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Cassim was buried the next day with be- coming honors, and the 'various societies to which he belonged attended the funeral, each of them holding meetings afterward and pass- ing resolutions of respect, which were pub- lished the next day in all the papers. En- grossed copies of these resolutions were pre- sented to the afflicted widow, but after kick- ing around the house fora few days they were sold for old rags, the widow marrying again. It is impossible, with the space I have, to minutely follow the various stratagems em- ployed by therobbers to learn who it was that possessed the secret of the cave. Suffice it to say, they at length did, and plans were laid for his destruction. One day the captain of the Forty Thieves came to Ali Baba’s house (he had moved into Cassim’s brown-stone front) and pretended he was a dealer in pe- troleum. He had a large quantity of non-ex- plosive oil in casks, which he desired to store with him for a few days. “ Certainly,” said Ali, who was the soul of hospitality; “roll it right into my parlor ‘;" which Was done. Now some of these cesks contained non-explosive oil, while the others were filled with some- thing almost as, ‘deadlyq though not quiteâ€"â€" The Forty Thiev‘es lived ‘a great many years ago, when yhiqvei w‘eré. mice, hence thpy are qmbalu‘mgh} ~litaor'y. Had they lived , ALS,‘__ -___ L.‘ _.__._-_.‘.... -.._, __.. in our day, whén thievéa are ‘so numerous, they would have been totally disregarded on account of the insignificanco of their nums The story is simple. Cassim and Ali Baba. are brothers. Cassim is rich, and Ali is poor. While the former leads a life of luxury and ease, the latter hauls wood for a living, and often bemoans his late, foxgetful of the fact that Grant, once followed that honorable ocpupation. Wood-haulers should not despair, for they may become President for what they know, or for what they don't know; it is hard to tell which now-aâ€"days. ....~. _L There was an old cobbler who lived on a corner hard by, who opened his stall very early in the morning to accommodate any one who, having been drinking hard the night before, wanted an early“ cobbler.” He consented to sew Cassim together for a con- sideration, and was accordingly blindfolded and led to the house. He asked if they wanted “ a. yellow lair stitch and divided," or just a common “black welt ;” but Ali knew nothing of shoemakers’ lingo, - and said he thought his brother had becn welted enough already; “ just go ahead and sew him up.” Oneiday when Ali Baba. Went to the forest to get a jag of woOd, he saw horsemen ap- proaching. Fearing evil he climbed into a tree to conceal himself. The troop halted under'the identical tree, dismounted and took from their horses several heavily-loaded carpet-bags. which led him to infer they were carpetâ€"baggers returned from the South, gorged With spoils of office. He found, how- ever, they were regular professional thieves, and then he had more respect for them. The cobbler performed a very neat job, though he left a stitch in his side that Oas- sim probably never got over. He offered to half-sole him too, and set up his heels. but further services were declined. The next business, after getting his quad- rllateral brother home, was to bury him with- out creating suispicion among the neighbors. To account reasonably for his death, a serv- ant was sent for some drug-store whiskey, under the pretense that Cassim wanted it for medicinal purposes, so when it was given out the next day that the whiskey killed him no one thought anything stlange of the cirâ€" cumstance at all. The result was as might have been anticiâ€" pated. Mrs Cassim’, alarmed at her husband’s absence, sent Ali to look for him. He went to the cavern, and, on finding his murdered brother, felt almost as badly cut up as his brother was. He packed the last four sad re- mins of his brotherin one of the sacks which were on the mule he brought along, and then to balance itâ€"make accounts square with his brother, as it wereâ€"thoughtfully stuffed the other sack with gold and things, so that, as he afterward reckoned it, his brother’s four quarters on one side of the mule were equal to thirteen hundred thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents on the other. It is rarely that a brother can be made so useful, dead or alive, especially with only four quarters, The captain of the bandâ€"there were just forty of themâ€"approached the rock hard by and uttered the words, “ Open Sesame i” when, as Ali afterward expressed it to his wife, “ you’d orter to see Sammy open.” In- stantly on the word a door concealed in the rock opened as if by magic, and the captain entered, followed by his band, who marched in open order by the left flank double rat-tail file, centering on the left wing, the extreme right resting on the (icon-sill, at a shoulder- arms, with muskets reversed. [Military readers may understand this. I don’t.] When they were all in the Captain shout- ed, “Shut, Sesame I" when Sammy immedi- ately shut, that being apparently what Sam- my was for. Shortly after the robbers (hav- ing stored away their plunder) reappeared ; the door closed after them at the word of command, and mounting their horses they rode away. When they were gone, Ali Baba, getting down from the tree, tried the magic word himself, when open flew the door, and after a little hesitation he entered the rob- bers’ cave. Great was his astonishment at what he be- held. He found splendid apartments,suitable for married or single gentlemen, handsomely furnished and lighted with gas, with or with- out board, and within five minutes walk of the post oflice. On every hand were heaps of diamonds, bags of gold, and dead loads of greenbacks. Here, then, was where the rob- hers lived when they were at home, and Itored their plunder. He determined to have his whack at it. So loading his mule with all the gold he could carry, he started for home. When the measure was returned Mrs. 0. found a five cent nickel adhering to the bot- tom. This was a very mysterious circum- stance, indeed. “ Wheng’ said she to Cassim, in relating the circumstance and showing the nickel, “when did your _ brother ever have five cents in the house all at once ? Of a sudden