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Prince Bismarck in Vienna. The meeting between Count Andrassy and his illustrious guest at Vienna was a cordial one, and arm in arm they walked to the Court carriage, a private brougham of the Emperor’s, that was waiting to take Prince Bismarck to the hotel where he was staying. “Hardly were the two statesman seated," saysthe Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, “and ready to start ere down went the window on the near side, and a stentor- ian vome cried out, “mm hand! W0 1.“ mein hund ?” If anything had befallcn that famous dog while Prince Bismarck’s atten- tion was momentarily turned into another] direction it is my firm belief that it would have been all up with the Austro-G-erman alliance, and the incensed Chancellor would have taken the next train back to Berlin. Sultan is, however, an expeienced traveller and has every good notion of how to take care of himself. In a twinkling he was at the carriage door, and, assisted by the two Court flunkeys, he sedately took his seat on the rug at the feet of the two gentlemen inside. Judge of the stupefaction of the crowd ass- embled outside the Imperial Hotel on seeing j the four-legged occupant of tne Court : The Pall Mall Gazette of Sept. 20 says :â€" According to a communication printed the other morning, it seems that the Government has discouraged the proposal to appeal to Parliament for a guarantee of a loan to con- struct the Canadian Pacific Railroad. This might have been looked for. If this system were now commenced, without any definite reason, we might next be asked to guarantee a trans-Australian railroad, with much the same prospect of profit. It seems, therefore, that the railroad is to be built on the land - grant principle, and that 100,000,000 acres of land and all the minerals are to be :ippro- , priated for this purpose. An Imperial Comâ€" missioner is asked for, to act with the Home Commissioners, and it is thought that in this way money may be obtained here for the pur pose. Possibly; but the first thing is to encourage the set of emigration along the line of the proposed road. This the Cana- dian Government is doing, in some degree, by its aid to representative farmers who go out to explore the farms of the West. There is, however, room for much more energy in this direction, and thus alone can the enter- be made profitable. The direct trade across the continent will never pay ; that has been seen clearly in America. It is the develop- ment of local traffic that must be looked to. So far, Canadian railroads have been dead failures commercially. They have been built at much too high a cost for the country, and very badly managed as well. It is to be hoped these mistakes will not be made in the pres- ent instance ; but. unless a good American engineer and a trustworthy American con- tractor are employed, it is to be feared that there will be no improvement. Englishmen seem not to have learned how to build cheap railways in new countries. They want every- thing to be grand at once, as if they Were providing for the wants of an old settled country. Trade-Union Crimes and Follies in Eng- land. Says the London Gazette the shooting of a workman engaged in the glass trade in Man- chester has directed attention to the tyranny of the trade union of this particular indus- try. In other branches of manufacture the complete failure of the unions to keep up wages against a falling market has thrown discredit upon their operations. One unsuc- cessful strike after another has impoverished the men without altering the conditions of the hiring of labor. Business has been re- tarded, and orders have been driven away ; and that is the beginning and the end of these mischievous proceedings. In the glass trade, however, the union seems to have been more successful. According to the masters, at any rate, bad workmen are forced upon them, whether they wish to employ them or not ; and when an American agent makes his ap- pearance offering drinking-glasses at 1s 3d. a dozen which the English manufacturers can only produce at 2s. the men refuse to enable the master to face the difficulty. Worse still, by insisting upon the appointment of a drunken or incompetent workman to a “ chair” in a glass factory the Union renders valueless the labor of three other persons. Yet if under such circumstances a “ chair” is stopped, a strike is threatened. This is the statement of the masters, and it cer- tainly deserves the serious consideration of the Unionists at a time when the feeling against “ rattening” and unfair restrictive rules is far stronger than it was. Decay at the Irish Poplin Trade. A Dublin letter says : “ It appears that the peasantry are not the only class just now in Ireland that are stared in the face by star- vation. The last remaining manufacture of Ireland is, we are told, dying out. The poplin trade, once so famous and flourishing, is year by year passing away, and the poplin weavers of Dublin are all but starving. The secretary of the trade appealed to the Duch- ess of Marlborough, wife of the present Vice- roy of Ireland, to use the prestige of her high position in helping to revive this languishing national industry. To-day her Grace replies, in a letter full of womanly sympathy and of practical advice and suggestion. She says that the depression of Irish poplin trade seems to be due mainly to the caprices of fashion, and she understands that it is on this ground an appeal is made to her for aid. She says her services are wholly at the dis- posal of tho poplin-weavers of Dublin, and that she is ready to take the lead in any reasonable plan that may be proposed for the ‘ encouragement of the manufacture of Irish poplin. Meantime, she suggests that those concerned in the manufacture must do some- thing in the way ofdeparting from the old 111103 on which they are working. She reminds the poplin manufactures that it is not in the power of individuals to revive a drooping trade; and she suggests a livelier exhibition of energy and taste on the part of the manu- facturers themselves ; “for it cannot be denied,” her Grace observes, “that there is a want of novelty and variety of design in the patterns, and it is an undoubted fact that in. ordinary poplins for a court dress we are now showing the same patterns as were furnished to her Majesty the Queen at the time of her wedding.” The Negro Question in South Africa. [London Spectator, Sept. 29.] Sir Garnet Wolseley’s determined persist- ence has been rewarded. Oetewayo was cap- tured, Aug. 28, in the southeastern corner of Zululand, by a detachment of the First Dra- goon Guards, and the Zulu war may, there- fore, be considered at an end. No other chief has the same ascendancy, and the new policy of acknowledging the independence of each head of a tribe, under the general supervision of a British Resident, will probably, for a time at all events, prevent the growth of a new Kingship, â€"that is, if the settlers