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The Emperor William and the Empress Augusta. Fifty Years of Wedded Life. By telegraph, our readers have already been ‘ advised of the celebration by Germany of the golden wedding of her aged Emperor Wil- helm, who on the 11th of June, 1829. was married to the Princess Augusta. There is among all the reigning monarchs in Europe not one whose half century of married life has witnessed stirring events followed by such marked changes as that of the aged Kaiser and the Kaiser-in. The relations also which existed fifty years ago between “Princes of the Blood” and the millions of subjects who still pay homage to the Hohenzollern family have also undergone a wonderful change. A HEBOIG mu. SOME INTERESTING REMINIS- ‘ CENCES. ,His nteia a history or his time from the1 humiliation of Jena to the crowning glory of Sedanâ€"not a history with which he was merely contemporary, but in much of which' he participated and in all of which he was made to suffer or rejoice. When the Emperor William was born. on the 22nd of March, 1797, he would have been a prophet indeed could he have predicted the events of the next three-quarters of a century. At that time Napoleon Bonaparte was in Italy with his bride working out the first of the remark- able series of conquests which were to make him Dictator, First Consul and Emperor. Europe had not yet learned to fear the young Corsican conqueror; but, in little more than seven years, Napoleon occupied the throne of France and all Europe was in arms against “the upsta .” Austria had been humbled at Ulm, Olmutz and Austerlitz,though assisted by the military strength of Russia. Prussia was menaced with destruction whether she remained at peace or went to war, peace being even more dangerous than war. Thus it came that Jena followed Austerlitz. Louise Muhlbach, the distinguished German novelist, in a letter she wrote just before her death, but which has been held in reserve, told that the young Prince William, though only nine years old at the time, had a very clear con- ception that the losses of his country were almost inoperable, and she adds :â€"“The tears of his mother told him how deep the wounds had penetra .” The Queen, it must be remembered, had accompanied her husband on joining the army of Jena. The battles, it not fought immediately under her, eyes, were in close promixity, and at all‘ events the Queen became an eye-witness tothe disastrous results of the struggle. She: was compelled to take flight, and the King followed almost immediately. A LESSON aamsnsnenn. Prince William Was deeply impressed, and the words thus spoken by his mother were never eflaced from his memory. He lived and acted throughout in the sense and in the spirit of those words. Probably in the midst of the pageantry at Versailles, when the King of Prussia was surrounded by crowds who did homage tohim, and. when amid a scene of splendor he was solemnly crowned as Emper- or of Germany. then probably he was remind- ed of his' good mother and of her injunctions to recover from France the lost honors of his ancestors. THE GOLDEN WEDDING. Seventy-two years have elapsed since Wil-1 liam I. was gazetted as lieutenant in his father’s first regiment of Foot Guards. Sixty-five years ago he received his first military decoration, the Cross of St. George, a Russian order exclusively bestowed for dis- tinguished valor in the field, upon the occas- sion of his charging the French at Bar-surâ€" Anbe with the Pskow cuirassiers, and subse- quently taking part in a furious encounter be- tween the Kaluga regiment and Napoleon’s Guard on the vine clad slopes of Malepin. Considerany more than half a century has passed away since be attained the rank of n ,nhgrL nvn general and was selected by Frederick Wil- liam 1111mm among the most brilliant oflicers of the army to hold the responsible office of inspector-in-ohiei oi the Prussian forces. rim Drme MOTHER. The young Princes had remained at Berlin. A special messenger brought them an order to leave the capital and pro- oeedtoSehwedt, in Pommerania, and there await their mother, the Queen.‘ A distressing scene occurred when mother and children met. “Children, we are lost ! Our Fatherland is lost-Pf cried the poor Queen ; and then she proceeded to narrate the whole extent of their misfortunes and the danger still pending. "You find me in tears,” she continued. “I weep over the ruin of our house, and de- plore the annihilation of our glory and the- reeollection of ancestors and their generals, who have established that glory of the house of Hohenaollern. Prussia has been ruined. We have no Fatherland. We have no army. You, my children, have not yet reached the age fully to understand the gravity of events. But never forget this hour of sorrow. and when your afflicted mother is no more among the living recall to your memory this hour ; recall to your minds the distress which these events have caused to your mother, and, for her sake. when opportunity offers, make every endeavor, to act and spare not your- selves in developing all your energies in order to atone for the shame and humiliation‘ which France has heaped upon us. The day will come when you may have it in your power to disperse the dark clouds which now, overhang our destiny and overshadow the glory of our arms. Your grand-father, the great ‘Kurfurst,’ was enabled at Fehrbellin to re- venge the humiliation inflicted on Prussia by Sweden. You will undoubtedly have like opportunities. When that opportunity is at hand profit by it, act mmfuuy, and in a manner becoming our house." rim mans mo. Itwas curious, in view of the ceremonies to-day, to revert to the occasion, fifty years ago, when the hand of Princess Augusta, second daughter of the Duke of Saxony, was first asked for Prince William, second son of Frederick William III. of Prussia, whose body rests in the beautiful mausoleum at Charlottenburg. On the 13th of February, 1829. the Prussian Ambassador of the Grand Ducal Court appeared there at a special audience, granted not only by Karl Frederick himself, but by the Grand Duchess Marie Paulowna and the Great Grand Duchess Louise. Court etiquette and pomp in Ger- many were even more exacting than now; and the Ambassador delegated to do the pre- liminary courting had a stiff and stately task. It was favorably accomplished, however, and young William was hidden to come and com- mm riser MEETING. Princess Louise Catharine Augusta of Sexe- Weimar was then sixteen years old. The poet Goethe, who knew her well, had spoken of her as an “amiable and ihteresting lady.” Wilhelm von Humboldt wrote about her to Stein 2â€"“Her very look shows a. penetrating mind. and in a few years she cannot fail to develop into an imposing figure.” The Prince was thirty years old at the time, and he at mice showed a marked interest in the Princess