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R1 BE D To ALL ' Swan of the Nith ! if uught in thee Sullied thy brightness, none should see The blex‘nish‘ menishould View, like me. 0 R )bbia, this nicht is the niuht 0’ thy birth, The leal Scot will hallow it a.’ through the earth, Tha exile awem‘y in mind uft, returns '1‘0 hams where the daisy aye whispers 0’ Burns. The blast blaw its wilth the nicht thou wast born, The pine on the mountain was shattered and torn, The snow-wreath had hgppit the glen and the bme, And the mirk 0’ the midnight reached into the There were 101k rich wi’ Wisdom who looked in 7 Tim/life’s short; dream And let thy Ia‘ults, like swmx's feet, Sunk in the stream.“ thv face, They hezwd i‘ the distance thy musical grace, And said, like a loch was the depth 0‘ thv o n For genius had lighted thy braw wi’ its sheen 0 Robbie, my heart has been empty sue lanq‘ Syug the 5'1 ‘ that are vanish ,d were loud thy mind; And down my nuld cheeks rin’ the tearâ€"drops o’ brine, \Vhen I list to amt that was music 0’ thine. They my firm had’st faultsâ€"but let him who has corn, The glory 0‘ sunlight each csinner returns, Like a [rieu’ to a heart that in loneliness yearns 111L119 Go cast from you mountain the uppermost atane Mun shouldna be judge, for he doesna ken 21/. And Where thy feet slippit he also may in], The lintie still 1193:1105 her young 1' the thorn, And the wee mousie tins ’neuth the tassels 0‘ But t1}qugh paths by the D0011, fund byhedgerows farewool Ever wrenches the heart in “ the land 0’ the lea]! of Ay}, ‘ “ . The sound 0' thy footsteps will echo nne’ mmr, '.L‘ho_u'rt Buff! wi‘ thy harp, where nue’ word 0’ Mrs. Erskine Clements W111 shortly issue “Artists of' the Nineteenth Century,” con- taining the lives of over two thousand paint- ers, lists of their works and criticisms on the same. The other new works announced from the Boston press are “Swift,” in the series of poets; “Heredity,” by Mr. Joseph Cook; “Mary VVoolston Craft’s Letter to Imlay,” with a memoir by Kcegan Paul, and “Read- ing as a Fine Art,” from the French. How strange that two of the leading minds of America, Morton and Uushing, should have passed away so soon after being immor- talized in the columns of Forney’s Progress. They were men of standing in the ranks of literature and statesmanship. A volume of Swedish poetry, translated into the English, has just appeared. “Na- deschda” is the title of the poem. Here is an extract :â€" “When she. o’er the sleeping rivulet Gently bending, sew reflected there Her sweet features in the Spring of youth, Tears, unbidden, wellcd up in her eyes ; Grief awoke (Ller within her breast : 'Oh, Nadeschdu flower 1’ murmured she ; ‘Poor, poor maiden, why adorn thyself, l’en without adornment rui'ely fair ! Not for thine own pleasure wort thou born, For the happy chmce of thine own heart, For a. youth, ideal, who is thy love ; For It master's whim thou growest up, As his drunken glances aim, perhaps, To enchant, and pull, and be disdained.” It somewhat remarkable that Margaret Ful- ler and Bayard Taylor, who each began to write a life of Goethe, the German poet, should have died before completing the work they had in hand, {‘u‘l‘lle Immediéte Future of the United States” is the title of a new article to appear in the next number of the London Quarterly fI‘OPI the pep of ‘V‘ H_. S. Abgeyi The Lo-ndon Antwhsneum is to contain a series ofarticles on Continental Literature dugirng 187‘9. _ The omission or misplacing of a comma. sometimes alters a sentence very materially. Thus, for instance, quoting from the immor- tal Shakespeare. “ There’s a divinity that shapes our ends Rough, hexv them as we will." Here is the quotation as it should be. “ There’s a. divinity that shapes our endow, Rough how them as we will.” The boy was more poetical than polite when he thus spoke of his mother: Who was it that spanlgeq in}: an? sent 1139 to‘bed, "A‘fid'fifimié EQh‘ézfif feéi like a lump of lead, J qg’gfor givipg a. twigt 130 Q19 kittens tail? v RVh‘S-wozié Rié's'po'iiéd 23.11 my fun as she said, " Bud boy you’ll be 5‘ rry when I am dead," Until I set up my childish wail ? My Mother. This was too much, and the retort had to come. Here it is :â€" Who is it that puts a. bent pin in the chair, And watqhes till grandfather takes his rest The Bad boy. Lord Teighmouth has contributed an in- teresting chapter to the literary history of his country, in giving his reminiscences of the great men of his time. Lord Byron figures conspicuously in the work. as also Gmttan, Southey and Wilberforce. Of the latter he says: “His pryofile, his shoulders being thrown back, exhibited, notwithstanding the stoop of his head, the convexity of a, bent bow, edefcct aggravated, perhaps, by the weight of books and papers with which his capacious pockets were stuffed.” -n A work likely to create a sensation is Dr. Charles Beecher‘s “Spiritual Manifestations.” The Beechers, however. are so remarkable for startling developments, that perhaps, after all, this work may not have such an elfth on the public mind as might be ex- pected. In 1851 the author went to Strat- ford. Connecticut, to investigate certain strange phenomena in the house of Professor Phelps. The result is thus narrated : “ The first thing that took place of an un- usual nature was on a certain Sunday. The family, including the servants, according to custom, had been to church, leaving the house locked up. On returning they found the front door wide open. The first thought was that robbers had been there. No signs, however, of their presence appeared until they came to my father’s room, and there they found three full suits of his clothes, stuffed out with old clothes, etc., and laid out side by side upon the floor, with boots, but, etc.,somewhat as I have seen them after a. railroad collision. This seemed very strange, but the general impression was that it must be the roguish trick of the boys or of some one unknown. In the course of the day, as my fatner was walking across the parlor, no other person being in the room, a key was thrown from behind, over his head and fell on the floor at his feet. He picked it up and put it in his pocket. Soon after a nail was thrown in the same way. In the evenlng, as the family were sitting together, suddenly