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Sanderson, of the same place, Where they may be consulted person- ally orby-lettur, on all diseases of horses, cattle; 8:6. Horses examined as to soundness, and also bought and sold on commlssion. Richmond Hill, Jan. 25, 1872. 507 Boot-s ax-ld shoes made to measure, of the best materlal and workmanship, at the low est remunerating pncos. D. SOLICITOE‘. IS (IHAMIERY, UONVEYANCER, 850., &n. OFFXCE ;fiNn. ,12; York Chambers. Sduth- uast Corner of Toronto and Court Streets, 'I‘oronto, Ont. D always on hand the best of Beef, 'Mutton, Lamb, Vea'l, Pork, Sausages, &c., and sell at the lowest prices for Cash. New method of extracting teeth without 1 pain, by the use of Ether Spray,which all'ccts the teeth only. The tooth and gulf surrounding becomes insensible with the external agency, when the tnoth can be c}:- tracted with no pain and Without endanger- ing the life, as in the use of Chloroform. Dr. Robinson will be at the following place- pregared to extract teeth with his new aps pai‘atus. 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Corner of Young and Centre streets East lm've constantly on hand a good a‘ssol‘t-men of Drugs, Paints, Perfumery, Chemicals 0115, Toilet Soaps, Medicines, Varnishes FancyArticles, Dye Stuffs, Patent Medicines mil all other articles kept by druggists will be promptly attended to : Fancy Bills, Business Cards, Circulara,Law Forms, Bill tie-ads, Blank Checks, Drafts, Blank ()ralers, Receipts, Letter Heads,Fancy Cards, Pamphlets, Large and Small Posters, and every other kind of Letter-Press Print- deilemlly. Our stock of médicixics wafflmtâ€" ed genuine, and of the best qualities. Richmnnd Hill, Jan ‘25, '71! 705 \l‘Iaving made large additions to the print- ing material, we are better prepared than ever to do the neatest and most. beautiful printing of every description. All transitory advertisements from regu- lar or irregular customers, must be pond for when handed in fm‘ insertion. 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For three songs at the concert in Boston the great prima fionnn received £500 sterling, being the highest sum ever taken by any artist. Tm: Pope has been building in Home at his own expense 3. number of houses for the poor. They are called economical houses, and are for the accommodation of operatives and poor people. Each house is divided into thirty- two lodgings of two, three or four rooms. Each lod ing has a kitchen. They are well ventilatfi and full of light ; the doors have good locks; there are bells, and the Whole construction is solid. The rent of these lodg- ings is from twelve to twenty francs a mouth. according to the number of rooms. The rent is paid by the month and without any de- mand of deposit in advance or as security. THE meanest and one of the most stingy men of Toronto, named Mr. Z., was taken suddenly ill and not expected to recover. He asked to have his will made out, which was ar‘cordingly done. After reading it over to him carefully lie arose almost instantly from his bed, drew on his pantaloons leisurely and was heanl to cxclaim: “Egaxl, this is too much to leave any man. ” He can be seen Walking the streets now as well as over. “ I heard it,” “ \Vho told you ‘t" ” Her friend." “You don‘t say." " ’Tis dreadful." “ ‘Tis awful." “ Don't tell it, I pray.”â€"â€" (Now they are at the door). “Good grav cious l” “ “'ho’d think it ?" “ “"911, well, well 1” “ Dear me.” “ I’ve had my suspi- cions." “ And I too, you see." “ Lord help us I" “ Poor creature l" “ So artful l” “ So Sly." “ No beauty.” “ Quite thirty.” “ Between you and me.“~4At the gate). “I’m going.” “ Do stay, love.” “I can‘t." “ I'm forlorn." “ Farewell, dear." “ Good bye, love, (my sweet).” “ I am glad. she ii gone." The spinning of street yarns becomes so easy to any who practice it, that it seems natural, They may have the story correct, but, alas! the informant has it changed a. little. Gossips are always behind time in their daily duties, and their houses are al- ways out of order, unless the work can be done by servants. They mako enemies of the truost friends, separate families, and many, very many, am the faults that arise from spinnin street yarns. Gossips arr». us- ually known 1y their quick, prying way, and by being always on the streets and corners. \ery often our thoughts are called out in conversation, and we are apt to pass judg- ment in this way on those who are least de- serving of such a terrible character as we icturo for them. Spinners of street yarns ave their acquaintances buried, murdered, poisoned, married, robbed, and deserted in an amazingly short time, by repeatinar tit- bits of news gleaned in haste, and dled from one companion to another. Gossips are always so mysterious. It is thus with them, “ Oh, well, of course I won’t say it, but I have my ideas.” “ If I Would I could tell a tale that would cause you to hold your breath. I hate gossiping.” But withanod, a wink and a toss of the head, worlds of thought are conveyed, and these thoughts magnified and commented upon, increase unâ€" til they reach the size of a young monster. Our paper lately contained the following, which we give, thinking it fully illustrates the error of spinning yarns. A friend has called, can't stay but a second. After dis- cussing some bit of news, the name of ano- ‘ ther friend is mentioned thus : ‘ them horribly mangled (m the door-step. Dreadful, wasn’t it ?l' “ Yes, but I heard it a. little different,” says the listener, “ that it was three