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English Agriculture. »- l There is room in the world for all. The briskest competition should engender no feel- ing of gratification at the reverses of a rival. Therefore it is a matter of regret to notice the unsatisfactory, not to say disastrous, condition of English agriculture. English journals are filled with complaints and forebodings of evil. Agriculture was neverin so depressed a. condi- tion. Rerts are unpaid ; farms go a-begging ; the owners cannot work them ; and tenants can- not mnke enough out of them to pay for labor and V for rel ’. I The English farmers are deluged nude" a ll 30d of American products. 1 The cheap lamis of this great centinent and} our free system of laborâ€"in which We include the privilege to work without losing caste as a gentlemanâ€"line borne the fruit which has been so long ad‘s]; ining; and our unfortunate rival: across the, \x’ater are no longer able to compute wilh us. The gates are now broken d0\\"l. ()ur expo! ts are flowing abroad nearly at the rate, of one million dollars each day, 0V0] and above the amount of imports. This result is the inevitable efleot of a law which no man or nation can set aside. We could not help it if we would. The best we can do is to oiler to our rivals a position by our side where they‘ca 1 share our advantages. Here is 100111 for all. ',!.‘here, the balance is turbed; here it suspended evenly and is not likely to be uistnrbed until our br’diid field ; and plains are iully occupied. .And this Callliuh Haf‘lll' for a. century, perhaps for several (.1 lhmn to comeâ€"Mural New Yorker. . Colors in tlic Flower Bed. M nnl) of the beauty of a flower bed depends on such an arrangement of the colors as will secure at harmonious effect. It is very much as with a tasteful selection of colors for a. lady’s outfit. Some with expensive material always fail to produce a pleasing impression for want of taste and judgment as to colors ; so with a flower bed. Costly plants are often got, and yet the bed does not 100k pretty. Among the rules to be observed are the fol- lowingY : m 1. Avoid placing rosemalorednext to séarlet, orange or Violet. 2. Do not place orange next to yellow, nor blue next to violet. 3. White relieves any color, but do not place it next to yellqu. r 7 r 7 4. Orange goeé well with blue, and yellow With violet. ' Spare the Treel. Two facts confront us and deserve serious consideration. The forests of the world are going, just as the coal beneath our feet is goingâ€"man is a cooking animal, and must have fuel. In all the great outlets of water floods multiply, and become more and more destructive. \Ve are compelled to ask if there is any necessary, or perhaps obvious, connec- tion between'the two facts. Undoubtedly there is,and one of the most simple nature; and one, moreover, that plainly teaches that the more the earth is stripped â€"of its natural clothing in the shape of arborescent vegeta- tion, the more and more will it become unfit for human habitation and a bleak and howL ing wilderness. If the race of men wish to hold their place on the planet, therefore,they will do well to preserve a reasonable extent of forest ; and, at all events. they may to 'their own advantage occasionally plant for posteL, lty, because while the trees are growing they will moderate the floods somehow or other, The utterly selfish system will not pay. In proportion as the forests are destroyed, hu- man life will be demuded of its joys in times when danger does not threaten ; and when threatening begins in respect of torrrents and ‘fiood, it will simply be exposed to such tre- mendous risks that it becomes a fair specula. tion that water and not fire willlmake an end of the race of men. 5. Rose color and purple always go well together. , Ruining Pigs.» The Most. important thing for the swine breeder fit this season of the year is to get the gun: ‘ est posn‘nle growth from the spring pigs. 'S'here is w period in the life of the hog Wle. so g) 1:, a return for the food con- surnnl 34 poss-l h- as during the first six mom \ :um I.‘ i : here that the advantage of alumni hull” is apparent. Unless great care be t‘ ‘um Le growth of'the pig will be seriously (i: 21d when it is from three to five wova old. The milk of the dam, which was ausp‘u; to promote a rapid growth in the litter ui' pigs during the first two or three weeks, is nut sufficient to answer the demam‘is of the same litter as they grow older; hem-u me pigs should early be taught to look elsewhere for a. part of their sustenance. This is an (um-3v matter ; a little milk or nutritious food o] {my Lind, in liquid form, placed conven‘umly 1)). where the pigs can have access in i! :n, :le times, but beyond the reach of the mm, will soon do the work ; and it should hr», l'l‘pil’11l8116d frequently through the day. If this is attended to, there will be no “stunting” of the pigs at this critical per- iod, and their growth Will be uniform and rapid. Agood clover pasture is a valuable adjunct, and helps wonderfully. The true Secret of successful pork making is to push the pig: from the date of birth until it is big enough lor the market; and the earlier the age at which this point can be reached, the greater is the return for the food eon- sumed. '1 “ One of my neighbors has for several years been experimentng largely in poultry. His stock consists of White and Brown Leghorns and Light Brahmas. He started at the com- mencement of last year with 108 fowls. He kept an accurate account of the receipts and expenditures. They produced 7,879 eggs. His total receipts in eleven months for eggs and towls sold,ndding what he had consumed, amounted to $244.96 ; cost of feed and other expenses, $117.85; leavinga clear profit of $127.11. He had 98 {owls on hand Dec. 1st,, which he considers worth more than the 108 fowls he had at the commencement of the year. He has a pair of Light Brahmas that weigh 20; pounds. Keeps his fowls shut up the year round. Has a large hennery, the house fronting the south. Gives a variety of food, such as corn, oats, buckwheat, all in grain, and wheat screenings, course feed and A cmrespoudent of the Poultry World gives “facts and figures, ”us follows, to show that poulyry 1min :â€"- _ _ ‘ FARM AND GARDEN . l'rofihs of Poullry [Cu-king. corn meal. Also feeds once a. day with beef scraps, and three times a. week with onions and turnips chapped together.” THE PRINCE llVlPERIA L’S;DEAT ll Conn-Manialed [or not Taking Care of llim. ’ The London papers of’June 30th have ac- counts, from their correspondents at the Cape of the details of the Prince Imperial’s taking off. The , Times; correspondent gives the following as the substance