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A history ‘of Russia, by Mr. Alfred Ram- baud. translated into English, is meeting encomiums from the reviewers. It is a. work of great interest, and is marked with fairness? The author while givmg Russian rulers credit for what good they have dene does not hesitate to denounce their conduct in treating Poland as they have dene. Mr. Allen Thorndyke Rice is the editor of the North American Review, a young Boston- ian, and an Oxfordman. A volume of essays. by the late Mr. W’alter Bagehot, “Literary Studies,” has appeared in an American reprint. The essays gave an insight into the character and genius of the principal writers of England. The book is one that is certain to meet with favor, for it is original and full of humor. Such a work could hardly fail to find a host of readers. A London publishing house is about to publish in monthly voiumes “ The Hundred Greatest Men” of history. The introductions to be Written by Froude, Mathew Arnold, Max Muller and other distinguished writers. Lectures in French and Spanish, by the Spanish statesman Castelar, on ‘- Spanish Literature in the Nineteenth Century" will he delivered at Oxford University next summer. Mr. Gladsvtone’s essfiysyhavewbeen issued in a collected form, under the title of “ Glean- ingq ofrIr’rust gears: » “ Signiné the Contract,” is the latest sen- sational novel ; and it is from the pen of a lady. Of course the novel reading communi- ty will not be long in getting hold of the work. "‘Legends of the Saxon Saints” is the title of a volume of poems by Aubrey De Vere. The poet Browning has ready :1 volume of “ Dramatic Idyls,” which is soon to appear in Engliand.’ The author of “ Philomene’s Marriages,” a recent book of much interest, is an Ameri- can lgdyfesiding in» Paris. A book on the late Southern war, by General Taylor is announced. It is likely to cleate a sensation. It will appear simul- taneously in London and New York. Mrs. Helen M. Reeves is the author of “ 00min” Thro’ the Bye.” She is only about twenty-five years of age, and is said to have “ a good everyday English face.” Whittier, like Longfellow, is getting either careless or worn out, if we may judge by his late effusion. “Landmarks,” in the Atlantic MonthlJ. It is really very little removed above more doggcrel. ‘ The Border Minstrelsy of Scotland hasi been the theme of many a Scottish hard; but‘ the ballads of the border lands of the two Kingdoms, though many have been pre- ‘ served in the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. more of them lie still in the traditionary history of the country. The legendary lore of the bor- der is rife with unpublished tales both in verse and prose. In the “Dowie Dens of Yarrow,” we have. such saddening lines as these about a maiden lamenting for her mur- dered lover : ~ “She hissed his cheek~she kissed his hair, She washed his wounds all through '. She kissed him till his cheeks were red On the dowie houmes of Yarrow." The father comes upon the scene, and he thus addresses her : "New Imud your tongue, my daughter dear, For e’ this hands but sorrow ; I’ll wed thee to u better lord Than him ye lost on Yarrow.” ‘90 hand your tongue, my father dear, Ye mind me but of sorrow ; A fairer rose did never bloom Than now lies cropped on Yarrow.” “ The Gay Goss Hawk,” one of the best ballads in Scott’s collection, rune thus: “0 well shall ye my true love ken As soon as her ye see, For if a. flower of fair England The fairest flower is she. “The red that's on my true love‘s cheek Is like blooddrops on the snuw ; The White that is on her breust here Like the down of the white sen mew. “And ever at my love’s bour door There grows a. flow’ring birk, And ye menu sit and sing thereon As she gangs to the kirk. “And first he sings a low, low note, And sync he sang a vlour, And aye the o’er word of the song Was, your love can no win here." A step-mother intervenes, and the young lady, in order to deceive her, adopts the stretagem of taking a sleeping potion, and thinks by feigning death to escape the inter- ference of her step-mother, but the latter orders burning lead to be dropped on her breast. It is done, and the body is carried to the tomb and laid for a night in the church. Suddenly the lover appears on the scene, and at his touch (1) This liuc is to be sung like a. chime of bells ; the second line is only read, but the succeed- ing five lines to “ excel " should again be chimed, varying the chimes on each two lines. If the reader cannot sing the chimes, the lines may be read in a. pure high tone. (2) Read in imitation of the tolling of a bell, deep and slow. Dwell on the Italic words like a, pealing hell. (3) Read like No. 2, but higher pitch. (4) Rise higher on this line and chant “swell.” (6) Same as No. 3, but softer tone. Swell with greater power on “ D0 well," 830., giving a. chanting tone to “ swell.” (6) Loud and clear toll of a. bell ; chanting “ No hell," &c., in a. high, triumphant; tone. (7) Chant loud and clear. Rise higher on “Come all," 6:0. Chant; loud and rapid “ Repent,’ &c. The last line is to be read. Locky’s next two volumes of the “ History of the Eighteenth Century," are to be de- layeé untilfilSSrl. A A new Operetta “Cobwebs,” by Mrs. Good- rich, is to appear soon. It is intended for the entertainmant of children. The wife of Ole Bull, the great violinist, has appeared as a translator, her first being a. Norwegian edition of “ Life in the Far North.” A book by John Burroughs, “- Locusts and Wild Honey,” is attracting much attention, on account of its striking descriptions of rural life. The author is a farmer. (7) " To all the truth we tellâ€"we tell,” Shouted in ecstasies a. bell ; “ Come, all ye weary wand'rem,seo ! Our Lord has nude salvation free. Repent! believe! have faith ! and then Be saved and praise the Lord. Amen. Salvatiou’s free we tellâ€"we tell,” Shoubed the Methodistic bell. (6) “ In. after life there is no hell," In rapture rung a. cheerful bell}; " Look up to heaven this holy day, Where angels wait to lead the way. There are no fires, no fiends to blight The future life ; be just and right. No hellrno hellfluo hellâ€"no hell,” Rang out the Universalist bell. (5) (3) “ Oh, swell, ye cleansing waters, swell,” In mellow tones mug out n. hell, Though faith alone in Christ can save, Man must be plunged beneath the wave '10 show the world‘s nnfultering faith In what