nature in this regard. The perfect female foot is described by a physician as follows â€" " It should have great breadth and full- ness of instep, a well-marked great toe, a long second toe, a small little- toe.' Woman needs a strong and firm footing, particular- ly becauLe of her function of motherhood, and yet this perfect foot is the exact oppo- site of the ideal lady's foot of to-dayâ€" nar- rowness, shortness and littleness are the qualities that go to make it up and there are women, it we may believe what is said in the newspapers, who, to secure a narrow foot, are willing to have the little toe ruined. " Strange as it is, the Ameridbn women, while cramping she feet, deny it. The Chinese are mor; loglcaL They distort and cripple the feminine foot to a much greater degree, but then sing its praises. Its favor- ite name, the ' solden lily," is well known. "Many of the peculiar ailments undsr which women pass their days in invalidum, unhappy and miserable themselves, and making others imhappy, would vanish jr Is greatly mitigated, if they would but a'i;i;y common sense to the selection of 3ir shoes. " The shoes of men, as a rule, are not so badly constructed and worn as the shoes of women and children. A larger proportion of men wear custom-made shoes, in which some effort is made to fit the foot Business men generally have eschewed heels, except the lowest 'lifts.'" [Ex. '7iia.t to Say. Every one who has tried it knows how difficult the work of finding words of com- fort for the bereaved and desolate, without beinpl'ormtJ and offensive, as well as it may be hypocritical and fantastic There is often more sympathy In silerce than in speech, while the few words, and fitly spoken, are as soothing and satisfactory as the common saws, hackneyed quotations, and dull, dreary moralizings are toituring and intolerable. The meagre chaff, well meant for grain, hk sometimes absolutely terrible. Awkward blunderers, though well meaning, often tear open nearly clorod wounds and lay their cltunsy hands upon the yet generous heart In a way that cannot be deacribed. The following remark bv a well known writer hito the mark very squarely :â€" Do not think me flippant If I venture to say that in a note of sympathy one should not be too piona. By this I mean that *here is a dialeot d griefâ€" a repertoire of Scriptura phraeea and bite of hymneâ€" which comes readUy to the pen, yet whfa h of ten oonveya no otMufort, becnaee it eoM ide â- tw reo- typed, and earriea no Bieaasge from the hwt. Itielikein^Bsottothoee haokne^- edfArasea which faU from mmm feople n their pnblic prayers, untO we watob in ap- prohenrfim for tbe exaot muuent whin ther aretobe«ttered. Whate^w elie may be aeused'ln AvMttmMf ofwgariig, inte- eerity'hai no part nor lotlktoa.' -_ Any tUttK at such timaa IMMT mtnA o" â- inoeri^ nod proaing oft-repeated oeomon- plaoaw .About Do(i, â- ;â-  " I have no doubt," says my friend, who knows a thing or two about dogs, " thit many people are surprised that the White- chapel mnrdver has not Icng ago been tracked and captured by the aid of the bloodhounds of whioh so much has been written. The ordinary idea of a blood- hound is founded on confused notions re- maining from slave stories of the South, and In imagination men see ravenous brutes with distended jsws pursuing a traU with relentless and unerring purpose, and finally tearing the unfortunate fugitive limb from limb at the end of the chMe, wbidi never fails to result In capture. " Now, a bloodhound isn't this kind of a fellow at aU. To start with, there is noth- ing ferocioiu about him except his name. Of course, there are individuals of fierce disposition, but that fact goes for nothing. I am speaking of the general ckancter- istics of the breed. When a bloodhound overtakes his quarry â€" ^which is seldom when that quarry is human â€" he stands and gives tongue, but the rending performance is only a freak of the imagination. " The modern blood hound runs mute, which, no doubt, is a result of the continual breeding for ' type.' You have seen the stage bloodhounds in ' Uncle Tom's Cabin.' These crop-eared fellows are Great Danes, and haven't the slightest resemblance to a bloodhound. The bloodhood is good-tem- pered and is a delicate dog to rear. "Now, as to Iiis tracking abilities, there is