of Lieut. Carey’s report : Report 01 Lieut. Carey, Who Ila: Been “ Having learned that his Imperial High- ness would proceed onJune let to rcconnoi- tre“the country in advance of. the column and choose a site for the camp on the following day, I suggested that as I had already ridden over the same ground, I should accompany him. My request was granted; but at the same time, Col. Harrison, Acting Quarter- master-General, stated that I was not in any way to interfere with the Prince, as he wished him to have the entire credit of choosing the camp. Shortly before starting, I found that no escort was prepared, and applied to the Brigadeâ€"Major of Cavalry. I receiVed the necessary orders. and at 9:15 si'x men of Capt. Bettington’s Horse paraded before headquarters. With these and a friendly Zudu, provided by' the Hon. Mr. Drummond, we started. Six Basutos of Capt. Shepstone’s corps were alsounder orders to proceed with us, and before crossing the Blood River, I sent on to him to ask for them The messenger returned to say that they would meet us on the ridge between the Incenzi and [Irclezi Hills. I again sent the manta bring the escort back‘tvith him. On our right and left flanks I saw large bodies of Basutos scouting. Arrived upon the ridge, 1 we dismounted, wishing to fix the position of some hills with our compasses. Col. Harri- ‘ son then rode up and told us that General Marshall’s cavalry was coming up. When he had left I suggested to the Prince to wait for the remainder of the escort. ‘Oh, no ; we are quite strong enough.’ At a mile and a half we ascended a commanding and .rocky range of hills beyond Ilyotozi ltiver. I pro- posed that we should here off-saddle near the river. We remained for half an hour sketch- ing and surveying the country with our tele- scopes; Seeing no one, we descended to a kraal in a valley below and oll°~saddled. |No precautions were taken, as no Zulus were ex- pected to be in, the neighborhood. The Prince was tired, and lay down beside a hut. The men made coffee, and I reconnoitered with my telescope. At 3.35 I suggested saddling up. His Imperial Highness said, “Waifian- other ten minutes” ; but in five minutes gave me the necessary order. I repeated it, and then went to fetch my horse from the mealie- fields. Izhad saddled and mounted on the home side of the kraal, when I heard his Im- perial Highness give the order, ‘Prepare‘to mount.’ I looked round and saw his foot in the stirrup. At the same time I said ‘Mount,’ and as the. men vaulted into the saddles I saw the black faces of Zulus about twenty yards eff, rushing towards us through the mealiafields. ‘ They shouted and fired upon us as we rode off. I thought that all were mounted. and knowing that the men’s carv bines were unloaded I judged it was better to clear the long grass before making a stand. Knowing from experience the bad shooting of the Zulus, I did not expect that anyone was ‘ injured. I therefore shouted as we neared ithe dongs, ‘We must form up on the other side. See to the retreat of everyone.’ On looking back I saw one party following us, while another on our left was attempting to cut off our retreat across the ridge. Mean- while we were under a heavy fire, and after we had crossed the donga a man said to me, ‘I fear the Prince is killed, sir.‘ I paused, looked back, and seeing the Prince’s horse galloping on' the other side of the donga, asked if it Was any use returning. The Zulus had alreadypassed over the ground where he must have fallen, and he pointed out the men creeping round our left. I paused for our men to come up, and then galloped on to find a drift over the Tombocto River.” Some years ago a company known as the Lewiston and Queenston Bridge Company was chartered to build a. bridge at that point. ‘The capital stock was $50,000, all of which Wes paidin! and the rights of way and. ap» proacheb to‘the proposed location secured. The occasion for such a bridge did not then arise, and it was never built. The company, however, continued in existence and in pos- session of its franchises. The negotiations which have been for some time pending between the R., W. & O. and Great Western Railroad companies, and the Lewiston and Queenstan Bridge Company, for the construction of a railroad bridge across the Niagara River at Lewiston were com- pleted at a meeting held at the latter place Tuesday, and a new bridge company was formed with a capital of $1,000,000. G. \V. R. The following article, relative to the bridge proposed to be constructed across Niagara River at Lewiston, and the new through route, which, with the aid of the bridge, it is said the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh and the Great Western Railway will form, is from the Oswrgo Palladium : A ew Through RoulecA dvuutngefl lo the The Lake Shore division of the Rome, Wa- tertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, being that part extending from Richland on the eastern line of Oswego county, the point of connec- tion with the old main line to Lewiston, has. as everyone knows, always been crippled by inability to make any independent western connections at the Niagara River, while its easternor New York and New England con- nections were good. Some time ago, there is every reason to believe, and in fact very soon after the present management of the R., W. & 0. R. 00. came into possession, this com- pany undertook various negotiations to repair this great defect in their line in order to ena- ble it to fulfil the original intention of be- coming a successful competitor for through business. A month or more ago some of the English Board of Directors who manage the Great Western Railway came into this coun- try empowered to conclude various pending questions affecting Great Western interests, and among which was the organization of a company to build a bridge at Lewiston and connect the Great Western therewith. Rights of way have been obtained and surveys made of a line from Thorold or Merritton on the Great Western to the Canadian side of the proposed bridge, being about six miles, which track the Great Western Will build, and thus with the bridge and R.,W. & O. B. K, it W111 become part of an important and substan- tially independent east and west line. a new company organized and officers elected, whose names, however, it is impos- sible at present to ascertain. The bridge will be a suspension bridge, we suppose, and its estimated cost is about $300,000. The bridge company will be known on the Ameri- can side as the R. “7., & 0. Bridge Company, and on the Canadian side as the Great West- ern Bridge Company. The details of the arrangement, as to how the interests unite or contribute in the new company, are not pub- lic. The old Lewiston & Queenston Bridge Company, however, is understood to be re- presented in the new organization, its $50,- 000 of stock going in at 50 cents on the dol- lar.