of the Transvaal and Natal can be prevented from making raids upon the weakened tribes. The duty of the British Government now is to compensate the Zulus for invasion by secur- ing them milder and juster Government, se~ curity from the Swazies on the north, and exâ€" emption from disturbance through British land-claims. It will then only remain to de- , feat Secocoent, pacify the Pondos, conciliate , the Boers, and devise some method of meet- 3 ing the grand difficulty of all, the geographi- cal shape of the South-African Dominion. It is a triangle, with the apex civilized and the 1 base barbarian, and it may be necessary, say , for twenty years, to prohibit immigration ; from the north. Otherwise all efforts at im- provement will be destroyed by the steady i a 1 push of unknown barbarians from Central Africa. The British Guamntee and the Canada Pacificâ€"Trades Unions in England -â€"Decay of the Irish Poplin Trade â€"The Negro Question in South Africaâ€"Bismarck and His Dog- No British Guarantee ol Canadian Pacific Railway Bondn. FROM OVER THE SEA. id 1 know it may be said that. after all, we don't fear the competition of Europe but we do fear the competltion of America. (A Voice â€"Hear. hear.) We are told that our present agricultural system has failed in consequence of sustaining three classes. That is unnatural. That is a complete fallacy. Whatever may be your tenure three profits must be obtained from the land ; and the question arises whether it is not better that the profit should be represented by three classes than by one. I hear every day that it is impossible to comâ€" pete with America. (Hear, hear.) There may be other causes which have prostrated our energies at the present moment. I will not give any decided opinion upon the matter. It is a singular circumstance that at this mo- ment the greatest apprehension is felt in the United States that they cannot compete with Canada. The taxation in America is so high . â€"(hcar, hear)â€"thc rate of wages so high - (hear, hear)~that it is impossible, according to some of the best American authorities, [or them any longer to continue a successful competition with Canada. What is the posi- tion of Canada? If we are to be fed from beyond our shores it is at least a satisfaction that we should be fed by her Majesty’s sub- jects. The situation of Canada is most pecu- liar. Since thc surrender of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the settlement of their afiairs, the Dominion of Canada became possessed of what I might almost describe as an inimitable wilderness and a wilderness of fertile land. Now, a very peculiar circunr stance to be noted is that the Dominion of Canada is Jlot in favor of peasant proprietors. (Hear, hear.) \Vhat the Dominion of (lan- ada wishes to institute is a great yeoman class. It has legislated for that purpose-its legislation has now an influence for that pur- pose; and let us see what is their legislation. Every honest man, of fair character, who goes to Canada has a right to apply to the Government agent, to claim, and to obtain, a quarter section ofland, which consists of 160 acres, which he receives on the condition that at the end of three years he shall have reduced it to perfect culti- vation ; that in the interval he will raisea sub- stantial building 011 the land. At the end of these three years a Government inspector visits his allotment, and if he has fulfilled the conditions he is permitted to receive another quarter section of 160 acres, and on payment of a dollar an acre, and on no great- er payment cvon if the value of the land in the interval had greatly increased. Thus the yeoman was launched, you Will observe, but from the first moment this is not asmall busi- ness. The holder of the allotment must deal with hired labor. Hired labor is loss in Canada than in the United States. In the United States the rudest laborer you can con- ceive would get 12s a week, and a skilled laborer 16s or 18s. The first thing that a yeoman does is to cal- ' culate the value of his freehold, which will depend on the amount he has paid during pended on building, and the hard money paid down for the last quarter section, and at 4 ' per cent. he writes off the interest. What is that but rent. (Hear, hear.) I will mention a very curious clrcumstance which I have heard from the very highest authority. Some years ago the cultivationâ€"the extreme culti- . vationâ€"of the Western States alarmed this . country by aflecting prices. The production, which was extreme, has been reduced onc~ third, generally speaking, and in the same States one-half of the chief pioneers, who ad» vanced so greatly the cultivation of the ex- treme Western btates of America, have sold their farms, and have sold them at thirty- oight or forty dollars an acre, and therefore you will see there is a basis of rent included in such an arrangement. They are now re- pairing to the illimitable wilderness of (Jan- ada. You ask me what is my reference ? It is a practical one, and I think you will, upon reflection, deem it to be a wise oneâ€"- that when you are suiiering from foreign competition it is wise not to take precipitate steps, and to take care that you do not con- clude thatthat is permanent which is only transitory, especially when we see circum. stances so transitory that the very place of competition is doubtful. When you hear through meâ€"I will not say from meâ€"that Canada expects to be completely successful! in beating the United States from the Euro- pean markets, it is wise for us not to take any precipitate steps. I have had an oppor- those six years of hired labor, the amount ex- 1 n4A~L4â€"-_.__‘_s_n... --w.gâ€"c-â€". w... m._.,. w- w hroughain leap out with a bark, and contrary toall etiquette, greet the nearest bystanders in a most unpleasantly demonstrative style. I never saw such a ridiculous sight in my life. People fled in all directions, for Sultan has a bad reputation. jle nearly upset the Congress by an unjrstiliuble attack upon the Russian Plenipotentiary, and since then he has maimed one of the Berlin Fein eign Office officials for life becausehc sat down on the chair usually occupiedby Prince Bis- marck. The worst of it is that he is not the genuine historical favorite of the Chancellor, but only a spurious imitation. Sultanâ€"the original Sultanâ€"I learn was poisoned a couple of years ago, and nothing can shake Prince Bismarck’s conviction that it was two social democrats who did it. This is no banter of mine, but a well authenticated fact known to every Berliner. It is. doubtless, to preserve Sultan the second from a similar fate, that six Berlin detectives arrived here last night and, together with the police of Vienna, have: taken unwont ed measures of piecuution in the neighborhood of the Hotel Imperial 'l‘hev were certainly not wanted for the safety of Prince Bismarck, who rims no risk whatever. He has, on the contrary met with an unex- pectedly friendly welcome from the people, who, wherever