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 VM !iP.l -1-^^,1. JJ!"KI -^PBW- Wfl(»i»* '!B*!'-^*'S» m :.*' ;^1^i ia-.Tl (?-^ ^!!i f 'â- ' -4 THE HOTJSBHOliD. SOICE IS HOME, HOWEVEB LOWLI. » ii hooM, bownar lowlTt Fcoead uonad b]r many • ipea It wUUn ili praoiiMiti bely. Boom be f oaod tor uanlo dwaU 9Mmia,iiira, iwipolaa eMtt. Wbanoa'«roiuilei«aMr iohii. •MiaataUiie the aBiffiiit baaith 01 • tneqnll. bspp7 borne. Home it hooie, taowarer lowlr Tbaie le Duglo in toe word Strife. kTMiat, and MeUnoholy. WbUit ita oomf oris I reoord I Waman dear my aonir approra, To my akU Penatee. oome 1 WbUatlbymo, witbdateona lorv Hooie, bowerer homelri borne. Hamajahome, bowerer lowty; Peaaafnl pleaaoiea tbera abide Boottdng thongbta and tMoim holy Oloater ronnd oni own fireaide. Xbonj^ the outer world be dark, Ani Iti ooean latbad to foam. Safe within iti iheltering ark, All i« oalm and bngbt at home. Home is home, however lowly Oil, bow aweat when atorma are rife, And our feet liar « itrntrgled slowly ' Throngrbtbe tangled wayaofilfe; Sad, enoombsred, faint, and weary. Spared the ^ef airUa to roam. To lay down oar burden dreary. At V^ bleaaed door of home. Cookery for Beginners. Hie pleasing custom in many familiee is to Make the daaghters responsible for "fancy co^ery," Mamma tnms naturally, when company is expected, to her yonng allies for the manufacture of cake, jellies, blanc-mange, etc., and for the arrangement of fruit and flowers, and seldom cavils at the manner in irhioh tiiey do the work. The difference in the appointment of feasts in houses where there are girls growing up and grown, and in those where tl\ere are none, is so marked that I need not call at- tcntioa to it. LKMOK OB ORANGE JBLLY. One pKikageof gelatine soaked in two cups of cold water. Two and a half cups of sugar. Juice of four lemons and grated peel of two (same of oranges). ThrM cups of boiling water. A quarter-teaspoonful pow- dered cinnamon. Soak the eelatine two hours add lemon juice, grated peel, sugar and spioe, and leave for one hour. Pour on the boilbig water, stir until disolved, and strain through double fluinel. Do not shake or squeeze, but let the jeUy filter clearly throngb it into a bowl or pitcher set beneath. Wet moulds in cold water and set aside to cool and harden. BIBBOX JELLY. Take one third currant jelly, one third lemoo jelly, and as much plain blanc-mange. When all are cold and begin to form, wet a mould, pour in ab rat a fourth of the red jelly and set on the ice to harden keep the rest in a warm room, or near the fire. So soon as the jelly is firm in the bottom of the mould, add carefully some of the white blanc- mange, and return the mould to the ice. When this will bear the weight of more jelly, add a little of the lemon, and when this forms, another line of white. Proceed iu this order, dividing the red from the yellow by white, until the jellies are used up. Leive the monll on ice until yon are ready to turn the jelly out. A pretty cUsh and easily managed if one w'.ll have the patience to wait after putting in each layer until it is firm enough not to be disturbed or muddied by the next supply. BL'TTEECUP JELLY. One half packat^e of gelatine soaked in half a cup of cold water for two hours. Three eggs. One pint of milk. One heap- ing cupful of sugar. One teaspoonful of vanilla. Bit of soda the size of a pea stirred into tine milk. Heat the milk to scalding in a farina ket- tle and stir in the soaked eelatine until the later^ dissolved, and strai^hrough a coarse cloth. Beat the yolks of the eggs light, add the sugar and pour the boiling mixture grad- ually upon it, stirring all the time. Return to the farina-kettle and stir three minutes, or until it begins to thicken. Let it cool before you flavor it. Whip the white of one egg stiff, and when the yellow jelly coagulates around the edges, set the ^n: containing the frothed white in cracked ce or in ice-water and beat the jelly into it, spoonful by spoonful, with the egg- whip, nn-. til it is all in your