a turnip fell from the ceiling in their midst. Then they began to hear little reps in various directions. They tried to trace them but could not.” We have seldom met with more sense ex- pressed in as few lines as the following : "It matters little Where I was born, Or if my nurents were rich or poor ; Whether they shrank at the cold world’s scorn, Or Walked in the pride of wealth secure ; But whether I live an honest man, And hold my integrity firm in my clutch, I tell you, brother, plain as I can, It matters much 1 “It matters little how long I stay In a world of sorrow, sin, and owe; Whether in youth I am called away, Or live till my bones and pate are bare ; But whether I do the best I can, To soften the weight of adversity's touch On the faded cheek of my fellow man, It matters much ! “It matters little where be my grave, Or on the land or on the sen; By purling brook or 'neeth stormy wave, It matters little or he ught to me ; But whether the angel Death comes down And marks my brow with his loving touch. As one that shall wear the Victor‘s crown, It matters much l” The eccentricities of typography were prob- ably never more striking exhibited than in the Springfield (Mass) Republican, a short time since. The editor meant to have said “like evoking the shadow of a nhado’ L10 5‘ The Bad Boy. And when the old gentleman leaps in the air, And says wicked words that make you stare; Who is it that says ” It‘s 1). terrible sin To 11an such pranks with an old bent pin." \Nhile the father sees through it and says, " It's too thin ‘2" filers ‘2 01'“ SPEBIAL ( OLIJ A AW ENE (DRY ALL W’HO LOV ROBERT BURNB LITERARY NAME but the printer made it read “like cooking the shadow of a shad.” Again the editor wrote. quoting from Shakespeare, “ Men have died and Worms have eaten them, but not for love.” The printer suucceded in substituting “ women” for “worms.” G. P.1’utnam’3 Sous have issued an exten- sive list of new publications, the chief of which is “ l‘he Life of Garritt Smith," the ab- olitionist. It. is by O. B. Frothingham. The author of {he the “ Dictiofiiiry of Eng- lish Literature" is writing a new work under the title of “ The Secret of Success." One of the most remarkable novels of the day is Paul Heyse’s "In Paradise." It is translated from the German. The failure of the Grand Lodge of Canada to take up at the last annual communication. the alleged invasion of the jurisdiction of Quebec by the Grand Lodge of Scotland is much to be regretted, especially as other Grand Bodies were looking forward to the actio it was likely to take the matter alluded to in the Grand Master‘s. Address, and, acting upon his advice, no doubt, the subiect was laid over, thus allow- ing a whole year before it can again be taken up. It would have been a much wiser course to deal,with the question at once, and thus elicit a full expression of opinion from the Grand Lodge. There was no apparent reason for delay, inasmuch as all the facts were known, and nothing remained but to pro- nounce either for against the conduct of the Grand Lodge of Scotland . It is certainly the last course to keep 011 good terms when it is necessary not only to assert indepen- dence but to stand up for the rights and privileged conferred by our Order, and we hold that the Grand Lodge of Caandu was remiss in not declaring its opinion of the conduct of the Gmnd Lodge of Canada. to- wards the Quebec Grand Lodge. It is unnecessary now to argue the question as to the right of one Grand Lodge to set up claims to jurisdiction Within the bounds of another Grand Body. The assertion of Grand Lodge sovereignty has been so general in America that these can be no dispute about it. That being conceded, all that is needed is to prove the actual invasion if alleged to have been committed. That the Grand Lodge of Scotland invaded the jurisdiction of Quebec is unquestioned. In fact, it is admitted, the invading body boldly justifying its conduct in establishing a lodge under its control within the boundaries of Quebec. That justi- fication, however, amounts to nothing, seeing that it is claimed solely on the ground that the Grand Lodge of Quebec is not a properly constituted Grand Body. Of course it were useless to argue that point, since any one who knows anything of the position of the Quebec Grand Lodge knows that it was duly constituted with the full consent of the Grand Lodge of Canada. and was recognized by every sister Grand Body in America. How absurd. then, for the Grand Lodge of Scotland to maintain that it was right in its invasion of the Quebec jurisdiction when it was as clear as noonday that the invasion was as deliberate as it was unjustifiable. Had the Grand Lodge of Canada taken action as it ought to have done, the other Grand Lodges would have followed. As it is New Brunswick took the initiative, and we were glad to see that Illinois was not slow to place its views upon record also. Past Grand Master Stansbury, of Washing- ton, deems the two years’ rule as applied to masters of lodges highly pernicious, as it uses up £119 best ypgtgriplrtroo 599p. , He tyiuks i_t aa‘iishhlé to iiétziin a good master as long as he will act. On another point he is equally emphatic, and that is the hurry to get de- grees. The making of Masons he considers of far more importance than the mere con- ferring of degrees. He says : “I have known men whose breasts were ablaze with decor- ations, who had no more of the true spirit of our brotherhood than if they had never en- tered as apprentices or seen a Masonic altar ; while some of the noblest and truest exemâ€" plars of our principles I have known never twore a badge or went beyond the master’s degree." The Masonic. Benevolent Association of Central Illinois has paid two benefits, amounting respectively to $1,442.70, and $8,501.20. The institution is one of the most flourishing of its kind in the world. TIIE NE‘VES’I‘ 'I'IIING IN \VRAPH Nightingales are coming in. No prema- ture coming of the sweet songsters of the spring, but a timely arrival of comfortable warm bederaps, called after the lady who invented them, for the wants of the sick- room. As needlework they take the place of stockings in fashionable drawing-rooms. or may either be developed into works of art or retain their original simplicity. Two and