M39899» plate his suit. Next day .he arrivedâ€"looking how different from the grey old Emperor who is now receiving his golden honors 1 Young, handsome and sprightly, he set in the carri- age drawn by six horses that were sent to him at the frontier, with an expression of eager expectancy and impatience strongly in contrast with the staid countenance of his elder companion, the Saxon General You Mufiiing. In his train in other carriages, which followed fest, were the Prussian Major General Von Brause, Colonel Von Lutzow, Msjor Von Gerhch and the Court Counsellor, Bork. Immediately on his arrival the Prince asked to seethe Grand Duchess, who grati- fied his wish and presented him to his future ride. Their meeting proved most agreeable. and there is a story that, in violafion of all the proprieties of the time, the Prince succeeded in leading the Princess to one side of the as- sembled noblesse and saying a few words to her in a downright lover’s way. The next morning brought Prince William’s elder brother, the Crown Prince, whom the bride- groom was destined to supplant upon the German throne, and who represented the King at the formal betrothal which took place on the following morning. Although the Saxon Court was still in mourning for the mother of the Grand Duchessâ€"the Empress Maria Feodorowna of Russiaâ€"black costumes were dismissed. The castle took on its bright- est habit. At noon, in the apartments of the Great Grand Duchess, widow of Karl August, and in the presence of all the relatives of both the parents, the ceremony of betrothal was gone through with in much the same manner as that of the betrothal of the elder sister of the bride with the third son of Frederick William’III two years before. run Paxndnss movers. It was while the young couple were enjoy- ing finselves at the Hague in 1830 that the news the July revolution in France first reached them. White sharing the political and military vicissitudes of her husband’s life the Queen Augusta devoted the greater part of her time in patronizing the arts and in . beautifying especially some-of the Rhine pro- ‘ ‘ vinces,,and throughout her career she gave ample evidence of being the worthy daughter ‘ of the art-loving parents of Weimar. It was, I however, during her residence at Coblentz. * where the inhabitants always used to call her “our Princess,” that she led a life exclusively devoted to art and educational matters. Fritz was then at the University of Bonn, and Augusta's entire mind was concentrated, not only on beautifying the city, but in personally superintending the education of her daughter. Young ladies of the first families of the town were continually invited to visit the palace, and became companions and playmates of Augusta‘s single daughter. She even went so far as to cause the teachers of her daughter to accept some of the townspeople’s children as their pupils so as to increase the friend- ship between the young princess and her companions. With military precision. how- ever, did she control the various occurrences of her household. At the very minute pre- viously decided upon did the lessons begin, so. also, the hours for promenade and for meals were scrupulously observed. A little pet dog to which the little princess was de- votedly attached always accompanied them on their walks, and when in later years the princess got married and received her trousseau this pet animal was not for- gotten and also received a nicely embroidered basket comfortably wadded and blanketed. At the numerous country fairs along the Rhine Queen Augusta would frequently be seen making personally numerous purchases for her two children. ‘dfl‘ O NH“ tâ€"AAAm Hatâ€"dam Theirmarriage is blessed with two children, the Crown Prince Henry William. who was born on the 18th of October, 1831, and the Prin- cess Louise, now Grand Dutchess of Baden ; and if the Emperor could not always be a ten- der husband he was ever a lovmg father. The family life of the august pair has been one of the finest and most pleasant sights. In the circle of his family, surrounded by hls children and later on by his grandchildren, all clouds have disappeared from between the Emperor and Empress. There everything is gayety and harmless enjoyment. As King the never disdained to be a child with the children, to play hide and seek with them and join just as heartily as a child in their loud and hearty laughter. Mementoes of these past times are to be seen in the apartments of the Emperor. In the small room ‘ dev oted to mementos there are many beautig ful, precious, as well as simple articles, among which are to be found the children‘s toys, and now half rotten Easter eggs, which his children' had presented to him; also small and simple gifts which had been presented to the Prince by poor but grateful people. He did; not despise these humble offerings of a grateful people, but gave them all a resting place in his apart- ments. The bitter feeling against the Chinese con. tinuea in British Columbia. "The water at the mouth of the Red River is geported very_ few qt pgegent. _ V lingo quafitity of phatoes from the In- dian Reserve at the Assiniboine is being brought igto Rapig ngy.“ A {law ferry ai Soutfi Emerson is in good working order. There are now ix ferries within six miles from Emerson. The crew have arrived to work the new steamer Northcote, which has been built to run between Grand Rapids and Carla- ton. ‘ A profitable trade in the importation of horses has sprung up between British Colum- bia. and some of the Western States. The Police Inspector of Victoria, B. 0.. having given an order for police clothing to a. Chinese firm, the City Council rescinded the order. A dairy farm is to be started at Ridge Set- tlement, where there are the advantages 0 good feed, good water, and convenient h market. Mr. E. Davis, of Seaforth, Huron 00.. at- rived at Emerson last week with two car loads of cattle, consisting of 41 cows and 16 young calves. Mr. William Jefferson, of Greenwood, re- cently hot 9. white pelican six feel: in length angrninAe feet frpm tip _tq tip of_the_win_gs. The first sawing machine in the Province of Manitoba has been started by the Winnipeg Fuel Company, and cuts between 60 and 70 cords of wood per day. Claim-jumping and claim-buying in the Pembina. Mountain district are now very active, some claims having lately changed hands for $1,000. with but slight unprove- menta. . A herd of wild cattle belonging to Mr. J. Reid, of Fort Saskatchewan, has Wintered out with very little 1035, although the snow has been very deep and the weather exceptionally severe. Work is being pushed rapidly on the Emerson branch of the C. P. R. The party engaged in building the culverts started at Winnipeg, and by the first of this month had reached Rat River, and the piles had been driven for some distance on the Emerson side of the river. Nelsonville, Pembina. Mountains, now has two general stores, two furniture shops, two shoe shops, two hotelsâ€"the Mountain House and Belmont Hotelâ€" two blecksmith shops, a medical hell, 9. land olfice and a. Methodist parsonage, besides several dwelling houses either finished or in course of erection. ' A party consisting of J. Mijeau, Couteure, Fife], ands. man employed by Mijeau, left Edmonton, N. W. P., with picked horses on the 3rd, to mine on the MacLeod River, about 130 miles west of here, on the Gang.