sponge tiiick and smooth. Wet a mould and set it on the ice to form. Lay about the base when you dish it. WHIPPED CREAM. I have been assured by those who have made the experiment, that excellent whip- ped cream can be produced, and very quick- ly, by the use of our incomparable Dover Egg-beater. I have never tried this, bat my pupils may, if they have not a syllabub- chum. Put a {dnt of rich sweet in a pail or other wide mouthed vessel with straight sides, and set in ice while you whip or chum it. As the frothing cream rises to the top. re- move it carefully with a spoon and Uy it in a perfectly dean and cold colander, or on a hiJr sieve, set over a bowL If any cream drips from it return to tbe vessel in which it u whipped to be Ieaten over agam. W^hen no more froth rises, wliip a tablespoonful of powdered sugar into the white syllabub «n the colander, and it is ready for use. Hints. Lemon juice will femove tan and stains from the hands. For the face^ mix the le- mon juice with an equal quantity of the white of egg, Bsat them together, then put the mixture into a porcelidn or granite- ware dish over a slow ore, and stir untfl It thickens slightly, but not until It is hard. Put it on the face at night. Sweet oil is said to whiten the akin, and also to increaae the flesh, when eaten in quantities. Yet, when sickening or nn- p'easant to the stomach, it sometimes turns the skin brown, and of course msder such circnmsta^bea not enough of it could lie tak- en to make much difference in the flesh. When the skin of tiie face, neck, and hands has beoome hard from exposure to the elements, whether in summer pleasure tripe or outdoor ooonpation of a more utilitarian character, it may be softened and much benefited by nsiog a mixture made of four ounces of tiie emulsion of bitter almonds and twenty grains of borax. It should be applied to e slkia with a {neoe of soft sponge, and washed off in a littie whQe with a soft towel and tepid water. OatmMA b -xodlsjit «« JS^StSr^ hands. B«M*««»».*^,***2rS!S to wStten tiie hands and do not irriUtotte Sil ColdboUed potatoes «• «*"«3y good for whiteningand "ft-^Jf *• ud sUn. Take em when not qnlta dono. thou^ they should not be to hard, and use in the place of soap. The Launch of England's Crack Oroiser. A large gathering of speoUtors assembled in the dockyard at Chatham to witness the Uunoh of her Majesty s ship Severn. This vessel, when completed, will be one of tne. most important additions which have been made to the rayal navy. The Severn wan unarmored f ast steel cruiser, belongugto the ola s of the twin screw protected cor- vette, which includes the Thames and the Mersey. She is a more powerful vessel than the cruisers of the Leander tne, and posMS- ses greater steam power. The principle fol- lowed In her constraction has baenthatof the water-tight hull, and the main object which the designers have had in view is to guard as much as poadble the boilers, en- gines, and magadnes from danger. The Severn has been about two years In the course of consteuotion, and Is estimated to cost about £160,000. If the anticipations of her designers are realized, it is believed she will turn oat to be one of the fastest craisers in the service. Her principal di- mensions are as follows Length between the perpendiculars, 300 feet; extreme breadth, 46 feet mean draught of water, 17 feet 9 inches load displacement, 3,600 tons. Her armament will consist of two 8 inch breech-loading guns, ten 6 inch breech- load- ing guns, one 9-pounder boat and field gun, one 7-pounder boat and field gun, six 1-incb Nordenfelt guns, and two-forty-inch Gard- ner guns. She will carry w^hitehead tor- pedoes, and discharge them above and below water on each broadside. Although the hull is unarmored, the vessel is provided with a nioe-injh thick armor steel faced conning tower, steel protective horizontal deck plating two inches thick, and three inches of the same on slopes. She will be fitted with horizontal compound engines of 6 000 indicated horse power, made