he seems to have bushels of money.” Cassim walked over to his brother’s house and questioned him on the subject,- when Ali, being a generous-hearted tellow, told him all about the cavern. Next day Cassim went up there to get some ofl it himself, but after loading himself down with. wealth he torgot the magic word which opened the door, and so couldn’t get out. He tried various swords, cried, “ Open, See- Tommyl" “ Open, See-Billy I" and “Open, See-PolIy-Annl” but all _to no purpose, be- cause his memory couldn’t come and see Sammy. The result was the robbers came and killed him, and ‘ being always ready to make a quarter when they *could they quar- tered himâ€"he was the only gentleman who had ever been quartered there before except themselvesâ€"and, hung him up inside of the door as a warning to any other rash intruder who might seek to enter without a suitable recommendation from his'last place. Imagine the delight of Mrs. Babe. when her husband arrived. (She had been very much concerned over his prolonged absence, because he was Ali Baba she had). She helped him to unload the gold and store it away in the caller with an alacrity she rarely displayed in doing her housework. She was anxious to know just how much there was of it, so as to make out a correct income return to the government. Accord- ingly, while her husband was gone to put up the mule, she tried to count it. Naturally wearying of this employment after she had got up among the millions, she concluded to measure it, and for that purpose ran across the street to her sister-in-law’s Mrs. Uassim’s, and borrowed her half-bushel measure, pre- tending that she wanted to measure some potatoes. As it was so unusual a. thing for Ali Babi’s family to have half; a bushel of potatoes at one time, Mrs. Cassim’s curiosity was excited, so she put Spaulding’s glue on the bottom of the measure to see what kind of potatoes they were, which was mighty small potatoes on the part of Mrs. Cassim. The Forty ThfiSVes. murderous robbers. It was shrewdly coh- jectured by the robber chief that if the oil did not blow up the whole family, which was probable, his men would dispatch them dur- ing the night. â€"Paul Morphy, the chess player, now keeps a grocery stare in New Orleanl. This is about the most incredible story we have heard for some days past, but our in- formant assuies us that he can get a dozen persons to testify to the truth of it. On that point we ofi‘er no opinion, and if any of our readers are curious to ascertain how much fact is connected with the statement, we would advise them to take a trip to Lake Abetebe and satisfy themselves. The plot failed,however. A servant girl1 who had been sitting up pretty late in the kitchen with her young man went to one oi the casks to replenish her lamp, which was getting low, and discovered the robbers. She finished them all by boiling some oil and pouring it upon them through the bung hole â€"not the only instance by any means where men have been ruined “in oil." The narrow ‘ escape of the Baba family from destruction should be a. warning to people not to allow strangers to roll calks of petroleum into their front parlors. BEFORE THE moon WAS GOLD he was assuaging his incontrolablo hunger with the raw flesh. The boy remained at the camp until he had eaten the whole of the body, and he then made his way on snow shoes out to the Hudson Bay Co.’s Fort, near Lake Temiscamangue where he related the above story. The men would not believe the horrible tale until he had confessed it to a priest. The young Indian on being closely} questioned, stated that about two years pre- vious his .father had killed his (the boy’s) sister, when they had not had anything to eat for three days, and eat her. The robber chief, being thus left atone, advertised in the papers for iorty more thieves. determined to begin business anew, find hop- ing by industry and close attention to busi- ‘ nesstomerit a share of public patronage. But he was so overrun with ext-congressmen, absconding bank ofiicers, dishonest post- masters, Indian commissioneis, ex-revenue oflicers, managers of defunct gift enterprises, New York city councilman, and others, that he was driven nearly distracted. Instead of ,forty, there was at least forty thousand of them, and being disgusted, he concluded to go out of the thieving business altogether, it was getting too low. the snow became deep and game was so scarce that the Indians were for days at a time without food. They eat up the caresses of what mink and martin they caught, and at resorted to singeing the hair 01f some bcaVer skins and eating the hides. Hares, which had been their principal food, were very scarce as they had been thinned out by a disâ€" ease which had attacked them during the summer, and starvation stared the Indian and his family in the face. One evening he returned to his camp after a three days moose hunt in which he had been unâ€" successful, and found his squaw and two of the children making a meal of the ybungest child which had been toma- hawked by the squaw and cooked for food. The Indian without asking any questions sat down with the rest and assuaged his hunger with the same food. Two days afterward he started on another hunt from which he returned unsuccessful, and savage with hunger he drove his tomahawk through the skull of the next youngest of his children and the family used the child’s flesh as food for several days. In the meantime a. terrible snow storm had set in and it was impossible for the Indians to go on a hunt, and as their horrid suppy of provisions had again failed, he turned suddenly on his squaw one morn- ing and _ nsovs HIS HUNTING KNIFE THROUGH HER mum. . The father and son lived for several days on the carease of the dead squaw, which lasted until the weather cleared up, and the Indian went on another hunt to a deer park several miles from the camp. The snow although deep was light and the deer had no difliculty in making their way through it so that the hunter although he tried for three days, failed to get a shot at any of them. He returned to the camp mad with hunger and as he approached, the boy, who was watching for him, saw that he had nothing with him, and either himself or his father had got to die. Without waiting to discuss the question with his parent the sweet youth raised his rifle to his shoulder and sent a bullet through his father‘s brain and He perished in the house of Ali Baba, where he had penetrated in disguise for the purpose of settling that old account with Ali. The servant girl who pelformed so neat a. job for his followers, recognized him and finished him with a carving knife. The story is supposed to be all a. lie, but it is no more All than Cassim. The career of tho Forty Thieves, instead of proving a salutary warning, seems to have inspired emulation,for the number of thiev es is certainly multiplying evely day.