- dian Pacific Railroad line. They take seven months” provisions, and expect to make $1 a. day. - From the let of June to the end of October last 257 settlers took up homesteads and pre- emptions at the Land Office at Little Saskat- chewan, and 160,000 acres were sold. There has been a. great deal of land taken since Oe- toher, and in the months of April and May there was nearly as much located as there was during the rest of the summer. The people are beginning to rush in this spring, although the snow is still on the ground. Gus, the Bow River mail carrier who left Edmonton with the mail about the 12th of March, had a tough trip. His horse gave out at the One Pine, near the edge of the woods, about seventy miles from the Elbow. He left the horse and mail there and started on foot to cross the seventy miles of bare plain. On his way he got snow blind, and when found he was on Nose'Creek, which comes into the Bow River at the Elbow;’ following the ice down. He had been three days without food and two nights without fire. The mail was subsequently brought in and forwarded to Fort McLeod. ' ' " ’ OUR FAR WEST PROVINCES. TEE EMPEnon’s FAMILY. â€"A farmer on the shores of Lake Ontario has had nine acres washed away in twenty years. He is evidently losing ground. â€"The jail at San Antonia, Texas, contains six murderers under sentence of death. â€"Reana luxurians, a new grass lately im- ported into Ceylon from Java, attains to a height of eight feet in three months. It is full of saccharine matter, and horses and cattle like it. â€"Gteat excitement is caused in French and Dutch Guiana by extraordinary finds of gold lately, and a deposit of lead and sil- ver has been discovered on the Thames River. New Zealand. -Mr. Henry Bessemer, thefamous engine- neer and metallurgiat has received the honor of knighthood. He has taken out more than a. hundred patents, and paid Che crown £20,000 in stamp! alone. â€"A Sheffield manufacturer has been con- demned to pay $75 for telling an employs when he asked for more pay that “he was a second Peace," and that he had stolen 32 gross of knives. â€"The fool and his money gather no moss. â€"Bufiala Express. Which suggests that a rolling stone is soon departed.â€"-Philadelphia Bulletin. And that the setting hen. unlike her sisters, is not a. rooster. â€"-Half of the hair and heard of a. man in Springfield, Mass., has turned grey. while the other half retains its natural color. The di- viding line of the beard is in the middle of the chin, and on the head it is immediately over the nose. â€"â€"Riehard Miles, a Liverpool newsvendor, at Birkenhead, has been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining twopence by falsely representing that newspapers which he sold for that sum certain news which the purchas- er did not find in them. â€"Two little Pittsburg girls, playing in an unoccupied house, inadvertently locked them- selves in a. cupboard. After they had been imprisoned twenty-two hours, a chance visi- tor heard their cries. They were half dead from suffocation and exhaustion. â€"â€"Anthony Dobsou has been committed to the Assizee at Leeds on the charge of attempt- ing to murder the High Bailiff of the County Court of that town. The accused had placed blasting powder and lucifer matches under the High Bailifl’s seat in the court. â€"A glass muff, white and curly ; glass hats for ladies, with glass feathers; glass wool, not to be distinguished from the genu- ine, and quite as warmâ€"being a non-conduc- tor ; glass carpets, cuffs, collars, veils and dresses are the novelties introduced by Mr. A. Prengle, glass artist and spinner, Vienna. -â€"There are several young men in Eng- land to-day who may at any moment take up a newspaper and learn that they have jumped from a. few hundreds to many thou- sands a year by a Zulu’s spear going through an elder brother. There must be difii cult conflict of emotion in such cases. â€"â€" It is reported that the belles of the pres- ent season in London are Lonsdale, Lady Maud eville and Mrs. Puget, the last two Americans and all three married ladies. The girls of the period are to be pitied. Notw ithing the efforts attributed to them to enha nee their charms,the young frisky ma- trons carry all before them. â€"-The imports of colonial wool into Eng- land have doubled during the last fifteen years, and now amount to about 400,000,000 pounds. Half-oi this is re-exported to the Continent. The home clip of this once staple commodity of Englandâ€"on which the Lord Chancellor is supposed to be seated â€"â€"is now the great secondary importance. -â€"The practice of striking young girls on the soles of their feet in the Turkish Sultan’s harem has been abandoned, but blows from the eunuchs in charge of them on other por- tions of the body with light rods are still al- lowed. All are required to dress in light clothing, half decollete being the rule, and id winter they are much exposed to colds ann lung diseases. â€"“ Thirty pounds.” said an apothecary of Ilchester, Dorset. when examined before an election committee of the House of Com- mons, “is the price of an Ilchester voter." When asked how he came to know the sum so accurately he replied that he attended voters‘ families, and his bills were paid with money received at election. Ilohester has ong been disfrenchised. -â€"It is stated that the Countess of Lone- dale’s photograph (on the sale of which it is freely reported that she has received aroyalty) has at length been withdrawn from London shop windows. This is likely to have been at the instance of her brother, Lord Pem- broke, who refused to attend the wedding. and to whom the doings of her husband and herself have been matter for unmitigated die- disgust: â€"It is easy enough. Suppose you have mailed a letter in your coal: pocket and car- ried it there three weeks. Sit doWn and write: “ You will observe by the date of the within, my dear mother-in-law, that Eliza forgot to hand it to me until today. It has been banged around in the bureau drawer, and is rather soiled in consequence. I must talk to Eliza. She is getting more careless and forgetful every day." â€"Dr. Bledsoe, the principle dentist [in Shelbyville, Ind., made Mrs. Billman insen- sible with chloroform prepartpry to pulling out one of her teeth. She says that she re- gained consciousness, and found that the Doctor, instead