by Messers. Humphry, Tennant k Co., of Dept- ford. There are two propellers, and the vessel is estimated to attain a speed of 17^ luota per hour. The authorized comple- ment of her coal bunkers is 500 tons, and accommodation is provided for 300 officers and men. Three o'clock was the hour appointed far the prooeedings to liegin. As the hour ap- proached a large staff of workmen made all preparations for the christening ceremony, which was performed by Miss Daisy Watson, daughter of Admiral Wateon, C, B Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard. Prayers having been read by the Rev. Mr. Dearden, a signal was given by the chief constructor, in re spouse to which Miss Wat- son moved the lever holding the ropes. As the last support whs knocked away a pause of a minute or two occurred, during which the vessel remained fast on the stocks. There was a momentary bustle and a flicker of excitement but presently the vessel, obeying the slight preaaure which had been applied to it, Iragan to move from the fast- enings which had retained it so long, and amid a atorm of enthusiastic cheers slid swiftly into the Medway. As the Severn got fsirly out of the slip the cheers were again renewed the royal standard, the union jack, and the Arimiralty fl»g were hoisted on board the cruiser, and the band of the Royal Marines brought the proceed- ings to a close by playing " Rule, Britannia." It is expected that the Severn will be ready for her first commission in a few months. Giving Way To a Sister, Not many sisters would le as obli((ing as was the one mentiimed in one of the follow- ing incidents, which illustrate som? peculiar cnstoms existing among French Canadian peasant). For these people, as indeed is the c S3 for almost all communities, the chief social event is a wedding. Among the habiians it is alir ost the only set occasion for festivities. The pri est then permits dancj ing, and allows unusual expenses to be in- cur i«d. Courtohip is short, and engige- meuTa are made frequently with a view to pecuniary interests, as in Framce. A widower recently went to spend an evening with a neighbor who had a sistsr â€" a spinster whom no one had thought of marrying. When the visitor left the house the brother accompanied him, and suggested that he marry the spinster. They returned to the house, and|went to the bedside of the lady who was asleep. When she had been awakened, the visitor kaid to her, â€" "Mademoiselle H. take a good look at me I am rather worse than I look b/ candle-light, and I've nine small children, and not much land. Will yon marry me " The elderly maiden, sti:l half-asleep, rob- bed her eyes, looked the frank suitor over for a moment, yawned, and replied, " Yes." " Then be ready next Tuesday." And tiiat was iJl there was of that court- ship, wliich was certainly brief, simple and to the point. In another oass, the would-be bridegroom found his iMtrothed crying after the banns had been published. "Whatever is tne matter, Marie I" he asked- " Well, Baptlsto," she replied, " my sister Louise wants very much to marry, because she is older than I, anir it ii her torn first. And it makes me nd tb apt her disappointed. Now, if yon would only marry her Everything Is ready, and U woidd be such a relief " " WeO, well," cheerily replied the young man, "don't oryabonta Uttle thing liS that. Lonbe will do; go and tell her to get ready." .t â€" Dandel, .tiie Fenoh novelist, is a man rather under middle height, bat stolUnsIv handsome. His black hair, which Is mrted in the middle, hangs down upon hb coat ool- '^^ 55" 'J?' '"'â- ' " ^^ »«»" and a little thm, his eyes are large, dreamy, and southern, with a soft, melancholy expression. A wine mardiant in Hambnrs hai be- qneathsd 1.000 thalers per annum, the inter- eat of his oa^tal, to the baldest man In the Mty^ witti the proviso that shtmld » man turn up with no hair at all on hta head ha i« to take the enttreoaplfad. ' From the Bed to th« Bw Biw. The Sonthem «»«^««2?fcSlS5S ^y^^ii..