they got a glimpse of the Prince, cheered him vociferously. Prince Bismarck’s hat made quite a sensation. It is a soft felt wide-awake, with a formidable brim, unique of its kind. The Prince declined the Emperor’s invitation to stay at Schoen- brunn, wishing, I suppose, to be at liberty to receive and go out as he pleased. He went to the Foreign Office at eleven this morning and was closeted with Count Andrassy for more than three hours. At four this after- noon he went with the Princess and his son to Schoenbrunn, to dine with the Emperor, with whom he exchanged calls in the course of the day. Prince Bismarck is looking rather old and worn, and his gait is by no means so sprightly as it was six months ago. He is, nevertheless, in the best health. I saw something very like a tear in the Prince’s diplomatic eye last night as the crowd greeted him with a ringing cry of ‘ Hoch, Bis- marck 1’ Between Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy business is transacted with- out the least difficulty. They are perfectly at their case together, and I am told that there is never any fencing or reticence on either side. I can readily believe this of Count Andrassy, and I dare say Prince Bis- marck is under less restraint with him than with any other statesman of the day. The fact that the Count is taking a leading part in the negotiationsâ€"or it is perhaps more correct to say in the pom‘parlcrsâ€"that are going on here just now proves that, although out of office, he will not altogether abandon power ; indeed, I fancy that after the Count’s retirement Trerebes, his seat in Hungary, will be an important branch establishment of the Ballhaus Platz in Vienna. That will, at all events. he the case as long as Prince Bismarck is Chancellor of the German Empire. Prince Bismarck, as I already mentioned, is accom- panied by the Princess and his son, Count William Bismarck. The latter is, physically, very much like his father, and is very popular in Berlin. He is a member of the German Reichstag, and is frequently on the special committees of that assembly. ‘ Count Bill,’ as he is called in Berlin, distinguished him- self during the Franco-German war as a com- mon soldier in the ranks, and his fate was often a cause of anx1ety for Prince Bismarck. He is now constantly with his father, and a friend of the family, lately describing him to me, assured me that 'Count Bill’ was a chip of the old black.” The following is a fuller report of tho speech delivered September 19th, a cable summary of which has already appeared in our colâ€" umns : E AIR]: I§EA0NSI4‘IEI.I)’H FA‘HQDUS SPEECH. ‘ fiery couch amid hideous sufferings, but still ' feared. I arise. but not to save myself. No i ‘ life is as obnoxious to me as ever. But I . The first paragraph, in German, ran as fol- lows :â€"“ I thought it would cease, but it ceases not. So be it. then. Hereby I pro- pose to solve an important question~namely, are suicides in their right senses, or are they the victims of mental aberration? Thus the question is commonly put, but I fancy that it doc-s not touch the real point at issue. A man makes up his mind to put an end to his life when he finds that he takes no interest in it ; when he cannot discover in the whole wide world the least thing which awakens sympa- thy in his breast. The question, therefore. is not whether the suicide be mad or sane, but whether or not he has anything to hope for from life. I hope for nothing in life, but my intellect is perfectly clear. ‘ (In Russian). There is still another question to solve. (In German). Are suicides cowards ‘2 That lover who allowed himself to be dragged to death by a horse before the eyes of his betrothed affords no proof to the contrary. Perhaps he Would have cast himself loose from the cords that bound him had it been in his power to ‘ do so. That other fellow, who burned him» self to death in Odessa, was probably no cow- ard, for he might have thrown away the pe- . troleum lamp and thus saved his life. Yet his, clothes were already on fire, and the straw he was lying upon was smouldering ; still he may have wished to escape death, had it been fea- sible. Now, a burning candle. to the flame of which the backbone and spinal marrow are exposed, must certainly make an end of life ; that sort of death must be attended with atrocious sufferings, and the person inflicting such agony upon himself having no power to contend with but his own proper will and pleasure, can at any moment inter- rupt the process by the slightest movement of his body. I will submit myself to this tor- ture. (In Russian.) Should I not succeed in enduring,Y the p aim, the question, will be settled, at least for the present, in the sense that suicides are cow- ards. But if my corpse exhibiting proof that I have obtained death by two agenciesâ€"by burning candles, as ministering factors, and by my dominant will, which has not blenched before excruciating tormentsâ€"that will be proof positive that men may die of their own free choice. Let me begin !" Here the writing became irregular and progressively more and more illegible. “I arise from my not so terrible as I had anticipated and must send you (in Czechism), my mother, my father, a last farewell ; my last remem- brance, my last sentiments are dedicated to you ! I think also of those who are the unwit- ting cause of this my dreadful death. Un~ witting â€" for they knew not that their love was indispensable to my life. I die without their affection, like a fish without water, like a creature of God without air. My breath fails mo. Farewell! You will follow me soon. Consideration of your feclings~you, who alone love rueâ€"has prevented me for a long while from thus putting an end to myself. I cannot do otherwise. It is so easy to follow the dead. But it would be better were you to forget me. Think not of me ! I am dying ; the experiment will succeedâ€"the worst pains are past. I do not suffer so much now. Pain b has at length become my friend. I repeat it i â€"I am in the full possession of my faculties â€"my heart beats as steadily as usual, but my pulse seems to me a little deranged. Poor Werther! the star-gemmcd still interested him ! I also have gazed at itâ€"it is a desert there above, like here beneath, like every- where ; aye, as in my heart and everywhere :1: else i (In Polish.) I return to my strange. A silently burning bed. I must put something h t e n a tunity lately of conversing with a gentleman F who may be considered the highest authority in this matter, which is as nominal, I might almost say, as statesmanship. He told me he was quite perplexed after the deepest on- quiry, as to what would be the result to (Janadaif two hundred million acres of the wilderness were gradually brought into cul- tivation. He said there were some who thought that America would be de- stroyed in that case. As regarded Canada itself, he said that if the‘ influx of population were to go on, and those fertile acres placed at their disposal