of attending to business, was kissing her; that he gave her more chloro- form, and when she again‘ woke the tooth had been extracted. Dt.Bledsoe declares that the kissing was entirely imaginary. The dispute is the subject of a judicial investi- gation. â€"It is understood, says the Leeds Mercury, theta general order has been issued by the Home Secretary to exclude reporters in future from executions. The effect of this general order, under which, we presume. the Sherifi of York is acting, is to give a secret character to executions, and in the interests of the public, as well as on behalf of the condemned, we feel called upon to enter a respectful but firm protest against such a step. -â€"-It is a custom in some parts of Russia to hire generals to give dignity to wedding feasts. This occurs chiefly among the middle classes, who take pride in parading their acquaintance with members of the upper class. The cost of hiring a general varies from five silver roubles upwards, according to the grade and decorations. The arrangement binds him to come in full uniform, and to remain for a fixed period. The general is very apt to get drunk on such occasions. â€"The fortune which the late Robert Craw- shay. of Wales. inherited was begun by Rich- ari meshay, a London iron merchant, who made his first transaction in trade by selling a pony for fifteen pounds, which be invested in flatirons. When his son William died he was looked upon as the richest Commoner in England, having amassed a property of 335.- 000,000. The present William Crewshay. of the Forest of Dean. has $20,000,000. There is a rumor that Robert Crawshay was ofiered $5,000,000 for his Gyfartha. works, but that he refused to sell at that price, demanding $1,250,000 more. â€"When the Zulus rushed in on the small British detachement of 001. Wood, and while there was yet an open road in one di- rection, Col. Weathersby, an English cav- alry oflicer. clapped his son, a boy of 13 who was with him, on horseback, kissed him, and told him to fly for life. The lad jumped from the saddle, striking the horse a lush which sent it galloping off, and said : “Father, I’ll die with you.” The father handed his re- volver to the child just as the Zulus reached, over British bodies, the spot where they stood. Whethersby slew five anus before he tell, but the son was killed at once. â€"â€"A terrible'story of life in the streets of London was told at an inquest at Charing Cross Hospital, on the body of a child four months old. The mother, s. flower-seller: stated that her husband had gone into the WORLD WIDE NEWS. country, owing to his being unable to pay fo 9. hawker’s license, and during his absence she had earned a. few pence a day by selling flowers. On Wednesday she had no money to pay either for a lodging or for food, and sat down on a door step at night and went to sleep. Her child died in her arms. The wo- man bore an excellent character. The jury returned a verdict of death from stern.- tion. â€"The idea of cutting a. ship canal through the Isthmus of Panama. is at least three and a-half centuries old. Philip II. of Spain had a. route carefully surveyed by some Flemish engineers, but never pushed the matter. Peter Heylin, an English writer, in e geo- graphical treatise, published in Oxford in the early part of the seventeenth century, ob- serves that “ many have mentioned to the Councill of Speine the cutting of snavigable chennell through this small Istmus, so to shorten our common voyages to China. and the Moluccoes. But the Kings of Spaine have ,not hitherto attempted it, partly because if he should imploy the Americans in the worke, he should loose these few of them which his people have suffered to live ; partly because the slaves which they yearer buy out of Africa doe but sufiice for the mines and sugar houses ; but principally lest, the passage by the Cape of Good Hope being left, those seas might become a receptacle of Pyrats.” And he gravely argues, as n concluding reason why the canal had never been constructed, that God is “ not pleased at such proud and haughty enterprises.” â€"â€"Very diflerent customs prevail in different countries and ages. The civilized man hardly resembles the savage in any particular. In some cases men turn right about face as they advance in the social scale. and do as Chris- tians what they would never think of doing as savages. Among the Zulus, for example, the mother-in-law moves in a very circumscribed circle. She is not permitted to make any criticisms of household afiairs, nor even to look on the face of her son-in-law. When he appears she plays a kind of hide and seek, and never feels free while he is in the house. ‘How difierent are our modern ways ! Now if anybody plays hide and seek it is the son- in-law, and if there is any one on the foot- stool whom he fears it is the dignified and autocratic mother of his beloved wife. An impartial observer of aflairs sometimes wonders whether the 015. custom is not better than the new, and whether we have really made any progress in this particular matter. [From the London Globe] .nm A very curious bit of romance comes to us in a gossiping letter from an ancient city in the west of England. It appears that an old tradesmen of that place, who had for some time been sufiering from the effects of a par- alytic stroke, came to London a few months ago for the benefit of his health, and in a few weeks married the landlady of the house in which he lodged. He made a marriage set- tlement and a will in favor of his new wife, altogether ignoring his children by a former marriage. In a few weeks the old man died, and there the matter would have ended but ‘for some very extraordinary after circum- ; stances. One of the executors of the willâ€"â€"a legal gentleman in Londonâ€"went down to the city for the purpose of attending to the trusts under the will, and in looking over the papers of the deceased discovered that several years ago the latter would have inherited property of the now estimated value of about £80,000 if there had not been a “missing link”â€"the marriage certificate of his grand- father and garndmotherâ€"in his pedigree. Ne proof whatever of this marriage could be found, and so all expectation of ever aquiring the property had vanished from the mind of the deceased. The executor, having leisure on his hands and being interested in the at- fair, set about making inquires and searches in the matter, the result being that last week the proofs of the marriage were discovered at a village church some few miles distant. The question now remains to be settled whether the propert goes to the widowâ€"the old man’s sole eir â€"or to the heir-at-lawâ€"his eldest son. Whether the widow’s claim is barred by the statute of limitations or not is a question that will have to be settled by the judges at Westminster. It would be a fitting climax to the story of this large property, by a single stroke of the pen by an old and feeble man, should be diverted from his children and his family into the hands of one who was 3 total stranger to him six months before his eath. At the Toronto Conference, the following report from the Committee on Memorials was prepented and adepteq :_ A On amusements-and church entertainments the Committee recommended the adoption of the follgwing : 1. That the Conference is fully persuaded thatthe pleasure dance and card-playing are inconsistent with the spirit and teaching of our holy religion, that their associations and tendency are only evil continually, and that no member of the Methodist Church can consistently countenance or patronize these amusements. 