a. half yards of flannel can at a pinch be con- verted into a bed-wrap in two and a-half min- utes. No cutting, no shaping being required, you (ladies generally) fold the flannel to- gether and tack the two sillrs by the salvage abouts. quarter of a yard from the double lend. This forms the hood of an elegant bernouse. You have only tlrn to fold back the two lower corners rmd tack againâ€" tack, I am told, is the correct wordâ€"and you have the cufis through which the hands are 'Slipped ; and the thing is done. VOL. XXII A correspondent at Manchester, England, writeszâ€"“We ourselves have suspended the greater and most useful part of our specie payments, and a. sadly too large part of our population are almost solely paid by soup and other sorts of charity tickets. These are our “greenbacks” now, and thousands of greedy, huneg bellies are deriving their only sustenance from them. In fact, Manchester is one stupendous soup-kitchen and relief depot just now. and the surrounding belt of towns have all to attempt an only too misern able imitation of such institutions in order to keep their poor and working people from absolute starvation. DEATH OF GENERAL TORI 'l IIIJMB The Liverpool Post states that General Tom Thumb died on Thursday last, at his native place, Bergum. in the Province of West Friesland, in Holland, whither he had only recently retired, after realizing a, hand- some fortune from exhibiting himself in the chief countries of Europe and America. The cause of his death was dropsy. The real name of the general was Haneman. â€"â€"â€"The origlnal version of “ Baby Mine” is not so elegant as that generally given, but it is exceedingly expressive : I’ve a. letter from thy sire, Baby mine, baby mine ; He’s coming home or he‘s a. liar. Baby mine, baby mine ; He is now chuck full of wine, He is coming o'er the Rhine, He had Hefner hide pis‘ sign, -â€"A squatter‘s shanty out near Chatham hearts this sign: “Fresh eggs for sale, laid every day by Mrs. Cooley." DISTRESS AND CIIABITY (From the London World, Jun. 15.] He had better come in soon, Baby mine, baby mine ; I’ve “een waiting since high noon, Baby mine, baby mine; I am waiting with a. broom, IWil] chase him ’round the room, While his nose shines through the gloom, Baby mine, babv mine. Baby mine. bubyum'inu MASONIC â€"Broken Heart is a station on the Minneso- ta railroad. â€"A dime,a nickel and a penny were found in the crop of a Montpelier rooster last week. The cat of a. resident of East Berlin, Me" swallowed a $5 gold piece, and the village butcher offered $2.50 for her. While Mr. James Rubey, Bartonia, Ind., was feeding his hogs he dropped his pocketbook among them, and ere he was aware of his loss, they had contracted the currency $394. NITED STATES IFURREN'I NE1‘79. â€"â€"An angry father in Hardin county, Iowa, his daughter having cloped with the man of her choice, pursued the fugitives, and after a tremendous chase overtook the wagon in which were a young man and a closely veiled woman. He discovered that it was another young man and his daughter’s next friend, who had ohligingly diverted pm‘suit,\vhile the real true lovers had gone off by another road at their leisure and got married. â€"It is not often that a man has presented to him the choice which, according to the New London Telegrmn, is open to \Vosley Bishop. Bishop, says the Telegram, will have the option of being hanged either for the murder of his Wife, Harriet Bishop, or for the murder of his friend, Charles H. Cobb, jr. The pro- secutor is confident that he can convict Bishop of murder in the first degree in either case. Bishop’s choice in the matter is not known. Probably he would rather not be hanged at all. -â€"A young merchant at Waverly, Iowa, When packing, eggs about a. year ago for ship- ment to the East, wrote his name and ad- dress on one with the request that the person to whom it finally came would Write him and advise him of the fact. In due course came the letter from a young lady in New York ; it was acknowledged, a correspondence sprang up, photographs were exchanged, and the merchant is coming to New York in a few days to take home the young lady as his wife. As a mere matter of gratitude they will suck eggs for the rest of their lives. -â€"â€"VVlieu California was first discovered it was considered a desert and good for nothing but the gold found in the mines. A few years’ experience and trial have demonstrated it to be not only a food-producing country, but likewise a food-exporting State. It pro. duces sheep, liorses, cattle, grain and hay to much more than supply the home demaud‘ Yet to the traveller and the casual observer California presented a much more barren and uninviting aspect than New Mexico. It is not so good as the Canadian Northwest territory, however. â€" A young: gentleman of eighteen at Spring- field, Mass., with an annual income of $156, wedded secretly a schmlwoung lady of seven- teen. On Sundayhe called atherresidonce and his unconscious mother-in-law said her daughâ€" ter was not at home. The husband forced his way in to see for himself ; the old lady called for a neighbor to put him out, and the bride darted forth and threw herself into the arms of her husband, who brandished aloft; a copy of the Boys of New York and shouted: “Be- hold my lawful wedded wife.” But they fired him out, and his lawful wedded wife was ignominionsly chastised and sent supperless to bed. BISHOP 0F DCKIIARI. TIIE NI. Lord Beaconsfield has made a bishop, and a bishop of the first rank. He has nominated Canon Lightfoot of 9" Paul’s to succeed Dr. Baring as Bishop of Durham. Dr. Lightfoot was born in 1828 at Liverpool, and was grad- uated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1851. He became a chaplain to the Queen and Hulsen Professor at Cambridge ten years afterwards. and after serving as Examining Chaplain of the Archbishop of Canterbury he was made a Canon Residentiary of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1871. He has written ably on the Pauline theology, and in 1871 attracted at- tention by an essay on a “Fresh Revision of the English New Testament.” The see of Durham comes next after London and just before Winchester in the order of precedence, and as the Bishops of Durham held palatine rights and privileges, they are