‘ It is understood that the Great Western will build its six miles of connecting track at once, and that the construction of the bridge will commence as soon as plans can be made and adopted and the contract let. The span of the river at that point is_ about 800 feet. ‘ The question, what will be the effect of this arrangement, is important, and can but be de- termined by actual results. The immediate practical result, however, will be that there will be a new route open from Chicago to Boston and all northern New England by the R., W. & O. R.’s connection with the Ver- mont Central at Rouse’s Point, absolutely in- dependent of all existing lines, and which it Aé said hbove, on Tuesday pending nego- tiations as to those subjgctqwere glosegand TllE LE \VlS'l‘flN BRIDGE. may fairly be expected, being on an equal or‘ better footing as to grades and distance, will do the business of that section which now comes over the New York Central and Boston and Albany. It will convert the R., W. & O. R., without doubt, into an important through local freight thoroughfare, and. to some deâ€" gree justify the great expenditure of money in the construction of the road. What the effect may be on New York business, if any, is a question for the future and for future possible new connections. Before a year hence, then, one dream of Oswego will be realizedâ€"she will be on a through all rail route from Chicago to Boston Without any further effort on her part. 'l‘heUuernnces of a \Vomnn’s Breaking Hear-t. Two ordinary note-books, in which Mrs. Josephine A. (Jolton, of No. 216 Chrystie street, recorded her troubles before she shot herself, were in the coroner’s office this morn- ing and were objects of much curiosity. The entries in the books reveal a sad story. The first volume is headed “Memorandum of my daily life,” beginning with September 1, 1877. The first entry reads as follows: “My old diary is full. I am sorry. I like old things, old friends. 016. associations ; but, like all earthly things, they pass away. I think these little memorandums help us to lead better lives. At the end of the week, when I read over the pages, I am ashamed of my short- comings, and make good resolves for the future." Following this are memoranda for nearly every day until April 13, when the account book was full. The Vmemoranda for the most part relate to trival incidents of her life, but they tell the story of her gradual desertion by her husband. She writes in some places that her husband has slandered her, that he has absented himself from her, and at last she writes that he has nearly de- serted her. On begining to fill a second vol- ume on April 29, 1879,3he wrote : “Well, again my dairy is filled, and oh ! how sad are its records I There has not been one ray of sunshine to tell to its sad pages. 011 1 can it be that the heart can stand so much and not break ! I have seen him but twice since the 18, and it is better so. Oh ! why should my heart cling to this man so ! 0 God, tear his image from my heart and give me peace of mind. God forgive you, ‘William. if you drive me to my death, for ‘you have much need to pray.” On the next day, April 30, she writes : “I have answered an advertisement by a. lady who wishes a lady to share her rooms and do light housekeeping. She has been to see me and I rather like her.” She did not write in the diary again until May 11, when she refers again to her husband’s infidelity. Must Have llii! Finger Pulled of! or be Burned to Death. The Bobcaygeon Independent tells of an in- cident in a saw mill in that village. A man had his arm sewn off with a circular saw,and while extricating himself from the position in which the accident had left him the carriers became choked. These carriers are attached to an endless chain, which revolves over pul- leys, one of which is in the mill and the other in the furnacc a considerable distance from the mill. The carriers convey all refuseY bark, buttings, and hits back to the furnace, where they are burned. These carriers became jammed, and David Allison went to clear them. He was picking the pieces out of the carriers, when by some means he got the top of one of his fingers in a. link of the chain and could not withdraw it. The chain, with relentless energy, continued to travel on to- wards the furnace, and Mr. Alliston had to follow, struggling in vain to free himself. At length the furnace was reached, and Mr. Allison saw at a glance that unless he could liberate himself from the chain he would be drawn into the furnace and tumbled into the flames. There was no time for reflection. He drew his left arm around a large post which formed part of the platform, and there held on until the end joint of his finger gave away and was pulled off his hand. It was a moment of supreme agony. But in time the bone broke, the sinews snapped, the end of the finger went away, and Mr. Allison was liberated. The declaration of Edison that he could light all our cities now with electricity if he could find a. big mine of platinum is believed to be only a method of covering his retreat. It is probably true that his burners would cost $10 to $15 apiece if made of plati- num, but gentlemen in this city who are per- fectly familiar with all that is going on at Menlo Park do not believe the cost of this metal is the trouble which Edison now en- counters. In spite ot all that Edison allows to be made known, and in spite of the fact that he claims so have his invention covered by patents, he does not dare yet to give a public exhibition of his light, because his re- gulator cannot be depended upon, and he is afraid that his lamps will melt in the pres- ence of the public, and the exhibition weuld demonstrate his failure, and not his success. Edison has never yet given an exhibition of his light. The Fuller people, who have a platinum burner illuminated by an induc- tion coil, have never permitted anybody to see their light in operation either, and prac- tically they have ceased to experiment with the light. The trouble is the old one, the lamp melts. While the platinum lamps would be costly, it is evident that first cost would be no drawback. because if as much money could be saved by the electric light as Edison claims, it would be cheaper in the long run to use it, even if the lamps cost $15 apiece. The electricians here say that gas chandeliers cost more than candlesticks, yet that has not prevented gas from coming into vogue. The last entry is dated June 22. “I have not touched my book smce May 11. How many changes have been since then. My life, the last year, has been one con- tinued round of sadness and ill-luck. I often wonder if my spirit can rest after death. 