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She talked rapidl,7 and excitedly, and laid her hand on Rossie’s arm, as if to lead her to Dr. Matthewson, who forestalled the inten- tion by suddenly appearing before them. He was more impatient to speak to Rosamond than Josephine was to have him, and joined them for that very purpose. Never in his life had he seemed more at his ease, or ap- peared to better advantage. and there was something very winning and gracious in his manner as he bowed to Miss Hastings, and hoped she found herself well in the delicious Florida. air. "You do not look very strong," he said. “I hope a. few days of this sunshine will do you much good.” He was very kind and considerate, and bade her be seated again while he talked with her a few moments on indifferent topics. Then, consulting his watch, he said to Josephine : “Mrs. For- rest. . don’t you think we should have that game of croquet before the day gets hotter? And Rosamond had answered him : “Only God can free you from the bond.” and had said he must never write like that to her again it he wished her to answer him ; and so the last hope Was crushed, and Everard took up his load once more and tried to bear it more manfullyr- and by closer attention to his practice to forget the bliss which might have been his had he not rashly thrown the chance away. Bessie had said to him in her letter, “Pray, Everard as I do ; pray often, that you may learn to think of me as oaly your sistel the little I‘uossio who amused you and whom you liked to tease. ” dreary life was to him withdut her, and asking if she could not bring herself to think that the divorce he could so easily get was valid, and would free him from the hate- ful tie which bound him ? But Everard did not pray. On the con- trary, he was in a most resentful and rebel- lious frame of mind, and blamed the Provi- dence which had permitted him to go so far astray. It was well enough for women to pray, and to those who had never been tried and tempted as he had been, but for himself, he saw no justice in God‘s dealings with him. and he could not ask to be content with what he loathed from his very soul, he wrote in reply to Rossic, who, while he grew harder and more reck~ less, was rapidly developing into a. character sweeter and lovelier than anything Everard had known. And the new life and principle within her showed itself upon her face, which was like the face of Murillo’s sweetest Madon- na, where the earthly love blends so harmon- iously with the divine. and gives a glorious and saintly expression to the lovely counten- ance. But Rossie’s health had suffered from this constant sense of pain and loss. The bright color was gone from her cheeks save as it came and went with fatigue or excitement, and there was about her a frail, delicate look, wholly unlike the child Rossie, who used to be so full of life and vigor in the old happy days at the Forrest House. Still. she cem- plained of nothing except that she was always tired, but this was, in Mrs. Andrews’ mind, a sufficiently alarming symptom, and it was as much on Rossie’s as on her own account that she planned the trip to Florida, where she hoped the warm sunlight would bring strength again to the girl whom she loved almost as a daughter. And so they were at the St. James’, where Mrs. Andrews found several acquaintances, but Rossie saw no one whom she knew, and as she had a severe head-ache she kept her room, and did not appear until the second day, when she dressed herself and went down to join Mrs. Andrews on the piazza, where the guests usually congregated in the morn- ing. There was a crowd of them there- now. and Mrs. Andrews, who was very popular and entertaining. was already the centregf a group of friends. with Whom she'was talking, when Rosamond appeared, and made her way to- wards her. Everybody turned to look after her, and none more eagerly than Dr. Matthew- son, who stood leaning against the railing, and waiting for Josephine to join him. He had watched for Bessie all the preceding day after her arrival, and felt greatly disappointed at her non-appearance, but he knew she was there, his half-sister, and the heiress to hun- dreds of thousands, and, as he believed, of a nature which he could mould as he would clay, if he could only know just what her tastes were, and adapt himself to them. As yet he had been quite non-committal, only devoting himself to Josephine, and talking very little with any one, so that he could, if necessary, become a saint or a sinner, and not seem inconsistent. Probably he would have to he a saint, he thought , and when at last Rossie appeared, and passed so near to him that he might have touched her, he was quite sure of it. Girls with the expression in their faces which hers wore didn‘t believe in slang and profanity, and the many vices to which he was