he could not tell what would be the conse- quence. The population would demand not only sustenance, but extravagant and extreme sustenance, as always happensâ€"for example, in California. and wherever money was made quickly ; and for his part, he said, he should not be astonished, because of the impulsive character of humanity in the United States, if that Wilderness which now so alarms us would soon he occupied by consuming millions. What we should take into conâ€" sideration is the influence of five ruthless seasons on our land. We always heard that the interest of the farmers and the owners of the land were identical, and that between them there were feelings of regard and affection. I have always and do most solemnly and sincerely believe in this assertion ; but if ever there was a time when that sympathy should be shown it is the pre‘ sent. It would be not merely a great danger for ourselves, it would be agrcat danger for England if the farmer class should be ruined either in influence or in numbers. (Cheers) O ’s body was lying on the bare bed- stead, from which the mattress and bed- elothes had been removed; one of the sheets partly covered the legs of the corpse, which was otherwise in a state of nudity, its left hand pressed tightly upon the region of the heart, and its right hand convulsivvly clutching the hair. The eyes were wide open, fixed in a glassy death stare, and the features distorted with agony. An oppressive odor, as of scorched fat, pervaded the room. No wound was perceptible on the body, but the chest was transversely mired in several places by dull red stripes. As soon as the police, accompanied by the local medical officer, had ‘made its appearance on the scene of this lmr- rible tragedy. the corpse was turned upon its face. when the cause of death became for the first time apparent to the terror-stricken spectators. A deep and broad burn was no hibited in the middle of the back, and the spine was found to be completely carbonimd. Upon the floor, underneath the bedstend, were discovered the wicks, embedded in a little blotch of cold stearine, of three candles, which had been taken out of the candle sticks. and fixed up on aplanking upon a layer of, melted grease, and the flame of these candles l Mr â€"â€"-had laid upon the skeleton frame- ‘ work of his beedstead, and suffered his spine to be slowly consumed until he died. A manuscript, placed upon a table close to the bed, contained not only a. resume of the rea- sons which prompted this unfortunate nun to undergo self-inflicted martyrdom, but minute details of the torturing process by which he had chosen to destroy his life. It was written in four languagesâ€"German, Russian, Polish and Czechishâ€"and com- menced in a firm bold handwriting, the last few pages, however. being scarcely legible, having evidently been penned in dire agony. [low a "impairing Lover filowly Burned llilnself lo Dz‘nllnâ€"â€"Uurning His Love “Will: Ills Last Bl'enih. A most extraordinary suicide has just taken place in the Russian town of Jhitomir under exceptionally fearful circumstances. The story is told by the St. l’etorsburg Zuitzmg : â€"â€"“A few days ago a well-dressed traveller ar~ rived at the Hotel de France, stating that he was Mr. Joseph 0 , a colonial agent, and that he Wished to stay a short time in Jhitomir upon business. A room on the second floor of the hotel was assigned to him and he spent two or three days in walking about the streets, although the weather was unusually wet and stormy. On the fourth evening he retired to his room early and locked himself in. Next morning he was called at his usual hour, but returned no ans- wer to the summons. After a good deal of futile knocking and shouting the hotel proâ€" prietor became alarmed at his tenant’s pm» tructed silence, and caused the door of the room to be broken open. A terrible spectacle pre- sented itself to the assembled household. Mr. TERRIBLE HUIGJIDE IN IEUZ‘AH‘ â€"No American is ever guilty of meeting another without asking : “Well, how’s trade?" And it doesn‘t matter if one of them is a hangmah. â€"-â€"A little girl who is a, “lady” by reason of being a daughter of a noble English house, has betrayed a remarkable procivility. All the canary birds were dying, and the gov- erness discovered that the darling had been making pincushins of them while they were alive. ”Vs->5 . mwmi: Lyn-'99:.) \fiww - \Va- “ I once had what I believe was a marvel- lous escape from being bitten by a cobra.Lord Tom Norris, an old friend of mine, and I were riding along the road one moonlight night. It occurred to us that a horse race would be an agreeable variation to the routine of our somewhat monotonous horseback ex- cursions. We were soon tearing along at a break-neck speed, but the race was quickly ended. Before we had galloped a hundred yards my horse struck his foot against some- thing, rolled over, and I ‘came a cropper.’ I was a good deal shocked, and when I re- covered myself my horse was out of sight. Neither I nor Torn Norris had the least idea in what direction he had gone, and while my friend galloped along one road I started on foot on another. I had walked about a mile,” and wasjust passing the little post office, when I saw something nearly four feet high directly in front of me. It was like an up- raised stick, and when in my hasto I had nearly walked over it, it shot straight toward me. Mechanically, I raised the short stick I carried in my hand and struck at it. I took no aim whatever, and I am not all sure that I did not shut my eyes, like a young cricketer, as I delivered the blow. But it hit its mark, and, as I afterwards found. saved my life. For a cooly who came up a few seconds later with a torch held his light to the ground, where a full grown cobra lay writhing helplessly with its back broken. I was startled on that occasion ; but I was far more disturbed at another time when, as it : afterwards turned out, there was no snake there. It was the worst season of the year for venomous creatures, when Tom Norris and myself were occupying a small bunga-i low in Jubbulpore. We slept in the same‘ room, each of us having a lounge, and it was about 2 o’clock in the morning and pitch dark when I was awakened by something striking me on the back and falling, as the ‘ sound seemed to indicate. in a coil upon the floor. ” \Vhat’s that ‘2” exclaimed my friend, who awoke at the same instant, and I made no reply, for I had the strongest possible dis- like to say what I believed it to be. " What’s that ?” he asked again, and then I answered, “ I think it’s a. snake, and he has bitten me ; will you get up and go for a light ‘2” Tom Norris lay still for a while; then he said: “ Now, look here, old fol- low, if a cobra has bitten you, he won't do you the least additional harm if he bites you again, but what is the use of my being bitten too ? Hadn’t you better get up and go for the light ? Could any logic have been more reasonable ? I at once got up, and after some trouble procured a light, and we began our search for the snake. But first Tom Norris examined the place where I had been bitten, and his face grew very grave, for there were the two punctures, and it seemed clear that the snake had injured me. We hunted about the house for ten minutes, and although I felt myself growing drowsy I began to hope that I was not a cobra but some less venomous reptile that had bitten me. At last the mystery was solved. As we entered the bath room a wild cat, that for some incomprehen- i ‘ sible reason had taken refuge in the bungalow went flying, half mad with fright, out of the window, carrying half a dozen panes of glass with her in her exit. In her confusion she had evidently jumped upon the bed, and her claws had penetrated my back, making two little holes precisely like the bites of a cobra, To say that I was relieved would give you a very poor idea of my sentiments as the cat sprang through the window. All my drowsi- ness vanished, and I slept no more that night. â€"â€"Ea;chan /c. durâ€"ernkndA.