011 ! William, my husband, you have wrecked my life, but I forgive you. If your con- science lets you rest I am satisfied.”â€"New York Evening Post. Many erroneous impressions prevail about the pulse as indicative of health or disease, a common notlon being that its beatings are much more regular and uniform than they really are. Frequency varies with age. In the new-born infant the beatings are from 130 to 140 to the minute; in the second year, from 100 to 115 ; from the seventh to the fourteenth year, from 80 to 90 ; from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year, from 75 to 85 ; from the the twenty-first to the sixtieth year, from 70 to 75. After that period the pulse is generally thought to de- cline, but medical authorities differ radically on this point, having expressed the most contradictory opinions. Young persons are often found whose pulses are below 50, and there have been many instances of pulse habitually reaching 100, or not exceeding 40. without apparent disease. Sex, especially in adults, influences the pulse, which in women is from 10 to 14 beats to the minute more rapid than in men of the same age. Museu- lar‘exertion, even position, materially affects the pulse. Its average frequency in healthy men of 27 is, when standing, 81 ; when sit- ting 71 ; when lying, 66 per minute ; in wo- men of the same age in the same position, 91, 84: and 79. In sleep the pulse is in gener- al considerably slower than during wakeful- ness. In certain diseasesâ€"acute dropsy of the brain, for exampleâ€"there may be 150, even 200 beats ; in other kinds of disease, such as apeplexy and some organic affections of the heart, there may be no more than 20 to 30 to the minute. Thus, one of the com- monest diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most experienced practitioners. Sfll'lE FACTS ABOUT THE PULSE (New York Corr. Philadelphia, Press.) MRS. lioL’l‘flN’S DIARY. A ’I‘E “BIBLE filolVlEN’l“ HAS EDISON ‘FAIIJED? A suit for judicial separation which will ex‘ cite interest, both from the nature of the de- tails and the position of the parties. has just commenced before the Fourth Civil Chamber. The husband is M. De Chevries, and the wife a daughter of the late Duke de Persigny. The proceedings were first instituted by the wife, but a counter-demand was subsequently put forward by the husband. M. Lachaud stated the allegations of Mine. De Chevries as fol- lows : From the time of the marriage, which i took place three years ago, the husband com- i menced to treat her brutally. He told her that she must consider herself fortunate to have found him. as no one else would have married her. He reproached her with the money her wedding corbeille had cost him. iHe called her “Sale Bonapartist !” On their wedding tour at Nice and Monaco, he at- tempted to strike her, and pulled her‘ hair under the pretext of playing with her. He was accustomed to drink immoder- ately, and one day, when intoxi- cated, threw her watch and chain out of the window of a carriage in which they were driving. He had entered her bed-chamber, ac~ companied by the house porter, and insulted her grossly. He annoyed her by playing on the piano night and day. He had threatened to bring an action for a separation, and to drag the name of Persigny in the mire ; be accused her of immorality, and set spies to watch her. He declared that she deserved to be flogged, and that his father would rise in his tomb did he know that he had contract- ed such a marriage. He took friends into her room when she was half undressed, and he has called medical men to examine her mental state. On the other side, M. Eaugras supported the demand of her husband for these reasons : In 1877, during their stay at Monte Carlo, she refused to allow her chamâ€" berniaid to leave her sight night or day ; she appeared in public with women of question- able reputation ; she created scences at the hotel in which they were staying, and bit him in the cheek ; she boasted openly that she had only married him for his fortune, and accused him of depraved morals. The Court ordered a private inquiry into the allegations of the two parties. (London Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian.) Mr. Hormuzd Rassam has returned to England, having completed the work of his second Assyrian expedition. He brings with him a rich collection of objects which have been acquired during the year. The results of the last Journey are of a more varied character than those of any expedition which has taken place since the early explorations conducted by Sir A. H. Layard. Commencing operations on the mounds of Nineveh, Mr. Rassam succeeded in exploring a site which was regarded as forbidden ground. This was the mound of Nebby Yunns. the supposed tomb of the prophet Jonah. It this mound he diScovered remains of palaces erected by ‘Esdarhaddon and Sennacherib. His labors on the mounds of Nineveh have resulted in ‘the discovery of a large number of inscrip- tions, many of extreme interest. Passing southward, he visited Nimroud, where he continued his labors in the Temple of Venus. This building. which he discovered in his former expedition, was now thoroughly ex- amined, and found to be a large open temple containing shrines of several deities. There were also found a number of seats arranged in parallel rows, forming a. centre aisle from the chief altar. The plan now recovered seems to favor the idea of its having been a species of forum where religious and other councils were held. The explorations in Assyria have discovered many valuable monu- ments. Mr. Rassam extended his operations into fields untouched since the time of Sir A. H. Layard’s expedition, and he was able to carry out a series of explorations on the mounds of ancient Babylon. Here his dis- coveries have been most brilliant. In a mound hitherto untouched he discovered a palace of Nebuchadnezzar’s, with rich enam- eled columns, beams of Indian wood and every indication of having been a most splendid edifice. His excavations in the mound of the Birs Nimroud, the site of the isupposed Tower of Babel, have proved that ‘ the destruction of this great edifice was due, ‘not to lightning or hostile attack, but to a volcanic eruption, which had torn and shat- , cred the edifice. The Revue Bordelaise states that a whole series of dyes has been extracted from red cabbage (brocoli) by a chemist of Bordeaux. The process is very simple ; the veins are ex~ tracted, and the cabbage, which is cut into fine pieces, is put into boiling water in the