the snared Scrzpture smith. (4) " 0h, swell, ye rising waters, swell l" Fouled out the clearâ€"toned Baptist bell. (1) The poem wrm written by Mr. G. W. Bungay The notes as to how it should be read are by Mr. Richard Lewis, author of the "Dominion Elo‘ cubiouist." (2) “ Not faith alone, but works as well, Must test the soul," said a soft bell, “ Como he e, and oust aside your load, And work your way along the road, With faith in God and faith in man, And hope in Christ, where hope began ; Do wellâ€"do Wellâ€"do wellâ€"do well," Pealed foth the Unitarian bell. “ In dead; of love excelâ€"excel," Chimed out- from ivied towers a bell ; “ This is. the church not built on sands, Emblem of one not built with hands ; Its Korma and sacred rights revere, Come worship hereâ€"come worship here, In ritual and faith excel,“ Chimed out the Episcopalian b011, “ No progressmade by mortal man Can 67:07:03 the just, eternal plmz. Do not invoke the nvenging rod ; Come here and learn the way to God‘ Say to the world farewell [farewell /‘ Pealed out the Presbyterian bell. How sweet the chime of the Sabbath bells 1 Each one its creed in music tells, In tones that float upon the air, As soft as song, as pure as prayer ; And I will put in simple rhyme The language or the golden chime. My happy heart with rapture swells Responsive to the bellsâ€"sweet bells. “ Oh. heed the ancient landmarks well In golemu tones exclaimed a. bell ; CBEEDS OF THE BELLS. AS 0Ul§ SPO! A I; (30LUXVIN READ BY MRS SCOTT ‘SIDDONS. G. W. Buugay.x ) read are by Mr. ‘Domim‘on Elo-I Sabbath bells 1 e115, it, .1“. ; The uses to which steam power may be put are numerous and varied, including every kind of variety of heavy farm work, such as thrashing. sawing, pumping. shelling corn, cutting up and boiling or cooking feed for stock, driving machinery for working up sugar cane, driving hey presses. If you live in a timbered country, it can be made to saw up trees into lumber, not so fast as the large mills it is true ; but still you can easily aver- age 1,500 or 2,000 feet per day, thus enabling you to put your farm under good board fence, and keep it so with but small expense, when compared with rail fences. Southern farmers will find it advantageous in driving cotton gins, rice threshers, cane mills, sugar making machinery, etc. In short, there is no kind of heavy farm work requiring horse power, but that steam may profitably be used in its place. We are living in an age of machinery ; there is no employment,no branch of industry, but What has had the benefit of machinery; they have all been advanced and helped by invention, and mechanical ingenuity; but they availed themselves of these helps. and did not refuse to take hold and try them. Farmers, if you would have husbandry proper. if you would see it take rank among the scien- ces, if you desire to prosper yourselves, you can not afford to pass these things by. The use of steam power on the farm has been growing very fast within the last few years, and it is a. significant fact that when- ever steam power has been used in a locality for threshing, it is never displaced by horse or water power. These are facts that indicate most clearly which way the tide is turning. I will I‘lSk the assertion that Within the next twenty-five years every well conducted farm of 150 or 200 acres, or Over, will have its “ portable-engine ” or its “ farm locomo- tive.” I have often heard farmers express wonder and surprise that their sons left the farm one by one as they became of age. and went into the practice of law, the ministry, or some other profession or business. Perhaps out of five or six sons, one or two only remain on the “01d place.” Their daughters, too, marry a doctor, minister. lawyer, or any one so he is not a. farmer. Why is this? Farmers, you yourselves are to blame for this. You refuse to avail yourself of means whereby manual labor might be diminished, thus producing 'in that boy’s mind a hatred of farm life and drudgery, and a resolve that he will leave the farm when he becomes his own master. But how is it with the girls ? They want a sewing machine ; the farmer growls. They want a washing machine; he can’t afford it. They want a wringer ; wring them yourselves. What is the result? Those girls grow up with a contempt for farm life. and resolve never to marry a. farmer‘s son. But, bless my soul, what has this got to do with steam power on the farm ? I am sure I do not know. But, farmers, if you want to avoid all this, do not refuse to avail yourself of any menus whereby you may lessen manual labor on your farm, and 1 will also include “beast labor." A This is a question that is occupying the minds of all intelligent, progressive and wide‘ewake farmers in this country. I say in this country, because in England the question has been considered and decided in favor of steam power. There every farm of any size has its “ portable engine ” or its “farm locomotive,” and as English agricultur- ists are the best in the world,Canadian farmers should follow their example, if they expect to equal or surpass them in the art. It is only by employing all the means and helps at your disposal that you can ever expect to arrive at perfection, or anywhere near it. ‘ Then on we held to Carlisle town, At Stagshuwbmik the Eden we crossed, The water was great and mickle of Spflit, B it never a man or a horse we lost.” Kinmount Willie having {been under sen- tence of death, to take place the following day, no time was to be lost, and at night a descent was made upon the prison, and the prisoner released. He was carried off in the grey dawn, and the flooded Eden crossed. “Buccleuch has turned to Eden waters, Even when it flow ed from bank to brim, And he has plunged in wi’ 11' his band, And safely swam them thro’ the stream." Lord Scrope and his retainers follow, but stopping on the bank of the river, the former exclaims : “He is either himself a devil from hell, Or else his mother a witch inaun be, I would ha. ha. ridden that wan water, For a’ the gowd in Christentie.” There have been several clerical writers of plays. “ Douglass" and other tragedies were by the Rev. John Home, The Rev. Charles Robert Maturin wrote “ Bertram.” James Sheridan Knowles "The Hunchback” and others, and became a Baptist minister. In view of these facts how strange it is that so many clergyman denounce Shakespeare from the pulpit. .af. ,v‘ .