addicted, and of which Josephine made so light. Ros; sie was pure and innocent, and must never suspect the black catalogue of sins at which he sometimes dared not look. How fair and lovely she was, with the sweet modesty of demeanor which never could have been feigned for the occasion; and how eagerly the doctor watched her. as she joined Mrs. Andrews, and was introduced to the ladies around her. “Thank you so' much I knew I could trust you," Josephine said, feeling immensely relieved. "And now come, let me present you to a. friend whom I used to know in Hol- burton, V and met after in Dresden. He is here for his health, and is so kind to Aggie and me. You must come to my room and see Agnes. She never stops a moment here after she has had her meals." W‘Mrs. Forrest,” Rosaie exclaimed, "I have no wish to injure you. If Iam asked straight- forward questions I must tell the truth ; otherwise I have nothing to say of your life at home, or of anything in the past pertain- ing to you and Everard.’ She, too, had watched anxiously for Rosa- mond, whom she meant to secure before any mischief could be done, and she saw her now at once in the distance, and saw the doctor was looking in that direction, too, and knew’, before she asked him, of what he was think- ing. But a slight frown darkened her face at his frank reply : " Come with me a moment, please ; there are so many things I want to say. Suppose we take a. little turn on the piazza,” and lead- ing Bessie around the corner of the hotel to a seat Where no one was sitting, she plunged at once into the subject uppermost in her mind. “Miss Hastings,” she said, “you alone of 8.11 the people here know just how I am liv- ing with Everard, or, rather, not living with him. It was not necessary for me to explain everything, and for aught they know to the contrary, I have the most devoted of hus- bands, who may join me any day. You, of course, can undeceive them if you like, butâ€"â€" “Good-morning. A penny for your thoughts,” was cooed in his ear, and turning, he met Josephines blue eyes up- lifted to him, and Josephine herself stood therein her very prettiest white wrapper, with an Oleander blossom in her golden " I am thinking how very pretty and at- tractive Miss Hastings is. You must manage to introduce me as soon as possible, or I shall introduqe myself.” Just then Rossie turned her face fully to- ward her, and their eyes met in recognition. There was a violent start on Rossie’s part, and the blood flamed into her cheeks for. an instant; and then left them ashy pale, as she saw the woman for whom she could not have much respect smiling so brightly upon he1, and advancing to meet her as quickly and gladly as if they weie the greatest friends. “ 0h. Miss Hastings !" she said, in her most flute-like tones, “ this is a surprise. I am so glad to see you. When did you come ?” Rossie explained when she had come and with whom, and after a. few brief remarks on the town and the climate. made as if she would return to Mrs. Andrews ; but now was Jose- phine’s opportunity or never, and still holding Rossie‘s hand, which she had not relinquished, she said : [CONTINUED FROM FIRST mam] â€"A Southern gentleman has recently wedded Miss Lizzie Dollar. If he husbands his fortune he ought nevu: to be without a Dollar in the houseâ€"Rome Sentinel. Wrong again. After he married her she hadn't a D01- lar to her mamaâ€"«New Haven Register. He was well satisfied with her when she was a Dollar, but he thinks she makes a better- half. It is saiddn summing up Edison's successes and failures. that he has attained the subdivi- sion of the electric light ; that he has invented a. machine for the generation of electricity which gives over eighty-three per cent. of available power. while former machines only gavefifty per cent. ; and that he has invented a meter which estimates the strength of the electric current accurmtely. The little lamp with its horseshoe of paper carbon glowing in vacuo is only a part of a lighting system which he has created. 0n the other hand it is plain that Edison's lamps have not lasted more than six months. and that the paper carbon bums out and is by no means satisfactory. It is also clear that the cost of the new electric light is kept sedulously in the dark. The in- ventor says it Will be cheaper than gas, but nobody knows for certain whether it will or not. You seethey are beginning to occupy the grounds already." and he nodded toward the opposite side of the park, where a group of young ladies and gentlemen were knocking about the balls preparatory to a game. “To~ morrow we shall ask you to join us,”he said to Russia. “ but as n, 'plwsmirm, I advise you to rest to-day after your long journey. Coming suddenly into this climate is apt to debilitate if one is not cure- ful. Good-morning, Miss Hastings," and with a graceful wave of his hand