â€" .hta railwaya have n* t several yWsges whew rallw»y lOMhed. In thlistretoh we havt ---^ rftiwoidiotUenand native to^f'-JT.** A WEBIEBI DECSEBADO. wk* ItoBHealsiVw rasneote the appearanoe they preMntod fXySarTago. ^^^ ott« teid t^o Sihriy tonS mentioned •how%e effeeterf mow enterprise -than jodgment. Moj^ S3l at on^o» population of ««»••« hundred, but has not much »nore than Wf ofXonkmbernow. Ithaasalrodsevew- ly from overboomlng. and is only now begn- iVg to show a waotfon of a «»77ble kfad. It Ii surrounded by a beautiful oonntg. whiohmay bo looked upon m oMof tito bert agrfoiltoral diitticte in Manitoba, and ^Stthe boom Idea, of ite^oiJal^. have been rudely wiped out. tts hesltty growth is «.ttfhg in. I*""»«f«**»^!; Dlace as a market town of some importMioe, Sd tii"r^ are polate about it which renden "attentive ti^the capitalist looking for an SduSw location. Witii tiie main Une of tiie C. P. R Southwestom running through S and tiie. Red River nigh at b«f di* b~ god shipping facilities for «J«'^^ ?oncems.*^*^At pre«mt »»« bodno- i^tt^; tions number about twenty, and include a flour miU which has been sometime sUent. E-nerson, tiie gateway city of Manitoba, la another pintwhew over speculation has lain like a load upon progress, and seldom has a town suffered so much from bubble speculations. It has ite fine business bloiks, s^e of them buttt by scheming speoiUators who never paid tor them, and thereby forced quite a number of traders Into insolvency, uidhas altogether the appearance of a town of considerable pretensions. At one time ite population was considerably Over 3,000 but now does not number mow than 1,5(X). Besides having every facility for business in the way of buildfaigs it has a well settled country tiibutary to it, and bnt for the scheming of speculators would now have been a prosperous town, and contending for the position of seoend trade point In the province. It is the key to the Northwest by the river route, and will yet be a busy point of transfer, especially in the event of the Hudson's Bay Railway being oonstroct- ed. Ite prospects aw good for the fntnw, and there aw evidences tliat a better era has set In, and that th^ town wiU from this move on towards prosperity. It has stUl nearly forty places of busineos of every knd including a flour mill, a saw mill, a bwwery and several small Industrial institutiena, and has good solid business men, who will sur- vive to see the day of rushing prosperity. From Emerson westward we advance Into the garden of the Northwest, the famed Southern Mauitobi, acknowledged by all who have been through It to be the finest grain nJsing country in the world. From Gretna north and west to Morden b tbe first fine stwteh of thu dbtrict, and at the latter place we leave the beautiful natural valley, which the energy and industry of the Mennonito settiers from Russia have made a huge grain field. In Gratoa the boundary town there are some dxtoen busi- ness places, and an amount of business is done which would only be credited by those who have been frequently there In winter, and seen the long lines of grain laden wagons coming to nuurket. Although un- pretentious m appearance, Gretna u un- doubtedly a wonder from a business point of view, especially, when we consider that Its population does not exceed one hundnd and fifty. At Morden the end of the Mennonito settlement is reached, and the town itself draws its trade from a country settled by people from different countries, and all set tied on farms, which for grain raising ad- vanteges have no equals outside of Southern Manitoba. The town has a population of about 400, and has over forty business insti- tutions in it. It b as yet too young to have any Important indnstrial insMtntions, but these must come in time, while at present it is probably the best grain point of ite siae in the whole C^ni^dian Northwest. About seven miles from it stands the remaina of the town of Nelson, which promiaes soon to be a thing of the past, nearly all ite mer- chant! having moved into Morden