__- foremost. The pride of the land are cold in the clay. We‘ll hear nae innit lilting at the ewes milking, Women and buyinis mo heartless and woe. Sighimz and meaning on ilku green loaning, The Flowers of the Forest are a} wede away.“ Of another description is “Will of Kin- mouut.” who was carried by force across the English border, and by order of Lord Scrope, Warden of the Marches, confined in Carlisle Castle. The news being carried to the great Buccleueh, he broke forth with : "And have they men him Kinmount Willie Against the truce of border tide, And forgotten that the bold Buccleueh Is keeper here on the Scottish side ‘2" 'Of course a rescue was ordered, and as- sembling his followers, he marched on Car- lisle. A late Texas paper states that a man named Gretnie was hanged there a short time ago, and that on the scaffold he eon- fessed to the Monaghan murder, which took place in \Varwick township three years ago. It will be remembered that three young men drove up to Monaghan’s farm residence in Warwick in a disguised state nndimmediately commenced battering on the door. Monaghan got out of bed and had reached the door with a. gun in his hand, when one of the party turned and fired, the old man succumbing from the effects of the shot in a short time. Grennie, “Bob” Murray, the notorious Lon- don rowdyY and another person were arrested and tiied on the charge. Murray had pre- viously deeamped. but Glennie and the other, after a long)r trial at Braintford, were acquitted, alt-helfgh the evidence was strongly against them. The mystery has now been cleared up and the guilty one has at length received his desert-s. ll! HTEARI PU‘VEK PRIDFITABIJI‘. TO THE FAKE]. A Brnnlford Mun (Ioniesses Bum-e He Is flanged. â€"â€"Womun‘s sphereâ€"That she will never get married. â€"â€"Shad flies and spring helmets are waiting for the frost to get out of the ground. “She bridhtened like the lily flower, Till her pale colors gone, With rosy cheek and ruby lip She smiles her love upon.” In that famous old ballad, “The Flowers of the Forest,” we have this wail after Flodden Field : ‘Dools wae for the order sent our lads to the Border, The English for once by guile won the day ; The flowers of the forest that fought. a-ye the I" URDEB DIYSTEIKY SOLVED‘ VOL, XXI. Sir A. T. Galt is 62, Sir Francis Hinks is 71, Sir John A. Macdonald is 64, Speaker Blanchet is 50. Speaker Wells is 44, Lieun. Gov. Cauchon is 63, H. L. Langevin is 53, John O’Connor is 55, J. C. Aickins is 56, George Brown is 61, Alexander Campbell is 57, Wiliism McMaster is 68. D. L. McPher- son is (14, Edward Blake is 46, Mackenzie 28me is 56, R. J. Cartwright is 44, L. H. Hoimn is 62, Mr. Huntington is 52, Alexsnd- er Mackenzid is 57 Mr. Masson is 46, David Mills is 48, Dr. Tupper is 58, Adam Crooks, is 52, O. F. Frazer is 41, A. S. Hardy is 42, A. W. Lauder is 45, William McDougall is 57, Mr. W. R. Meredith is 39, Oliver Mowat is 59, P. D. Pardee is 49, S. 0. Wood is 49. AGES 0F SUSIE 0F CANADA’S PUB LID EDEN. -According to the Paris Figmo, the shops will soon have the new textiles in feathers 1nd wool and cotton on sale; This is an in- vention of M. Bourguignon, or Doncherry, who has found how to weave feathers (de- prived of the horny substance) and incorpor- ate them with woolen and cotton yarns in proportions varying from 10 to 75 per cent. Some very fine textiles are thus made, and especially a flannel which for warmth and lightness is unapproachable. Mr. John Page, Chief Engineer of the Wel- land Canal, was in tewn on Wednesday, ac- companied by Mr. W. G. Thompson, Resident Engineer, inspecting the works. Mr. Page, from all we can hear. appeared satisfied with the progress of the work. On the same day Messrs. Hunter, Murray & Cleveland com- menced the mason work near the G. T. Bridge. The work is going on smoothly, as if there had beenvno strike, and in all proba- bility the extension of the west wall of the old look and the pier between that wall and the railway bridge will be completed before the first of May. It is the intention to have a dam built, from the end of the west exten- sion wall to the railway bridge, to enable the contractors to go on with the work in the sup- ply race and weir during the summer. Mr. Cleveland informs us that work on the two water ways on the west side will be prosecuted this summer, as well as the new lock pit, and that the bridges will be (dented next whitenâ€"Part Colbome Free Press. Petroleum fuel is beginning to be used in California. quite extensively. The manufac- turers of Los Angelos unite in declaring it to be fully as cheap as wood and coal in its first cost, with the following important advan- tages : It saves expense of handling, feeding, raking, slagging and ashing, and, by not having to open the fire doors, admitting cold air to the boilers, steam is economized. ’1 bus. in effect, it is far cheaper than other fuel. The mode of firing is thus: Into the tank containing crude oil as it comes from the well, a jet of steam is sent. which carries with it a charge of oil, which, through a pipe, is distributed in fine spray over the fire cham- ber. The heat is intense, and there is no refuse. One man at the stopcock is the sole attendant. What is wanted to make this fuel a priceless boon to that coast is a process by which iron and other metallic ores can be smelted. They abound throughout, with lime for fluxing and firestone for hearths. â€"The great beauty of being engaged to a. girl in a boarding-house is that you don’t has to carry a night-key. â€"The adoption of children, writes a corre- spondent from Rome, which prevails to a. considerable extent in America, seems to be extending to Italy. Some thirty years ago a. German lady, of rank almost princely, was staying at Albano, and took a. fare-y to two beggar childrenâ€"a boy and a girl-of extra~ ordinary beauty. Her Excellency, who had plenty of money, adopted the two brats, and gave them the best possible education. The boy turned out an errant scamp. and took to evil courses and soon died of dissipation. The girl grew up a model of womanly grace and beauty, and found many admirers, and, among others, a. young Roman noble, who won her heart, but abused her confidence. The Pope heard of the misconduct of the young nobleman and compelled him to marry the girl on pain of his displeasure. The marriage was accomplished, and the German princess settled her enormous fortune on the married