-â€"-[Wash- ingbon Capital. _ INDIANS WHO 'KILL AND EAT THEIR OWN CHIL- DREN WHEN SHORT 0F PROVISIONS. means or A HUMAN BAND, the sight of which made him so sick he could hardly stand. Other stories are told of the Indians when pressed hard with hunger, having tomahawked their youngest children for food and the whole fan.in would join in the horrid feast. The latest story comes from the head of the Abetebe Lake where Mr. Wright‘ has had a shanty this winter. The shanty Is one of the most remote from civilization, of any of the lumbering works in the Ottawa region, and i§ situated about Len or twelve miles from an ‘Indian camp containing a family of five persons, an In- dian and his squaw and three children, two between five and nine years of age, and a boy of fourteen or fifteen. Early in the win- ter they visited the shanty occasionally to trade furs for pork and flour, but, as provis- ions were scarce and was barely sufficient to last until supplies would arrive from below, the Indians w ere told not to come near the place soon again. As the winter advanced CANNIBALISM AMONGST THE ABETEBES were related at the Fort by traders who had been amongst them, but they were laughed at as being improbable. A half breed trader said that one day while trading with a camp of Indians, on one of the tributaries of the Abetebe Lake he asked them for something to eat but they told him they had nothing to give him. He persisted in his demands and told them that he had eaten nothing that day and was, nearly starved. They at length told him to go to a pot that was simmering on the camp fire, and help himself, he lifted the cover from it and took some of its con- tents, which appeared to be soup, and drank it. He returned for some more, and while stirring up the mess, to his horror he A terrible story has reached us, says the Ottawa Citizen, from the Upper Ottawa, the particulars of which, as related to us by a gentleman who has lately arrived from Lake Temiscamangue, are as follows : At the Abe- tebe Lake (or Obettebe, as some persons call it) five hundred miles from this city, a tribe of Indians are to be found called the Abete- bes, supposed to be a remnant of the great Algonquin tribe, who manage to eke out a miserable existence by hunting and trapping. They make no effort to till the ground ; they are exceedingly lazy in their habits and do not even hunt until driven to it by the pangs of hunger. They trade their furs at Fort Temiscamangue where they get their supplies of powder and ball and other necessaries which they re- quire ; and as they have had missionaries and fur traders amongst them occasionally, they have a slight knowledge of the French and English Languages. Until lately, very little has been known of their manners and cus- toms, and the tough yarns related by lumber- men and fur traders of their mode of living, were laughed at as being romances. Stories of A Tribe of Cannibals. The total of the public debt is stated at £792,740,000. The total receipts for the financial year 1872-73 are estimated at £74,- 915,000, including from customs, £20,250,- ‘000; excise, £23,250,000; stamps, £10,000,- 000; assessed taxes, £2,250,000; income tax, 130,000,000; Post-ofiice, £4,750,000; Postal Telegraph, £750,000; Crown Lands, £400,000; Miscellaneous, £3,250,000. The total expenditures for the same year are es- timated at £71,313,000, including: Interest and management of the Debt, £26,250,- 000; Consolidated Fund‘ charges, £2,000,- 000 ; Army, $215,000,000; Navy, £9,500,000 ; Civil Service, £10,500,000; Collection 'of ‘ Revenue, £2,500,000; Post Office, £2,500,- 000 3 Postal Telegraph,'£500,000: Abolition About Parsnips. Over a large portion of the habitable globe there is found a biennial plant, havinga high, erect, branching stem, and a. hard, solid and slightly poisonous root. The husband- man, who often knows but two classes 0t plants, weeds and useful ones, assigns this to the former grand divisions of the vegetable world. Botanists call is Pam'naca tativa, which name being interpreted by the market gardeners, some of the earliest of whom civi- lized and improved it, means the culti. voted parsnip. Not even the grape and crab apple have experienced a. greater schange at the hand of the pa.- tient cultivator than has this plant, whose name occurs in the writings of the elder Pliny. The tough fibre of the road has given place to tender tissue; its acrid taste has been changed to one that is pleasant and sweet; while its poisonous properties have disappeared in favor of those of the most wholesome character. i The estimated receipts of the last fiscal year from all sources were £72,315,000 ; the actual receipts were £74,635,000, an increase over the estimate of £2,220,000. This increase came mainly from the Customs, Excise, Stamps andlncome’ tax, and is distributed as follows: Customs, £200,000; excise, £912,- 000; stamps, £1,000,000 ; income tax, £250,- 000. The receipts trom the duties on cofiee have declined, but there is a great increase in the revenue drawn from tobacco, wine and spirits. The receipts from the Postal- Telegraph were £50,000 in excess of the ex- penses of the service and the payment of interest on stock. . This excellent csculent, which has so many good qualities and so very few bad ones, is, in the opinion of many a neglected plant. Green grocers in this cityI as well as many of their customers, have been saying so for some time, for the reason that none have been obâ€" tainable in the markets at any price. Many cattle that have been wintered on dry hay and still drier straw, with an occasional bite of corn stalks, by way of change ; many sheep that have looked out on the pastures so