just as much misapprehensioii. There are a dbzen other breeds of dogs quite as good as, if not better than, the bloodhound at pickiug up and followiug a trail, and with any of them it is a matter oi training. A dog most be taught to hunt. Well, then, suppose your bloodhound has a good nose naturally, and has been well trained. He sets off on a trail, and how fast do you sup pose he goes? Five miles an hour at the outride, on a fresh scent. A man would soon get away from such a pursuer as that, if he knew he was followed. To pick out even his master's track and stick to it in a town is almost impossible. G. H. Fitzher- bert, an Euglish breeder of bloodhounds, says Selim was the best dog he ever saw hunt, and he could not track a man through a crowd if he was ten minutes behind t£ie man. " But, allowing the bloodhound to have all the astonishing powers which popular sup- erstition credits him with, what possible use could he be in these Whicechapel cases? A dog will follow only a particular scent. What is there to dbtinguish one trail from another so far as the dog is concerned If his master or some person he knew had com- mitted the murder the dog might pick out his trail and follow it for a short distanse, but that is the besc that could be expected. Differs somewhat from the common idea of the bloodhound, doesn't it " Now, I'vo been alking about scents and trails, but if you were to ask me what is scent in a dog I couldn't tell you. Nor could anybody else but It is not the same as the sense of smell in man. It seems to be something more. Some dog stories may give you an idea of what it enables a dog to do, but that doesn't tell you what it Is. Mr. F. H. F. Mercer, of Ottawa, the young fellow who rowed in the junior single sculls at the Canadian Association regatta here this summer, owns Champion Johnny, the best Clumber spaniel in America. He fre- quently goes to a place is, the country to shoot grouse and Johnny goes along. When Mr. Mercer drives to the postoffice or else- where on business the dogs are shut up In the house. When Johndy can steal away he sete off on the road his master's buggy has taken, running with his nose to the ground. It makes not the least difference what road his master travels, the dog goes the right way every time he can msike his escape, and Mr. Mercer wants to know what scent the dog follows. Is it the horse? The buggy wheels What " The next case was in Kingstcm, N. Y. A man named Mellert was arrested for shooting and kQIing another man. The policeman who arrested him took him to the goal, two miles away, In a street oar. The oar was closed te let other passengers in and out. After leaving the r Mellert walked 300 feet over tiie nag-sto..*B of the sidewalk, used by hundreds and perhaps thousands of people and was placed in the goaL Some hours after the arrest Mellert's beagle miss- ed his master from home and set off to look him up. In any ordinary sense of the word there was no scent to follow, not even as much as the open buggy in Johnny's case but the beagle traced his master to the gaol and going to the Inner door lay down to await his coming out. The fsMst tht the dog lay dcwn to wait for him proved that the intelligent fellow was confident Mellert was inside. Now, how did that beagle trace his master? Yon bet, it's a conun- drum. " There b a theory that a dog follows hb master's trail by the scent of hb boots, but I can tell you of a test which goes to prove that this b not the whole truth. The master of a dog, a foxhound, and a friend started off on opposite sides of the road and after travelling a quarter of a mile they tx changed boote by throwing them across the road to each other. When the hoimd came to thb (oint he hesitated only a short time, and then went right along on his master's trail, in spite of the fact that the master had the other man's boote on. The two tralk came together and then separated again, but the hound followed hb master's throughout, though be did not wear hb own boots. What did the bound follow More conun- drums, but it all goes to show that we don't really know what scent b in the dog, though we know he o.