kittens she took to the river, and cut their throats." “ Goodbye, how late it is l I had no idea 1" 05" she goes to tall: on matters and things with some one else ; and thus we see how great. a. fire a liftlc matter kindlath. as I ought to tell it," hanging her head in mock shame and hesitation. “ \Vhy, yes, do tell, I Won’t mention it to anyone.” “\Vell, Mrs. \V. told the "old maid Jones that Jerusha Snodgrass got a letter from her brother, tellin her that Martha Lang was crazy. That s e got up and went to a £23m mer’s house, (in the night too) four miles from her home, took the farmer's three chil- dren down to the river and put them in a skiff, and after rowing out into the middle of the river, came back, as if ropentant, but, after brutally cutting their throats, she left This is a favoritepastime with some, or in other words, a second nature. News burns in their possession, burns to he shared and enjoyed with some particular friend. More properly speaking, the spinning of street aims is gossi ing, and a gossip is defined by Vebster as a mum of news, “ one who oea from house to house, repeating idle ta k.” You my i0 one “why do you repeat everyâ€" thing,r that is told you ?" In astonishment she replies, “ I don’t ; I only told my Vary dear friend, and she won't say a thing about it ; I always tell her everything, you knqw. ‘ I can’t stop, must go home ; but have you 1 heard the news?" “ No." “ I don’t know 1 ' EALER IN FINE GOLD AND SIL~ ver \Vatches, Jewelry, 810., 113 Yonge Street, Toronto. CCOUNTANT, Book-Keeper, Convey aucer, and Commissiou Agent for the sale or purchase of lands, farm stock, 810., also for the collection of rents, notes and ac- counts. Charges Moderate. OFFICEâ€"Richmond srreet, Richmond Hill. 700-131 ARRISTER, Attorney. Solicitor-imC‘han cery, Conveyancer, &c. 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SEGSWORTH, THE KING OF OILS D. C. O‘BRIEN, \VM. MA L LU Y , Proprietor, Ingersoll, “Are you of the Oaiuion,“ I uteked him, “ that subsegucmt oxpiorex‘s haw entertained this theo ?’ " Theory I" he Mimi, “ it’s no theory. be open Polan- Sea has been seen, With an open qufn' a. whit-lpqol i5 ‘88 much a profiarty of its tide» as salt' is of its aflpalling consciousness fell upon them mat t. 8y were hopelessly bound in that subtle nmehtrom." speak. Still, as they .would be steering due north, they would be unconscious that they were gradually being swe t into the vortex of the gigantic polar w irlpool. The fog would have grown denser meanwhile, and still the explorers would struggle on, charm. ed and fascinated by the novelty of their echrience. Amid the awful stillness of the F0 e the boats would enter the continually (:ssening spiral of revolving Waters. Onward and still onward, nearer and nearer they would revolve, until they were fairly within the clutch of the maelstrom. Thenhwell, it was easy to imagine What followed," said Capt. \Vood, rising. “ The boats were either engulfed or they were incessantly whirled round until they were twisted and crushed to pieces. At the same time, as Lady Frank- lin believed, it was quitemossiblc that the boats might live for years in this lar Whirlpml, and that her husband am, his companions met the more awful fate of star- vation. But whether it is by drowning or starvation, it is my unalterable conviction that it was at the Pole where Sir John and his brave crew met their death. It must have been a terrible moment when the I A New Theory About Sir John Franklin’s Lossâ€"Wth Capt. W'ood, of the Royal Navy, Thinks About It, [London Correspondence of the N. Y. Mercury.] “1 accompanied Sir James Ross in 1848," continued the captain. “Sir John Frank- lin’s ships were then probably blocked in the . ice, and himself and most of his crew living. I felt certain of the fact at the time, but I had no command. I was merely a volunteer, and there was a conspicuous absence of courage in that expedition, and, indeed, in 1 almost every ex dition that has succeeded it. There was . IsoClintock, who, in 1857, pretended to have discovered the ten lines in { writing which told of Sir John Franklin's death. I don't believe a word of it, sir ; ‘ its a forgeryâ€"vat dâ€"d forgery. Lady Frank- lin believed that these lines were forged up to the hour of her death. She has said so to me over and over again, MacClintock is just as unreliable as Allen Young. All these Arctic explorers, as they are called, have a rivate opinion respecting the fate of Sir John ‘ranklin that they are afraid to express.” “ What is that opinion ‘P” I asked. “ “'hy, it's as lain as Calais from Dover on a clear day. i‘ranklin went out to seek the north‘ west passage, and, no doubt, pushed on to the open water that he always believed suri rounded tho pole. Nobody with common 5 sense,” cried the captain, nith emphasis, “ questions the fact that both the North and South Poles are surrounded with 0 en seas. “'ell, when Franklin‘s ships were 1) ocked in the ice, what could he do? Why organize sled parties, to be sure, and proceed north. They would have found no difliculty in ob- taimn food ; their boats would be conveyed on slesgcs, and when they reached the open have seen, explorch would undoubtedly em- bark. To my mind it seems plain that when would, if necessary, send back for more pro- visions and equipments to the ships ; but he discovery that the water of that sea was of an unexpectedly high temperature; and he would gradually arrive at the conviction that the northernmost branch of the Gulf Stream, which asses through