‘_._n- under the candles to raise them up a little. Only one thing annoys me, that one cannot die nobly and pleasantlyâ€"the evil smell of my own consuming body offends my nostrils. (In Czechish.) Mother! father I forgive me! (In German.) Perhapslshould also set down that I forgive the being who has caused my death. But that would be a lie. I curse 1101‘ ; and if spirits have the power to return in ghostly terrors, oh! I will do so, and leave her no single moment‘s peace. It would have been so easy for her to make me happy, or at least contented. If I could remain alive my life should be vowed exclusively to vengeance on her. But I am going to my rest. Be she accursed with my last breath !" Such were the last words scrawled on this extraordinary document by an obviously dying hand I A marked race~prejudice is shown against the negro immigrants by the farmers. who are mainly Republicans in politics. Among the small white farmers of the Louisiana hill- parishes and the German settlers in Texas there is exhibited the same antipathy to negro neighbors. It may be set down as a fact that any community of white men who themselves work in the fields object to being brought into competition with a race considered to be inferior. One of the objections raised by Kansas farmers to negro settlers is that the blacks are immoral, and they fear the results of an association of the chiidren of the two races in the public schools. Err-Governor Anthony of Kansas, a lifelong abolitionist and ” pronounced" Republican, said to the writer that he was opposed to a. pauper im- migration of any nationality or of any race, and therefore had no sympathy with the en» thusiasts who would open Kansas to the pauper negroes of the South. The most potent reason against negro immigration in the minds of the leading men of Kansas is a well-grounded fear that the news of a numerous settlement of blacks in that State would serve to turn the tide of white immigration into Nebraska and Minnesota. A declared inclination on the part of the present administration in Kan- sas to invite a large immigration of negroes would immensely strengthen the feeble Dem- ocratic opposition, even if it should not re- sult in a. division of the local Republican party. The employment of Chinese in the cotton fields of the South has often been mooted ; but, to our knowledge, the only practical test, on I. large scale, of the alleged superiority of Mongolian over African labor has been made in Texas. where about three hundred Chine.- inen, imported originally to build a railroad, have been employed as laborers on cotton plantations. These Chinamen have proved to be diligent and satisfactory. They are physically inferior to the negrocs, but make up their deficiency in strength by unremitting industry, As tenants they are very shrewd, requiring that the land they rent be measured by disinterested persons, and confirming the surveyors” report by an independent measure- ment of their own. They will not submit to extortionate prices. and make their purchases where weights and measures, as well as prices, are satisfactory to them. The Chinaman contrives in some way nearly always to have a little ready money, and is accordingly able to buy his goods where he pleases. and to avoid getting into the power of the grasping merchants. The Chinaman is willing to work six days a week, while the average negro tenant is likely to make a holiday of Satur- day as well as of Sunday. One of the evils of share~farming has been the readiness of the negro to take a holiday when the mood came upon him. Yet the plodding, patient Chinaman, although honorable in meeting th e letter of his contract, is not looked upon with favor by the majority of the planters. They prefer the negro race, to all the pecul- iarities of which they have become used, and regard with disfavor the Chinaman, who is of alien religion, and destitute of every trace of American feelingâ€"1". E. Guernsey, in In- termztz'onal Rdimcw for October. 'i‘ I"; NEC wliu EXODUH AN ENDIAN STORY. â€"Tho Chicago type of a girl has a nonpar- eil head on a. brevier body and long primer feetâ€"typogzaphicnlly speaking. "f Singular Fuels Relating to [he 'l'rnusmis- sion of Pullperism Through Several Generations. Areverend gentleman recently went to the town agent’s office to make explanations in regard to a family that was making consider able trouble for the authorities. He said that the husband was utterly unfit to have the care of a family and would not support his wife, and therefore was very much in favor of a legal separatism as the best thing, not only for the man and woman, but for the town. The case was one that excited consid- erable interest among the authorities, as it was found that the husband was the son of a father and mother. both of whom had, during the latter ,years of their life been recipents of town charity. When this fact was ascertained, the question naturally arose, “ Is pauperism hereditary ?" A search of the records in the town agent’s office, so far as they go, has been made at leisure times by Clerk Zunder, and the result is a confirmation of the theory so often advanced by thinkers, that pauper- ism, and other crimesâ€"fur pauperism is in many cases little less than a crimeâ€"is heredi- tary and the number of cases where pauper parents transmit their pauper- ism to the children is something as- tonishing to one not familiar with the in- tricacies of social science. Many very inter- esting essays and pamphlets have been writâ€" ten by men who have made the history of crime a study, and a similar research into the causes of pauperism would undoubtedly re- sult in much good, showing to the managers of charities and town authorities the whys and whorefores of the increase of pauperism, and, perhaps, also give them hints as to the best way in which to prevent and cure it. Here in this city the theory that pauper-ism is hereditary has been acted upon to a certain extent by the managers of our local charities, and their efforts have been directed towards 3 effecting a cure, if possible. Their method is _ to induce all who spring from pauper parents . to work and learn habits of industry. If they [ are assisted by either the town or the local 1 3 .C‘u‘<§'v'<bffi ."