long in hopes of seeing the grass spring to life, and an equally large large number of swine that have made their teeth sore by l shelling corn, would express the same opin- ion it they understood the language of, their masters, The parsnip, like certain patent medicines, is exceedingly good for men, and is likewise good for beasts. Why do not both man and beast have them in abund- ance 'I' ' The House of Commons to-night went into Committee of Ways and Means, and the Right Hon. Mr. Lowe, Chancellor ot the Exchequer,submitted the annual budget. It shows that the estimated total expendi. tures of the last fiscal year were £72,736,- 000, while the actual expenditures were £71,- 720,000. The following items of expendi- ture fell below the estimates by the amounts noted : Interest and management of the pubâ€" lic debt, £70,006 ; Consolidated Fund charges, £23,000; Army, £255,000; Civil Selvice, £595,000, Post Oflice, £24,000; Packet Ser- vice, £9,000; Collection of the Revenue, £48,000. The only case in which expendi- tures exceeded estimate was in the Navy, where the excess was only £8,000. The actual expenditure of the year fell £1,016,- 000 below the estimates. A very large, overgrown parsnip, that has never been frozen, boiled in soft water,‘is not a very savory article of diet. A moderate sized parsnip that has beenfrozen and thawed in the ground where it was grown, boiled in salt water, or, better still, in water salted by a piece of salt pork or corned beef, is much better. Eaten with the meat, or with salt fish or bacon, it is delicious. But the right way to serve a parsnip is to freeze and thaw it, then boil and cool it, next cut it in thin slices lengthwise, and fry it in lard or butter till the surface is of the rich amber color of a prime buckwheat cake. Remove to the table while it is smoking hot, and you have a dish fit to set before a king. In truth, no royal breakfast in” spring time is quite complete that does not embrace among other dishes, a plate of parsnips pre- pared in this way.â€"-Praz'rie Farmer. The reason is twofold. Men have not ex- perimented in feeding them to animals, and many women do not know how to cook them. The parsnip is said to have reached the highest perfection, and to be the most gen- erally cultivated in the Channel Islands and in Holland and Belgium. The little island of Jersey, so famous for its dairy cows, is likewise very famous for its parsnips. Some have expressed the opinion that the parsnip has had much to do in giving reputation to Jersey butter, and that the little animal that gives the milk has been changed to a certain extent by its winter and spring diet of sweet parsnips. Many Holland farmers in this country insist that there is no food like parsnips for dairy cows, if the object be to make winter butter; while in their opinion calves should be weaned on parsnips in" order to gain rapidly and become good cows. Parsnips should be sown in drills the same as carrots, beets, and turnips, and the disâ€" tance between the drills will be determined by the way the crop is to be cultivated, whether by hand or by the horse hoe. The seed which, in a. field should be sown by a drill, should be covered about an inch deep. Only seed of last years growth should be planted, as old seed is not sure 'to germinate. About five pounds of seed is required for an acre. When the plants are about two inches high, they should be thinned out to the dis- tance of about six inches from each other. This, and the hoeing theyrmust receive as soon as they become established, are the most Ia- borious things in the cultivation of the crop. Parsnipe are a long time in maturing, they should be planted as early as the ground will admit of working and should be the last crop gathered, if they are harvested in the fall, which is not essential. Freezing improves the parsnip by changing most of the starch it contains, into sugar. The part of the crop that is wanted for use in 'the spring, either for the table, market. or for stack feeding should remain in the ground where they grew. The remainder should be taken up and placed where they will not freeze at all till they are wanted for use, or else where they will-freeze solid and will not thaw out till they are need- ed. Repeated freezing and thawing, expos- use to the air, a degree of heat and dryness that wilts the roots, greatly injures them either for the use of man or beast. With good soil, clean culture, and a fair season, from five hundred to seven hundred bushels may be expected frcm an acre. ” The parsnip is not a difficult crop to‘raise. Neither blight, rust or mildew affect it. Our industrious entomologists have as yet dis. covered no pet insect that preys upon it, and it is hoped they will not, till the insect fees of some of our other eseulents disappear. It is adapted to a great variety of soils, though it prefers a deep sandy loam, moderately en- riched. If planted on soil quite sandy it should be rolled after the seed is planted. Too firm a clay is not favorable,as it is liable to form a crust that is diflieult to manage when the plants are young and tender. The ground should be mellow to a good depth. Horace Greeley never put in the plow too deep for parsnips. The spot selected for growing this crop should be well drained, else the mature roots will be liable to rot, especially if they remain in the ground over winter. ThelBritish Budget. It hppears that arsenic, aside from'its uséé in medicinerand in destroying men or vermin is employed} in the arts, mainly ai‘a large in- The report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health contains a valuable article on the evil effects of the use of a'senic in certain shades of green. The subject is not new; more than one hundred years ago the use of arsenic as a pigment in certain manufactures was forbidden by law in France. But the beauty and healthfulness to the eye of the color, and the thoughtless- ‘ness or cupidity of makers of wall paper, at. tificial flowers, toys, lamp shades, confection- ery and other articles, render it necessaryto warn the public again and again of the injury â€"-§ometime‘s a fatal oneâ€"llnflicted by its use. The speech in which Mr. Lowe presented the details of the budget was favorably re- ceived by the Bouse,and was greeted with