Davis Strait and Bafl’in's ay, finds its way to the pole. T here would be such a field of investigation ofl‘crcd in those polar currents and olar tem- perature that, at miralfly found an: nipped as Franklin’s ships were, he would orward by sled parties everything necessary for a two or three month’s voyage on this fascin- ating silent sea. I can imagine how anxious ly the brave sailor waited for the first rays I of spring after the long polar night, and how eagerly his crew and himself embarked on that mysterious ocean. As they pushed northward in perpetual daylight they would discover that the temperature of the water was still several degrees hi her than the air, and when they crossed the atitude of ninety de recs they probably encountered a region ofig and mist. The currents of the ocean would then, in a great measure, resemble the currents in the basin of the fountain there. You see," said the ancient tar, “ where that tiny waste-pipe near the center permits the water to escape, and you see that its orifice is surrounded by revolving concen- tric eddies. In other words, the water has a whirling motion imparted to it by a well- lmown law of hydrostatics, just as you see it in water escaping from any vessel by a hole in its bottom. Now there is no hole at the pole, but the whirlin motion is communi- cated to the water t ere just in the same way by the moon’s attraction. You perceive that if the world was a mere globe of water the attraction of our satellite would cause two sweeping tides to rush round the earth once in every twenty-four hours. Those tides are resisted by the continents at the present time, and instead of a rushing ridge of water we have a phenomenon of the tides amounting in some places to twenty feet difference between low and high water. As Franklin and his crew in their two boats approached nearer to the pole they would find that the ocean currents became strong and troublesome. They would experience great dfliculty in‘keepiug “ head on,’ soAto [‘olur Sea. that Kane and other navigators ‘ Sir John discovered the open Polar Sea hc , ' would be tempted onward by the inevitable ' HHbâ€"dnWmh.waH-mucmHH-4~vmw~qnm»â€"a A--H_4-_‘. E‘fidd {3.41 6*“ H‘E‘ {W’f‘ And the sorrow that he brought with him The cure, the shame, the sin, Wu try to bury them wllh him» His grave shall lock them in. No mourners are bending o‘er him; No hand a watch-fire keeps ; With thnse who have gone before him The un wued monarch sleeps. And back to the earth he never Can make his way again ; He has fluislud his work forever Among the sons of men; He‘ll new-r nnlnck that >er So long an the agns r01 ‘ There» was nominguhout him Immortal The gray-board had no soul. No chance for nhrin we allowed laim, But burin him in his sin; With the soft white snow we shroud him And carefully wrap him in. We dug him a gram: with lau liter. And smiled as we laid him l are; We ahoveled the cam: in after, And packed it down with cum. So long as the your mm with xm To use him well we tried ' We gave him a Christmas macr The week before he died. But his guilty conscience was weighted With many a dreadful crime; We looked!“ his corpse, and hated To think how he spent his limo. His earthb' jmxrm‘y wna finished. And so we watched Mm go; 91:! time came in vs 1th his hourâ€"glass. And finished him with a blow. He was 0k! and wretched and broken We hurried him ofl‘ at. last. And a glad oodâ€"by was spoken; Wu pushu him info the max. \‘Vu knew that the year was dying Whvn the midnight Chimps bugan ; Low on his death-b rd lying. Like :1 worn-out, aged man. The King, who ruled fora hvelwmouth. With :1 proud and royal sway. Must give up his crown and Hceptx‘fi Whom the New Year crleis, “ Mat way THE POLAR WHIRLPOOL. LE ROI EST MORT‘ .o. RICHMOND HiLL, ONTARIO, CANADA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2-1, 1876 A YOUNG man in Ottawa, who is particular about his washing, the other day wrote a. note to his washerwoman and one to his girl, and, by a straw e fatality, put the wrong addmss on one) envelope and sent them 021". The wuaheiwoman was well pleased at an inx'it-ation'to take a. ride the next day, but when the young lady read: “ If you muss up my shirt bosoms, and rub the buttons: off my collar any mom, as you did the last time, I will go somewhere else," she cried all the eveni , and declares that she will luv-w speak to again. “’6 are too apt to banish the idea. of sin into the exclusive domain of the theologian, and look upon it as a simple material for his med- itutions and his discourses, until by some such catastrophe our eyes are opened to the reality of unfathomed depths of Satan in this enlightened ages In spite of “modern cnlA ture," and civilization, the disease is in the blood, and it must come out. The poison which saps the life of the race to-day is the universal, all-pervading, alLdestroying lust of the Vc'OX‘ld~â€"lll5!t of gold~that ever cries “ Give, give,” and never is satisfied. In- stead of ado ting the Biblical plan of seekinor first the endliiring riches of a. better life, and then in patience and faith gathering the har- vest of diligence and honesty, men are in haste to be rich, and are by no means nice in the ways and means by which their wealth is obtained. The abomination in Bremen haven in but the breaking out of a boil to show the ioulness of the blood, which may be seen, more or less, in all the walks of life‘ Is there no other business in the world, and in this country, which succeeds only as it destroys men's lives and desolate?! happy homes. It matters but little of what nationality the villain may be. It causes humanity to blush that. such a foul deed could be coolly planned by a man, and for no other pusposa than to make money ! The thin in almost Without an equal in history. 