2. That the superintendent minister is re- sponsible for the character of the programmes submitted at all meetingsheld in our churchmens and that we deprecate the introduction of comic readings and songs therein as incompe- tible with the sanctity associated with all places of public worship. 3. That notices of motion not connected with our regular Church work, not with any of the Christian enterprises of the day, ought net to be announced from our pulpits. 4. Funeral services.â€"The Committee re- commend that all our ministers and preachers be instructed to discourage the practice which prevails in certain localities on funeral'occe- sions, viz., that of unseemly departure from the rules of our discipline on public worship, especially the rule which indicates the Scrip- tural attitude during prayer. 6. Emigration to Manitoba.â€"In reference to the fact that large numbers of our people are emigrating to Manitoba and the North- west, we recommend our Ministers to fur- nish them with credentials of their church membership, as the discipline of the church provides. ' 7. Class Meetings.â€"The Committee 1e- commends a vigorous and judicious enforce- ment of the existing rule on the subject. METHODIST RULES 0F CONDUCT How many of you straight-laced ladies, who so savagely condemn the actress without re- commendation to mercy, would pass scathe- less through the ordeal to which she is sub- jected, the temptations by which she is sur- rounded ? To be homely in mind and face, without beauty or wit ; to be born and reared and coddled in all the respectabilities and conventionalities ; to be watched so carefully that you could never find the opportunity of going astray, even if you desired it :â€"in short, to develop into an immaculate matron, is not such a marvelous matter to congratu- late yourself upon. But to be born altogether out of the ortho- doxes, left to your own wild will ; to be poor, beautiful and brilliant, to see the handsomest men in the land sighing at your feet, doing homage to your talents as well as to your face, and then to come out of the fire un~ soathed, as many an actress has done and will doâ€"then lady, you have earned the right to look down upon one who has not beet; blesged with your power of resistance. Bigoted asceticism revels in those gloomy pictures in which the shadows are unnatu- rale deepened, and the lights are omitted ; but gentle moralists might draw from that same source the brightest examples of noble self-devotion, undaunted preseverance, and divine charityâ€"Lights of the Old English Stage. -â€"It is proposed to Imitate the New York elexgned railway system along the Liverpool doc s. A Question in Lawâ€"A Legacy 0! $400,- 000. Important Resolution. Adopted A STRANGE BO RANGE, STAGE L] FE. Bria-l Presents. Caterers for bridal parties, in search of some new things, should see the bridal menus now becoming fashionable in south Germany. I have beheld one, received from Stuttgart last week, used on the occasion of a marriage of two sisters, one of whom married an oflioer while the other linked herself to an ironmas- ter. It is a card of pretentious size, nearly eleven inches square. On either side of it are etchings of the bridegrooms engaged in their respective pursuits ; at the bottom is the church wherein the ceremony was performed; at the top, mingled with hymeneal emblems, are small photos of the four most interested parties, and in the centre stands the native home of the brides, around which are grouped the menu and programme of music perform- ed by the military band on the occasion. It: is not, perhaps, every bridegroom who would care to be drawn engaged in his favorite busi- ness pursuit, and some brides might even object to a counterfeit presentment of the houses in which they were born. True Politenes- Mrs. Livermore recently related the fol- lowing incident, which .illustrates perfectly the charming kindness and regard for others, feelings in which true politeness consists: ‘ my honor. wen Hm wwwmmmw spasm. “ I was once the recipient of a very marked politeness. When I was in London my hus- band and I received a verbal invitation from Lady Vilas, whom I had met ' once or twice pleasantly, to come to her house next evening and meet a few friends of hers. We accepted and went. But I was deceived by the infor- mality of the invitation and supposed it was merely to meet half a dozen neighbors or in- timate friends of hers. So we went out riding in the afternoon, stopping there on our way back to the hotel. Judge of my amazement to find the house illuminated and a very large and brilliant party assembled in full dress in 1 There I was in a plain carriage 1 dress, bonnet. black gloves. I went into the 1 house and to the ladies’ dressing-room, J whence I sent a note to the hostess saying ; that I had misapprehended her invitation - and was not in appropriate costume. She 1 ran up and reassured me by telling me they ‘ had come to see me and didn’t care for the dress, and carried me right down with her. , All in full dress the ladies without hats, and , hair elaborately dressed. I with brown dress, bare hands, bonnet on. I soon recovered the self-possession which the faua: pas some- what disturbed, and was greeted with splen- did cordiality. In a few minutes Mr. Liver- more edged around behind me andwhisperedlz “ Don’t you think, Mary. that all these ladies had on white kids when you came in 7" I looked around and they were all bare-handed ! Moreover,I observed that half a dozen had bonnets on. This half a dozen ra- idly in- creased, till we were in the majority, lhd I soon discovered that no lady who arrived after I did had removed her hat. Now, that is what I call politeness." The londhion ol Women. The ages of animal passions, of muscular supremacy, the conflict with wild animals, of barbarian warriorsâ€"in short, the ages of physical prowess, when the only ordeal was one of muscleâ€"belonging indisputably to man. The subserviency of woman was one of the conditions of progress in those rude phases of human existence. But it does not follow that this will always be the case. It is a generally recognized principle that the steping- stones of one generation are likely to become the stumbling-blocks of a succeeding one ; and Mr. Spencer even uses the argument of a presumptive evidence against opinions which have arisen in a barbarous age. Legouve says :â€"“ The protracted subjection of wo- man proves but one thing, that the world so far has had more need of the dominant quali- ties of man, and that her hour has not yet come. We have no reason to conclude from this fact that it will not come.” And he fortifies his position with the following strik- ing illustration :-“ How many centuries did i it take to produce this simple maxim of com- l mon sense, ‘all men are equal 3 efore the law ?’ The tardy advent of an idea, so far from proving its usefulness and fallacy. is often an argument in favor of its grandeur. The principles of liberty, charity, fraternity, are all modern principles.” It remains for these principles to become still further modernized by their extension to women as a part of the human family. Their co-existence, with certain curious “ survivals” from the ages of muscle, supplies a striking example of the remarkable tolerance of the average human mind for in- congruous ideas, provided these ideas have been associated for a sufficient length of time. In England. until the reign of William and Mary, women were refused the benefit of clergy, and in the time of Henry VIII. an English Parliament prohibited the reading of the New Testament in English by “ women and others of low estate.” The male Mo- hammedan to day indignantly rejects the idea that his female companion, as well as himself, may have a soul. Among the Hindoos women are still excluded from the advantages of reading and writing, and, with a few exceptions, the higher institutions of learning are everywhere still monopo- lized by the more muscular sex. That these facts (gathered from widely separated ages and countries) harmonize in spirit and princi- ple, thus revealing a common origin, scarcely needs to be pointed out; the laws of here- dity and descent are therein conspicuously illustrated, and, as between men and women, the age of muscle still exists.-â€"W¢stmimter Review. On the threshold of summer nature profiers us this, her virgin fruit. Let me not be afraid of overprsising it, but probe and probe for words to hmt its surprising virtues. We may well celebrate it with festivals and music. It has that indescribable quality of all first thingsâ€"that shy, uncloying. provoking. barbed sweetness. It is born of the copious dews, the fragrant nights, the tender skies, the plentiful rains of the early season. It is the product of liquid May, touched by the June sun. It has the tartness, the brisknesa, the unruliness of spring and the aroma and in- tensity of summer. Then the delight of “picking” wild berries ! It is one of the flagrant memories of boyhood. You stoop low. You part away the grass and the daisies. and would lay here the inmost secrets of the meadow. Everything is yet tender and succulent ; the very air is bright and new; the warm breath of the meadow comes up in your face; to your knees you are in a sea of clover ; from your knees up you are in a sea of solar light and warmth. Now you are prostrate likes. a swimmer ; then like a. devotee before a. shrine, your rosary strung with luscious berries ; anon you are a. grazing Nebuchednezzar or an artist taking an in- vert ed view of the landscape. Then the delight in the abstract and in the concrete, of strolling and lounging about the June meadows; of lying in pickle for half a day or more in this pastoral sea. laved by the great tide, shone upon by the virile sun, drenched to the very marrow of your being, with the warm and wooing influences of the young eummer.-â€"â€"Locusts and Wild Honey. I send you a number of recipes received from an English lady friend. The one for the Yorkshire pudding she procured at Dur- ham, England, and it is now the first pub iished in America : . POTATO Pornâ€"Take two cupfnls of cold mashed potatoes and stir into it two table- spoons of melted butter, beat to a. white cream before adding anything else ; then put with this two eggs whipped very light, and a. teacnpful of cream or milk, salting to taste. Beat all well, pour into a deep dish. and bake in a quick oven until it is nicely browned. If well beaten, it will come from the oven light and puffy. MACARONX A LA CnEME.â€"Ceokthe macaroni 10 minutes in boiling water, drain, and add a. cupful of milk, with a little salt ; stew until tender. In another saucepan heat a cup of milk to boiling, thicken with a. teaspoon of flow or com-starch, a. tablespoon of butter, and lastly a beaten egg ; when this thickens THE FAMILY CIRCLE. Recipes in and out of Season. Slra wherriei. pour over the macaroni after it is dished This is a simple dessert, eaten with butter, sugar, or sweet sauce. If served with meat, grgte cheese thickly over it. 03mm Guamâ€"One pint of water, one- heif cup of butter, five ;eggs and two teacups of flour. Boil the water and butter together, stir in the flour while boiling (first wetting it), let cool ; add the eggs one at a time with- out beeting, but stirring the mixture thoroughly. rl‘hen add one cup of cold water. Drop from a spoon upon a hot pan, and bake quickly in a. hot oven. When cool fill them, cutting open upon the side. 03mm FOB anmmâ€"One-half cup flour, two eggs, one cup of sugar, one pint of milk; boil the milk. Stir the flour, eggs and sugar together, and pour into the mixture the boil- ing milk, stirring briskly ; add 9. little salt and flour to taste. This is the filling for the cakes and is very fine. ‘ SPONGE PUDDING.â€"â€"One cup of sweet milk, five tablespoons of butter, four eggs, six tablespoons of sugar, two cups oi flour, two teaspoons of baking powder; steam one hour. One-half the rule makes a good-sized pud- ding. This is a nice pudding. CREAM SPONGE CAKE.â€"Three eggs, one tea- cup of sugar, two tablespoons of cold water, one and one-half cups of flour, one teaspoon of baking powder; beat all well together, and bake as jelly cake : the following with cream boil one pint of milk, stir in a large table- spoon of corn starch dissolved in cold milk, two eggs, hall a cup of sugar, and a large tea- spoon of butter ; flavor as you wish. Grated cocoanut put in the cream improves it greatly. This is an extra cake. Yonxsmun on Enemsnum’s PUDDINGâ€"T0 BE EATER wrm ROAST BEEF. One pint of milk, a little salt, and flour to make a. thick batter, and one egg well beaten. The secret of suc- cess and relish of the dish is to have it baked in the dripping-pan with your beef, or in a smaller dish, dipping over it while baking the drippings from the toasting beef. The old English way of baking was to have your ‘beef or pork, or whatever meat you might have. fastened up on skewers over the drip- pingâ€"pen, and when nearly done, the better for pudding poured under the meat mto the juice item the same; 20 minutes should be time enough to bake it. The surface should be brown and crisp. Ponx Plumâ€"Another correspondent says. I am a larmer’s wife and as Ihave plenty of pork and potatoes, I will give a recipe for making a potato-pork pie. It makes a good dinner for a farmer‘s table. Take pork that is not very fat, cut the pieces quite small ; don't have it too salt ; slice your potatoes as you would to fry and put them into a kettle to- gether and cook them two-thirds (lone ; make your crust the same as for chicken pie, and butter and pepper ; put it in the crust and ‘bake an hour. Hanging 1,000 Feet Above the Arkansas Bnplds.