cheers at the close. Mr. Lowe recommended that the duties on chicory be reduced 60 per cent, and that two pence in the pound be taken off the income tax ,- but these reduc- tions he admitted would oblige him to lower his estimate on the total revenue. He closed with a motion for the immediate reduction of the duties on coflee and chicory. of Purchase, £1,000,000; Packet Service, £1_,900,ooo. _ If you are sick, body and soul, and work of every kind presses, it is easy to say, Don’t fro. ; but you must try hard to get, what is more than a knack, the heart to say: Father, Iknow that. all my life Is portloued out for me, And the evils that are sure be some , I do not. fear to see. . I only ask a present mind, Intent. on pleasin Thee. In fact, don’t tret, an have a kniék, for the young housekeeper is only an embodi- ment of, “Be ye wiser than serpents, and harmlessas doves.” There is a parallel to the Tichborne case, and it is thus specified by the Pall Mall Gazette: “ There is in London. a young Turk about twenty-five years of age. He calls himself Mustapha Djehad Bey, and he claims to be the son of his Highness the late Kibrisli Mehemet Pasha,ex-Grand Vizier,and formerly the Sultan's Envoy at the Court of St. James. The claimant has entrusted his case to a firm of English solicitors, and it will be prose. acted by English counsel at Constantinople. His claim to the property of Kibrisli Mehe- met Pasha. is based on _the following state- ; ment; If your servant breaks your dishesâ€"recol- lect she is human, and you sometimes break your own (‘ishesâ€"don’t fret ; it will make her fret, and she will either leave you or wash the dishes with an “I don’t care" man. net that will break more dishes. Just have a knack of expressing your sorrow for her, as well as the dishes, and tell her you knew she did not do it purposely. Take my word for it, she will be more careful in future, and her knack, too, will be improved. You will find your example contagious. If your husband doesn’t come home at night, as early as you wish he would, even if you are tired when he does come, don’t fret, but use all the knack to be coxdial that you would, if he had come at the usual time. Charity sufl‘ereth long and is kind, and fretting sours more homes than poverty'does, for a home Without fretting, with plenty of bread and cold water, is far better than the home of plenty, soured by continual fault finding. “ In 1840 Kibrisli Pasha married the widow of a European physician of Constantinople, and had by this lady a daughter and a son. The son was born in 1847, at the time that his Highness was Governor at Belgrad, in Servia. The birth of the heir was cele-, brated with a considerable display of re-‘ joicing. In the year 1848 the Pasha was sent to the British courts as the Sultan’s representative. During his absence the child, Djehad, became seriously ill, and his mother, ‘Melek Khanum, suifered much anxiety on his account. The loss of her only boy would have been for her a very serious matter, since the Pasha might be in- duced to marry again. Accordingly Melek Khanum had a consultation with .a woman of the name of Fatmahâ€"described as the lady steward of the haremâ€"and decided on averting the dreadful evil by feigning that she Was about to give birth to another child; and, tocariy out this deceit, a child was to be bought or borrowed. This was done; and the Pasha (who was then in Lon- don) in due time received the news that Heaven had blessed him with another boy. But things did not turn out alto- gether according to expectation. The first-born recovered from his ill- , ness. The woman, Fatmah, and one of the eunuchs named Beshir, made use of the secret of the borrowed child, and die tated to their mistress and the whole house- hold. But when they had achieved this they began to contend among themselves for ab- solute supremacy; the Pasha’s wife, it is said, all this while playing a very humble partâ€"the part of one who had put herself entirely at the mercy of others. In vain Melek Khanum tried to appease the con. tending patties and restore order to the house. Failing altogether in this, she asked the intervention of the Pasha’s man of busi- ness, Keshid Eflendi, who, however, took it all very lightly, as a women’s ~ quarrel. Thereupon Mme.Kibrisli resolved to dismiss Fatmah, at the same time quieting the eunuch with gifts of money. A little while afterwards, during a. reception given at Mdme Kibrisli’s residence, he was smoth- ered in his bath. Mdme. Kibrisli was charged with implication in the mur- der, but the accusation was not substan- tiated While the trial was going on the Pasha was summoned from‘ London, and hastened to Constantinople. On his arrival there he found affairs in a hopeless state of imbroglio, and he divorced his wife. This done, the question of the legitimacy of his children arose, there being a natural sus- picion that if one child had been borrowed the 'origin of the others might be doubtful. The question being put to the wife, she de.~ ciared that the child Djehad had been bor- rowed also. But she now maintains that she was actuated in so doing bv a feeling of revenge, awakened by the divorce and the Pasha’s second marriage which soon followed. From that time the boy Djehad has been a wanderer over the earth.» Aflempent some years in Egypt as a domestic servant; he joined the Papal Zouaves; he has beena lay inmate at the convent of St. Lazare in Venice; and at his reputed father’s death, which occurred in September last, he re- paired to England, the :land of portentous law suits, there to prepare his claims to hi- brisliPasha’s property. 