'ho would doubt the depravity of the human heart, when such things are possible to humanity? 1‘"- .‘_A L” -“l l , he has not succeeded in putting himseli ti) an instantaneous death, although the ball has lodged in his head. He confesses his vile scheme : that he intended the infernal instrument to explode in mid-ocean, after he had landed in England, where the vessel was expected to touch. And what was his ob- ject? To obtain the insurance on certain articles on board, which he had succeeded in fraudulently insuring far beyond their value ! And now that he is disappointed in his hopes destroys himself, tears the ban- dage from his wounds, and at last dies with all this guilt and the curses of humanity on his soul. “7110 is he? Thomas, Thompson, or Thomnsscn-~Gennaii, or American, or Englishmanâ€"it seems very difficult to deterâ€" mine, and it matter but little. May his name with his memory 'rot/ The cause is sought for, and found to be a box of dynamite, which had been placed in the ship as baggage and had exploded. A passenger on board the Mosel attempts Hui. cide, and is immediately suspected- as the proprietor of the hellish "macfiifié; V he has not succeedied in putting himsel The steamboat More! lay ready for her de- ‘ parture. On the dock stood a shoving crowd, l young and old, little and big, rich and poor ; friends and acquaintances of the eX' ,ctant passengers are preparing for a spee y fare- well. A few moments more and the anchor will be weighed, and the dear Fatherland will fade away from the eyes of many a. wan- derer seeking a new home beyond the seam. Just a little more baggage must he got on board. But greetings and tears are sudden- ly interrupted by a terrific crash, which shakes the ground, sweeps the docks, and lifts the ship out of the water. A few minâ€" utes later the dr land has all the appear- ance of a. battle held, covered with the slain and the dying ; the water is reddened with human gore, and the wreck of the ship is freighted with the mangled fragments of hu- man bodies. The dead are found strewn in every direction, many literally torn to pieces, while the groans of the wounded and dying unite with the streaming blood in crying to heaven. No less than one hundred and sev- enty-six persons are felled by that single blow ; of these, one hundred and twenty are killed on the spot, and fifty-six wounded~a frightful scene to those that are spared. “None whatever. The difficult begins when you get thereâ€"40 get away mm the spot a ain. A circlet of ice surrounds the open olar Sea between the 80th and 85th parallels, but this belt of ice can be easily crossed with sleds, and boats can be con- veyed in the same way. Every Polar navigator knows I speak correctly and sub- mits the fact in confidence to his professional messmates, but they do all their d~d best to hoodwink the public and the sand-blind members of the Royal Geographisal Society. Every Polar explorer knows as well as I do that the navigators who follow faithfully in Sir John Franklin's footsteps will share his‘ fate ; and if the crews of the Alert and Dia- rovery are never more heard of we, shall know they have pushed onward to'the Pole like indomitable sailors and perished 1ike heroes. Then that will be the end of the Polar en- terprise farce. But you mark my‘Wordsâ€" no heat will ever reach the North and South Poles and return to tell the story 0f the 80- }ution of the mysterious geogralrg‘xical proli- em." _ ‘ ‘ Then there is fix; your opinion no insu 1'3» hla difficulty in reaching the North ‘ole, Captain ‘2" j l. was not convinced; but there seemed more in history than I was prepared to con- ltrovert. “Then you don't believe in the well-worn hypothesis that the brews oi the Erebuo andglkrror “were trying to reach Great Fish River when they dropped and perished, man after man?” “I’Shaw ! It is the hypothesis of cowards. if they had started from King “'illiam‘s Land, some of l themâ€"many of them'in factywmlld havb I reached the Esq'uimatlif. settlements ; while in any case the bones of scores of them would have been found. The fact is, these polar expeditions are frauds. l have seen over a dozen of them leave the country, and they ‘ always do leave with drums beating and fln s 1 flying. It is either the Union Jack or t e ‘ stars and stripes that is going to be hoisted at the pole in a few months. The Alert and ’ Discaimy, under the command of Capt. : Name, will just do the same as the rest have done. He will probably take a look at the open polar sea ; but the captain is much too cautions a sailor to embark on it with any purpose of proceeding to the pole. When he reaches Baffin’s Bay he will do as our Pan- dora commander has done. He will turn into Lancaster Sound, and winter around Barrow Strait, and then he will come home with some Arctic lichens, a new sort of snife, or curlew, and probably a bear. Then he will write a book, and her Majesty will confer upon him the honor of Knighthood." (Here the captain was relieved of a spasm of profanity, lasting and potent, that I am compelled omit.) - composition. “With the equatorial ourreut dissributing its equilibrium, and the rotary motion imparted to its unobstructed tides by the moon, can you or‘any one vise explain to mo how it can be otherwimz? Why, we