entitled to surround their mitres with a ducal coronet. The diocese includes Durham, ' Northumber- land and Hexham, and the income of the see is now fixed at £8,000 sterling a year. The episcopal palace of Dishop Auckland, near Durham, is a noble residence, and the cathe- dral of the see, standing haughtly with its martial towers on a height which overlooks the city, is one of the most striking and picâ€" turesque ecclesiastical edifices in existence. , Dr. Baring during his seventeen years’ in- cumbency of the see has made the path of popularity straight before his successor, who will only need to do and be all that Dr. Barâ€" ing was not. The Bishop of Durham holds the patronage of all valuable canonries in his cathedral. of the archdeaconries and of forty- seven livings, many of them of great value. One party have had their own way in this important diocese ever since Dr. Baring tool: charge of it. He has been almost as tyranni- cal to his clergy as was Bishop Marsh, of Peterborough, who was smashed up by Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Rum’ew. He has taken little interest in the University. His feuds with the Dean and Chapter are a standing topic, and it is years since he has preached in his cathedral. Everybody from the North has a story about him. One of the most widely circulated relates how a child who had been playing in Auckland Park boasted on returning home that she had seen and been spoken to by “ the Lord Bishop.” “ What did he say ?”’ " 011, he frowned and said : ‘ Get off the grass 1’ ” A correspondent gives an account of 30 young women who were said to be possessed by devils in a village in Italy, and who “ crowed like cocks, mewed like cats. and barked and howled like dogs and wolves.” The latest procurable copy of the Giow'nale di Udine says that the Prefect of that province sent a special delegate to the villages where the afflicted women live, to gather all the par- ticulars of the phenomenon. The delegate’s investigations reduce the number of the “ possessed” to twentyâ€"twelve In the village of Chmisis and eight at Verzignis. The , greater part of the stricken women vary in 1 ages from 18 to 25; two only are over 45, and ‘ one is hardly 12. At the Villa of Verzignis 1 there is also a man affected by this horrible mania. In the day time the victims enjoy 1 peaceful intervals, during which their actions ‘ are regular and becoming. Toward sundown ' they begin to perform the most extravagant antics. in the course of Which they speak in- incoherently and indecently, accompanying the words with yells and immodest gestures, which is all the more remarkable in persons who had thereto led innocent lives. Accord- ing to the Prefect’s delegate, who is also a. physician, the affliction is an extremely mys- terious one, and he cannot attribute it to a simple hysterical phenomenon, proceeding from the use of improper food, or any other natural causes. â€"-~The death is announced of Mr. C. Ort- man, of Waterloo Township, lately doing business in Berlin. He leaves a large num- ber of mourning friends. â€"“An agrlcultuml paper tells how to “dressahog.” The best plan is to make his clothes very large, elpeoialiy around the waist. A TERRIBLE DIALADY. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1879. The English revenue for 1878 was £1,~ 803,485 over that of 1877. The only decrease was in stamps. _ This winEer there have been, for the first time in thirty-five' years, fourteen consecutive days of skatingiirn Reggnt’q Park, Lopdqn. _‘ An old soldier, who had received the Crimean and Turkish medals and four good conduct badges, has died in Manchester of starvation. Mr. Spurgeon has published the first of a twenty-fifth volume of sermons, having issued a sermon week by week for twenty-four]years, 1,450 in all. While the Rosscommou stag hounds were hunting in the neighborhood of Boyle, the stag took to the ice on Gail-town Lake. The ice gave way and 16 of the splendid hounds were drowned. yaid Arrangements are about to be made for the modelling of the police at Cyprus on the English system, and it is believed the chief of the department will be a relative of one now holding high authority in Scotland- v Fearful tempests are reported lrom Algerla. During one storm at Bone the hailstones killed a woman working in the fields. A flock of pigeons was also killed, and after the tempest a great number of hares and part- ridges were found dead on the ground. An unfortunate acmdent lately occurred to the well-knowing Pitchley pack in England. These hounds met at Crick, and while chasing a fox across the line at the mouth of Kilsby tunnel, a train ran through the pack, killing two and injuring several hounds. Loch Lomond is frozen and skaters are upon it. The loch was frozen four years ago, and also i1; _1860. N The Greenock Town Council have resolved to proceed immediately with the erection of the new Corporation buildings, the cost of which will be £80,000, exclusive of the site The managers of the Scotch Banks, re- plying to a deputation which had waited upon them, have refused to have anything to do with the lottery scheme proposed to relieve the City of Glasgow Bank shareholders. Aletterhas been received by the Town Clerk of Edinburgh from the Secretary of the Treasury, stating that no provision can this year be made in the annual estimates for the completion of the Museum of Science and Art. The Committee of Trustees and Executors of City of Glasgow Bank shareholders agreed, at a meeting held on the 8th inst., to request the petitioner in the trustees” tevt case to appeal to the House of Lords from the judg- ment of the Court of Sessions. It is stated that the rolling mills at Black Rock are to be leased to the Grand Trunk Railway Company for a term of years ; that they will put in a “ rail mill " and establish car shop} The Ratepayers’ Association of London have petitioned in favor of the bll for the sale of the London & Port Stanley bonds, now before the Legislature. and Mk that in the event of the sale the proceed' ‘ applied in I'éd't‘mtiuh of ébviihleFxénx-hu ‘ Mk of London, and for no other purpose what- ever. “:15le Michigan Legislature has some very important measures before it. Amongst others : Abill to amend section 1 of an act entitled “ An Act to authorize