1. Don’t fret. 2. Have a knack. If the bread isn’t first quality, it won’t improve it for any of the household to fret about it, but say, “ I’ll try hard to have bet- ter yeast, and flour, and fire.” Take more pains next timeâ€"even bread-making requires a knack. If your husband brings guests to dinner, when your dinner is poorer than you general- ly have, don’t fret, for that makes the best dinner poor, always have enough on the table of good bread and butter and vegetables, and one dinner in a year will not build or break any men’s health; show your knack in enter- taining by hearty welcome and generous hospitality, but be sure you don’t fret at your husband, for that will spoil even a feast. If your husband doesn’t get home to enjoy your nice dinner that has been prepared ex- pressly for his appetite and tastes, don’t fret â€"enjoy the dinner yourseli, and when he comes be honestly (not sarcastically) sorry that he did not enjoy it with you, and see how much knack you have to make a good dinner out of the remnants, and be sure and sweeten it with kind words, and a manner that says, I know you wanted to be here in time. ' Two Rules for Young Housekeepers. Ticllborne In Turkey. The Color of Death. The skin of the manutus, a. marine animal, is much thicker than that of the ox. They make thongs of it about the Orinoco, to tie their cattle, and for horsewhips. In Cuba handsome canes or sticks are made by'moist- ening the dry layers of the skin, which are taken 03‘ when this animal is caught. They are beaten and passed ovcr the fire to round gredient of two green coloring pigments; Into one of these it enters as the arsenite of copper, known popularly as Scheele’s green, and into the other as the aceto-arsenite of copper, which is also called Schweinfurt green. The generic name of emerald green or mineral green is applied indifierently to either. Of these two colors, the first contains fifty-five per cent., more than one-half, of white arsenic; the other in every one hun- dred grains contains fifty-eight grains of arsenic. Both pigments furnish the pret- tiest and by far the most durable shades of green, each costs comparatively little, and the process of manufacture does not require any great skill. Hence, in spite of their deleterious efiects, both are used. At one time, in Paris, when it was proposed to make the use of arsenic illegal in the manufacture of wall paper and artificial flowers, certain of the makers said such alaw would force them to close their shops; and in 1860 a paper maker in England said that in his shops alone two tons of arsenic were used weekly. It is not generally known that a picture of the human face can be transferred by the photographic art to leather. But there are exceptional leathers in the thick tanned hides of the elephant, the rhinoceros, hip- potamus, walrus and boar. Elephant’s and other thick hides will take one or two years to tangroperly. Walrus leather is used for cotton gins and polishing rollers. Of the hide of the rhinoceros and hippotamus the Dutch boors manufacture whips known by the name of “sjamhoks.” They first of all cut the hide into long strips, three inches in breadth, which are hung up to dry with a with a heavy weight appended to them. When thoroughly stretched and dry, these slips are again out into three divisions, then tapered and rounded with a plane, and the polish given with a. piece 01 glass, which ren- ders them semi-transparent, like horn. 1 How few persons know the value of raw hide! Take a strip of well-tanned raw hide an inch wide, and a horse can hardly break it by pulling it back. Two sets of raw hide halters will last a man’s life time. In some places the Spaniards use raw hide long chains to work cattle with, cut into narrow strips and twisted together hawser fashion. In some parts of Africa hides are used as cra- dles, which are suspended like hammocks on cords and swung about. These are hung from trees in the open air, as are also skins filled with milk, and in them by shaking, butter is produced. Leather water-bottles are still in use in the Peninsula and parts of Africa. The girbe or water-skins carried on camels are made of untanned antelope hide. In other cases bags made of leather are fitted with a mouthpiece, screwed into a hole, with a straw or reed attached to drink from. Other water-skins of sheep or goats are made without seam. The skins are worked ‘ 05 the body, without outward cut, down to the lower joints of the legs, which are left hanging on the skin, and bound across, two and two, or crosswise, to keep all firm and united ; the neck of the hide forms the mouth, and is firmly bound round and round with strong cord. The most frequent instances of poisoning 3 by these colors have followed the use of green paper hangings. Makers of the paper, dealers in it, paper-hangers, and even people who live in the rooms prepared with it, have suffered under every symptom oi poisoning by arsenic, and in someicases have received last, ing or iatal injury. In 1861, in London, four children died in succession, and a. post~ mortem chemical examination of the case of the last one showed traces of arsenic. The walls of the room in which they lived were covered with green paper, in which chemical tests showed the presence of arsenicâ€"three grains in every square foot. In 1850 a middle-aged woman in Boston was attacked with the well-known symptoms of arsenic ~L‘oisoning ; and although her life was saved by removing the .paper, yet her health was permanently injured. Such cases might be multiplied almost indefinitely irom the re- ports of physicians. That there is “nothing like leather" is a fact brought home to the colonist in South Africa or Australia. Oxhlde has more em- ployments than Scrub in the play. It is a substitute for all kinds of cordage : it is made into drag-ropes for the wagons, head-stalls for the oxen, bridles for the horses, cordage for thatching the huts, slips for bottoming the bed, chairs, and stools, pickling tubs for his beef, and “feldt-schoon" for himself and family. Gordon Cumming, in his “Hunting Adventures," tells us that on days when the rain tell in heavy showers he set all hands in his encampment to making these African brogues. “These shoes," he says, “were worthy of a sportsman, being light, yet strong, and entirely composed of the skin of ‘ game of his own shooting. The soles were; made of either buffalo or cameleopard; the front part of koodoo, or hartebeest, or bush- buch, and the back of the shoe of lion, or hyena, or sable antelope, while the rheimpy or thread with which the whole was sewed consisted of a thin strip from the skin of a steinbok. ‘ But it is not alone in coloring wall paper that these poisonous pigments are used. Con- fectionely, pastry, ornaments and toys are colored with them, articles that soon find their way to children’s mouths. Two boxes of water colors furnish an illustration. One of the green blocks of paint, weighing 