know, as an astronomical, well-ascertained fact, that. our globe is flattened, so to speak, at the poles ; that its diameter is many miles loss than that of the equator ; and undoubt- edly the revolving action of the polar tides is responsible for this remarkable fact." The Massacre in Bra: pgtying pingséli yven. LORD LY'I‘I‘ON, non of the great ‘v‘Vl‘iCul‘ and statesman, in his forty-fifth year has been aPpoiuted Viceroy of India. in place of Lord horthlwook, sent out in 1872, and who nnw desires to return on account of over-work. The new Viceroy has had considerable diplcr matic experience, having been attached t0 the embassies at “’ashin #01:, Florenw, I‘ar- is, the Hague, SL Peters urg, Constantino- wlo, Tervia, Athens, Lisbon, etc. In 1868 ixe successfully concluded the negotiation of 1'. commercial tmaty between England antic: A ustria. In 1873 for over two months lie was the British (marge d’Afl‘aires in Park; He has also gained re utations as a writer, and is best known to he literary world as Owen Meredith. He was ofiered, but declin- ed, in 1876, the Govemonhip of Madras. ‘ FIVE negro thieves loet their livos in a re- markable way on Roanoke Island, N. (3., recently. Clarence Meekine Wax awakened from sleep by a noise on his promises, and found that some persons were attempting to rob his smoke-house. He immediately se- cured his gun and advanced cautiously to- ward the smoke-house. There he discos'ered a man sitting on a pry with which he had raised one end of the building. Meekins fired, and the thief fell back mortally wound- ed, the building also coming down again to its former posxtion. On examination, Mr. Meekinn found that by the building falling back four other he roes, who had crept under the raised part. an were robbing the place, had been crushed to death. PROFESSOR J EvoNS recently read an inter- esting paper on the influence of lthe sun-spot period upon the price of grain. In making a. comparison between two henomena a par- ently so distinct from well:1 other, I’m essor Jevons has made use of the collection of prices of commodities in England between the years 1259 and 1400, as published in Professor Rodger’s [Jittery Qngriculture and A CHINESE cook, with a butcher‘s hatchet as sha as a razor, will, in ten seconds, thoroug 1y bone and skin a fish, so that not a. particle is wasted. He will give you an unbroken orange full of ten different kinds of jellies. A Chinese acrobat is the only man who can fall from a trapeze plum on the top of his head and laugh at you. 'et there is a law forbidding (,‘hinamen to carry their baskets along the streets of San Francisco. Prue: in England. He finds that the prices of each kind of produce rise during the first four of the eleven~year sun-spot period, and then fall. The maximum prices occur in the tenth, fleveuth, first, second, and third year. YOUNG man, if you should see 'our girl gazing intently at your feet, don‘t shift them about uneasily, or draw them up and sit: upon them, under the impression that she is over- whelmed by their immense size. She is merely taking their measure mentally for a pair of slippers, on the toes of which she in- tends to work a. blue dog with a green tail and scarlet ears. HE had made 3 hearty meal at a restaur- ant, and, risin up, he said to the cashier; " I declare, if haven’t forgotten my wallet." The cashier fired up, and hurled big words at him for three minutes befcre musing for breath. \Vhen a chance came the stranger cuntimxed zâ€"â€" “ But I halve fifty dollars here in my vest pocket." The cashier couldn’t smilo to save him. “ 0, Jack! 0, for a woman’s love! 0, for a true hearted woman once, once in (:ne’s life, to throw her arms around one’s neck, and tell one she loves one 1" “Ah, Bah! if you had had as much of that kind of thing as I have, old man, you’d be precious tired of the whole thing ! She’s only getting ready to gad around, and you'll haw a big Shfivj bill to pay 1" “'mm‘. looking at and listening to 3 Cal. Selby, in Buffalo, Mark '1' wain worried through until Laura’s pistol terminated the ‘ ‘ impersonation. " Twain drew a long breath and said, earnestly: “I do thank God that fellow is dead at lint. if I had known what an infernal bore he “‘03:ch be, I’d have killed him in the first act.” A YOUNG lady nf Rochester lately received the following note, accompanied by .1 “bucket of fldum :" “ 1 send you hi the boy a. bucket of flours. They in like my luv for u, the nite shade means keep dark, the dog fenil means i am your slave, rosia red and posis pail, mi luv for :1 shall never fale. " A YOUNG lady who, merely to flhOW‘ her knowledge of business affairs, drew up and signed a. hundred-dollar promissory note at a party several months ago, has just received a notice from the bank to walk around and kettle it with interest. She think); thia is carrying a joke too far. A FASHIONABLE visitor thqu addressed a little girl : “ How do you do, my little dear f” “ Very wall, 1 thank you,” she replied. The visitor then added 2 “ Now, my dear, you must Mk me how I do.” The child honestly replied : “ I don't want in know.” WILLIAM B. THOMPSON, the Arkansas mur- derer, who was hung the other day, and who kissed his hand to the ladies just previous to stepping down through the trap, was a fin- ished gentleman-4n about two minutes,â€" St. Louis Republican. \VBAT with stocking damers, knitting and sewing machines, apple pearers, washers, and wringera, woman as a necessity is fading from the face of the earth-«Clevelandllerald. Yes, if it wasn‘t