and empower the board of control of Stamp lands, to aid in the con- struction of a. railway from the Straits of Mackinac to Marquette Harbor, on Lake Su- perior," approved March let. 1873, as amended by an act approved March 24th, 1878, and also by an act approved May 14th, 1877. A bill to regulate the lighting of railroad passenger cars, and to repeal Act No. 33 of session laws of 1875, approved March 17, 1875, entitled ‘-‘ An Act to prohibit the use of naphtha or any product of coal oil or petroâ€" leum for lighting passenger cars.” 1.1 BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS WA“ bill Zfifitfiéd‘ H AnvAct to amend the charter of the Michigan Central Railroad in regaydnto t1_19_ lelecgion of directors.” .1 ,1 ”Dmf. " "’ .' ' . . . A D111 relatwe to acnons agamst rallroad ‘comptmies for negligence. ... . .u ru- vyfigihitrrfésolutiofi fBr the relief of the Chiâ€" cagofiflLake Hur‘mi Railroad Company. A bill to amend Section 1 of an Act, enti- tled “ An Act relative to the issuing of false, fraudulent and part-paid shares of the stocks of railroad companies, and to repeal Sections 4 and 5 of Act No. 229 of the session laws of 1863, being Section 7.757 of the compiled laws of 1871.” The bill was read a first and second time by its title and referred to the Committee on Railroads. WHITBY, Feb. 5.â€"At the annual meeting of the Whitby, Port Perry 6: Lindsay Railway 00. J ames Austin was elected President. The net earnings of the company for the past year exceed those of the previous year by nearly $30,000, more than sufiicient to pay the in- terest on the company’s bonds for $10,000 per mile. R. D. Day, one of the oldest and most popular conductors on the Canada. Southern Railway, has resigned his position and accepted the superintendency of the Detroit Coupe Company’s business. 1 N 7,-- We hear that Lieut.-Col. de Gray, Vice- President of the Great Western Railway, is on his Way from England to this city. and that Messrs. Spriggs and Peers, of the G. W. R. staff, have gone to New York to meet him and accompany him here. The L1eut.-Col. has come here on business of special impartance, it has not transpired what it is. Of course there are rumors as to what the busmess is ; but at this early stage it would be premature AN EAGLE CARRYING OFF A PIG [From the Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat] For several days past the resident farmers in the northwestern portion of this county have marked the presence of an eagle skimâ€" ming the heights in their neighborhood, and [From the Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat.) For several days past the resident farmers in the northwestern portion of this county have marked the presence of an eagle skimâ€" ming the heights in their neighborhood, and a Mr. Stringer, a Tarrant County knight of the gun, anxious to capture this king of birds, shouldered his fowling~piece yesterday morn. ing and laid for the bird on the open prairie, at a point about two miles northwest of the town, where a small herd of young pigs were innocently grazing on the green sward. The bird came soaring along, and when a point had been reached nearly perpendicular to the head of the swine, as it were, the old “ Na- tional ’; swooped down and around the sur- face of an inverted imaginary pyramid, and sinking its talons deep in the interior compo- sition of a thirty-pound pig, started heaven- ward. The ascension was tedious and slow, and gave ample time for Stringer to draw a bead, and when a height of thirty or forty , feet had been reached. he banged away and , ham Lincoln and Chief Justice Chase, though bored 3 hole clean through our American‘ pig and eagle tumbled‘ tolerably well together to the surfaceâ€"both ‘ monstrosity. The dead. l â€"â€"â€"If you should want to send money through the mail, no matter how small the amount, register the letter. There is always a danger of money being lost if you don’t register. As I was going through the Senate wing qhis morning I stopped at the picture stand of Mr. Bowden, who has in steel engraving the photographs of all the illustrious men of the present and past. I asked him of the promi- nent men of toâ€"day of whom he sold the most engravings. He said 2 “ I sell the most of Thurman, Conkling, Ben Butler, Jim Blaine, and John Sherman. You would be surprised,” he says, “to know how great a demand there is for Butler pictures. Of the five I have just mentioned I think the honors would be divided between Thurman and Butler, next in order would be Blaine, then Conkling, and then Sherman. I also have a great many orders for Chief Justice Waite. As for Hayes, 1 don’t think I sell one oi his to ten of Speaker Randall, and yet I am on the Senate side. There is but little demand for Garfield, but some for Sam Cox and Fernando Wood and Gen. Banks. Oi those who are dead, the greatest demand is for Andrew Jackson, Abra- there is a fair market for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Secretary Steward, Secretary Stanton. and Gen. Thomas. You would be surprised to know also the number of engravings I sell of Jefl' Davis and Gen. Lee. The sales of these two are not as extensive as those I have hereto- fore mentioned, but they are considerable. Grant for some reason don’t sell well. It may be because every one has a likeness of â€"â€"â€"If you should want to send money through the mail, no matter how small the amount, register the letter. There is always a danger of money being lost if you don’t register. Luu-ul hymn" and Telegraph. RAILROAD NOTES. RCfl'l‘LAND --In Europe steel and iron mils are now nearly the same price. â€"Archdeacon Gray, in his recent book on China, says that in a residence of a quarter of a century at Canton he did not meet one honest mandarin. â€"Many people get their best health in later life. The nonogeuarian poet Rogers said he uevorhad three consecutive days of health till past 40. â€"Oolonel R. W. Jamison, recently re- elected to the City Attorneyship of Macon, Gs", blew out his bruins rather than continue to suffer from dyspepsia. â€" Of 450 lawyers in Glasgow not one held stock in the City of Glasgow Bank, and only one or two of the 270 public accountants in the city lost money by the failure. â€"â€"The Messayger tie Pan's puts French oys- ter beds at 35,000, distributed