-n't do the imposaibTe things expected of a bloodhound." Obskkvbb. STAiisncs. A Tight Hat-band. A New York gentleman who mffen aome- what from self-concMt not long sinoe ealled upon an Albany gentleman. Whikhqldiog a oonvervktion bk the lifaimry, the five-yaar old son of the host appeared with tiie yiattor's hat in hb hand, indnstrionsiy ex- amining its interior. The New Yoriter, noticing the lad, remarked: "My hoy*., what do yon find In my hatf NolUu:, sir,"nldtite litiU fdlow;" waioa^ looking. ' I beard ma eay Hn otlwr «dght that Jim were trouiled witii a vtry tight hat-band." Iplanations ware in onbr. Ninety-two thousand paupera was the London census for September. A California company with a capital of $1,000,000 wUl eatablbh a big iron plant near Miiford, Utah, that will employ about 2.600-men. England has already purchased 1S6.000 barreb of apples from thu country. The increase ov«r bet year's export is 80,OCO barrels so far. One of the largest shoe contracts made is that of a firm in Bangor, Me., who have en- gaged to make 100,0(X) purs of wigwam slip- pers within a year, for which they are to re- ceive $74,900. There are 500.000 retell tobacco dealers in the Unite States and 500.000 workers in- terested in the manufacture of smoking and chewing tobacco. Of the 70.000.000 feet of lumber included in the Connecticut River Lumber Company's last drive logs, which have recently passed over Bellows falb, 7,000,000 feet btopped there to become paper. President Pullman stated, at the annual meeting ot hb Car Company, that the 4,598 persons employed at the company's shops at Pullman, III., earn an average of $60.40 each per monthâ€" a much higher average per per- son than exbte in any community where similar work is performed. The Russian Empire with a population nearly double that of the United States, contains but four cities having more than 200,000 inhabitants, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw and Odessa. Th«re were at 'the last census but thirty-six cities having a population of more than 50,000. All the cities of the Empire together contain barely more than one-eighth of the total population. Xhe total area of France is 130.610,139 acres. The total number of farms is 5^672.- 007, and the average iz3 of farms is 21^ acres. The number of farms under 2^ acres b 2,167.667; the number containing 2^ to 12| acres js l,S(j5,S7S those containing 12^ to 25 acres number 769,152 those contain- ing from 25 to 100 acres number 727,222; those ouer 100 acres are 142,008. The num- j ber under 25 acres constitute 85 per cent, of the whole number, though scarcely one- foiurth of the total area. Aboucone-third of the country b in farms of 25 to 100 acres, and more than half the area is in large farms of more than 100 acres. Australia now takes the lead among the wool- producing countries of the wurld. A recent report tO'the State Department at Washington shows that on the first of April last Australia contained 96 462,038 sheep. Thb b a gain of nearly 20.000,000 since 1885. The number of sheep in the United States in 1887 was OEtimated at 44,759.966, In European Russia in 1862 at 47,508,966, and in the Argentine Republic in 1885 at 75,000,000 The Australians are making special efforte to push their wool into the maikets of the world, but as the electors of the United States have just declared against free wool the American people will not de- rive much benefit from the surplus product of the Antipodes. There is no doubt that for the past twenty- four years New York has tried to be impar- tial in th? distribution of her electoral vote. Here is the record â€" 1864 Rspublican, 1868 Democratic. 1880 Republicaas, 18S4 Demo- cratic, 1888 Republicans. Under this im- partial method the Democrats may hope for it in 1892, Indiana, also, b going into the same sort of coquetry. In 1872 it was Re- publican, in 1876 Democratic, in 1880 Re-' publican, in 1884 Democratic, and in 1888 Republican. Thb sort of thing, carried on, would make it Democratic In 1892. The Democnte may find some comfort in thb hope, but there b every possibility that a good many changes are likely to take place in the next four years that may re- duoe the importance of the electoral votes of New £ork and Indiana.