he walked away with Josephine, leaving Rosamond to look after and admire his splendid physi- que and manly form, and to think what a pleasant. gentlemanly person he was, with such a melodious voice. “Well, Joe, did you fix it all right with her ‘2” , "Fix what ‘2” Josephine asked, knowing perfectly well what he meant, but: being de- termined that he should explain. “ Yes. I had seen him, and I married the marks of our meeting for weeks and weeks 1on my forehead, and the remembrance of it in my heart always. I had a step- mother,-a weak young thing whom I hated from the first, for no special reason that I now recall, except that she was a stepmother and I thought I must hate her : and I did, and worried her life almost out of her; and when a baby sister was born I hated that be- cause it was hers, and because it would natur- ally share in my father’s property, which was not large. The new mother was luxurious in her tastes. and spent a great deal, and that made trouble between her and my fathernvho, though a very elegant man in public, was the very Old Nick at home, and led his young wife such a life that even I pitied her some- times, and did not wonder that she left him at last, and took refuge with her intimate friend, Mrs. Forrest, Everard’s mother. Not long after she left home my father died, and I was made very angry because of some money he left to Rossie, which I thought ought to be mine, inasmuch as it came to him from my mother. So I persecuted my mother-in-law, who, I believe, was more_e’afraid of me than of the old Harry himself. I went to the Forrest House and demanded first to see her, and then to see my sister, pretending I was going to take her away. The boy Everard was at home, had just come in from riding, and he ordered me from the house, and when I refused to go,the striphng attacked me with his whip, and laid the blows on well, too, especially the one on my face, the mark of which I carried so long. I swore I’d have revenge on him, and I kept my word, though at one time I gave up the idea entirely. That was at the camp-meet- ing, where a lot of them converted me, or thought they did, and for a spell I felt dif- ferently. and got a license to preach, and tried to be good ; but the seed was sown on stony ground, and came to nothing, and I took seven spirits worse than the first. and backslid and quit the ministry, and went to studying physio, and was called doctor, and roamed the world over, sometimes with plenty of money, sometimes with none, and drifted at last to Holburton, where you asked me to be the priest in the play, and marry you to Everard Forrest. You probably do not remember how closely I questioned you about the young man. I wished to be certain with regard to his identity. and I was after talking with him about his home in Rothsay. He told me of Rossie, and boasted of the whipping he had given her brother, whose vengeance he did not fear. He was young. His father was rich, and proud as Lucifer, and would hardly think a prin- cess good enough to marry his only son, mgch less you, the daughter of his land- la y. Already he was beginning to affect and influence her thoughts, and she sat. and watched him as he walked very slowly toward the croquet ground, where, instead of joining in the game. he sat down at some little dis- tance and continued his conversation with Josephine, whose cheeks were flushed, and who seemed unusually excited. The doctor’s first" remark to her as they left: the hotel had been : “Why, have you hired her not to go back on you. and tell that you are [9. grass widow instead of a loving wife, whose husband is pining in her absence ‘1” The elegant doctor could be very coarse and unfeeling when he talked with Josephine, whom he understood so well, and who re- plied : “If you mean will she hold her tongue about my affairs, she will. and she does not. know that you are the “priest all slmven and show, who married the youth all tut- tered and torn to the maiden all forlorn.” I did not think it necessary to tell her that. Possibly, though, she may have heard your name from Everard ; I do not know how that may be. I only told her that I met you in Holburton, and that I met you again at Dresden.” “ One question at a time, my dear. I am her brother,und my name was Hastings once, â€"John Matthewson Hastings. I took the Matthewson and dropped the Hastings to pleases. relative, who left. me a. few thouâ€" sands at her death. I did know Rossie was my sister when I first met Everard Forrest in Holburton, and to that knowledge you owe your present exalted position as his wife.” She turned her eyes inquiringly upon him and he continued : “ I told you I was going to make a clean breast of my sins, and I am, so far as your business is concerned. I hated Everard and the whole Forrest race, and that was my re- venge.” “Hated Everard! you seen him