over 26,000 acres, and which last season produced 651,~ 000,000 oysters valued at 23,000,000 francs. â€"One Montgomery, of Killine, County Down. dropped dead the other day ; his wife fell dead on seeing him fall, and her sister expired of heart disease on receiving news of the double catastrophe. â€"Ohicago means No, it means “Wood Gone,” or “No Forest.” the Indians almost half a, century ago having styled it “Tuck-Chicago"-â€"tuck, wood or timber; Chicago, gone, absent or Without. â€"The school trustees of Cariboo, N. 8.. refused to let the young people have a ball in the school-house. Next night the young people placed a. keg of powder in the cellar, and touched off the fuse. There came a burst of thunder soundâ€"that school-house, where was it ? â€"Thirty years ago a gentleman named Orr lefta sum of money producing about £25 a year to be divided annually at New Year’s among the shortest, tallest, youngest and oldest brides married during the preced- ing twelvemonth at the Established Church of St. Cyrus, Scotland. ~Mr. Norman Lockyer took the trouble not long ago to calculate the height of the mountains measured by the dimensions of the sun and moon in a collection of land- scapes. In one picture, by a very popular artist, he found the principal mountain towering to a height of 105 miles, while round it nestled little hills from ten to forty miles high. â€"â€"Two men have come to grief at Roches- ter who were operating on a novel “ lay.” One would assail a lady on a dark streeu and the other come ud as the chivalrous rescuer, drive off the hellish ruffian. protect the lady on her homeward way and agree not to men- tion the occurrence to her husband or father in consideration of a (louceur. They had worked the business successfully inNew Hav- en, Conn. â€"Mr. Nathan Lyon, of St. Paul, said that Misses Emma Faber and Mary Hendricks were too proud to stoop to the duties of farmers’ daughters, and promised them each 1:. WU’EII’K dress 11 on») mi km}. a cow through the streets of the Minnesota metropolis. Accordineg at high noon Miss Faber took the cow in tow with Miss Hen- dricks, armed with a. broomstick, acting as rear-guard, and thus they escorted the ani- mal down Third street and earned their silk dresses. â€"Tl1e baby-carriage is condemned by the Berlin physicians in cases Where the little one sits facing the nurse and is pushed back- wards. The natural desire of the eye is to draw nearer to What it sees, and the practice of reversing this normal order of things and causing surrounding objects to tecede is liable to affect injurioust the development of both sight and brain. The Galt Reporter gives details of the la- mentable death of Mr. John Marshall, son of Mr. Thos. Marshall, living four miles from Galt, met with on Sunday last. Messrs. Cherry Bros, of Glenmorris mills, had asked a number of parties to go to their mill on Saturday last and assist them in cutting away some ice which was a hindrance to the work- ing of their mill. Marshall was amongst these, and he got very wet, particularly about the feet. He left his companion at a cross- road, and started to walk home. On Sunday morning, at ten o’clock, he was found by Mr. Robt. Scott, who was on his way to church. He was lying on the side of the road, not far from Mr. Alex. McPhail‘s, and was then so badly frozen that he was in a dying condition. Mr. Scott carried him into Mr. McPhail’s, and everything was done it was possible to do until medical aid could be obtained. Dr. Richardson arrived quickly, but from the first the case was hopeless and about six o'clock in the evening he breathed his last. When first taken into Mr. McPhail’s an examination of his person showed that his legs were frozen quite solidly to above the knees, and his hands quite frozen to above the wrists. In removing his boots it was found that his feet and legs were covered with ice, showing that when he started to walk home his feet were very wet. There can hardly be a doubt that overâ€"work. getting wet and the extreme cold of the night caused this most unfortunate death. Imperceptibly to himself, as he went along, his feet became frozen. and when aware that they were so, his bodily strength was so much exhausted and he was so much benumbed by the intense cold, that beyond a few struggles, which the snow on the road so plainly showed, he was scarcely capable of exertion. A few minutes of lying down completed the work of the cold, and he passed into a state of unconsciousness which was but the forerunner of death. At the inquest a verdict was given in accordance with the above facts. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. PIBBTRAITS IN ‘VASIIINGTON‘ (From the Cincinnati Commercial) find Fan: 01 a Gull Man. FROZ [LN TO DEATH .,-â€"_v , .,,,, , ‘ “ Can you téll generally the run of the minds of people in their purchase of pictures of leadfing_m‘en ?” â€" .....‘ -“ I thigkfil’ dim. It grows and diminishes just in perortion to the notoriety that the man is creating." him, but I sell three of Sherman to one of Grant ; yes, Ge}; Lee oqysellg Grant.” ..«. “ I see that you have a crayon portrait there of Jim Blaine, and also one of Senator Morgan. Why do you hang that of Blaine above that of Morgan 7” “ Oh, you must always put the most sal- able man in the most public and prominent place.” “ How does Tom Bayard sell ?” “ But fairly ; I sell but few of Bayami, or Tilden, Seymour, or Gen. Hancock, though of these fourI sell by far the most of Sey- mour.” A 1“ other and Daughter Burned lo Death Yesterday afternoon, at the farm house of Edward Benuer, fourteen miles east of this city, near the village of Plattsburg. occurred a most horrible tragedy. Ella Banner, a beau- tiful girl of eleven years, was filling the lamps of the house for the evening. She trimmed the wick of one lamp and lit it to see how it would burn. Beside her on the table were several lamps just filled and the coal oil can. Ina thoughtless manner, after lighting the one lamp, she held the burning match over an open lamp, without noticing the danger. In instant the oil was on fire. A flash, a huge blaze, and all the lamps were on fire. Next the oil can exploded with a crash. The be- wildered, frightened girl stood stock still. In a moment she was enveloped in the flames and