."l=‘<S’-" U new 9". may“ www~wwlmwmnHH<art V charities, it is almost certain that they will always depend upon them for support and will not work for a living unless they are forced‘to do so. The investigations in the , town agent's office show that a large number of the people in the aims house, and out of it, who are weekly recipients of the town‘s charity, and who also receive aid from the , central office or charitably disposed persons, are sons and daughters of parents who were either town paupers or supported by charit . In other cases only oneparent was supported y outside aid, and then it was the case that the children who most nearly resemble the pauper parent were paupers, while those resembling the industrious parent were industrious chil- dren. The results of pauperism, connubial infelicities and family troubles, which bring about such disagreements as result in crimes ‘ of a greater or less degree. are almost invari~ ably transmitted to future generations, and the researches show this to be the fact in nine ‘ cases out of ten. This is even found to be . the fact in several cases that have come to light when the children are not aware of the fact that their progenitors were dependent on charity. The taint of paupcrism runs in the blood, and must be educated out of the sys- tem or else it can never be conquered. Another fact has been discovered by the re- searches, and one that is universal and indis~ putablc. A child of pauper parents never ,makes a good father or mother, and a mar- ‘riage between two of that class is absolutely certain to result in abject misery, an un- happy union, squalid poverty, and, usually, a large family, that has to be supported by charity. The homes of such families are no homes at all ; and in the light of these facts it seems almost a criminal matter to unite in the bonds of wedlock parties who spring from such a diseased rootâ€"New Haven Reg- ister. U‘e‘fih‘mmuaummgafiAw_.. ’ The following items are from late British EOolumbia, exchanges : { Mr. F. N. Gisborne, General Seperintend- {ent of Telegraph Lines throughout the Do- minion, visits the Province to examine the telegraph system and suggest to the Govern- ment such improvements as may appear to him requisite. Gold has been discovered in a creek situated about five miles above the mouth of Harrison River, and from its running due north it has been named North Creek. Colonels Lovell and Strange have inspected the guns of the Seymour Artillery and the Battery. The probable result of the inspec- tion will be that the Artillery corps will be properly equipped and probably numerically strengthened. There are large arrivals of gold at Victoria from mines in the upper country. The crops are reported good. An American sloop has been seized for smuggling. Mr. J. P. Davies, a. prominent citizen of Victoria, died suddenly of heart disease on the 23rd ult. Mr. Davies was a native of London, and was in the 58th year of his age. He came to California in 1849 and to Victoria in 1863. Mr. Davies was one of the founders of the Order of Oddfellows in the Province; he was also a prominent Mason. was noted for his charitable disposition. and always took a leading part in public afiaim. At the last Dominion election he stood as a candi- date for the Commons in Victoria and was defeated by only a few votes. An early session of the Legislature is pro- posed to give the Dominion another ultima- tum if the C. P. Railway is not begun imme- diately in the Province. A Mile of 185,000 cases of Columbia river canned salmon was effected about the middle of last month. Mr. John Brown, of Burgoyne Bay. Salt Spring Island imported by the Princess Royal a steam treefeller of four l1orse-powe1. The saw is adjusted to the tree, and is wo1ked by steam supplied by the engine through pipes, the engine being situated at a safe distance from the tree marked for felling. Two trees may be felled at one time, and the same ma- chine will cut the trunks into blocks of wood of stove lengths. Specimens of silver ore and grains of gold have been found in the Leech River district. The specimens are interesting. and would appear to support the theory of old miners that. “ some day or another Leech River would astonish the world.” Kifig dz 0015 Salmon Cannery at New West- miggterv has beep destroyed by fire. A cabin occupied by a. leprous Chinaman in Victoria was burned to the ground by the proper authorities, the inmate having been previously removed by his friends to other and more out of the way quarters. Dr. N. F. Foster, of Parson’s Bridge. brought down about $40,000 in dust, and other parties brought down amountsâ€" swellinu- the whole to $50,000. Dr. Foster has with him the finest and purest nugget of gold yet seen from Cassiar or even in British Columbia. It weighs 45% 029. pure gold. no quartz being mixed with it, and. it is valued at between 3700 and 3&0. A boom of logs consisting of 500,000 feet of fir and 80,000 feet of white pine recently arrived at Nanaime from Comox. Mr. J. B. Chantrell was ordained a. min- ister of the Reformed Episcopal church on Sunday, the 20th ult. Awrecking schooner with divers is now examining the scene of the wreck of the steamship Brother Jonathan. The hull lies in 130 feet; of water. There was about $1,000,- 000 in gold and greenbacks on board the steamer when she went down. The Indian who murdered . Mr. Jenkinson was tried at Glenora Landing on the 29th ult_., my} sentenqeq [to be_ hanged. The mining news from Cassiar is very meagre, a. few claims only were panning out gold to any extent, and 9. good many men were leaving the mines disappointed. The season on the whole has been very poor, and no new discoveries have been made. BRITISH COLUMBIA ITE MS. IN 'l‘llE BLOOD. â€"0f the seven million Hebrews in the world statisticians say there are five millions in Europe and a million and a half in the United States, In Norwich, 001111., there is a. man who probably wears the longest beard of any man in the world. His name is Henry C. Cook, a. tailor by trade. He never makes a display of his heard, but wears it concealed in a little bag in his shirt bosom. The beard is six feet six inches in length. and when allowed to fall its length it will reach to his toes and stretch out on the floor ten inches, and looks like a large skein of brown silk. It was six inches longer than at present, but a. short time ago be trimmed it off to its present length. Mr. ‘ Cook says it has been growing about twenty- one years. A year ago Mr. 1’. T. Barnum called on him and tried to induce him to travel with his show, but Mr. Cook’s modesty and the desire of his wife that he should not accept Barnum’s liberal offer, induced him to reject it. In speaking of Cook in connection with the man with a long beard in Michigan, Barnum said that Cook’s was by far the long- est and finest of the two. Mr. Cook often shows his heard to visitors, but is not in the habit of making a great parade over it. The truth of these statements can be substan- tiated by calling on him at his place of business. “Hum ! yes !" muttered the butcher ; “do you call that {1, trick ‘2” “I do,” confidently replied the man. “Well. it’s a blasted mean one l" “Just soâ€"just so." said the man. “You couldn’t expect such a good looking dog as that to be around playing tricks on a guitar or a jewsharp, could you ? I’llseo you later about the hams.”