â€"lfll llalr Turning White In an flour 0! Mortal Peril. (From the Denver Times.) Charles May and his brother Robert, in the spring of 1870, oflered to pass 60.000 railroad ties down the Arkansas from the mountain source. He says : “ Our offer was accepted. when we started into the upper entrance of the canon with a large skifl provided with six days' provisions and 200 feet of rope, with which, by taking a running turn around some fimly planted object,we could lower our boat a hundred feet at a time. In this way, at the end of three days, having set adrift many hundred ties, we reached the entrance to the Royal Gorge. Here we discovered that an attempt to descend the first waterfall with two in the boat was certain destruction, and to return was impossible. Accordingly I determined to lower my brother down the fall in the boat, a distance of 200 feet, gave him the rope and let him take the chance of the canon (life seemed more certain in that direction), while I would risk my physical ability to climb the canon wall, which was about 2,000 feet high. “ About 10 o'clock in the morning I shook hands with my brother, lowered him in the boat safely to the foot of the fall, gave him the rope and saw him no more. Then throwing aside my coat. hat, and boots, and stripping the socks from my feet, I commenced my climbing way, often reaching the height of one or two hundred feet,only to be compelled to return to try some other way. At length, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I reached a height upon the smooth canon wall of about a thousand feet. Here my further progress was arrested by a shelving ledge of rock that jutted out from the canon side a foot or more. To advance was without hope ; to return. certain death. Reaching upward and outward. I grasped the rim of the ledge and then with the other, my feet slipped from the smooth side of the canon, and my body hung suspended in the air a thousand feet above the roaring waters of the Arkansas. “ At that moment I looked downward to measure the distance I would have to fall when the strength of my arms gave out. A stinging sensation crept through my hair as my eye caught the strong root ofa cedar bush that projected out over the ledge, a little beyond my reach. My grasp upon the rim of the ledge was fast yielding to the weight of my person. Then I determined to make my best efiort to raise my body and throw it side- ways toward the root so as to bring it within my grasp. At the moment of commencing the effort I saw my mother’s face as she leaned out over the ledge. reached down her hand and caught me by the hair. Stranger, my mother died while yet a young woman, when I and my brother were small boys, but I re- member her face. I was successful in making the side leap of my arms. whenI drew myself upon the ledge and rested for a time. From here upward my climbing way was laborious, but less dangerous. I reached the top of the canon just as the sun was sinking down be- hind the snowy range, and hastened:to our camp at the mouth of the canon, where I found my brother all safe. ‘ Charley,’ said he ‘ have you had your head in a flour sack ?‘ It was then I discovered that my hair was as white as you see it now.” The Detroit Free Press funny man lays down the following rules : Don’t attempt to hold the bow in both bapds whpn you shopt. V WWhen you miss the target and plow a. fur~ row along a boy's scalp tally two, one for. the scalp rand one (or ghe boy. 7 71f you shth over the target lower it. If you shoot under it have it elevated. Either close both eyes or keep both open when you shoot. Some favor one method and some the other, but odds in the difference as long as your father employs a. glazier by the month. Daft attempt a. curve-shot. The arrow is as up: to come down on the baby’s head as elsewhere. Some girls squint one eye and hang out their tongue when they pull the bow. This is not absolutely necessary to a line shot, thgqgh it does look romantic. ,fi, 7,0,, , There is no particular distance to be ob- served, but the nearer the target you stand the more chance you have of hitting some oneacross the street in _the eye. A centre shot is called a “ dufler” ; missing the target is termed a " lone hand” ; hitting the horse-barn is known as s “ phoopee” ; missing the barn and shooting your aum’s spectacles off her nose is called a “ Tom- tom” ; shooting across a young man’s shoul- der is known as “ snufiies" ; sitting down and shooting backwards over your head is known' as “ blufling the game,” and holding a spy- glsss up to get a. line shot is called “ mashing the mark." â€"Prof. Tyndall says that in Edison's tele- phone there is no action which men of science would not at one time have pronounced pos- sible in theory but impossible of realization and a mere dream. It was through experi- mental iact alone that so great things had been brought about. â€"After Tom Sanders of Decatur, Ala” had dreamed three nights in succession that he could subsist 40 days and nights without food. he concluded to keep the fast, but failed at we end of 88 days, when he died. MAY’! TERRIBLE SUSPENSE. ARCHERY. In the course of an interesting and instruc- tive lecture recently delivered by Mr. Cumber- land Hill, chaplain of St. Cuthbert’s Combin- ation Poorhouse, Edinburgh, on the “ 01d Tolbooth of Edinburgh,” the trial of Wm. Brodie, Deacon of the Incorporation of Wrights and Masons, Edinburgh, for breaking into the Excise Ofice (then in Chessel’s Court, Canongate) on the 5th March, 1788, his conviction, and subsequent execution were graphically sketched by the lecturer. Brodie, it was stated by Mr. Hill, was execut- ed at the “Luckenbooths,” Edinburgh, on 1st Oct. 1788, and he was the first that proved the excellence of an improvement he had formerly made on the apparatus of the gibbet. This was the substitution of what is called- the “drop” for the ancient practice of the double ladder. He inspected the thing with a critical and professional air, and seemed to view the result of his ingenuity with a smile of satisfaction. The executioner did' not adjust the r( pe properly while he stood upon the 0 