proportion of 1,500 grammes of the leaves to three litres of water. The infusion is then allowed to macerate during twenty-four hours. The leaves are afterward subjected to pres- sure, and the juice mixed with the liquid. A Among the novel applications of electricity to the industrial arts is a new stone-dressing apparatus, which is worked by a dynamoâ€" electric machine, and which the inventor claims will dress millstones or other stones, and drill rock economically, with rapidity, precision and dispatch. The chisel employed is fastened to a spring arm which protrudes from a case containing magnets and arma- tures. This spring arm, when the magnets are connected with the dynamo-electric machine, moves up and down with extreme rapidity, causing the chisel to strike a blow at each descent. The inventor states that it can be made strike from one to two thousand blows per minute. Wires being used in place of steam pipes enables the apparatus to be moved readily to any angle, or worked at any reasonable distance without much loss of power ; While not the least meritorious por- tion of the whole invention is the horizontal frame or base to which the electric apparatus is fixed. This frame is portable, and by the use of crews can be so adjusted as to cause the chisel to strike any portion of a circle with either a swift or a slow motion, the number and intensity of the blows being regulated according to the softness or hard~ ness of the stone. By the use of this machine it is said that a millstone can be covered in a short space of time with the necessary grooves and furrows, having the straightness, regularity and parallelism so much desired in good millstone dressing. The apparatus can be worked either automatically or by hand, so as to suit the varying natures of the stone operated upon. The frenzy for ocean navigation in little boats approaches a climax. The size of these minature ships has been.gradually lessened tlll the chances of safety are now at a low ratio with those of peril. While the Uncle Sam, containing Capt. Goldsmith and his wife, is now on the Atlantic, two men have just started from Boston to Melbourne, via Cape de Verde and Cape Town, in the Golden Gate, the smallest craft that ever undertook the circumnavigation of the globe â€"schooner.rigged, 19 feet long, 2% deep, 5% wide at the Water line, and less than five feet across the deck. And emulating these adventures, a Baltimorean proposes to cross the ocean with a Newfoundland dog as his only companion, in a cat-rigged boat 18 feet long, 6 feet broad, and 26 inches deep, can rying about 40 pounds of canvas. One of the two Andrews brothers, who crossed the Atlantic in the Nautilus, the smallest sailing vessel that ever made the voyage,is soon coming back in her with a dog as his only aid. Probably it will take a shipwreck to cure this mania. “Little boats should keep near shore,” said Poor Richard, a century or more ago; our generation thinks itself wiser than Poor Richard. DRESSING STONE BY EI1E(‘I'[‘RI‘ CITY. THE TONI]! 0F JONAII AN” BABEL MARRIED LIFE [IF A DUKE’S DAUGIITEK. (Galigmmi‘s Messfenger, J mm 21.) "YES FRONI CABBAGE. Fooll-IIARDY VOYAGERS. violetish blue is thus obtained, which the in- ventor terms cauline, and which forms the base of the various derivatives. A light green for immediate application can be obtained by adding two grammes of baryta to 300 do. of the cauline. A bluish green is produced by adding 108 grammes of the chloride of calcium to 500 grammes of the cauline ; an ultra. marine blue, by adding 40 grammes of chlor- ide of zinc and 25 do. of chloride of sulphur to 500 grammes of the base. In View of the great heat, the following in- structions as to how to avoid heat, issued by Dr. Hall, of the New York Board of Health, will no doubt be read with great interest : Sunstroke is caused by excessive heat, and especially if the weather is “ muggy.” It is more apt to occur on the second, third or fourth day of a heated term than on the first. Loss of sleep, worry. excitement, close 1 sleeping rooms, debility, abuse of stimulants, ‘ predispose to it. It is more apt to attack‘ those working in the sun, and especially be- tween the hours of eleven o‘clock in the morning and four o‘clock in the afternoon. On hot days wear thin clothing. Have as cool sleeping rooms as possible. Avoid loss of sleep and all unnecessary fatigue. If working indoors, and where there is artificial heatâ€"laundries, etc.â€"see that the room is well ventilated. 1f working in the sun, wear a light hat (not a black, as it absorbs heat), straw, etc., and put inside of it on the head a wet cloth or a large green leaf ; frequently lift the hat from the head and see that the cloth is wet. Do not check perspiration, but drink what water you need to keep it up, as perspiration prevents the body from being overheated. Have, whenever possible, an additional shade, as a thin umbrella, when walking, a canvas or board cover when working in the sun. When much fatigued do not go to work, but be excused from Work, especially after eleven o‘clock in the morning on very hot days, if the work is in the sun. ‘If a feeling of fatigue, dizziness, headache or ,exhaustion occurs, cease work immediately, ‘lie down in a shady and cool place ; apply cold cloths to and pour cold water over head and neck. If any one is overcome by the heat send immediately for the nearest good physician. While waiting for the physician give the person cool drinks of water or cold black tea or cold cofi‘ee, if able to swallow. If the skin is hot and dry sponge with or pour cold water over the body and limbs, and apply to the head pounded ice, wrapped in a towel or other cloth. If there is no ice at hand keep a cold cloth on the head, and pour cold water on it, as well as on the body. If the person is pale, very faint and pulse feeble let him inhale ammonia for a few seconds, or give him a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits of ammonia in two tablespoonfuls of water with a little sugar. WRIST-PLAYERS, ATTENTION.