â€" [Milwaukee SentineL Dr. Alice Yickery, of England, alleges that France must be the happbst country in Europe. She says that while the surplus in women in Great Britain and Germany amounts to nearly 750,000 and 1,000,000 re- spectively. France in 1881 had a surplus of only 92.000 women, and marriages are more provident in proportion to the population in France than elsewhere. France has ^e low- est birth rate of all European oountries, 23.- 8 to a thousand, against 31 for Great Britain and 38 for Grermany. The average number of children in a French family b now 2.3, against 4 6 in England and Wales, 5.25 in Scotland, and 5.4 in Ireland. Germany has nearly five to a family. France has a greater proportion of grown up persons than any other nation in Europe, the number of per- sons In each 10,000 between the ages of 15 and 60 being, in France, 5,373 in HoUaud, 4,984 in Sweden, 4.954 In Great Britain, 4,732; In the United States, 4.398. France has the highesc average ages of the living, 31.06 years, again^^t Hollana,27.76 Sweden, 27.66; Gr«at Britain, 26 5; the United States, 23.1. In Fiance, out of every hun- dred deaths,- those persons over the age of 60 are 36 in Switzerland, 34 England, 30 Belsinm, 26 Wurtemberg, 24 Prussia, 19 Austria, 17.â€" {Ex. "There 70,000,000 codfish caught annu- ally off the Newfoundland coast," observed a fish cnlturbt the other day to a New York Mail writer. " Yon might think that wonld deplete tiie yearly hateh. If so, you would be mistaken. It has been calculated that, as fish produce so msmy eggs, if vast numbers of the latter and of the fish them- selvee were not continually destroyed and ti ken, they wonld soon fill up every Knil- able space in the seas. For instance, from 60.000,000 to 70.000.000 ccdSsh are annually caught on the shores of Newfoundland. But even that quantity seems sm II when it b coqsidered that each cod yields aboat 4,500,000 eggs every season, and tiiat even 8,00%0eO faav« been found in tlie roe of a singlit i»KL' Were tiie 60.000.OOC eod taken on the coast of Newfoundland left to breed, the 30.000,000 females prodnoing 5,000,000 aggs every year, it would fdw* a yearly ad- dSon of 150,000,000,000,000 young coSfish. OllMr fidi, tiioaf^ not •qoallittg tiie cod, are woadecfuUy prolific A hamng weigh- ing rix vr seven ounces, ii pcovided with abooiSO.OOO eggs. Aftermi^jng aU reason- abk j^wanoes for tlie Mtrnctton ot esgs â- ad Ah yoan itlue bMta estimated that The Maikit for Human Fair. There b a human hair market at Morlans in the department of the Lower Pyrenees. Id is little known, except, perhaps, in Paris, where it has a high reputation. The market is held every other Friday. Hundreds of trafficking hair-dressers throng to the little plase from far and near to buy up the hair of the young peasant girls. The dealers wander up and down the long, narrow street of the town, each with a huge pair of bright shears hanging from a black leather strap around hb want, while the youn,; girb who wbh to part with their hair stand about in he doorways, usually in couples. The tran- saction is carried on in the beet room of the house. The hair b let down, the tresses combed out, and the dealer names the price. Thb varies from three to twenty francs. If a bargain b struck the dealer lays the money in the open palm of the seller, applies his shears, and in a minute the long tresses fall on the floor. The purchaser rolb up the tresses places them in paper, and thrusta them into his pocket. Of course a maiden can rarely see her fallen tresses disappear into the. dealer's pocket without crying. But she con- soles herself with the thought that It will gojw again, and by looking at the money in her hand. There b at present a scarcity of fancy hu- man hair in the mat ket. The rarest hair b pure white, and Its value u constantly in- creasing and if it is unusually long â€" that b, from four to five feetâ€" the de ler can get al- most hb own price, while if it Is of ordinary length it is worth from 375f. to 500f. an ounce. The fact that pure white hair is the Coiirt coiffure throughout Europe keeps the demand for it very high. It b much prized by American women whose hair b white, and who desire to enrich its folds, for white hair b held to give certain dbtinction to the wearer. There is nojfancy market for grey hair. It is too common. Next to pure white hair the demand b for hair of the color of of virgin gold. It is said that the Empress Eugenie paid l,000f. an ounce for a braid of golden hair that exactly matched her