before Holburton ‘2” Josephin plied : “Yes ;"â€"the doctor smoothed his mous- tache thoughtfully a. moment. and then added - “I my Joe, don‘t be in such a hurry to get to the croquet. I want to talk with you. I’ve turned a new leaf. I've reformed. That time I was so sick in Austria, I re- pented. I did, upon my soul, and said a. bit of a. prayerâ€"and I believe I’ll join the church again ; but first I‘ll confess to you, who I know will be as lenient toward me its any one. I suppose you think you know just what and who I’um, but you are mistaken. I am 9. hypocrite, a. rascal, a. gambler, and have broken every Commandment, I do be- lieve, except "thou shalt not kill,” and under great provocation I might do that, perhaps ; and added to all this, I am Rossie Hastings’ half-brother." “ Rossie Hastings’ brother; and didy know it; when you first came to Holburtyonu, and Why 1511 ’t your name Hastings. then ?” Josephine asked, excitedly, and he re- plied, in the most quiet and composed man- ner : ElIlSflN’S ACIIIEVEIVIISNTS‘ (TO BE CONTINUED.) rcrard I For what? Had 1 before yéu met him in Josephine said ; and he re- â€"China‘s immense can"! fields are at last being developed. the superstition of the peoâ€" ple having been overcome. In a district near chang, on the Upper Yangtse-Kiang, a â€"The Paris Figaro says : “ Do not waste your orange peel, but make an incision round it midway, and remove carefullyin two halves. Take the two cups and place them hollow downward, one on the grass and the other among the plants or vegetables. A: the end of a few days you will be rid of all slugs, black or gray. Every morning you will find that they have taken refuge under the cups of orange peel, and can be destroyed." â€"The author of :1 recent work on Portugal says 2â€"“1‘he Portuguese are neither an Ori- ental people nor a purely Northern nor a purely Southern nation. but a race blending the character with the blood of the North and the Southâ€"a nation educated in its youth by Moors and Ambn. Their dances partake of their lineage and of their training. They dance a jig and are a little absurd ; they dance a bolero and are interestigg.” â€"In addition to matters of national inter- est the Congress of French Geographical Societies, which is to meet at Nancy early in Auguat, is to discuns several questions of commercial and scientific geography. among which will be the adoption of a prime merid- ian common to all counfiries. It will also con- sider the best means for advancing the inter- ests of French colonies, the promotion of ex- ploration, etc. *Nfoses Box desa‘ted the girl whom he had long courted, at New Albany, Ind., and mnrripd another. The bride’s parents had lately died. The desvrted girl declared that Box lmd murdered them. because they op- posed his suit. and she sat about collecting evidence against him. Though unaided in her detective work at, first, she has made out a, case strong enough to justfiy his indictment. â€"The Italian parliament is chosen by a. little more than half a. million electors, and of these hardly a quarter of a million ever come to the polls. The electoral qualification is the payment of direct taxes to the amount of forty lire-or thirty-two shillings of Eng- lish money -â€" but in a country so very poor this and the apathy of the people keep mil- lions ofi‘ the electoral list. -â€"For weeks past the mortality of London has been only 20 to the 1,000. â€"-For early morning walking the fashion- able costume is of Indian wool, with an Eng- lish jacket. â€"Thislmbit of ministers kissing female members of their flock may not be wrong, but it’s apt to raise fever blisters on the con- gregation. â€"By a. return of agrarian outrages in Ire- land down to Jan. 31, the total was 977, of which Counaught claims 544 and Mayo and Galway alone contribute 400. The other provinces average 140. Of the 977 convicâ€" tion could only be secured in 69, while in the majority of eight hundred and odd cases the offenders were not even made amenable. The convictions in Gonnaught were less than five per cent. -â€"The long projected removal of the head- quarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet from from Nicolaiefi to Sebastapol is likely to take place-this summer. The floating dock at the former place is to be removed next monthI End by dégrees the machinery in the various workshops of the Nicolaiefi' dockyard will be shifted to Sebastapol to the workshops that are being constructed there. â€"The consumption of melt in the United Kingdom during the year ending 30th of Sep- tember last was 55,079.786 bushels,as against 58,063,273 bushels in the year 1874 75, show- ing a decrease in the former year of 5.1 per cent. In England and Wales the decrease was 4.4 per cent, and in Scotland no less than 28 per cent.' while as regards Ireland there was a blight increase. â€"â€"T11e