â€"Detroit Free Press. 7 Cato saw it. He {mlked over to it, seized it in his mouth and as he went up the 5119 at it was hard to tell dog from dust. 'l‘llE lAlNGES‘I‘ BEAR], IN ’I‘IIE \VORLD. “0h, noâ€"-ho’s a trick dog," answered the owner. “Is eh ? What tricks can he do ‘2" 011, a dozen or two. He has one very pc- culiar trick, though. Would you like to see him do it ‘2” “I would, that. Vtht is it .9” The man directed the butcher to put a. pound of nice beefstcak on a sheet of brown paper and place the whole on the doorstep. He then said to his dog, which had watched matters very keenly : “Now. Cato, I am about to call upon you to perform a trick. You have never gone back on me yet, and I have perfect confidence in you now. Onto, do you see that meat ‘2” A humpedâ€"shouldered old man, followed by a dog which seemed to have fasted for a year past, entered a Woodward avenue butcher shop the other day. and the man made some inquiries about the price of smoked hams. The butcher saw the dog, of course, and who ever saw a butcher who didn’t want to know all about a dog ? “Is that a.“ mood coon dog ?” asked the butcher as he patted the shy canine on the heal. Indeed, it may be said that her Majesty has lived to receive at court in very many. perhaps in most instances, the successive wearers of the same coronet, and she has seen four Lords Beauehemp, four Lords Aberdeen, four Dukes of Newcastle. four Dukes of North- umberland and five Lords Rodney. She has received the homage of four Archbishops of Canterbury, of four Archbishops of York and of five Bishops of Chichestcr, Litehfield and Durham successively. She has filled three of the Chief Justiceships twice at least ; she has received the addresses of four successive Speakers of the House of Commons ; she has intrusted the Great Seulof the Kingdom to no less than nine different Lord Chancellors, and she has commissioned eight successive Pre- miers to form no less than eighteen diflerent administrations. And new. as she looks back on the two and forty years of her reign, what changes has her Majesfy seen in the personnel of her privy council, her Parliament and her cabinet ministers, to say nothing of her Judicialand episcopal bench ‘2 She has outlived by several years every Bishop and every J udge whom she found seated on those benches in Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland. She has wit- nessed the funeral of every Premier who has served under her except Lord Beuconsfield and Mr. Gladstone. Not a. cabinet minister of her uncle and predecessor’s days now sur- vives ; and of those who held inferior offices under her first find favorite Premier, Lord Melbourne, I can find among the living only Lord Halifax (Linen Mr. Charles Wood) {Llld Lord Howicli (now Lord Grey). 0f the members of the prixiy council which set at Kensington Palace on that bright sum- mer morning in June, 1837,t0 administer the oaths to the girlish Queen, I can find in the land of the living only four individualsâ€"Mr. George S. Byng (now Lord Stafford), Sir Stratford Canning (now Lord Strat- ford de Radcliffe). Lord Robert Grosvenor (now Lord Ebury),and the veteran Earl of Wilton. 1. The having of one is proof that you are son i‘hody. Wishy washy, empty worthless people, never have enemies. Men who never move neverrun against anything : and when a man is thoroughly dead and utterly buried, nothing ever runs against him. To be run against is proof of existence and position ; to run against something is proof of motion. 2. An enemy is say the least, not partial to you. He will not flatter. He will not ex- aggerate your Virtues. It is very probable that he will magnify your faults. Tho ben- efit of that is twofold ; it permits you to know that youhave your faults, and are there- fore not a monster, and it makes them of such a size as to be visible and man- ugable. Of course, if you have a fault you desire to know it ; when you become aware that you have a fault you desire to correct it. Your enemy does for you valuable work which your friend cannot perform. 4. He is a detective among your friends. You need to know who your friends are, and who are not, and who are your enemies. The last of these three will discriminate the other two. When your enemy goes to one who is neither friend nor enemy, and assoils you, the indifferent one will have nothing to my or chime in. not because he is your enemy, but because it is much easier to assent than op- pose, and especially than to refute. But your friend will take up cudgels for you on the in- stant. He will deny everything and insist on proof, and proving is very hard work. There is scarcely a truthful men in the world that could afford to undertake to prove one-tenth of all his truthful assertions. Your friend will carry your enemy to the proof, and if the indifferent person, through carelessness, re- peats the assertions of your enemy, he is soon made to feel the inconvenience thereof by tho zeal your friend manifests. Follow your enemy around and you will find your friends, for he will have developed them so that they cannot be mistaken. The next best thing to have to a hundred real friends is to have one open enemy. But let us pray to be delivered from secret foes.~â€" Sunday Magazine. Always keep an enemy in hand An brisk, hearty, active enemy. Remark the use of an enemy â€"â€" 3. In addition, your enemy keeps you wide awake. He does not let you sleep at your post. There are two that always keep watch â€"â€"namely, the lover and the hater. Your lover watches that you may sleep. He keeps off noises. excludes lights, adjusts surrounds ings, that nothing may disturb you. Your hater watches that you may not sleep. He stirs you when you are napping. He keeps your faculties on the alert. Even when he does nothing he will have you in such a state of mind that you cannot tell what he will do next, and the mental qm' viva must be worth something. ‘VIIONI VIC’I‘III‘IA [LES 0L ‘l‘IVEEB [IE BUTCIIEK \VllO LOS' HE USES 01“ AN EN (From the London Hemld‘) â€"A young man dressed in the height of fashion and with a. poetic turn of mind, was driving along a country road, and, upon gazing at the pond which skirted the high- way, said, “ Oh, how I would like to lave my heated head in those cooling waters l” An Irishman, overhauling