own. cqaaMblMk to of herrings wonld iwB calculated that ooold be left to bnyd loraperiod of 29 yield an amooat tt fish Brave and Unselfish. The late Mr. Forster, who, as Chief Sec- retary for Ireland in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, made himself very unpopular wth Irishmen, was as brave and unselfish an Eogliahmaa as ever lived and though he may have looked at public questions out of too Engluh eyes, those who opposed him when living caimot withhold their admiration from hb truly sterling qualities. One day, at a party made up of friends, the question was started whether English political morality was genuine, and one of the party asked how far a public man was sincere in averring that his desire, while in Parliament, was to serve his country apart from any personal advantage he might attain to. In response to this, it' was suggested that it was possible for a man to become purely self-seeking, however high he might profess his aims to be. Mr. Foster rose from hb chiir, and, grasping the one in front of him, said " Well, all I can say is, that if I did not know that never, in all my political life, have I been actuated by any other desire or motive than that of being able to help my fellow- creatures and serve my country, I should have gone out of this business long ago." A few weeks before Mr. Foster left Ireland an attempt was made to assassinate him. He knew of the plot,- and yet, after he had resigned, on hearing of the Phoenix Park murders, â€" one of the victims of which was hb own Immedbte successor, Lord Frederick Cavendish, â€" Mr. Foster went to the Prime Ministsr, and offered to return to Ireland, and take the place again until the government had foimd a permanent succes- sor. Women and Their Yiotims* It was hoped some time ago that the fash- ion of wearing the dead bodies of birds as trimmings for bonnets and hate was going out. Such a hope, apparently, b doomed to dbappointment. Perhaps the day may come when people who have a little regard for such helpless craaturee as birds will give them up to their fate. It really seemn to be of no use to try to pr6tecb thena. The loafer from tha Eaat End of London goes forth with hb cages and hb lime, and catches them. He, however, motly retains thel male. The other bird-murderer also goes forth on hb cmel erand, and, by pre- ference, oatehes and retains the female. He takes ber in the nesting season, because the feathers are soft and beautiful then. What matters It to him that hb victim b often the mother of a nestful of helpless young, and that they are left in the nest to die of starvation j to die while piieously crying out hour after hour for the mother that never oomes Tha mother birds are killed and the young left to die of starva- tion, because certain women insbt that it shall be so. Yet how gentle, and sympa- thetic and tender, those. very women can pretend to be when it suite their conveni- enoe. How correct and nice in their taste in everything that relates to good manners. How shocked they are by vulgarity how horrified by coarseness. If they could see themselves exactly assume men see them; could have it once driven in upon their con sciences, that. In the estimation of all ra- tional and right-feeling men, they are in- comparably inferior to many co^termocgers, crossing-sweepers, and untaught African negroes, they might for one moment pauie and reflect upon their worthleasneas. Is it really, then, cone to thb that a nine l-eenth century woman b so utterly selfish, so hopelessly without bruns or feeling, and so incapable of learning even the very, elemei^te of humanity, t^t she must and will have birds to adorn herself witli at whatever coot At bottom it rwdly b want of Intallecl. His fteoticat Application. Tommy recentiy heard somebody use the expression " gone sucker," and subsequently questioned hb father as to the meaning of " Oh," said the father, ** when anybody b hard up or awful sick folks sometimes say he b a " gone sacker," The boy took it all in and shortly after- wards made a praodoal application of his newly acquired knowledge in behalf of his aiok Drather Just befa re going to bed one idghthaknalttosayhb prayers, as usual and doeed liis^atitiao tlius •$iAa4* O Loi^ hlMs ^fiwa^ mH mak» ;himlreil,lorh«lia«fally8kk ii^Jf «oa 1 i ^i?-