insecure pedestal, and at this Brodie showed his displeasure. When at last the rope was pro perly adjusted, his courage did not forsake him ; on the contrary, he even then exhibited a sort of levity, looked g9.in around, and finally went out of the world with his hand stuck carelessly in the open front of his vest. A short time prior to his execution Brodie addressed a letter to the then Lord Provost of the city, requesting that his body might be given to his friends as soon as possible after his death. It was accordingly handed ‘ over to them afterhanging the due time, was immediately placed in a cart, and in all haste driven down the High street, across the north bridge, along Princess street, round by the back of the Castle, up the lawnmarket’s to Brodie’s workshop, where some of his workmen were in Waiting. The idea of all this was that possibly the jolting of the cart might have the effect of restoring animation, as many years before had been done in the case of Margaret Dickson, who was executed (so at least it was thought) for child murder, and who at an after period was well-known on the streets of Eainburgh as a vendor of fish by the sobriquet of “ Halihangit Maggie.” 'l‘IIE INVENTOR 0F 'I‘RE “ DROP â€"-l’l‘! FIRST VlC'l‘lNI. From the London Lancet. At the last meeting of the Royal Society. Dr. Richardson demonstrated the action of a new invention of his own. which he calls the sphygmophone, and by which he transmutes the movements of the arterial pulse into loud telephonic sounds. In this apparatus the needle of a Pond’s sphygmograph is made to traverse a metal or carbon plate which is con- nected which the zinc pole of a Leclanche cell To the metal stem of the sphygmograph is then attached one terminal of the telephone, the other terminal of the telephone being connected with the opposite pole of the bat- tery. When the whole is ready the spyhgmo- graph is brought into use as if a tracing were about to be taken. and when the pulsation of the needle from the pulse strokes is se- cured, the needle, which was previously held back, is thrown over so as to make its point just touch the metal or carbon plate, and to traverse the plate to and fro with each pul- sation. In so «moving, three sounds, one long and two short, are given from the tele- phone, which sounds correspond with the first, second and third events of sphygmo- graphic reading. In fact the pulse talks tele- ‘phonically. and so loudly that when two cells are used the sounds can he heard by an au- dience of several hundred people. By extend- ing the telephone wire the sounds can also be conveyed long distances, so that a physician in his consulting-room might listen to the heart or pulse of a patient lying in bed (speaking modestly as to distance) a mile or two away. Dr. Richardson described to the Fellows of the Royal Society that the sounds yielded by the natural pulse resemble the two words “bother it.” Not a bad commence ment for talking a pulse. (From the Times.) While Hannah Dobbs and Kate Webster are being tried for their lives, Catherine Churchilll a woman of 54, has been sentenced and. executed at Taunton, Somersetshire, for the murder of her husband. Samuel Churchill and his wife had lived together before mar‘ riage. during which time they had a son. The old man had property, and had made a will in favor of this boy. In March of this year he had been known to express his inten- tion of altering the will, at which his wife was very angry. Before he had a chance to alter it he was dead. The wife one day called one Whatley into the house and told him that the old man had fallen into the fire in a fit. The body was burned beyond recognition. No in- dications of violence were found upon it. Whatley’s wife, however, remembered that the day before she heard in the house. as she was passing, cries of “Murder,” and, in a man’s vioce, the expression, as if uttered in pain, "You’re a brute." She stopped and saw Mrs. Churchill dragging something toward the fire. She told this to her husband before Mrs. Churchill called him to show him the old man dead. The police arrested the woman; they found one of her fingers cut, blood on the screen near the fire where the husband used to sit. blood on a hatchet, blood on the woman‘s clothes, and on a cloth which had evidently been used to mop blood from the floor. She admitted to Mrs. Whatley the cries of murder, but said it was nothingâ€" Churchill was only grumbling. On this testi- mony the woman, who protested her inno- cores to the last, was hanged yesterday. TEE HANGING or A WOMAN iN ENGLAND. The undersigned respectfully begs to report to his Honor the Lieutenant-Governor the following respecing the Education Depart- ment: 1. The regulations as to second-class certi- ficates of qualification to teach in the public schools are respectfully recommended to be amended so as to provide that in the ease of a. public school teacher who has successfully taught in a school for at least three years be- fore the 18th day of August, 1877, a second- class certificate may be awarded to such teacher upon successfully passing the non- professioncl examination for such certificate and upon satisfactory proof being furnished to the Minister of such period of teaching ser- vice, and that it shall not be necessary that any such teacher shall be required to attend I Normal School. Regulation: Adopted by Order-in-Councll. 2. No member of a County Board of Ex- aminers shall be concerned in examining or valuing papers of any candidate who has been instructed by him or in the school with which he is connected, and the presiding inspector will see that this rule is observed, but it is re-- commended that all the members of the County Board (having due regard to the above exeeption,) shall be present at the examin- ation of third-class teachers from the first day of the examination, and that such mem- bers as are not engaged as presiding examin- ers shall, as the answers are handed in by the candidates, proceed with the necessary work of their examination. County treasurers and other ofi‘icials are authorized to pay such ex- penses as are properly incurred by the County .Board in connection with these duties. 3. High School Boards may, in pursuance of the amended Act of 1879, impose at the examination for admission such fee, not ex- ceeding one dollar per pupil, upon candidates being the children of non-residents who are not liable to pay county or municipal rates for the support of such school; but no fee for examining for admission in other case» shall be exacted by my High School Board. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) ADAM Cnooxs, â€"Cofiee growing has proved successful with a few planters in southern Florida, and itl cultivation thew promises to be extended: THE PULSE MADE T0 SPE AK EDUCATION DE PA R'I‘MEN'I‘. ADAM Cnooxs, Minister of Education.