â€"â€"Whist-play- era are reminded by the London Academy that “the advantage of establishing along sun; is clearly laid down by Hoyle and Mathews; but the slave of the Cavendish system carries the principle to an absurd length, and loses his own and partner’s money by an impossible attempt to estab- lish a long suit of weak cards with no strength of trumps to bring them in. Cavendish’s axiom, ‘Lead originally from your strongest suit,’ has consequently been abandoned in practical play, whenever the Weakness of the hand renders it necessary to play a defensive instead of an attacking game. and under such circumstances weak leads are always preferred.” ThePunch and Judy idea is over 2,000 years old. The Celestial Emperor Kao Tsu (B. C. 206) was shut up in the City of Peh-teng by an army of barbarous Huns. With His Majesty was a statesman, Ch’en P’ing,who, happening to know that the wife of the besieging chief- tain was a very jealous woman, devised a scheme. He caused the portrait of a very beautiful girl to be forwarded to her, with a message that if her husband would permit the Emperor to go forth unharmed, the young lady should become his property. The chieftain’s wife never mentioned the portrait to her husband, but at once began to persuade him to raise the siege, which, in fact, he would have done forthwith had he not been privately informed of the picture and warned at the same time that the whole affair was simply a. ruse. Thereupon he sent to say that it would be necessary for him first of all to have a glimpse of this beauty in the flesh ; and later on he repaired by agreement to the foot of the city wall, where he beheld the young lady moving about and surrounded by a number of attendants. His suspicions being thus allayed, he gave orders to open a passage through his lines to the Em- peror Kao Ten and suite, who promptly made the best of their way out. At the same time the Hun chieftain entered the city and pro- ceeded to the spot on the wall where the young lady was awaiting him, still surrounded by her handmaids ; but on arriving there he found that the beauty and her attendants were simply a set of wooden puppets which had been dressed up for the occasion and were worked by a concealed arrangement of springs. The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury remarks 2â€"“ \Vhen the news of the appointment of the Marquis of Lorne to the Governor-Generalship of Canada was first premulgatcd there was a general expression of delight and self-satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic. The little bill for his Lord- ship’s traveling expenses has now been pre- sented, and the feeling of enthusiasm has been a little mollified. The total amount claimed for the voyage is £2,000, and on ap- plication for this sum being made to the Treasury, the bill was forwarded to the Colo- nial Office. That economical department forthwith pointed out that by the regulations of the Colonial Service ‘ the voyage allow- ance’ of the Viceroy of Canada was fixed at £400, and that it would be creating a dangerous precedent to allow any excess on this rate. The Canadian Government, 110w- ever, would doubtless have no hesitation in paying for the honor done to that country by the selection of the Queen’s son-in-law for the post of Viceroy. The Canadians, 110W» ever, hardly seemed to view the matter in the same light, and arguing from the fact that they had not applied for a semi-Royal Viceroy, they saw no reason to depart from the custom of allowing the Colonial Office to pay out of the Imperial funds the Governor- General’s traveling expenses. Foiled on this tack, the Colonial Office then suggested the Civil contingencies as a convenient source for the supplementary payment, but to this the Treasury had a ready reply in the objec- tion that by so doing the sum might be specifically challenged in the Committee of the House of Commons, and very unpleasant remarks made, whereas if paid out of the Colonial Ofiice vote no further questions could or would be asked.” 'l‘IlE GOVERNIIR-GENERAIA’S EX- PENSES T0 CANADA. The Winnipeg Free Press, July 10, says 2 â€"“ The most careful enquiry by letter and otherwise, respecting the crops throughout the Province, leads us to the conclusion that this year there has been put under crop at least one-third greater area than ever before. The excessively wet weather of the last month has in some localities almost entirely destroyed the crops, and in others partially. Potatoes seem to have suffered particularly, the seed having rotted. This will be a sore calamity to the unfortunate parties afieeted, but it is a happy circumstance, after all, that it is in but comparatively few places that the disaster has been at all serious. W'e should estimate that one-tenth of the whole crop is the very outside of the extent of the damage. 0n the other hand, the general growth is something extraordinary, and the yield pro- mises to be very large. Indications now are that the “ wet spell” is over, and that being so, a bountiful harvest for the Province is promised.” (301’s IN 1" ANITflBA PUNCH AND JUDY‘ THE "01‘ Sl'El‘ THE FIRST WRESTLE “’ll‘fl A STOVE-PIPE HA' ‘ time. Yes, son, you are correct. The first time you wear a stove-pipe hat, everybody looks at you. Not, as you may vainly imagine, be- cause you are the first young man who ever wore a stove-pipe hat, but because it is appar- ent even to the old blind man who sits in the back pew, without any cushion in,away back under the gallery Where the poor have the gospel preached at them, that it is the first time you ever were a hat of that description. Your old father claps one on the back of his head, puts his hands into his pockets, holds up his head and walks off down the street in a gale of wind and never thinks of his hat. But you, son, you pull yours on at the most graceful angle it can be posed, and you go teetering along, both hands ready to fly at the hat at the slightest provocation of the ghost- liest phantom of a puff of wind. You don’t look comfortable. son. Your hat is always trying to come 01? ; you bump it against everything you pass; you rub it the wrong way when you try to brush the dust off it ; when you carry it in your hand up the aisle, everybody smiles, because you first hold it by the brim and let the crown tip gracefully over your arm. and by the time you have hit three or four worshipers in the head with it, you change and turn it under your arm and try to carry it that way without touching it, and the first thing you do in that pose, you put a woman’s eve out with your elbow. Then when you sit down, you put the hat down on the floor, setting it on the brim ; a fatal misâ€" take. And then before the sermon is half through, you put your feet on it three times. But never mind ; you have to learn some Only don’t imagine that people never saw anything of the kind before, because they have. And finally, son, if you are only five feet three inches high don’t think a hat three feet five inches high improves your appearance, or makes you look taller. Be- cause it doesn’t. It may make you look as though you clerked in a secondhand clothing store, but it doesn’t make you look taller. By and bye, when you have worn a high hat two or three years, you will wear it so naturally that it will become you. But the first timeâ€"- oh, my son, my son ! The New York Herald