oil. Her screams brought her mother to the kitchen, and in her frantic but vain I efforts to assist her daughter, she, too, was soon wrapped in a blaze. The now maddened mother ran to the house of the nearest 1 neighbor, screaming wildly all the way, a dis- tance of about one hundred yards. The lady of the house dragged the poor woman into the sitting room, and poured several buckets of water over her. This partly quenched the flames, though the mother was so badly bnrned that she died last night. The daughter was found on the kitchen floor a steaming mass of heated flesh. She died in an hour after the accident. The neighbor lady was severely burned about the hands and From the Pall Mall Gazette. Lord Tollemache has had a gathering of his Peckforton tenautry in order that he might address them on theinfluence of foreign com- petition upon the Cheshire cheese trade. His lordship attributed the fall in the deâ€" mand for the produce of their country dairies to the large importations from America and other countries. He warned his tenants that this competition would continue, and said that, instead of sighing, they must face the difficulty and try and overcome it. They must improve the commodity, and reduce the cost of production by adopting improved methods of cheese making. arms WHis lordship made varigus offers to induce his tenants to endeavor to increase the proâ€" duction, and finally caused to be placed before them the best specimens obtainable of nhoahirn “builder. and Amerinnp «heese. the first named havmgbeen bought in London at the retail price of 146.. per 1b. One 6f the principal makers present admitted, after atrial of the specimens, that “ Cheshire cheese makers had more to fear from Ameri- cans than ever.” A Man Kill; his Ron and a Bird wich Ilm Same shot. ‘ Somme, Feb. 1.â€"A terrible accident oc- curred here a day or two ago. Charles Selby. bidding his children stay in the house, went out to shoot a bird, which he wished to dress for dinner. Unfortunately, his only son, a bright little youngster four years of age, un- heeding his father’s command run out of doors. The man, whose attention was centred on the fowl, took steady aim and fired, when to his horror, amid the echo of the discharge he heard a child’s cry. He hastened to the spot, and found that while he had killed the bird, he had also slain his son. The crevices and spaces of the corner of the house are filled with straw, and the unfortu- nate man, who is frantic with grief at the terrible mishap, could not see the boy. Sad to say, the shot scattered, and some going through the stmw and spaces, entered the head of the child, who was on the other side of the house. The poor little fellow lin- gered for four hours, and then died. His father swears he will never handle a gun again. (From the New York Evening Post.) When Mr. Layard, the Oriental traveller, was traveling in the East he had occasion to gather some statistics, and wrote to a. friend, a Turkish cadi, for his assistance. The reply so forcibly illustrates the state of mind often encountered in what we are accustomed to think more highly civilized communities, and is so pertinent to the present discussion, that, although far from new, We venture to reproduce it. The missive runs in part as follows : “ 'VIy Illustrious Friend and Joy of my Liverl The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Althoughl have passed all my days in this place I have neither counted the houses nor have inquired into the number of the inhabitants ; and as to what one person loads on his mules and an- other stores away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were un- profitable for us to inquire into it. Oh, my soul I oh, my lamb 1 Seek not after the things that concern thee not. Thou camest unto us and we wealcomed thee; go peinee.” â€"Hard pressed: Cheese. â€"A watchword : Mainspring. ~The hair of the buffalo is now largely ' dmloyed in making overcoats, which are all 1090& _ â€"It is proposed that the Chaplain-Genera] of the British Navy shall in future be :1 Bishop. _ â€"-â€"I:ondon thieves cut off the hair of young ladies who look into shop windows. -â€"-On Oct. 31 there were 194,179 efficient members of the British volunteer corps. â€"â€"There are nearly three hundred Justices of the Peace in Middlesex county. Several of them can’t write their own names correctly. â€"â€"â€"“Who is the Father of Lies ?” asked the Sunday-school teacher. And a good little boy on the front row replied : “ Please, sir, Deacon Pillsbury is the father of ’Lize.” -â€"A woman of forty, residing at Fairfield, Me., is the mother of seventeen children. During one twelvemonth she gave birth to two at different times, married off two and lost three by death. One of the two married sons lost his wife and was remarried within the same year. WHOLE N0. 1,076â€"NO. 86. ENGLI§II [10!!!) 01" AMERICAN CHEESE. G AT HIE KING STA'I‘IS'I‘IUS. COAL (Ill. FATAI‘ITY‘ A DE}!!! DINNER SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Jan 31. â€"A bride in Beloit, Iowa, shot herself on the morning after the wedding, on hearing that her husband had another wife ; but the wound was not serious, and on recovering she took the less tragic course of prosecuting him for bigamy. â€"Fossilized remains of what is reported as a gigantic pre-historic man have been found two hundred feet beneath the earth’s surface in aoave recently opened in a. mine neat Eureka, Nev. The lower limbs. head and neck are said to be clearly defined and natural. â€"There are parts of California where the beasts of the forests exist in their primitive glory. Panthers and lions recently made a descent from their mountain home upon some fine and costly Angora goats belonging to a farmer of Carpenteria, and left only six out of twenty-two. â€"â€"It was Dr. Bagot, who was Bishop 0! Oxford. who, at the close of the reign of George IV., adopted the modern practice of discarding the episcopal wig. It is said that he did so to gratify the taste of his wife, who was one of the Jerseys, and Lady Jersey was then omnipotent at Carlton Palace. â€"Two little children went to church alone in Westfield, Mass. They became tired dur- ing the long sermon, and the older one, sup- posing that school rules held good in churches, led her sister up in front