for some one to split the wood she’d hardly be missed. “ Have you any nice fresh farmer's eggs Y" inquired a pmcise old lady at a grocery store. “No, ma'am," replied the practical clerk, “but we have some very good hezl's eggs." She took three to try. “\Vhy don‘t men sware when they are alone ‘2” asks Talma e. Did Mr. Talmage ever lay round the once-comers and see a lone farmer pick up a. bumble bee? “'hat did the farmer say? Sm: was a. Russian girl, He was a Rusian medical student. She fell in love with him. He did not fall in love with her. She asked him to marry her. He refused. She shot him. He died. by stayinv at home, and sometimes by going out. . It :5} depends upon how agreeable the man :9. HOW to make hams happy is a ueation with many men. Sometimes it can done by staying}; home, and sometimes by going A PHILADELPHIA girl will squander $1,000 on a shopping tour lasting two hours, and after she gets home will remark: “If I'd only'had mmmy enough I'd have got- a new dress." Tm: Marquis de Unnti wcently fell dead while kissing a cOunbess. It‘s an exmptionnl casekhowevor, ahd there is no use in getting frightened about it. Bring on your count- THERE is a man in Hamilmn who take? thirty-two newspapers, and you might as well try to n‘de a. whirlwind 'on a. side- saddlo as in attmupt to impose upon that man. * - "THANKS," he said sadly, “of course it’s very kind of you to wish me a merry Christ. mas ; bus than you 1Know I’m marned.” IT is said that the squirrel plague threatens to be as fatal to California as the gzasshomwr to Kansas. A smasflxzms‘ ormlama'tiouâ€"-â€"A-hum 1 IT is impolite to say a man has “ aha-1A}; ;' aay “facml area." . MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Gm: Con girls, says the Nae York World are as distinct a species of femininity as they would be as if they were mermaids, or say sirens or heuris, as many of them are. The late Pierre Blot, the gastronomist, used to say that while sometimes he doubted the Agassian theory of the brain, benefit to be derived from fish phosphorous, he was cer- tain, from observation, that when fish is the principal food, families are wonderfully nu- merous, and, singular to say, female child- ren preponderate. The apparent preponder- ance of girls on Cape Cod, and we must in. clude that favourite isle of the sea, Nantuck- et, and along shore enerally, is .not because John and Tom and ill are away mackerelng or cod fishing, or are ax’ound the Horn 01) a. three years’ voyage, while the lovers, to whom the girls have been engaged ever since the days, nights rather, of the singing school are on the third return voyage from Calcutta. The fathers have finally settled down in cot- tages on the Cape, but they divert themselves on terribly stormy days when no other out- , door work can be done, by sloshing ’round in sail-boats. But the Cape Cod girlâ€"of course, she is a good girl ;there are none better ;she is never “the good little girl" of Sunday school fiction, nor the bad groom up girl of every day fact, but a genuinely, good girl fit for any station, even to become the mother of Boston belles of the very best society, as so many of them have become. She. is gen- erally a beauty of the blonde type, but tannâ€" ed by the sea air. There is next to no snow on the Cape, or it snows on horizontal lines literally “clean” across the Cape, and so there are no sleigh-lidings and little skating. But she has plenty of out-door exercise, which gives her both bloom and beauty. In winter she walks far to the singing school. In summer, from the age of six almost to six- teen, she slides down the sand knolls. Her schooling is in the winter only, when haply some Harvard charity student comes down to the “deostrict” and unhappin falls in love with old Capt. Coodle‘s daughter, who is going to marry the captain of an India- man at the least, and so laughs at the llarvardite. Her book knowledge eventually includes Emerson, Lowell, Hawthorne, “'hittler and Longfellow ; but she never heard of Shakespeare or Sylvanus Cobb. She adores the \Vaverly Magazine. She has been to Boston (once), and has heard of the big organ and a public lecture by Professor ‘ I’umpkindoodlc on “ The Incompatibility of Incnngruities." Thereafter she is somewhat ; zrsthetically inclined, and calls the vast \‘il- lage she has visited “Hosting.” Sometimes her language, like that of her venerated fa- ther’s, savers of the salt sea. Thus it is on record that a beautiful youn bride of sweet seventeen, when first (locker out in her brid~ sl dress, burst into tears and blurted out the exclamation : “ Confound that sea-cook of .1 Boating drossmuker, if she hasn’t rigged me out with a double spankcr that makes me look like a Dutch In Ygar.” That beautiful little bride is still a. oils of Beacon Street, Boston. So are many of her sisters and cons~ ins belles in the same city. As for Nantuck- et, it has lon I been famous for its favored femininity. ‘o more beautiful women or worthier wives come home anywhere in the world than from there, from Cape Cod, and along the shore of Massaehusetts Bay genera : ally. riage at the appointed hour, accompanied by his attendants, went- to the residence of the lady's parents to claim his bride. To his ut- ter amazement he discovered that she was not there. In her stead he found a letter ad- dressed to him, stating that she had decided to share her fortunes with another whom she could love better than him. It was macr- tained that the lady and her aflianced, (now her husband), accompanied by