says that Mr. E. H. Walker, the statistician of the New York Produce Exchange, estimates that the wheat crop of 1879 will amount to 385,000,000 bu., and that France will import about 80,000,000 bu.; Great Britain, 120,000,000 bu. ; Germany, 10,000,000 bu.; Switzerland, 10,- 000,000 bu. ; Spain and Portugal, 5,000,000 bu., and Italy, 25,000,000. He said good shipments would be made from Australia, British India, Egypt, Roumania and the Turkish provinces. According to Mr. Walker, the area under wheat in France in 1877 was 17,260,569 acres, and the crop was mediocre, making less bread than the smaller crop of 1876. The imports of flour and wheat into France in 1876-’77, from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31, were equal to 14,335,554 bu., against exports, 6,955,261 bu., giving net imports over exports, 7,380,293 bu. The imports for the corresponding period in 1877-’78 were equal in wheat and flour to 26,658,920 bu. of wheat, against 3,608,425 exported, giving net imports of 22,560,803 bu. France is bare of reserves of old wheat, and the imports of foreign wheat have gone quickly into consumption, leaving only small stocks at the ports of import, except Mar- seilles. The net imports of wheat into France in 1877-’78, Sept. 1 to Aug. 31. were 25,580,903 bu., which were required to sup- plement the poor crop of 1877, which was followed by a still poorer one in 1878, the falling of? being 57.920,000 bu. Mr. Walker stated that there has been imported into France, from Aug. 1. 1878, to May 1, 1879, 67,648,000 bu. of wheat, and that from May 20 to June 12, 122 wheat-laden ships passed the Dardanelles, of which one only was bound for Northwestern Europe, 78 for France, and 42 for other Mediterranean ports. The Capitalc publishes the following start- ling account of the riots at Caltabiano : The poorer part of the population, both men and women, assembled in the square to protect against a new tax levied on hens. The Syndic, who was found in a cafe playing at cards, treating the matter lightly, received the depu- tation with fisticuffs. Alarmed. however, by the increasing clamor, he led the way to the Municipality and surrendered the roll of the ratepayers. This was burned by the crowd, which then dispersed. In the afternoon, however, the arrival being bruith of a force of policemen, gendarmes and soldiery, the crowd collected anew, and marched with the portraits of the King and Queen and the national flag at their head. were joined by the Workingmen’s Club, and met the forces at the station with loyal shouts of “ Viva ich." After an interchange of salutations they marched collectively into the village, halting in the square. The military were drawn up in line. The inhabitants ranged themselves opposite, waving their flags and cheering for the King and the army. At this moment a policeman, greatly detested. nicknamed “ Trasher,” advancing, ordered the laborers to lower their flag. Exasperated by a refusal. he drew on the flag-bearer. but was in his turn struck by a stone. This was the signal for the commencement of hostilities. The soldiers fired volley after volley. The crowd first replied with stones. then disbanded and fled. Many persons were shot accidentally ; a mounted muleteer and a peasant returning singing from the fields ; two children and a man, upward of 80, who received a second fatal shot as his son, heedless of danger, bore him off. Two;young ladies were wounded whilst closing the window shutters. The number killed was eighteen, among whom was a pregnant woman, who was ripped up by bayo- net thrusts. The wounded were upwards of sixty. Seventy arrests were made. The rioters are scattered about the country, and fear to return to the village, whilst the crops suffer from want of hands to gather them in. â€"London News. CGIAIJ Marriage advertisements are by no means uncommon in the German newspapers, but few are as frank, urgent and gushing as the following, which appeared in a late number of the Hamburg Nachrichten : “ Scarcely ever has a, man so earnestly sought a. wife as the Writer of these lines ; but he has found puppets of fashion and daughters ofPhilistines. Tired of personal researches, he adopts this method of appealing to to those among Ger- man maidens who still believe in what is lofty and noble, and who do not prize :old and convenience higher than a union of mu- toal free attraction. Othersâ€"a majority, no doubtâ€"may ridicule this With cheap wit ; when their laughter is over and these lines become tiresome, the earnestness of them will be clear to the worthy. The advertiser is thirty years old, well-to-do, and in good social standing. From inclination he is an artist. He believes himself to possess the qualities of mind and heart which a wife has ufiright to desire in a. husband. In return. he demands youth, beauty and culture of mind and heart. Property not particularly necessâ€" ary." After giving his address and request- ing photographs with answers, the German Coelel-Js adds the following RS. : “The ad vertiser gives notice that he will publish in this paper such answers as are evidently trifling, in order that public opinion may condemn the unworthy means that so of- ten inspire replies to such earnest announce ments.” FRENCH WOMEN AND ENGLISH Womm .â€" Mr. Laboucbere takes his turn in contrasting French women with their English sisters. He says: “The former are, as a. rule, more pleas. ant than women of other nations. This is because they were born with a. natural dis- position to please any one with whom they come in contact, and this natural disposition has been carefully cultivatedt Now, an Eng- lish woman is entirely without this gift. In EC'I‘ING HEN TAX IN SICILY ‘VHEA l.