with their effects. L'laving Morden for the west by rail, we commence the accent from the valley to the teble land above, passing through the vil- lages of Thornhill and DaUngford, and sur- roundt d by waving grain fields as far as the eye can se--, we in time reach Maniton the present terminus of the Pembina Mountain section of the C. iP. R. Hero we have a population of at least 500, and over thirty places ef business. As Morden b the grain market of the valley, so Maniton b the grain market of the upland plateau on which it b located. It b simply dropped in the centre of a huge grain field, so. to speak, andb a rushin(( weitcim town in every wspect. L^ke Morden it b too young for Important^- dustriea, bat Ite day of industrial growth cannot be far dbtant. FromM*nltoa westward the work of ex- tending the railway b now going onward, while mUUoDS of bnaheb of grain aw wait- ing to be carried oat of the country beyond. On the western aide of the Pembina Valley, which is crossed about ten miles west of Maniton, thero aw numerous villages await- ing the approach of the looomotiv some of which may be fortonlte enough to seonw a station, while others are likely soon to be nnmberad among tiia towns of the past.' We have PUot Mound with aome twenty boilneM institutions Indndlng a mill, whew eevoral thoronghly terprising boslneas men oanbofonna with thfbrtoraa around the base of the moond which over-hangs the place. Than then b C^atd City witii nearly as many business h uses, Clearwater with about a dozen, and qidto a nnmber of sm^er villages oeattered ^ong ttie north aide of the proposed new line nntil Sonrb fa reaohed, and on the south aide of it away down to the Turtie Menu- toln dbtriot, ^riiaw hnndradi of MtUen l»ve for years baen waiting anxioorij Jor a line of railway.â€" Wfjinipfgr Commereial. The Pr'nce of Wales's lost dog, Bang was "oovered^ I learn, in Stockholm, after Hit Royal m(hiies8's departun [for Hmunrv reooitly] through ite ooUar with the maoo^ name on. It waadlspatohad after its Royal martn, who wae delighted at Hi rooovory. Ihe An Baalem journal ««««yjp""»«*"» aoooantof tiio shooting of dgh* Toxan. by Matt Kiley In Etamm some yaaw ago. Tho ^Odeoonolaeed vldi the etatemsat ^t HOey, some yean after the ti^y^»orib- S wis attaiod with paralyd. and dtod.in S;Er.tom Stae.. Bllef did not die tiie tMt, bnt, on the contrary, fa •ave and a reotdeht of Saa Fraadaoo, when nehas lived the sroateot pottion of the time sinoe hb oebbnted adventnrwi ^^^"S**.^^!!^ a â- im f*fc'«" tiuronghfut the Sontnwees. katt Riley, or Matt Foeter-the li^ be- IDK hb right nameâ€" wae at the date of the oobnmnoe referred toone of the mort noted and deopente of the profce*ioa»l fighters and gambbn of the Jf^eet He was about 30 years old, an! In phytique the oounter- n«rt of the redoubtable John L. of Boeton Bb whole Ufa has been pae.«d in eoenes of rongh adventure. When a boy heentorei theolvll war on the Confederate side, btiag a native of Arkansas, and finally graduated as a full-fledged bnshwhaoker. At the burn- ing of Lawrence, Kan he obtained a con- ridenble shew of booty, and, growing tired of fishtbug for hb party, oonolnded to do someti^for himself. At that time the sparse population and peculiar oondltions of lie ln«iahsaa offewd great Indncementeto a despente man, and Riley made the gwat Stote hb abode. He filled several positions â€"was Sheriff of Ellsworth and was deputy marshal at Newton at the time of the sen- sational adventun with tiie Texans. Mo- Clusky, the Marshal of the town, was Riley's partner. Riley had formed MoCiusky'a acquaint- anoe at Laramie, whew he met him In com- pany with some of the most deaperate ohar- aoten tbat ever Infested the West. Subso- qnentiy MoClusky and Riley met on the Atehison and Topeka road, and they became pirtnen in the preservation of tjie peace, and the proprieton of a hwdy-gnrdy and gambling house at Newton. On the day of McClusky's death Riley had been ont hunt- ing a horse thief, and got back In the after- noon. While