couple. For a few years all went happily, but. alas! the young husband died of fever, leaving his widow withe son of four years old to inherit a large property and a distinguished title. The child of the Albano beggar girl will be one of the richest counts 11 Rome when he attains his majority. â€"â€"‘\lrs. Julia Hay Cameron, the English lady whose amateur photographic Work made her widely known in America as well as Eng- land, died lately in Ceylon. Among her friends and artistic subjects were Tennyson, Sir Henry Taylor and Sir John Herschel. The Mandalay correspondent of the Cal- cutta Englishman thus describes the recent massacre of the royal family of Burmah by . order of the King :~"A council was held by l the King and his young advisers, and the l conclusion come to was that extermination was the only means whereby he could obtain safety. The immediate execution was,there- fore, ordered of everyone in prison. Execu- tioners were easily obtained, and with dark- ness commenced the scene of slaughter. It i being, however, found inconvenient to get through the job in one night, a division was made and some twenty were chosen. These were severly beaten and kicked, the women I being shamefully treated. When lifeless ‘ they were hurried into a large well in the ‘ garden. Children were torn to pieces before their parents eyes and the parents then put to death. The Meekra Prince was made witness of the most atrocious conducttowards his wife and children, and saw his aged mother beaten senseless to the ground and .; then dragged to the well and tumbled in. : Thongya’s family fared the same as also the E two Menghees. the Myodawlaw, his two sons and the Phawoon. The princes, instead of bein put in along with their families, were 3 ki last and thrown into the river. 1 PEI‘RBLEUJI A8 FUICI. GE‘0‘VKNG IN FAVOR. â€"There is a lady in one of the hotels of San Francisco who never appears in the din- ingâ€"room with less than from 325,000 to $50,- 000 worth of diamonds on her person. â€"Mrs. Lunsford of Angelaize county, 0., who lost her husband and six children by the burning of their residence recently, died of grief in consequence. WELLANDUANAL ENLARGENIELT. â€"Efiorts are being made to install one lady physician in each of the State Insane Asy- lumsI to have charge of the female depart- ments. â€"Two women attorneys have been admit- ted to the United States courts at Toledo. â€"â€"A lady in Virginia is said to have a pet pigeon which dances to the music of her harp. â€"â€"It is worth noting that the women in Afridees in Afghanistan, although Mohamme- dans, do not cover their faces. â€"Rev. Mrs. Ellen G. Gustin has been call- ed to the pastorate of a church in Westerly \VA IFS FOR ‘VOJIEN‘ RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1879 â€"Mayfair says :~" I am credibly inform: ed that the absence of Prince Leopold from his brother's nuptials was owing less to a slight kneesprain tha to '1 yiolent objection to the ee rationo ‘ " ‘r'age in gem” “'4' e {esent year is he eififeén un- dredth anniversary of ~ the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Mount Vesu- vius. There is to be a scientific commemora- tion of the event in Pompeii in November. -â€"Tbe ruins of a Roman theatre have been discovered at Trigueres, near Montargis, in France. It is 70 yards long from the back of the pit to the stage, and 50 yards wxde. It could have easily held 10,000 spec- tators. â€"Proiessor, lecturing on psychologyâ€"” All phenomena are sensations. For instance, that leaf appears green to me. In other words, I have a sensation of greenness within me.” Of course no harm was meant, but still the class would laugh. â€"-â€"Schoolmistress (just beginning a nice improving lesson on minerals to the juniors) â€"“ Now, what are the principal things we get out of the earth ‘2” Youthful Angler, aged four (confidently) â€"“ Worms.” â€"-â€"Nihi1ism seems to have declared itself in Austrian Poland. A seizure of arms has just been effected in Krakrow,together with papers proving that the socialists of that place. as also of Lemherg, are afiiliated to the nihilists now causing such anxiety in Russia. About fifty persons have been arrested. â€"The Buffalo Courier is a paper devoted partly to sporting matters. In Monday’s edition an item, under the head of “ Base Ball,” will be sure to attract attention. It read: “ Dave Eggler was made happy this week by the addition to his family of a little boy, weighing eleven pounds.” What followed is startling : “ The remainder of the nine will be here this week.” ~â€"A new and delightfully innocent style of cock-fightinghas been introduced in Brook- lyn. The chickens spar, as it were, in gloves,haviug “buckskin protectors over their spurs and leather muzzles over their beaks” â€"Nearly twenty thousand prizes of the great French national lottery still remain un- claimed, and these have been removed from the Palais de 1‘ Industrie to the Pavillon do Flora at the Tuileries, as the former place is requiquififoy the pictures. â€"-Eli Perkins says that John B. Gongh always drinks sherry and egg before lecturing, and that he advxsed him to do the same. He says that Susan B. Anthony always takes three eggs in three cups of strong coffee be- fore she goes upon the platform. â€"â€"A recent number of La Nature describes a simple and convenient night lamp, the in- vention of M. Behu, indicating the hour by the extent of combustion of the oil. During the night one can see at what height the oilstands in the tube and read the corresponding hour. ~At Newcastle-under-Lyme a respectably dressed Irishman was recently sent to jail for a. month for assault. ' In his possession were found documents of a treasonable nature. One was a set of rules and regulations for the management of the North oflagland division of the I. R. B. and referred to the formation of a military organization and secret arming, The papers were ordered to be sent to Mr. Gross. â€"A man may be a day-dreamer; take no interest in everyday afiairs busy world he may be as a. drone in but gust syep on his pet corn and quickly he will wake up. â€"Hugging sociables are popular in some rural parts of New Jersey. The prices charged are given for benevolent purposes. It costs ten cents to hug a girl between fifteen and twenty, but you have to pay twenty-five cents for a young widow, five cents for a girl be- tween twenty and thirty, and a dollar for hugging a. married lady. -â€"“ The latest design for a. brooch.” says the Baltimore News, “ is a pine cone.” In this part of the country the latest design for a bust is a pint bottle. ~A maiden chats Of Easter hats And ribbons, frills, bouquets, and that's Abou t all that troubles her. â€"Queen Victoria last year received $220, . 