‘ I’KOHI’EU’I'S WANTED A \VIFE general society she shows too much her likes and dislikes. To the good or bad opinion of persons indifferent to her she is herself utterly indifferent. This she dubs ‘no affectntion,’ ‘sincerity‘ and other flattering uppellations. ‘I cannot,’ she says, ‘pretend to care for a person for whom I do not care ;’ and wh en she utters this sentiment she looks round with a self-satisfied air, as though it were worthy of the highest commendation. My good lady, I really do not want you to adore me. I do not even ask you to take the troub e to think whether you like me or not. Whé: I meet you, probably I do not aspire to mee ' you again. But for the few minutes or hours that we are together. you ought to convey to me the impression that you are pleasant and that you think me so, and this without any arriere punsee, or any calculntlon Whether you will gain by doing so or not. In the art of generally pleasing your French sister excels you, and therefore it is that for all the pur- poses of society a Frenchwoman is greatly your superior.” Lieut. Carey, of the Ninety-eighth British Regiment, who accompanied the Prince Im- perial on that fatal reconnaissance among the Zulus, and who is now belabored in the British press as a selfish poltroon for deserting the Prince in his peril, is 3 Rhode Islander by descent on the maternal side. He is the 01dâ€" cst son of Rev. Adolphus Frederick Carey, Vicar of Brixhain, in Devonshire, by his Wife Harriet Mary Brenton, the youngest daughter of Sir Jahleel Brenton, Baronet, K C. B., a. Vice-Admiral in the British Navy, who was born at Newport, It. I., August 22, 1770. Sir Jahleel’s father, a British rear admiral of the same name, was born at Boston, Mass, Oct. 22, 1729. and died in 1802. He was the eighth of twenty-two children born in two marriages to Jahlool Brenton, who was born in Boston, August 15, 1691, and who died there in 1767. This Jahleel was a son of Wm. Brenton, Collector of Boston under \Villiam III, and a grandson of Gov. \Vm. Brenton. of Rhode Island, who left Boston in 1633 to take up his fortune in the Plantations, and who died at Newport, R. 1., in 1673, leaving a large landed estate there and in New Hamp- shire. Gov. Brentnn’s oldest son was the first J ehleel. He died a bachelor at Newport in 1732, leaving most of his estate to his nephew and namesake, from whom Lieut. Carey is directly descended, and inherits the name of Jahleel Brenton Carey. The Brentons, like many others of the richest undmost conspicu- ous people of the colonies, were Loyalists at the Revolution, and one of Sir Juhleel’snncles, James Brenton, became a. Justice of the Sn- preme Court in Nova. Scotin. Lieut. Carey’s father, Vicar of Brixham, is a half brother of Mr. Albert Carey, 01 Rozel, in the island of Guernsey, the present head of his paternal familyâ€"New York World. A prudent wife picks up the pieces and stores them in an apran pocket when her lord and master tears up his last will and testament. A gentleman of means d1ed in London on April 1st in a. state of madness, the result of frequent and violent attacks of delirium tremens. In one of these attacks, while destroying his furniture, articles of vertu, and some valuable documents, in a moment and before his hand could be arrest- ed. he tore his will into small pieces and scat- tered them over the floor of his room. His wife, who was present at the time, carefully collected the scraps, and preserved them, and produced them for probate, after his death, pasted in proper order upon a background of paper. A medical certificate to the eflect that at the time when this act was done the testator was suffering from delirium was read, and the court decided to admit the will to probate. (From the Louisville Medical News.) We make again our summer plea for chil- dren. We beg our brethern to do what they can by examples in their own families. and by their counsels without, to protect these little ones during July and August days from being smothered by tho pomps and vanities and misdirected kindness of the good mothers in this wicked world. Comfort them at both endsâ€"take off their hair and take away their shoes, if not in public. at least at home. It will improve the growth of their locks and the shape of their feet. Preach the abomina- tion of pique dresses and flannel bands and woolen Jackets. Thin muslins for girls, with uxiderskirts and bodies reduced to the mini- mum of the Angustan ere. Straw hats (a little torn the better), brown linen jackets. cottomtde breaches, unplented shirts, and hazy undarwenr, it any at all, for boys. One of the most extraordinary natural events on record has occurred recently in South Australia. where five children have entered the world at one birth, and bid fair to remain, as all are strong and healthy. The father is a. German settler named Jacob Schuler, and the mother weighs 244 pounds and is six feet four inches high, and has before given birth to twins and triplets. The consternation of the father at seeing the last wholesale addition to 331} family was most ridiculous to witness. He sat stupidly down, and gazed mechanically from one child to the other, ejaculating at intervals, “Mein Gott ! Mein Gott l” as ex- pressive of his emotions. A contribution for the family has been started in the colony, and has already assumed generous propor- ations. Ashowmzm has oflered $250 a month and expenses to travel with his family, but he has declined to accept. A Detroit tailor was the other day measun ing a. lathy-legged young man from the clover districts for a pair of pantaloons, and getting down to the chap’s feet the tailor inquired : “ Will you have spring-bottoms ?” “ Wall,” replied the stranger after a mo- ment of anxious thought, “it’s purty late in the year for springbottoms, and as I allers like to be a leetle ahead of the season, I guess you may put on fall bottoms and clinch ’em extra fur winter !”-I)ciroit Fret: Press. FEIFUNDI’I‘Y A‘l‘ 'l‘lIE AN’I‘IPIPDES The Township of Monck has been mulcted in $200 and cost for damages suffered by a” traveller on the highway. As it is very gener- ally the case, a farmer drawing out wood left a pile on the roadside. Some time in Febru~ ary last, at which time the wood at night had been left there some 3 or 4 weeks, Samuel Maxwell. when riding past this wood on horse- back. his horse shied suddenly at it, and acted in such a manner that Maxwell was thrown 013‘ the horse, dislocating his shoulder, injuring his collar bone and sustaining other injuries, so as to make it necessary to place himself under medical treatment, and render him unfit to do any work for several weeks. The Council considered it was not liable, and Maxwell sued for damages and recovered the above amount, As hundreds of such piles are left on the roadside during winter and spring, municipal councils should make a note of their liability for any damages that may arise from them. How THE DOG CAME BY ITS NAME.â€"T0na,l â€"â€"“I am ferry astonisht, Alister Dhu, at you‘d cal your tog after a heathen god, "_ you wuss pe-long to ta Free Kirk, too." u AllsterL‘TaRe you care, Tonal Roy, what you’ll spoke, for it was not ta true spoke you Wass said shua thiss moment.” Tonalâ€"“thhy ? Ton‘t you call him Chupiter, and Ohupiter is a heathen god, ant nothing else, mirover 2" Alisterâ€"“Maype so he iss too, but it waas nothing of to sort whntifier, for ta, tog was called so pecuusc he was stupiter use no other tog neEfer was again 01' since before, ant not eiter any heathen idol of woot or stone forbye. So there’s for you, Tonal Roy ?”â€"â€"G’lasgaw Bailie. .Il PLEA IND“, 'i iE UIIILDREN‘ W110 LlElJ’l‘. CAREY IS. SA V E 'I‘EIE PIECES A \VISE UIIOICE‘