of the preacher and said : “ Please, sir, may we go home ?” He said “ Yes,” and they soberly walked out. â€"0wing to the severity of the weather. the forests of the Bernese J uta are infested by droves of wild boars, sometimes so numer- ous as to defy attack. Bands of wolves hover about the farms at night. and hundreds of hungry chamois have descended from the mountains, and are wandering about the valleys in search of food . â€"Bankruptcy is dangerous in Dallas County, Iowa. Dr. Slocum failed in busi- ness, and, although his creditors were not heavy losers. they dragged him out of bed at night, threw him nearly naked into a. wagon, and started with him towards the woods. It is supposed that theymtended to tar and feather him, but his friends rescued him before he had been hurt. â€"â€"In the North-West Provinces has been discovered a, curious bug that lies concealed in flowers and siezes bees and wasps, which it bolds at arms lengqq, anal from which it sucks the life. It also destroys plant lice, beetles, butterflies, caterpillers, etc. The species has been known to inflict a painful puncture on the human hand. It is generally of a yellow colour, sometimes greenish, speckled With brown, and is characterized by immensely swollen front thighs, and by the lest joint of the antennzealsc- being swollen. Its bee-div straying tendencies are the most alarming to naturalists. Clergymen complain more and more of the tendency of the male portion of their flock so ahsent themselves from church. This they .attribute to want of spiritual-mindedness, whereasâ€"painful as it is to say soâ€"it is largely owing to their want of sincerity or their incapacity. Men like Dean Stanley in the church, or Mr. Spurgeon out of itI have never lacked hearers. But men who cannot express what they have to say so that another person can understand it, who insult their hearers by repeating empty platitudes and foolish common-places, who ccnnot even read a chapter out of the bible distinctly, who makes mummeries of the prayers, who treat religion as a. pleything, and whose first and last thought is to trick themselves out in fine clothes so as to impress the “silly women"â€" what right have such persons to expect rationâ€" nal men to place themselves under their tui- tion lâ€"London Week. â€"-Lord Dufferin’s facetious remark that, “ after all, the world was best governed by Irishman,” would seem to gather point from a source which was probably beyond. his view of observation when he made it The Ameer of Afghanistan has a captain in his service, an Irishman. who has great in- fluence over the autocrat of Cabul, and is described as a certain Hussein YhybenKhan, cggimanding the cavalry of the military dis- Mt of Kan" dghar. This Murat of the Afghan“- inanme- His name is O’Donnell. He served for many years in the Eighty-seventh Irish Fusiliers, or Faugh-a-Ballas, in which he was color and pay sergeant. He is a man of middle age, noted for his reckless daring and his hereu- lean strength. He was the only European of his day in India Who vanquished every native wrestler pitted against him. â€"A subterranean forest of oaks has been discovered in Germany in 9. valley watered by the river Fulda. Dr. Meesta, a. Government geologist, who made the discovery during an official exploration, pronounced the trees to be of enormous size, and to date back in their origin to a remote period. They are entirely buried beneath the surface of the valley, but several hundred of the outermost trunks that border the banks of the Fulda. heve been laid bare by the gradually encroaching current of the stream. The wood has acquired a. deep black color, and has become exceedingly hard. It is believed that it will make excellent material for sculpture. One trunk that was found in the bed of the river has been remov- ed to Berlin to be placed in the national geo- logical museum. Whether these trees are of a species now in existence or of one that is l extinct has not been determined. (J03 IERUIAL AND INDUSTRIAL â€"â€"-The tea season at Hong Kong closed on Jun. 4. The total exports for the year were 157,000,000 lbs. â€"â€"Mr. Pugsley, of Cheapside, Huldimand county, shipped thirty-two tons of butter to England last season. â€"Money is so abundant about Princeton, Ont.,that a number of people thereabout have been sending half a dollar each to a. swindling Yankee in Massachusetts, Who promised for that sum to forward a $6 pic- torial dictionary. The book he did send to his dupes was one which is usually sold in bookstores at 15 cents. The result of the experiment was black looks and bad language round the post office. â€"â€"It was at their own request that the firm of E. McGarvey & 00., of Wyoming. general dealers, were recently placed in insolvency, although hitherto it was the general belief that the firm had means enough to make them and their creditors comfortable. That they had credit enough is shown by the amounts they are said to owe in the follow- ing cities in round numbers, viz. : To London merchants . . . . l . , l . . . . . . $ , “ Montreal “ l “ Toronto “ " Hamilton " “ Other cities “ Thus the firm owes $130,000 for merchan- dise, and from $20,000 to $30,000 for advances made them by several banks, which are understood to have security in full. The assets are thus stated: Stock, $15,000; book accounts, $7,000; real estate (margin over mortgage), $2,000; total, $24,000 to pay $30,000. “ This,” said the wildâ€"eyed stranger as the train rushed past two ancient trees and the ast sad remains of a once beautiful rail fence ; this is the spot where four weeks ago we staid three days and three nights, snow bound, unable to leave the train.” “haaéidus,” said the little man in the next seat, “ pray how did you Iliv‘e all that_ time ?" OE, alerlvnanaged t6 get along all right, all except a couple of babies who were being weaned, they sufigregi fqgfixe want. of milk." N 7“ Dealt mé,” said the little man in a sym- pathetic voice, “ and. of course no milk to be had.” “ No, though they would have been spared but for the brutal, unnatural conduct of the engineer; some of the boys offered to milk the cow-catcher but he wouldn’t let ’em.” Then the wild-eyed stranger pretended to pick a cinder from his ofl eye. 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