friends, had taken private conveyances to North Carolina while the company at her house were en- joying themselves in the parlor. Fourteen couples had been engagml to wait at the mar- riage, and a. brilliant reception awaited the gentleman from Hem-ice on his arrivai home with his bride. He will be hilosophical enough to take the reception 3 l to himself when he gets back” THE way a Virginian gentleman lost his bride by a flank movement skilfully executed by her is told by the I’etenbury Index last week. Thus runs the story : “ A gentleman who lives in Ilenrico County was engaged to be married to a. fair and accom lished lady of the county, and the day was xed for the happy event. Accompanied by his brother, the gentleman came over to I’ctershurg and went down to \Vakefield on the evening train. Remaining over ni rht with a friend, tlw expectant groom, on t e day of the ingr- THERE is a vast; difference says the Danbury News, in the conduct of a man and Woman in new clothes. “’hena woman gets a new suit she immediately prances down town, and for hours will walk contentedly along a. crowd- ed thoroughfare, receiving fresh impulses of joy every time another woman scans her wardrobe. But a, man is so different. He won’t put on his new clothes for the first time until it is dark Then he goes down town so cautiously as to almost create the impression that he is sneaking along. If he sees a crowd on a. corner he will slip across ‘ the way to avoid them, and when he goes in- to his grocery he tries to get behind as many barrels anti boxes as he can. All the time he is; trying his level bent to appear as if the suit was six months old, and all the while realizes that he is making an infernal failure of it. We hope the time will come when new pants will he so folded by the anufactumr that they won't Show a ridge ong the front of each leg when the wearer dons them, \Vrc hear rumors of several large and elegant leap-year parties being in preparation by the belles of our city. W on‘t it be nice. young; gentleman, to have afihix‘s reversed just for once.~â€" THERE is said to be in Paris at the present time an Aslatian peasant woman who carries her hair on her arm like a train, as it is seven feet and a-ha‘lf in km th. She is fifty-two years of age, but her lair still grows. A BROOKLYS bill collector who had been kicked off the front stoop by a debtor’s wife explained his sensations by aayinn‘ that it wasn’t so much the quality of the t ling that astonished him as the quantity. A RECENT novelty in passementerie is a check, half in gimp flowers, and half in dead gold. Another and equally new one is a passementerie of silver as fine as lace, and usrmi as an applique on velvet. THE court balls at Berlin haw: commenced, and thus far has been quite as grand. and brilliant as in bygone years. v' King’Willie and the older heads under the crown attend. CHI'NESE women, even of the highest class, am not merely so handsome, nor by any means so cleanly, either in persons or habita, as their Japanese sisters. LADIES contemplating a Viuit to Iceland this winter must not wear skirts on their at- rival, as it is considered highly indecent for Women to appear in such costume. THE trimmings of cloth oostumcs are com- posed either of bias folds, puffs. pleated fiounoefl or niches, all of inille of the same shade as the cloth. ' THERE is no special style of engraving on. gagcmcnt rings. A spider'a web w1t‘n a fly m it is a pretty device. Tmmxc are more novelties at prawnth the materials for dresses than in this of these gannents themselves. BALL dresses will be Iaiitivcly loaded wid’ flowers. TRIPLBS FOR THE LADIES. THERE is .4. girl in Hobokcn, sensible in other Impacts, who has a monomania. that she is going to be married. She imposes on her parents or relatives, with a sweet and to- mantic narrative, ate them to fix up hm- h‘ossmux and wed ' feast, and discovcm at the last moment t at the bridegroom is not iorthoomin . Now, the youn men of Ho- bokenmung mt bmtes to at the r‘ formmce halt for lack of so trifling a page of stage property as a bridegroom. A “ mum‘s SIGHT mums,” magnificently decorated, is on exhibition] in a Brooklyn dressmaker'a window, and the cry of tlm police outside, “ Form a. line, gentlemen 1" can be heard at afmost every hour of the da‘y'. A sister’s love is inexpressible, touching and endearing. Her heart is a. realm of pure and unearthly affections, and happy should that brother be be to whom she clings through the changing scenes of the blighting world. She has been his companion in childhood, she watched the development of his mind and person, she has admonished him when wrong, and smiled u n his triumphs, she has peoâ€" led his min with the beautiful treasures of 101‘ own, she has taught him those virtues which will render him a useful member of society, prepare him for death and embalm his memory when he hm passed away. Sooner can you bind the free wind that seal 11;) the springs of such mysterious affections. Ihey will flow on, and the desert and cave cannot forget their progress. And as sorrow and misfortune strip from life its charms, and dreams, there is one recollection that will come like music to a brother's heartâ€"that will thrill upon its darkened and troubled depths with a strange sweet melody, and bring up scenes of home and childhood, long unremembered. It is the recollection of a sister’s love. NOT easil explained to others and too ethereal to efine, those (spiritnal) joys are, on that account, but the more delightful. The sweet sense of forgiveness ; the conscious: exercise of all the devout affections and grateful and adoring emotions God-ward ; the lull of sinful assions ; an exulting sense of the security ofpthe well-ordered covenant ; the gladness of surety, righteousness and the kind spirit of adoption, encouraging to my, “Abba, Father ;” all the delightful feelings which the Spirit of God increases or creates, and are summed up in that comprehensive word, “Joy in the Holy Ghost !"