register of Mulhain Tam Church E,11g1and ilately restored, contains the record of a marriage solemnized by OH: er Cromwell as a. magistrate. â€"Iu the next fifteen years almost all the Russian railroads now in operation will under- go the process of redemption and become Government property. â€"â€"The new occupants of the Treasury bench in the House of Commons seem far more reserved and less friendly with one an- other than their predecessors. Perhaps this is because they have not been so long in offi- cial association, but at all events there they sit, silent, isolated, gloomy, very apt remind- ers of the famous "extinct volcano" smile which Lord Beaconsfield flashed on them. â€"Ame1ican exports to China. for the years 1877 and 1878 were valued at nearly $7, 000, - 000, and the merease 1n 1879 was rapid and heavy. â€"Lord Bosebury’s luck is ”dead out.” He has fifty horses in training, and the most im- portant race he has won this year is the Ash- stead Stakes with Chevronel, who 18 blind of one eye. â€"â€"Mr. Gladstone is a man of great moral ideas, and when he is at home he reads the Scripture lessons in Hawarden church. But in London he goes to see naughty Sam Bern- hardt play, and writes gushing letters to her next day. â€"The Rev. C. W. Parsons, of Gouverneur, N. Y.., sent a notice to the local paper that he would preach to the students of the seminary on the “The Force that Wins,” but a printer made It read, “The Horse that Wins," and the person’s congregation was shocked. â€"-The following curious directions to wor- shippers in the Church of St. Michel and All Angels, at Chiswick, in England, require some explanation : “During prayers all are requested to kneel. The kneelers should be hung on the hooks provided for the purpos by those who have used them." â€"At Folkestone, England. lately, 9. mar- ried couple, who, only three weeks after mar- riage had separated, by mutual consent, met on the bench, when the husband ran up to the wife, put his arms around her. and kissed her. She gave him in custody for assault, and he was bound over in 31,000 to keep the peace. -â€"-An ourang-outang lately exhibited at Munich amazed people by its skill on the violin, until one evening a doubting visitor stuck a penknife into it. and as this bad no effect, pulled its tail, which came off, bring- ing along 9, piece of hide. The disguise had defied detection for a week. The wearer was the father of the exhibitor of the media. â€"-â€"The London Lancet times the necessity of supplying seats to shop girls while on duty, and declares its intention to publish lists of the names of those houses which at once fur- nish seats. These lists will be given to pl: y- sicians, who will exhibit them 111 their fami- lies, the ladies of which will be asked not to trade at shops that, for want of seats, are "cruel to women.” - Mr. Jenkins. late M. P. for Dundee, the author of “Glnx’s Baby," is out; of the House. He was very unpopular there, being over- weighted with canceit of self and uneudowed with any portion of the essential element to success in life known as tact. â€"A pamphlet entitled “Agriculture in the United States and Russia," just issued in St. Petersburg, concludes that unless all the modern appliances of the grain trade and the improved American methods of agriculture are introduced to Russia, Russian prosperity will be seriously endangered. â€"A husband overtook his eloping wife at Harvard, Neb., and aimed his pistol at her, instead of attempting to wreak vengeance upon her companion. The bullet missed her, but she carried out. his design herself by swallowmg poison, declaring that she did not desire to live if he wished her dead. â€"Mlle. Sam Bernhardt does not look ex- ceedingly strong, but few even of the strong- est of her sex could support thelabor through which she goes. One Saturday recently. after playing in an afternoon and an even- ing performance, she rehearsed “ Frou Frou" from 12 p. m. until 6 o’clock the next morning. ROUND THE WORLD â€"â€"Signor Bellachini, the renowned German prestidigitateur, one morning recently visited the Emperor William, with whom he is a great favorite, at his study overlooking the Linden avenue, and asked to be appointed “Royal Court Artist.” "I will do it, Della- ohini, if you will perform some extraordinary clever trick, worthy of the favor you ask," re- plied the Emperor. Bellachini immediately took up a pen, and handing it with some paper on the table to the Emperor, requested him to write, “Bellachini can do nothing at; all.” Neither pen nor ink would be persua- ‘ ded to perform its functions. “Now then, sire. will you try with the same to write, “Bellachini is the Emperor’s Court Artist 3’” The second attempt was as successful as the first had been the contrary, and Bellachini was at once, under the Emperor’s own hand, made “Royal Court Artist.” . â€"The