38.26 grains, on analysis, was found to contain 8.89 grains of arsenic. The shelves in closets and pantrics are sometimes covered with arsenic paint, from which the poison is easily absorbed by any warm or moist substance. The brilliant green paper so common for covering paste-board boxes, for tickets, for ban-ban wrappers, for lamp shades, is colored withâ€" arsenic. The green of artificial grass and leaves is generally produced by arsenic. In one case, in a single twig of twelve leaves ten grains of pure arsenic were found. Arsenic is used to color cloth for women’s dresses. Dr. Draper procured a sample of the stuff called tarlatane, resembling muslin, at one of the retail stores in Boston, which was found to hold feebly 8.21 grains of white arsenic to every square foot. To handle or wear such goods is dangerous to life Some years ago this subject excited considerable discussion, and arsenical paper - hangings became unfashionable. The fashion appears to here changed again, however. Dr. Frank W. Draper, author of the article on this sub. ject in the report, says that in every store he visited while making his investigations he found paper for sale which, on being tested, showed signs of the presence of arsenic. Un- der these circumstances it would be well if every one who wishes to buy green wall paper would subject it to the following simâ€" ple chemical test : Take a fragment of the paper and put it into a solution of ammonia. If arsenic be present the liquid will assume a bluish color. In case a further test is re- quired, pour a little of the ammoniacal solu- tion on crystals of nitrate of silver, and arsenic, if present, will show itself by leav. ing a yellow deposit on the crystals. As arsenic is used in coloring all qualities of paper, from the cheapest to the costliest, a knowlrdge of this test will be of service to every one, whether dealer or customer. It is (if some Interest to know how the poisoning by wall paper is eflected. Former- ly it was held that the poison was set free by some kind of decomposition, and vitiated the air as gas. The modern theory is, however, that “ the poison escapes from the papcr into the atmosphere in the form of dust, mechani- cally disengaged,” as by dusting or Wiping the walls, or jarring them in any way. The dust of a room whose walls were covered with paper containing arsenic, on being sub- mitted to a. delicate chemlcal test, is said to have exhibited unmistakable. traces of the poison, The Uses of Hide. together with many varieties grown under his own supervision,whlch places mm in a position to supply his customers with FRESH & GENUINE SEFTDS’ A The quality 01 which cannot be 81m“ am: 1 a: by , con :1 n ' culpivauon of Flgwers and “$332393: “:2 Fresh Garden, Farm ‘and Flower Seeds! Carefully selected from the most. reliable growers in had FREE bil’APPEiGS' â€"Guelph central exhibition is to be held on lst to 4th October, both days inclusive, being the week following the Provincial ex- hibiton at Hamilton. Seeds, Seeds, Seeds. â€"William H. Seward is to deliver the ora- tion at the inauguration next summer of the Lincoln monument in Springfield, Ill. â€"The Rev. Peter Cartwright has recov- ered from his recefl Illness, and it is thought will be able to preach again. .1872. American S. S. 00., 4 steamers from Philadelphia to Liverpool. SEE THAT and polish them. From these few incidental facts we get. to learn some of the many uses of the skins of animals, chiefly domestic, exalurive of the furs, bird skins, and other products of the chaseâ€"Mark Lane Express. 1871. White Star Line (British), 6 steam- ers from New York to Queenstown and Liv- erpool. 1856. North German (Lloyd's) 3 steamers from New Orleans to Havre and Bremen. 1869. 'London Line (British), 4 steamers, from Montreal and Quebec and London. 1856. North German (Lloyd’s) 4 steamers from Baltimore to Bremen. 1826. North German (Lloyd’s) 14 steam. em, from New York to Southampton and Bremen. 1866. Liverpool and Great Western (British), 10 steamers, from New York to Queenstown and Liverpool. 1866. Liverpool Southern (British), 8 steamers, from New Orleans to Liverpool. 1866. 'Liverpool and Mississippi- (Brit.- ish), 6 steamers; from New Orleans to Liver- pool. 1866. London New York (British), 4 sterarmers, from~ NeyYorE Pondog. Love seldom haunts the breast where lealning negâ€"Pope. Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so.â€"Goethe. In love we are all fools alikeâ€"Gay. Love, one time, layeth burdens ; another time, giveth wingsâ€"Sir P. Sidney. Love is the virtue of women.â€"-Dudevant. In love, the deceit generally outstrips the d1strust.â€"â€"Roclwfoucauld. ' Love is an affair of credulity.â€"Ovz'd. Love at two and, twenty is a terribly in- toxicating draught.â€"Luflim‘. Where love dwells is paradiseâ€"Richter. Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earthâ€"Balzac. Words of love are works of loveâ€"Alger. Love as if you should hereafter hate. and hate as if you should hereafter love.â€"Chito. When we love we live.â€"00ngreve. Gold does not satisfy love ; it must- be paid in its own coinâ€"Madame Deluzy. She that is loved is safeâ€"Jeremy Taylor. How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Lover-Leighton. Love is an egotism of two.â€"A de La Salle. I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.â€"â€"Lovelace. 1851. Inman Line (British), 16 steamers from ' New York to Queenstown and Liver- pool. 1864. National Line (British) 12 steamers, from New York to Cork and Liverpool. 1855. Hamburg Line (German)I three steamers, from New Orleans to Havre and Hamburg. 1855.Hamburg Line (German),15 steamers. from New YOrk to Hamburg. Wish chaster and love dearly.â€"Shake- speizre. 