standing ontolde the dance house he noticed that the place was doing a lively business. Then wew^ght women dancing on the floor and as many mow ped- dling drinks, and the cowboy element was nnmerous and uproarious. McClusky was sitting on a chair irith his back to the wall looking at the prooeedings, when of a sad- den a party of Texans who had planned to kill him sprang forward from the crowd and l)egan to shoot at him. McClusky had kill- ed one of their men sme time befow, but was wholly unanspiolons of an attack, and ho was BIODLBD WITH BULLETS befow he coiild dnw hb pbtol. The .des- pente character of the man asserted itself Li the death agony, and hb last movement was to cock hie pbtol and point it at hb as- saiiante. He had not strength to press the trigger, however, and fell on hb face, dead. At the first wport of the Texans' pbtob, Rilev started for the danje house. Hb qoi^k eye took in the tragic situation of his partner at a glance, and in an instant he had seized the nearest Texan by the neck, and, holding him up befow him as a living target opened a fusillade on the assassins. When the firing ceased thew wen nine men ly- ing on the floor dead and wounded. When Riley loosened the grasp of hb herculean arm from the neck of his human shield the tenth victim of the terrible encounter drop- ped lifeless to the boards. Riley formed a partnership with the no- torioas Jack Wiggins, and opened a large saloon in Salt' Lake City. On the opening night a Mormon known as Duteh John, who figured as a destroying angel, entered the -saloon snd intimatsid to Wiggins that no Gentile would be allowed to run such an estobliahment in the city. Some hot words following, the destroying angel seized a bot- tle ah'l hurled it through the large mirror bahind the bar, shivering the glass Into fragmente. Wiggins had hb pbtol out al- most before the destroying angel swung the bottle, and the crash of glass was drowned in the report of a shot that sent DUTCH JOHN TO ETKBNIT7. For the inauspici us incident of the opening night Wiggins was arrested and sentenced to death. With that lofty conrideration which db- tinguishedMormm justice, Wiggias was given the choice of death by hanging or shooting He chose the rope, although ex- horted by hb rough friends to select the bullet as the most t xpedient and respect- able agent of extinction. When reasoned with bv Riley, he stoted that he preferred to be hanged, " for," said he. " I've seen many a good man shot, and I want to see one hanged." A few days bef on the day of execution Riley managed to secun an opportunity for Wiggins to break jail, which that worthy improved with abority. The fugitive was concealed tor eignt days In the oellar under the Hotel. Riley had sold his saloon and •pent all hb money to secan the escape of Wiggitu. He had nlred a notorious oharao- ter named BiU Bean to take the fugitive to Evanaton, Wy. T., on horseback, as from that point he ooald get East Ip safety. On Uw night when Bean was to have taken Wiggfiis away the lattor ask«d Rdey to give him hb pbtol, as he had only two of hb own, and he wanted another for Bean, whom he expected to fight for him if neces- sary. Raeynfnsed atfirrt, as thepbtcd was Ml old friend, but finally yielded to Wlggins's impartunitiae and handed himUie weapon. The moment Wiggins got the pb- tol he became almost ineaao witii puaira, and, Mlaug ROw, throat tiie mazzlTof the cooked revolver down tiielatter'a throat till it nearly choked him. Bsfon Wigsins conld carry ont hb threat to BLOW THB HIAD OFF HIS BAKTNXR BsMi and othan laterinod, and Riley i" "â- â€¢â€¢?1??L^* •* onoewont to hb edT»4totiieoaUar, but WlggSuTtakd set I* •»bMqn«n«y trana^x^d that Wiggins was j^oB 9f RUey. H^ ha muaSiSa of pay^ atteiitibh wU^\Smeratf3S5e he was hiding from the offioen of the law In the oeUar. After esoaplBg from Utah Wlsgina oooldnotiMt. He sow mado hb wlin- aboati known by aevaial daring eaoipales, and was naalW amrted aad dean ck t^ Salt Lake. He again eaoapad and some yean after he was shot ta » nw in New Moxioo. RUey moved to Nsv»Z^^^^Bs«r «•*** O ty. and figured fa thati2Hu^^B«»SKIt"br C' »d a harHwISS^HSkMMk Jly dMoended on 8i«iiS%* »-â€" ooDJuotion witti cBJtSi known as Boston Chari» *Sj iMw •orvingateTrfbil n!