000 from her duchy of Lancaster. At the be- ginning of her reign therevenue didn’t exceed a fourth of this. â€"0ne hundred guineas has been offered by the Sydney Morning Herald for the best poem on the Sydney International Exhi- bition. All British subjects may compete. â€"John B. Gnugh is now in Enland, and he is a born Englishman, though, at sixty-two years. he claims to be an American. Yet England did more for his reputation as a speaker than America ever did. :English farm laborers make no more than $2.50 a. week and eat coarse bread, American cheese, 9. very little American bacon (once a day) with turnips and mangel wurtzel beets. â€"â€"The latest report from Europe is that Mme. Christine Nilsson intends shortly to retire from the stage and become the wife of her husband, who for several years had to be the husband t0 his wife. â€"Nihilism seems to have declared itself in Austrian Poland. A seizure of arms has just been effected in Krakaw, together with papersproving that the socialists of that place, as also of Lemberg, are affliliated to the nihilism now causing such anxiety in Russia. About fifty persons have been arâ€" rested. Maidens are, in this world, the most prolific quizzers, Muidgasure the liveliest with needles and with scissors, Maidens are the greatest ones in feats of idle talking, Maidens are the greatest ones to stop a baby's squalling, They also rule the roost on turning young men’s heads. ‘ â€"Dean Stanley preached a special sermon to the troops at the garrison church, Woolâ€" wich, recently, from the words, “ And the soldiers said, And what shall we do 1’” Captain Burnaby, of “Khiva” notoriety, is to many Miss Whitshed (ward of Chancery), the only child of the late Sir J. H. Whitshed, Bart. _, * ~Rabbits are so numerous and destructive in California that the farmers are being forced to combine for a. war of extermination against them. â€"Antwerp has about the finest Zoological Garden in the world. The collection now in- cludes thirteen lions and five tigers, magnifi- cently housed. â€"-A father was on the bench as judge, and his son at the bar as prisoner, at a Cleve- land court. I â€"â€"-At Powhar, in Austria, the, petrol- eum well lately discovered now yields 2,000 gallons daily. â€"-Why is a pretty girl like a hinge. Hold your breath. Because she is something to adore. â€"The storms on the French coast this year have made sad havoc with the oyster nurser- 1es. â€"â€"The projectors of the Mount Simplon tunnel will begin work next Week. ~Mexico will reduce its army next month so as to save $54,000,000 annually. ~Austra1ia received 36,479 emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland last year. â€"â€"At Newcastle-under-Lyme a respectany WORLD WIDE ITEMS. in thb a hiveâ€" see how hga mgy ~There has been an extraordinary ‘natu- ml phenomenon at Rappelsdorf, a village near Erfurt, a fortress in Prussian Saxony. A lake nem- the hamlet suddenly rose with a glglent boiling; movement and overflnwed its banks. The villagers saw a. column of boil ing water rise to a considerable height from the middle of the lake, when it broke and was scattered in every direction. One unques- tionable fact is that during the sudden and unexplained rise of the water many persons heard subterraneous muses. Deep fissures opened all round the lake, from which a sort of steam ascended. The ground over which the water spread was covered with small shells and dead fish. â€"-The total number of births in France for the year 1877, exclusive of still births, was 944,500. The still births are given at 44,100. The number of deaths was 801,000. The ex- cess of births over deaths is accordingly 142,â€" 600. In 1876 the excess was 132,000, so that there was a visible improvement in 1877. Asj; moreover, in 1875 the excess of births over deaths was only 105,000 the improvement seems to have an enduring tendency. Mar- riages, however, diminished during the years in question, and have steadily done so since 1872, when they numbered 352,700. In 1876 they had gradually sunk to 291,900, and in 1877 to 279,000. While France. with a population half as great again as that l of England, only gives an excess of 142,000 births, England gives an excess of 304,000 â€"â€"There are two nerves, known as the fifth pair, which are distributed to the skin of the head and to the mucous membrane of the eyes, nose and mouth. These nerves are closely connected with the heart and vessels. and by stimulating their branches, the circu- lation may be greatly influenced, as in the case of fainting. It is a curious fact that peo-_ ple of all nations are accustomed, when in any difficulty, to stimulate one or another branch of the fifth nerve and quicken their mental processes. Thus some persons, when puzzled, scratch their heads; others rub their foreheads, and others stroke or pull their beards, thus stimulating the occipital, frontal or mental branches of those nerves. Many Germans, when thinking. have a habit of striking their fingers against their noses, and thus stimulating the nasal cutaneous branches. â€"During the ten years ended December 31, 1877, no fewer than 1,159 persons were killed in London and 23,359 maimed or in- jured by vehicles of various descriptions, the largest proportion of accidents being caused by light carts, by which 215 persons lost their lives and 7, 131 were injured. The police returns Show an alarming increase in the number of street accidents year by year ; for whereas in 1868 there were 1.348 acciâ€" dents, ceusing the death of 83 persons. in 1878 the number of accidents registered was 2,956. Or more than double those in 1868, while no fewer than 120 persons lost their lives. â€"The Princess of Wales made a pretty picture with her children at her brother-in- law’s wedding. She walked into the chapel with George, her youngest, son, by her side, and her three daughters in front of her, evi- dently startled by the magnificence of the ceremonial. The Princess wore a beautiful gown of Oriental pearl-colored brocade, em- broidered in pearls and trimmed with ruffles of exquisite lace and narrow bands of fur. Her train was of dark amethyst velvet lined with Oriental pearl-colored satin. Her three little girls wore Oriental pearl-colored brocade, trimmed with narrow pelisses of silk of the same shade and ruflles oi Milanese lace. .