the exclamation, im- mediately replied, “ Bodad, you might lave it there and it wouldn’t sink." â€"Two artmts in conversation : “ He’s going no marry Mlle. T. ?” “ Yes.” “Is she rich 7” “ No.” “ Pretty ?" “ Scarcelyâ€"why, she writes l” “ That’s no reason why she shouldn’t be pretty.” “ Yes, it is. though, generally speaking. \Vomen, my dear boy, never put on blue stockings until there is no longer any curiosity to know the color of their garters.” ~0 earth I give our ; O heavens! hear, The Lord your God lmth spoken ; Your sacrifices he disdains, Your idols shall be broken. CHORUS. The Mighty Ono exalt yo O’er Jerusalem and J udalx, And floods and fields and isles afar Shout glory ! Hallelujah ! â€"Tho melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, when it’s too warm for hot spiced rum, too cold for lager-beer; deep in the hollows of the wood the withered leaves lie deed, and the girls go forth and gather up about three peaks per head. â€"We have called on the Great Father at Washington for redress, and he told us to “ brace up.” Are those the words of a. kmd father to his children ‘2 We asked again, and he told us to “ cheese it.” Is that the talk of a great chief ? No ! We are dropping 011' like autumn leaves. The toes of the red men are turning up on every sidesâ€"Sitting Bull. -The absurdity of certain parts of the mar- 1-iagc service were well illustrated by a coun- try bumpkin. who led a bashful damsel to the altar. Tue clergyman gravely asked, “ Wilt thou have this woman to he thy wedded wife ?” and the youth answered, “ Why. par- son, of course I will ; that’s just what I came here fa.” V V â€"It W111 be when the mortgage on the Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church is lifted, says the Rev. Dr Morehouse, the beloved pastor. Buyn. ticket; for Saturday's benefit ex. cursion. -Willie, aged 10, and Jemmy,aged 6,Were playing together. One of them was minutely examining a fly. “ I wonder how God made him 3" he exclaimed. “ God don‘t make flies as carpenters make things,” observed the otherboy. "' God says, let there be flies, and there is flies.” â€"-Heré is an advertisement put forth by a. church in New York : â€"When a German determines to marry he goes to the father of the young lady and asks openly how much money goes with the dau- ghter. Matrimony is very much the same thing with us, the only difl‘erence being that we discover the nil-important fact in a. more indirect way. â€"“A11, me,” sighed a rising young genius. throwing down his pen and leaning back wem-ily, “you don’t know how much pleas- anter and easier it; is to read these little poems of mine than to write them.” Sympathetic but awkward friencLâ€"“Gad, how you must suifor, then I” 4 4 ‘ HEN I CAN READ MY TITLE CLEAR" â€"It W111 be when the mortgage on the â€"“ Will you ever be mine?" he asked her mptuxously; and when she answered,“ There s one above knows all, " he thought camp- meuting had struck in and clinched ; but she only referred t1; the old man. who was slum- bering in the “front room â€"second.” â€"Apropos of the spelling reform agitation an exchange remarks : â€"â€"Reform in spelling means that you Muat cut your program short ; A domagog you must become And with cmtm‘ consort. As they beat upon the shore ‘2 They say that business isn't paying. And there is no use staying, staying, By the sea bench any more. â€"\thn the girl who has encouraged a young man for about two years suddenly turns around and tells him that she can never be more than a. sister to him, he can for the first time see the freckles on her nose. â€"Economical : Young wife (shopping)â€" “I‘m giving a. small dinner twmorrow, and I shall want some lamb.” Butcherâ€"“Yes, ’m; fore-quarter 0’ lamb, ’m ‘2” Young Wife â€"“I think three-quarters will be enough I” â€"The only time in life when women seems to be truly happy is when she calmly sits down and attempts to trim a new bonnet with old trimmings. She seems to be truly happy, but what a. Vesuvius is at work in her heart! â€"“ Somebody’s coming when the dew- drops fall,” she was softly humming, when the old man remarked, “An’ you bet yer sweet life, Maria, that he'll think a thunderstorm’s let loose when he gets here.” â€"â€"\AV111}t [up tlte Wildynvgs Stuffing, saying, “ No,“ said the Texas lawyer, as he placed a couple of loaded Derringers on the table be- fore him, “ the fact that the witness is a desperate man will not deter me from asking him such questions as I may deem proper.” â€"“ They are trying: a lot of ‘ Pinafore’ singers in there,” said Smith to Jones. as they passed a building whence floated strains of “A Maiden Fair to See,” etc. “Glad o! it,” returned the misanthropical Jones ; “hope they’ll give ‘em sixty days and costs.” â€"Things are not exactly right. A careful political economist closely calculates that women in this country might annually save $14,500,000 in ribbons which the men might spend in cigars. â€"A correspondent asks us what is good for moths. We don’t know much about it, but we should recommend plenty of healthy, nour- ishing food, with seltzer-water occasionally to aid digestion. â€"The are lots of people in this world who are only waiting to become angels in the next. During the wait they put in time turn- ing widow women out of house and home and poisoning their neighbors’ dogs. â€"A ton of gold makes a fraction over half a million of dollars, and when a man says 1113 wife is worth her weight in gala, and she weighs 120 pounds, she is worth $30,000. â€"-An Eastern editor says : “ Susan B. An- thony wears lilac stockings.” This is not trustworthy, however. The person in pursuit of such information would never come back alive to tell it. the ‘ now‘ â€"â€"The merchant who smiles now-a-days is the merchant who advertises. â€"“ What is marriage ‘3” “ One woman the more and one man the lesii.’7 HAgussiz used to say that he had no time to spam to make money. Most of us now-a- days have no time to spare for anything else. â€"If children would spend more time on their mother’s knou and mothers would use the proper cm‘rectives while they are thelje â€"Now is agood time to blufi" the public for a bet on next winter’s ice crop. ~" Do unto others as you would be done by,” but. take precious care that you are not ” done" by others. ~A prize is offered for the best conundrum to the following answer : 0110 is a boiled on- ion, the other is an oiled bullion. â€"A young mamhearing t11ut”Silenco gives consent,” said that he wished Old Silence was his girl’s father. But we don’t; know what he meant. â€"W0mxm continfles enigmatical. When she gets hot she runs at her husband’s nose, but when she gets cold she runs at her own. HThe man who invented the gas-meter achieved the nearest approach to perpetual motion that we will ever see. AWoman's writes ~Postscripts ~Jl‘hough Col. Rebel-t Ingersoll Is guilty of some follies, He makes his queer idem; pxw, And that‘s his Ingcrsolaco. \vdrld would become bettevr than it is COMIC BUDGET.