7 A curious method of conveying intelligence to a distance has been practiced from im- memorial time in some parts of Africa, which, on the whole, is almost as marvelous as transmitting sentences by electricity. In some of the native towns on the Niger an immense drain is kept for public service to convey news. By loud talking, facing the head, sonorous vibrations are propagated an immense distanceâ€"wherever there is another drain to intercept the sound, there the watch- man hears sentences distinctly. It is called musical correspondence. Mr. Bowditch an English traveller, says the same system is practiced in Alharitis and also in Acera. A tribe known as Camaroons have carried that kind of acoustic telegraph to such perfection that they can whisper to a distance of miles on a drumhead. Captain Allan was seated in the cabin of his vessel, at the river one day, in conversation with a Cameroon, when he assumed the attitude of listening. On being asked what he heard, he said in poor English, “You no hear my son speak ?” Neither the captain nor any one of the crew could hear any sort of sound, but the Camaroon said the drum speaks. It shows how the ear may be educated. 1.840.. Cunard Line (British), 24 steam- ers, from New York to Cork and Liver- pool. 1865. French Line, 6 steamers, from New York to Brest and Havre. - Love sacrifices all things to bless the thlng it loves.â€"-Bulwer I/ytton. 1871. Baltic Lloyd’s,(Gerli1an), 5 steam- ers, from New York to Coopenhagen and Stettin, WHOLESALE & RETALE SEED MERCHANT March 1. Hnmumni The following is a complete list of the lines and number of vessels running from American ports to Europe in 1872, showing also the date of the establishmvnt of each line. It will be observed that out of the 21 lines of steamships 13 are British, including the Atlantic lines. There is only one Ameri- can Company, and this composed of four steamers: 1860. Allan Line (Canadian), litâ€"steamers, frog} Baltimqre tg_Halifi_1x>afnrd Liverpool. 1856. Anchor Line (Bu‘tish), 18 steamers, from New York to Londonderry and Glasgow. 1856. Anchor Liné (British), 12 steamers, from New York to Marseilles, Arc. 1860. Allan Line (Canadian), 20 steamers, from Montreal and Quebec Liverpool. |HE SUBSCRIBER IS NOW PREPARED to execute orders for England, France 6: Germany, MYRTLE NAVY ROBT.EVANS WOHLESALE 8c RETAIL Hamilton. February 27, 1872. 'l‘cleg'raplling The Atlantic Steamshlps. Take no CheapVImthiovns ! Chapter on Love. ‘31“ ‘1': actions for the n , e etables can be mofi. JLUV unu A Hamilton, but. by Sound. YOUR THF. subscriber has for spring sewing two different kinds of RE SHOWING A LARGE AND WELL‘ ASSORTED STOCK 0F Gmws’ FURNISHINGS a: JEWELLRY. sum. Wanna, FANCY Goons. Hosmm', GLOVES 62 Census, floor Sum-p AND Busrms. N. B.-â€"0rders by letter promptly fully nued. ‘ - March 26, 1872. and care- alpâ€" , H, VV.....- ~_ .‘Mv "Aw-A v umvvllwl) “$55. The Canadian Chief isa. dpuble distribuwr on the same principle as the Empire. Both drills are got. up in superior style. Soliciting your orders,l am respectfully yours - w8 J. P. BILLINGTON. Dundee. The Empire is single distributer with grass seed SOWel‘, and is Without. doubt. the most per- fect. drill now in use.Will sow all kinds of grain both coarse and fine with egugl.coyi‘ectness. run- n-.....:._._ “L. the CANADIAN CHIEF and the EMPIRE SPRING TRADE, 1872. GRAY a; fioLBLLAN, 53 KING STREET WEST E A. M I L '1' o N, .. my...» All.“ Gents’ Jeweler. Umbrellas 62 Bugs, . Corsets, Skirts 6: Bustles, Shirts, Collars, Fronts, WHOLESALE IMPORTERS, 42 YOUNG STREET, TORONTO. QHOW A COMPLETE STOCK OF GRAY, RENNIE & 00., 1872. F G LANDS are sold to actual settlers, 0N mummy one quarter down, balance in year- ly payments, interest. 7 per cent. Persons de- sirous or locations for farms will, on agpllca- $1011 at. the OFFICE, IN GRAND RAPIDS, e fur- nished with TICKETS OVER THE ROAD, en- thllng them to RETURN OF FARES, in the event. of purchasing any of the Company’s farming land. For lnformatlon about, the lands, prices, locatlon, 620., address WM. A. HOWARD, Land Commissioner, 1';th .Perfggt. __ Grand gaplds, Mich. Weekly CommunicatiOn BETWEEN ‘ London, Quebec & Montreal. HE STEAMERS OF THE LONDON LINE are intended to run WEEKLY durlng Season of Navigation of 187‘ between the above Ports, the first leaving Lou on on or about. Jan. 25, ’72‘ -GRAIN DRI Linen! and In London for all arts of Canada, and In the United States to E'I‘RUIT, MIL- WAUKEE, CHICAGO, and other points In the "y . Excellent Farming and Spy ndifl' MICHIGAN On which are One Thousand Millions of Pine Timber and Inexhaustible Quantities of Ma le, Beech Elm, Ash, emlock, 6111:, am. The grant oi lands to the Grand Rapids and: Indiana Railroad Company, to build their Boadi from Fort Wayne Indiana, to Traverse Bay and Mackinaw, Michigan, comprises in its farming lands every variety of soil. from the rich clay loam, to the light sandy, and they are found in that section of Michigan, north of the City of Grand Rapids, and contiguous to the great fruit belt on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, now being rapidly developed by railroad and other-enterprises. The PINE LANDS are situated on the Muske- g‘on, Manistee, Pere Marquette, White Pine, amarack Flat and Rouge Rivers, and iyin twenty miles on either side of the, survey line ofsaid road, and are in the heart of the PINE SECTION, from which Chicago is so large- 1y ~gupplied. ' I Title Perfect. October 30, 1871. Turnqu Bills of Ladlng issued on the Con- tingu} and n}. 1191351933 {or g]! Earls ot'_ganada, WéEE. Iowa. & Nebraska Lands FOE SALE BY THE Burlington 6; Mo. River R.-R. Go. MILLIONS OF ACRES. 0n Ten Years’ Credit at 6 per ct. Interest. N 0 part of principal due for two cars, and thence only one-ninth yearly till 13 d in full. PRODUCTS will ay for land and improve- ments wthlu thel mit of this generous credit. Better terms were never on‘ered, are not nolva‘and p1-o_pgbly peve_r~_v_vill b9. _ uuwiiuxu [u'uuuuly nave r-wul UB- 01 CULARS giving full particulars are sup- plied grmls ; any wishing to Induce others to emigrate with than], or to form a. eolony, are invited to ask for all they want to dlsbrlbute. Apply to GEO. S. HARRIS, Land Comm'r. For Iowa Lands, at. Burlington, Iowa, And for Nebraska Lands, at Lincoln, Neb March 26. 1892 a.f.g, PINE LANDS 900,000 ACRES . Certificates issued to persons desirous of Ereâ€"gil‘ylng the passage of their friends to Jan 8.. Orders by mail carefully filled March 26. 1872. For further information, épply to WEDNESDAY, 10th APRIL. TO THE FARMERS. TEMPERLEYS, CARTER dz DRAKE, 21 Billlter Street, LONDON ROSS a 00., QUEBEC? 01' DAVID SHAW, TO THE TRADE. 72 . ' 1872. LONDON STEAMERS. Scar-fa, Ties and Bows, Hosiery & Gloves, Small Wares & Trimmings, annllvv FOR SALE, GRAY, RENNIE & Co. 1'3 i STAMPED dl‘J-flm lawd w3â€"6m MON’fREAL ; :LLS