*^ tfary, opened the firsthaTS Franoboo, and did a Sh!?! Sk OH«ltal being ft,„i5*J«^5 men of the dty. WUU t i*^ RUey,alfasF^ter,ferdi*««? withaie-yearold gS JTES^J -^fioaUy married S.?4fjJ tionof her parents. wWiSr"" I 16 yean of a^. AftSu^ ••i tieldowntothecomJiSL!!'**^ a fan d^ler. fa wSj^^S ^mopsnlysed under r«SS^^ drcnmstances. On, nbT^^ "aflyer'agamblerTs ' bete. Poster, foi by that ii^« known, bunt intothe wildHtnil?! "fWd nP lib exhibition of CU wish that he might be narilvS^ 'N won tiie next bit. TtT^^,^Jl hand of the dealer the pUySw him in horror, for hewullfi^'" HELPLESS WITH piUirrl oftheleftside. SomeSil^XL down desperado, no longer t tt^ men of humanity. butTpoorSJ fag on oratehes, was comidtledtSLl that he oould ever again nfan! world, but the tremendom vfl ' man brought him back from death, and he ia again «tniKlin,l log, a cripple sustained onkT « that he may somehow regaioul,,! of his former wife, nowMpfctedLl by divorce and matried a^ STiTISTICAL. The Prince of Wales hu 75 vOnl a soon of offioial .tostninei, u Goib the Charter House, Prondent offcl of Arte and innumerable other i Hu dress by which he ii chiefly L,, of an ordinary English gentleMl many costumes to a wardrob« wUi] enchant the most faatidioua dudj, Then an existmg mors thu fahL Ian obelisks many of them an lill|| broken. There are teventeen i U Itdh^, seven in Eoglsnd, two in Ami in Consten^inople, and one in AoshI smallest b at Berlin, which ii i and a half inches high. An un In the quarries at Syene ii eitimiMkJ 1,500.000 pounds. The cehtn of populatioa in I States fa moving rapidly wertnri, I now a littie to tne south of Cinaiiii^l Ing long since crossed the AlleghdJ movement has been abont 44,5 oikl for every mile sonth. In 1890 thti westward wi I probably be even gie so rapid has been the 8ettlementoftlii|^ west, the centre of popnlaticnwillli north than at present. To meet the requiremcute of ad ure a lady should be 5 feet 4f 'aAai inches bust measure, 24incheiwiiit,)l from armpit to waist, long armi ail A queenly womm, however, thoiildla| 5 inches tall, 31 inches about the m about the waist, 35 over thehipi,IIjj around the ball of the arm and (I I around the wrist. Uer handi asdh not be too small The new railroad station beloDgii|l North Western Railway Compsij' minghsm, England, has been ccmpH b the largest structare of tbe wj wo Id. It covers twelve acres el f and $5,000,000 have been expended! construction one thonsand wortosj been employed upon it for two jsjf half. The platform exceeds a m\ half in length and four hundred tnal pass through the tnnnele. The people of the United SW about two gallons of liquor for e^ of wheat they consume Accordieg oial report* the liquor annually oi dudes 69,136 903 gallons of spirits, 953 barrels of fermented liquor, »i 345 gallons of wine. EstimatmgW tion at about 58,000.000, the »t« sumption appears to be about 1 whukey for each person yearly, «"l gallons of beer, and .35 of a gaU»^ The quantity of beer consumed »r" about 595,000,000 gallons. The Cwr Alexander I. diedD* In 1833, his friend and ^^J"^! cheieff, deposited in the Impej* Russia fifty thousand ro«°"'"Ji, to remafa at interest ^^ â„¢* '"JSi versary of Alexander's de»t^ "J| fourths of the sum is to be awew-^ St. Petersburg Academy of a*"" person who shaU write theb«««r nign, and one-fourth r««v«l" penses of publication, A* »«r terest, the whole amount «u " roubles, or 31,079,415 ?e^- already bom who is to receives* orarium. ♦ die i-. Few persons are aware w^ij nature of tiie victuaUng « ""-3 oooan steamers, ^^^^^tii as follows for the P»«X*»j Three thousand five bM«T* J^a ter. 3000 hams. 1600 pon«J«,'g elusive of tiiose snpphed j* ^J pounds of Pf»P««' »'°"?l'of i^ef Sessertfrulte; ISOOpouuJ'VSeJ timied meato. 