â€"â€"The other day. in a revenue case, Chief Baron Kelly of the English Exchequer, after talking himself into the conviction that he was undoubtedly right, and everyone else, in- cluding his two judicial brethren, clearly wrong, turned on the Attorney-General, Sir Jehn Holker who was arguing, and said warm- ly. “ I defy you to show itâ€"I Wish to use a strong expression, I defy you.” The Attor. ney»Geneml replied. “If your Lordship means that it is impossxble to show it, I take up the glove. and I think I have already shown it. If your Lordship means that ycu defy me to satisfy your mind, I despair of doing it and will say no more. â€"â€"His little Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrowitch, of Russia, is, considering his ageâ€"four monthsâ€"an expen- sive person. He has a household of fifteen people, and 18,125 roubles are allowed for his Highness’s table. It reminds a Liberal of the days of the Emperor Nicholas, who asked one morning set some tallow for appli- cation tousora foot. Years afterwards a. minister of the Imperial household investi- gated an item’ of 100 pounds of tallow which appeared in the weekly account of the Emperor’s personal necessities ; whereupon it was discovered that for ten whole year: this amount had been charged weekly. Had not his Majesty once used half an ounce 'r‘ â€"-A married man (presumably) writes to the Chicago Times that the bachelors are so like the Chinese in many ways that they must go. He charges that single men can do work for less than married ones, and that, therefore, they are a cause of cheap labor ; that they are not generally as good citizens, and that, in short, it is necessary for the wel- fare of this great country that bachelors stand not on the order of going, but go at onceâ€"â€" and enter into matrimony. There is un- doubtedly a responsive echo to this in every maiden’s heart, whether she be advanced in years or not. -â€"The Council of the Royal Geographical Society of England have presented a memor- ial to Her Majesty’s Commissioners of the University of Oxford. to those of Cambridge. and to the governing bodies of each uni- versity, urging upon them the importance of establishing geographical professorships. It is certainly a strange fact that in England, with business ramifications and colonial pos- sessions in every part of the world. the science of geography has been systematically neglected in the public schools, and entirely ignored at every university in the United Kingdom. â€"Who shall eventually decide the success of the eleetric light ? It was tried experi- mentally the other night in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. on the occasion of one of the soirees given in honor of the mar- riage of the Duchess Anastasia, and one of the attaches who was present tells me that the efi‘ect upon all but the most robust of the women was something quite to ghastly. It did not give anything like a satisfactory efi‘ect to the really beautiful display of uniforms. and was universally condemned as being far to “searching.”â€"London Mayfair. â€"-Intelligence has been received from India of an important geographical discovery. The course of the Sanpu, or great river of Tibet, has been surveyed by one of the native ex- plorers attached to the Indian Surves for a distance of 200 miles eastward of Che-tang, the furthest point to which it had. hitherto been traced in that direction. It then turned southward into some hills which the explorer was unable to penetrate. This settles a Mata a. questio which has long exercised the minds ef geographers as to the dentity of the Snupu and the Brahmaputra. dressed Irishman was recently sent to jail for a month for assault. In his possession were found documents of a treasonable nature. One was a set of rules and regulations for the management of the North of England divi- sion of the I. R. B. and referred to the fem. ..- tion of a military organization and secret arming. The papers were ordered to be sent to Mr. Gross. Her marriage with J eromeBonaparte, which made her a conspicuous and interesting character for more than fifty years, was one of the important social events of the early part of the century. Though her weak and time-serving if not villainous husband, at the bidding of his imperial brother, discarded his American Wife and formed a bigamous union with a German Princess, Mrs. Bonaparte clung to the name to which she was entitled and had all the pride and ambition of a. reign ing family and the mother of a Prince. Jerome; Bonaparte came to the United States in 1803 as the commander of a French frigate. Er} Napplreganyeing p159}; First Con. ‘sul. his mother?"waETsWLBTIréceiving the most marked social attentions at a time when even less distinguished foreigners than he rarely visited the new republic. In Balti- more he met and speedily won Miss Eliza- beth Patterson, a beautiful girl, the daughter of William Patterson, a rich and leading merchant of that city, which then was re markable, as it is now. for its lovely maidens. The pair were married in December of the same year by the Roman 'Oatholic Arch- bishop of Baltimore ; the marriage contract was carefully drawn, and in both a legal and ecclesiastical sense it was a matrimonial union as binding as that of the Duke of Con~ naught the other day. Mrs. Bonaparte was both fond and proud of her husband. and he seems to have been much attached to her. His affection. however, was not strong or lasting enough to make him stand by his wife in the face of the violent opposition of Napoleon to the match. The Emperor would not allow her to set her foot on French soil. so when the pair went to Europe 111 1805 Jerome, leaving his bride outside of France, proceeded to Malinaison with the avowed purpose of mollifying Napoleon. He never returned to her, however, and in July she gave birth to a son at Camberwell, in Eng- land, while two years after, in spite of the refusal of Pius VII. to sanction the union, he was married to the Princess Frederica Catha- rina of Wurtemberg. Mrs. Bonaparte was a, very peculiar old lady. She rejected all religious faith, satir- ized marriage, was close in money matters to the