â€"â€"James Hamilton. Bmunnxxo }Io)xEs.~“Tlie beautifying of homes would have a. tendency to check the growing \‘ugabondism of our people. Wam< er says that it is no wonder that people move from one fireplaceless house to another With- out regret, but it is certainly no wonder that they move from one unlovelv, soulless farm of another with restless longing. If we Wish to become attached to a. place we must make it a part of ourselves. I TOLD my people that God had created all our worshipa, rcVex‘ences, tendemeSses. lox'os,~â€"that they had come out of His heart and He made them in us because they were in Him firstâ€"that otherwise He would not have carry]. to make themâ€"George McDon- ald. EVERY saint: in heaven is 2w a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fra~ grance and sweet odor they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above.~â€"Jonathan Edward: GOD is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only smmds a string hem and there to see how {at his Work has prm grassed. V __ .-.-.....5 v ....... vuvn nun-ca, auu. um: uumr a 'oung lady from San Francisco, as I afterward earned. I saw, almost as soon as the ladies _ arrived, that the iounger one had no use of l, her right arm. t was so completely para- . lyzed that she was obliged to move it about . with her left hand. I observed that when she wanted to ut her dead hand into her ‘ mufi‘ she was 0 iiged to reach through with her left, get hold of the hand, and then draw it to where she wanted it, just as though it had been a skein of yarn. \Vell, it appears there had been some understanding about the young lady coming there, but what she did not a little surprised some of us the first day she came. The ladies stood looking on while we hauled up a bullock and knocked him on the head. No sooner had the knife been withdrawn from the animal‘s throat than the young lady throw off the large mau- tle that she wore, and rushing forward, sat down upon the floor just at the bullock's neck, where a. torrent of blood was shing. She then bared her right arm and t rust it to the shoulder into the gapin and blood- 8 outing throat of the amine , holding it t ieir until the blood had ceased to flow. We were then killing about thirty animals every afternoon, and every day regularly the girl came and thrust her dead arm into the bleedâ€" ing throat of one or more of them. That girl had great courage, and was not one of your over-nice kind, I can tell you. She had a coarse dress of some heavy woolen stuff that she wore for the purpose, annd when the bullock fell, and the knife had done its work, she at once mu up and seated herself on the floor, as regardless of the blood as if it had been so much water. There she would hang : across the neck of the boast‘until it ceased to bleed. She was so brave that We were all glad when she get well. I remember how happy she was when she came one day and showed us that she could begin to open and close her fingers. From that time forward she improved rapidly. Soon she could move her arm, and finally could grasp and lift thinus with her hand. I think she came for athout three weeks before she was cured. The last day she came she was quite bright and merrywmorc so than I had ever seen her. After putting on her mantle she thanked us all for our kindness to her, and shook hands with us, giving us the cured hand, which, as she laughineg said, we had ' some right to.’ After the young lady went away we thought we should see many persons thereto trythe blood bath, but none have ever come. That girl was the only one, and I never saw snythmgliko it before or sinne." “I had not been in the slaughter-house long until one afternoon about two o’clockâ€"~- our time to begin killingâ€"a carriage drove up. Two ladies alighted ; one known to me as the wife of the superintendedt of one of our leading Comsotck mines, and the other a i ” About a» year ang 2L curious thing hap- pened hem,” recently remarked :1 robust and rosy-checked butchcr, whom we hadv been complimenting on his fresh and healthy ap- fpearanco. “ I know," continued our butcher amiuaintnncc, “ that as a rule, men engaged , in my business enjoy good health, and have a fresh, may look ; but whether dabbling in blood, and breathing and absorbing the var gum arising from fresh meats has anything to ( o with this, as you appear to believe, I [cannot say ; neither have I ever seen any blood drinking either by butchers or others. But, as I have said, a very curious circum- stancenccurrod here about a year ago. 1 generally work in the market-so I must'get y rod cheeks throughnwhat I absorb from mm the means I .handlevc-but about auyear ago one of our butchers took sick, and I filled his place in the slaughter-th for about six E Ttrm::â€"~0n; Dollar per Aymara in Adcaum TEE YORK 1332mm M: I'mzf'lr~ Efiq. UBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued “'oekly on Friday Morning. PEARLS O? TRUTH. A New Cure for Paralysis. YONG}; Sn, RICHMOND HILL. A Sister’s Love. {From tho Virgiulmx Emexpr ALEX. Scum, l’normx'rol WIâ€"l OLE N O 9'13.