6000 l^^^l^^i Sqpo pounds; nee. ^W" ^.JJL 5*0 libunds Voi^^^'^l^m barreb^ and eggs. j^X^ *1 tables, meats and «ve telW J goeae, .turkey, "l^^^f^* It fa diflicult to estimaM w roaNG FOLKS Hy Ships. ^Mo5«tSwd rare jy^ISSMfcibsDase. dsfWB sad slody up, llVdbiMerdo osi Us war ttabfiayssa. *^-- sha BBlasse tall/ « "|* y n twi SII'Z ShaO wander forth. rooows ifasdbeslde Tlte^ fills. I a "MBM^ for e-npias old. ^^ Ihsv eaa live togeihar. r^l Iks !•â- â- â€¢â- * of their days '^-*ibii|M and stonny weather. _j ay pisas ase aU ptspared Isnit to sss IB7 ships, r the sdafaBlfht come tms I tills et sU|s t wixt caps and Ups. B07 Blue Mended the World rBlue WoS listening while grandpa pt old gentiemim talked, I d I why they called him Boy Blue, was because he had such blue e would have bean the v ry iMt bo; t asleep under the haystack while jitrs getting into the com. Not • those bright eyes of his would h 'h«m befon they got witliin smel I of the 00m. amd he would h ihand with hb big dog to mi imper the other way in a hurry. tasked that dog's name Bay £ answer. " Guess " and then, aj Igaessed Rover, and Djtib, and Fi ,rfo, and all the other dogs' nai ir heard of, and got tired of it i "Well, what b hb name, the be would still answer, "Gnee eyes jast brimful and running o |fnn. And then if you began aga "uessed all the dogs' names you ne^ a of, and got quite out of patiei Be, and declared you would not gn ore ani he must toll you. Boy Bl I hngh so hard that he would tnml nd roll around the ground, shoutii s, Guess ' for that was the dot as I said. Boy Blue aud Gat btenbg to grandpa and another nan bilkfag. Boy Blue was vr htsrested in I'stening, for they we [about something which he thong I to be attended to right away. Tbi aybg that the world needed men ^t it was ia a very bad way and ge orse all the time that things wei I all as they used to be, and nobo U when it would all end. Bdpa," said Boy SUke, " b it real! at the world needs mending?" â- , mdeed, child, badly enough Itiieold man, shaking his head bi â- -okfag down at Boy Blue's earnej when, gnndpa where does ndmg " vrywhen child. You cant take iht or left, without seeing it," Blue looked around. Sure enougl T^^}^^°'h â„¢ *« middle of th lit had been then ever so long, an [had stambled into it. and wagon taoedofipartof their loads by run wheel Into it. and the d,iven ha. laad|rumbled, but nobody had eve te i*' »»yBlue stooS still an ft, It was phin. 1 have to be mended, that's all aboul Mn ♦!, • ^^^ **»»* 1 «»«» mend ^.SL 1 "" *^'»8. Guess." I «me along and did not hang back Jenhe saw the UtUe cart pulled out, firs "»*•*•" fond of dnwing" te^Wn 'y '"filMcholy experien^ f^^"«?»^enp hb mind to have Ldh^«i^'° done sooner or f o !â-  ri* good-natured ^doiLhT* *^^ ^°^ *»« trotted, L3"",PWt*o mend the world ^if U Jw " " "'k *o get big lJh« tS^i*i""4 Guess kept wnh^^^ J^' "»^ yon 'f'ould »W known tiu»e had ever been a ?i Sked^li^n '^^ M' ^^*^ P'^nd on* w" ****" »"y more. ^li^A^^ "'J^?* *o »•' done. «.SSa!^'«dt^dged^ofi at tJ.I^l^'L^d was soon pound- '^^?*^•"»'Ws»«•de. ««tt»g ttem fa pUce. He w- I ont vL^!y "^y ««»«» motiier people Mt«!^ **• **» '••e hens MSad toiJT^â„¢ S"** too. »ome- n*?ihwM ?«»«*od, he refl cted. dooSlii*"^*'" loose board feSdttiebJaiS*^- It'^o-Idbe P*4e « i!!"° **»» the leg, and i*e^^' ^**»«- Wh^ the .^»ertoM^n **^ oondition Nlate'y^!2.'"l • f*wmfantes, »«y he^SL^^S^v""" ^°^^ to » «5 ttM 221^ ^^.t of a broken â- ^ eqaan, hoUow pillan of The rooks which for "n-J^il frequented the8pir»»--T rf^tsbon,havesu«i^* notabirdbnowtobewWj^i Thfa oiroumstanoB '»" pj^itf,^ WBStemation In South Gg-^-jJ tfaie that tiie rook» to* wp,* time tnas ww iwâ€" cShedral their departure outbreak of cholera. Extnmecoldconverts;^^.. talUne mais oo-J"""^!^^^' plpasofachurohorgtf^^j 5r cold as to be no long* Of it w»«u V " ™°e* be I ft^ti^ hdo and poked ^tS^te^^^S*"***" 'orther. kJf"*iSft."!j*;* «amlnalSon iT'^^^t^S^.'^^ touted MW-Slfe^ Srtalk witti • aqoietdoaeon â- I*ang np and 1 2?*" ** l«»"t il_7' gronnd nnder r L^l^ ghwkan. But 'â- -^i^- â- '^i '3