point of penuriousness, and though she could not help despising her weak. mean-spirited, and treacherous husband, she was a great admirer of Napoleon and a devoted Imperialist, living and dying in the hope that her descendants would yet become emperors of France. During a large part of her last illness she resolutely refused to see any clergyman, Catholic or Protestant, calling herself Presbyterian to Catholic priests and. Catholic to Presbyterian ministers. But on Tuesday she yielded and requested the presence of a minister, and a Presbyterian clergyman was sent for. Later in the day Moody, the revivulist, prayed with her, and up to the hour of her death spiritual advisers were present at her bedside. Mrs. Bonaparte was a rare character, and she was remarkable among women for her exceptional experience. The memoirs of her life and her associations with the prominent characters of the first quarter of this century, which she is said to have left, will therefore possess an unusual interest. Mrs. Bonaparte’s subsequent efforts to obtain legal recognition of her marriage in France were all failures, owing undoubtedly to imperial pressure; but during Louis Napoleon’s time the legitimacy of her son was acknowledged, and her grandson, Jerome Napoleon, who crossed the ocean to attend her in her last illness. received a commission in the French army after having prepared himself at West Point for a. military career. Another grandson, Charles Joseph, was graduated at Her- vard, and is now practising law in Baltimore. Unquestionably these descendants of Jerome by his American wife are the rightful heirs of the great Napoleon; for Napoleon III. could not claim to have a drop of that blood in his veins, nor can his son, the young man who has lately gone to fight the Zulus, and who has received a vast amount of toadying in England since Sedan. The death at Baltimore of Mrs. Patterson Bonaparte removes a venerable lady whose life was 'one of extraordinary interest, and Whose strength and peculiarities of character, apart from the romances and accidents of her career, would have made her a noteworthy member of society. She was also remarkable for the great age to which she attained, ninety- four years, and for the vigor of body and mind she preserved until within a few months of her death. ’ At thelast meeting of the Royal Socrety for Northern Antiqu1ties,in Copenhagen, Mr. Sophus Muller read a very interesting paper on the influence which the Irish style of ornamentation exercised both in Denmark and Sweden during the period of the Iron age. From the beginning of the seventh century of our era, Ireland developed an original and exquisitely beautiful ster of or- namentation, of which numerous specimens have come down to us, both in the form of manuscripts of sacred books made by Irish‘ house of M where Davit with a worn on the bacla gave Snacng age, J osepl of tar and fl -â€"-Thougl away and e: never refuse little sister. EARLY 113 all ORNAMEN ’E‘Ifl A RERVIARK/IBLE CAREER ENDED â€"A remarkable old miser has just died in Dublin, and curiosity is rife regarding his property, which is said to be worth $500,000. The old man, whose name is Law. was a ieweler for manyyears,but for the lost fifteen or twenty years he has lived an absolutely solitary lifein a large house in lower Dom- inick street. Since his death a large num- ber of persons have come forward as relatives, and doubtless there many in America who are related to the remarkable man and might like to send in their claims at once. His house when searched was found to contain some old and curious books, a few jars ' of whiskey, many wine bottles, some empty; a great quantity of tea leaves, which he appears to have carefully preserved in basins after he had extracted all the essence from them. In the room Where he slept, and where he, probably contracted the bronchitis that caused his death, it was wonderful how a human being could exist. What served for a bed stood in one corner, and, with the exception of a very narrow passage round about it, the floor was covered with a mass of indescriba- ble rubbish, which in places reached a height of three or four feet. â€"Hell was described in detail last Sunday in Norriston, Penn, by the Rev. J. T. Hay- slett, pastor of the Mount Zion A. M. E. church. He compared it to red-hot furnaces, burning prairies and a river covered with blazing petroleum from the wreck of an oil train. Having recited the parable of Lazarus and the rich man’s vein petition for a drop of water. he cried : “ Not even a drop of water! Not in a silver cup ! Not in a china cup ! (A voice, “ No I”) Not in c gourd or calabash ! But from the tip of his finger ! You call this floor dirty now when we ask you to get down on it, but in hell you would take a drop of water from the foot of any saint in glory it you could get it. Think of it. The smallest‘ prayer cannot be answered there.” In con- clusion, he said: “There are no conveni- ences there for guests, no seats, no cushioned chairs, no carpeted rooms, only a fiery lake of fiery waves ; no windows there, no door in the prison-house of the damned 1" He urged his hearers not to go there. births, and the United Kingdom. with a popu- lation $000,000 below that of France, an ex- cess of 387,000 births. WHOLE N0. 1,085â€"NO.‘45. (New York Sun)‘ A few weeks ago in Scotland an old gentle- man named Kerr died leaving a will by which his relatives were cut off without a penny, while a fortune of £500,000 was given to his lawyer, Thomas Thow, of Dundee. Although from the close intimacy which had subsisted between Mr. Kerr and himself for many years, he would not have been surprised at being nam- ed in the will, he had no anticipation of so large a windfall, and fully expected that the rela- tions, and more particularly a cousin, Alex- ander Anderson, of Longhaugh, would have been among the legatees. On learning the nature of tbo settlement, the lawyer placed the mater unreservedly in the hands of two gentlemen, and asked them to arrange what they considered fair and equitable terms with Mr. Kerr’s next of kin. This they have now done, and all questions regarding the succes- sion have, through their intervention, been amicably arranged. Mr. Thow has in the most friendly manner accepted the same, and ratified and confirmed Mr. Kerr’s testament- ary deeds. Pope Leo XIII. has granted the title of count. to Mr. Arthur Moore,M. P., of Moore»;- fort, Ireland, of the British House of Com- mons, in recognition of his services to Catho- licity. The honorable gentleman already enjoyed rank in the Famiglia Pontifioin as Commendatore di Spadae Cappa, a title bestowed upon him by Pius IX. VVHEELING, W. V., April 2.