last connecting link in the route across Australia from east to west, has lately been completed by a traveller from the side of Queensland. He started from Mulligan River; which is not attracting much attention, and after travelling some distance to the north struck into the South Australian territory, and crossed Mr. H. Vere Barclay’s route in 1878 from Alice Springs. on the overland telegraph line, toWard the Queensland border. During the journey some very good country was discovered, which, no doubt, will be more fully explored before long. It is also interesting to record that the exploration of the extreme North of Queensland is proceed- ing rapidly, and quite latelya promising auri- ferous tract of country is reported to have‘ been discovered on the western side of Cape York Peninsula. â€"An anti-duelling association has been formed in South Carolina, with (ax-Judge Kershaw as President. “We intend,” the resolutions say. “to train, educate and or- ganize the public opinion and moral sense of the people to a. true perception of the crim- inality of this wicked and pernicious practice; to take proper measures to procure an adjust- ment of all personal difficulties which might tend to involve any of our fellow citizens in a duel; to use and enforce all legal means of preventing any of our fellow citizens from engaging in . a duel; to enforce the laws against duelling in every case oftheir violation hereafter occurring, whether the same shall consist of sending. accepting. or hearing a challenge of the fighting of a duel, or the counselling, aiding or abetting any of these offences.” â€"â€"Tne London Lancet says : “The heat incites to the use of ice as a component part of our daily diet. It will be well to take the precautions necessary to avoid the consump- tion of filthy frozen water under that name. The difliculty lies in the fact that the freez- ing process has a tendency to destroy or dis- guise the familiar tokens of dirt. and, as we know well, the worst forms of filth, namely, the products and propagating materials ofdis- case, are the least recognizable. For purposes of general‘bleanliness ice should be tested by a strong transmitted light at an oblique angle to the cleavage or stratified structure of the mass. Some specimens thus inspected will he found to bear the appearanoe of a highly colored Cape diamond. and will be readily es- chewed.” â€"It would be unfair and premature, says the London World, to assert that the tradi- tional gallantry of the British officer is on the wane. Yet an uncomfmtable misgivmg gains ground that it is not nowadays exactly what it was. No doubt many bright instances of individual prowess are to be found in the re- cords of our most recent campaigns. As expo- nents of personal daring, lion-hearted con- tempt fbr danger, such names as those of Bullet, Beresford, Wood, Gifford, Hamilton and many more stand forth as proudly pre- eminent as any who have gone before. De- terioration may not have gone far, but there are not wanting symptoms that it has already set in. productive area extending over seventy five square miles has been tapped. At Wotze- kow ten beds were discovercd, and one 'of them, lying only a hundred feet below the surface is being worked. At least twelve hundred tons of anthracite are said to have been exposed. -â€"The ceremonial proceedings attending the laying the first stone of Truro Cathe- dral, England, were largely 3 roe Masonic. The mullet .ueed by the Prince of Wales in laying the Masonic foundation stone hears the following inscription :â€"“Thie plate has been affixed to the mallet to commemorate that this being the mallet with which his Majesty King Charles II. laid the foundation stone of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, was presented to the Lodge of Antiquity by Sir Christopher Wren.” â€"A druggist’s assistant was charged before the Correctional Chamberin Paris a few days ago. with causing the death of man by mis- reading a prescription. The 'octor, whose writing is very clear, ordered eight drops of laudanum, which the assiétantcarelesaly read as eight grammes, or about a quarter of an ounce. The overdose naturally killed the patient, and the‘Oourt sentenced the prisoner to three months’ imprisonment. His advocate urged as an extenuating circumstance that if the mistake had cost the deceased his life, it had at least provided him with a. painless death ! â€"Hugo's new poem, in the opinion of the Atlzemeum, is an emphatic, not to say a. vio- lent, answer to two difierent systems of poet- ic religion, each of which is itself at war with the othenâ€"the system of Dante and the system of Milton. Without hell Dante would never have been able to write a line of the “Inferno,” and without the devil Mil- ton would have been in it condition equally forlorn. Yet M. Hugo’s book is an attack upon both these venerable beliefs and also upon tfie podtivists who were trying to undermine t em. â€"‘-Tlle results of soundings over the bed of the Atlantic have made clear, it 15 believed, the existence thlough the middle of the ocean extending from north to south of a. sunken lidge. often less than 1; ,000 fethoms' from the surface while on either side the wutrl has a. depth of ham 3 ,000 to more than 3, 450 fathoms , so that the elevation of the ocean’ s bottom iequired to make these depths dry land would bling up between them a. mountain range from 9. 