â€"â€"'1‘he town of Farmington, Marion county, has been infest- ed some time by a. class of people selling whisky without a license and living in open adultery. Last night thirty men susposed to belong to a vigilance committee recently 01‘- ganized under the name of “ red men,” visit- ed Mrs. McGuire’s'place and threw out bar stock of whisky. They next called at the house of Mrs. Toothman, freaking the door where David Snodgrass was found in company with a woman. He was given twenty lashes on the back with a hickory rod. They also gave Snodgrass, Mrs, Toothman, J une Brum- age, Joseph Morgan and Belle Young a. coat of tar and feathers. -â€"Though the average small boy may steal away and eat a watermelon all by himself, he never refuses to divide his medicine with a In“- -14., The names of Lewis Potter, William Tay- lor,R. S. Strouaoh and Robert Slammond, four of the imprisoned City of Glasgow Bank directors. have, by order of the Lord Chan- cellor, been removed from the Commission of the Peace for Lanarkshire. The Dublin Gazette contains a proclama- tion offering a Government reward of £100 for the discovery of the person or persons who, on the 18th ult.. attempted to upset a, train on the Great Southern & Western Railway by placing a sleeper and a mil across the rails at vaoher, between Templomore and Thu.s. It is stated that since disestablishment the Church of Ireland has had fuller attend- ance. In the Diocese of Down, Connor, and Dromore there was an attendance Sun- day morning of 18,769. while in 1877 it was 32,885. In the same period the attendance at Sunday evening services has risen from 11,899 to 21,452, and collections for church purposes have increased from £5,885 (in 1863) to £14,883. The “ Arizona." the largest ship ever built on the Clyde, has been launched from the building yard of Messrs. John Elder & 00., Govan. Next to the “ Great Eastern,” she is the largest merchant vessel afloat, and is to make one of the Guion Line of steamers running between Liverpool and New York. Her gross tonnage is 5.400 ; she is to be fitted with engines of 6,000 indicated horse- power ; will carry 304 passengers, and a. dead-weight cargo (exclusive of 1,200 tons of coal) of 2,600 tons. A melancholy list, extending over six columns of small type, is in the Glasgow Herald of shareholders in the Glasgow Bank who are to he proceeded against for non-pay- ment of calls ranging from £2,000 to £15,000. The frequency of women’s names is distress- ing. Trustees are also numerous. The dispute in the Belfast building trade has been settled by goppromise. .. . A ~ v‘ -----â€" “ ny- Many workmen have arrived in Belfast from the West of England. to be employed in the works of Messrs. Rowan & Company, Belfast. Lord O‘Hagm), of Dublin, Ireland, has consented to deliver the mention on the hun- dredth anniversary of Thomas Moore’s birthday. and D. Florence McCarthy has con- sented to write the ode. A woman named: Golig‘htlywfifis just died at VVarrenpoint i? her 105th year. The fact; that there wéé figddeaih sentence pronounced in Ireland during the year past is very credible to the people 9f t‘gafi cognfify. Lord Moncreiff has accepted the presiden- cy of the Edinburgh Orphan Hospital. It is mentioned as a curious coincidence that in the year 1779 Lord Moncriefl’s grandfather Sir Henry Moncrieif. of the West Kirk, was elected a member of the corporation. At an aggregate meeting of Glasgow and Upper Clyde engineers, to discuss the hours question, it was agreed to delay consideration of the subject in the meantime, and that the men working in these establishments where the extension notices were posted be instruct- ed to work only 51 hours, by stopping half- an-hour earlier, thereby still upholding the original limit. At a recent meeting of the Glasgow School Board a statement was submitted, showing that during the five years and nine months of the existence of the Board the expenditure has amounted to the enormous sum of £697,- 074. The ninth international football match between England and Scotland came 011' at Raebum Place on the 10th inst., in presence of nearly 10,000 spectators. After a splendid game the match ended Wlth a draw each snie scoring a. goal. _ The Edinburgh U. P. Presbytery has re- commended church sessions to make collec- tions in aid of the relief fund of the City of Glgsgow Bank. For about a fortnight during the late henvy snow-storm the residents in Strathbraan. Glenquuich and Amulree were shut out from the rest of the world by snow blocks. There is a prospect’réfi £500,000 being aub- scribed as the guarantee for the Caledonian Bank, or £50,000 more than was stipulated by the banks. The foreign tonnage inwards at Greenock for the six months shows a decrease in 1878-9 of 1:25 vefisels and 76,775 tons. The-annual report of the Scottish Bible Society showed that last year the society is- sued 17,260 bibles. The experiments made in Dundee to test the electric light have produced an unfavor- ablfr opinion. Scotland. There is a serious outbreak of measles in Aberdeen. monks and in the form oi articles of metal made by artisans. At the beginning of the ninth century, Irish style reached its point of culmination. On the continent it came in contact with other styles of ornamentation, especially that developed by the Roman Catholic Church ; it is adapted foreign ideas ; the serpent, the leaf belonging to the foliage of a more southern clime, eta., it began to rdegenerate. But just from this time there ‘are several groups of Danish monuments lwhich, in their ornamentation, show a most striking resemblance to the Irish style, though they cannot by any means have been imported from Ireland. They exhibit the same fantastical animals, the heads and the paws being, in many cases, directly copied, and, more especially, the exhibit very plainly the Irish adaptation of the Roman leaf‘ motive. Also, in the merely linear ornamen- tation, in scrolls, etc, in which the Scandina- vians were not without ideas of their own, the influence of Irish models is apparent. The whole question is of considerable inter- est. . EAR AN I) FEA'I‘HE KS‘ OLD WORLD NEWS.