000 to 15 000 feet in height. The higher points of this sunken ridge now form the islands of the Azores. â€"-Mr. Sharon ., urner has prepared the following statemeii of the progress of Chris- tianity. At the close of each century the number of believers is given :â€"First century, about 500,000; second, 2,000,000; third, 5,000,000; fourth, 10,000,000; fifth, 15,000,- 000; sixth, 20,000,000; seventh, 24,000,000; eighth, 30,000,000; ninth, 40,000,000; tenth, 60,000,000; eleventh, 70,000,000; twelfth, 80,000,000; thirteenth, 75,000,000; four- teenth, 80,000,000; fifteenth. 100,000,000; sixteenth, 125,000,000; seventeenth, 155,- 000,000; eighteenth, 200,000,000. During the present century it is estimated that the Church has doubled its communicants. â€"â€"Moscow lately lost a. self-taught poet in the person of Ivan Surakoff. Sine 1862 his contributions to the Russian press were fre- quent, and by 1877 noless than three volumes of his collected poems had appeared. They were extremely popular, and gained him wide reputation; but, knowing that poetry seldom pays pecuniarily, Surakofi wisely stuck to his trade, and might be seen working in his shop in one of the markets of Moscow, with a sheet or two of paper near him for jotting down a verse or two which might come into his head as he soldered a. kettle. â€"Bismarck has lately been speaking his mind with characteristic candor in reference Mr. Gladstone. His opinion of the British Prime Minister 18 neither flattering to that statesman nor assuring to the nation whose interests he holds in trust. But it is well known there is little love lost between the man of blood and iron and his rival of the axe and pen. Mr. Gladstone is just as un- reserved in his views of Prince Bismarck as Prince Bismarck is in his views of Mr. Glad- stone, and the great feature of their mutual opinion is that it expresses a thorough an- tipathy. “ County of Welland, to wit: I, Henry Bond, of the village of Chippewa. in the county of Welland, do‘ solemnly declare that I remember the occurrence of there having been a day during which so little water was running in the Niagara River that but a small stream was flowing over the falls of Niagara during that day. It happened on or about the 3lst day of March, AD. 1848; and I remem- ber riding on horseback from below the flour- ing mills and cloth factory of thelate Thomas C. Street, Esq., out into the bed of the river. and so on down outside Cedar Island to Table Rock. Farther up the Niagara. River, at the village of Chippewa, where the Welland River empties into the Niagara. there was so little water running that the Welland was nearly dry, only a very little stream running in the centre. I recollect a number of old gun- barrels having been found in the bed of the Welland River at this junction with the Niagara River. supposed to have been thrown into the river during the war of 1812. “ HENRY Bonn.” “AndI make this declaration conscien tiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of her Majesty‘s reign, intituled ‘an act for the suppression of voluntary extra- judical oaths.’ Declared before me. at Chippewa, H] the county of Welland, this 17th day of May. A.D. 1880. “ J. F. MACKLAN. Notary Public." The second declaration is as follows : TWO “DECLARATIONS,” one from an aged gentleman, Mr.HarryBond of Chippewa, and the other from a leading gentleman in the place. a. justice of the peace and a notary public, and a. person doing an extensive business as a tanner. Mr. Bond‘s declaration is as follows : BUFFALO. March 11, 1880.â€"Rav. AND DEAR Sm : Your favor of the 9th inst. re ceived. The fact relating to the low water mentioned by Mr. Street, as having occurred at Niagara Falls. I well recollect, although I have no precise data as to the month or year in which it occurred. It was so remarkable as to be noticed in Buffalo newspapers. Nor do I recollect whether the subsidence of the river-waters was caused by adam of ice at the outlet of Lake Erie, or by a strong east wind, which sometimes, by blowing the water up the lake, makes very low water in the river for many hours. I knew Mr. Street personally very well. and should have entire credence in any statement he should make of his own knowledge. That Mr. Street could have driven his horse for several hundred feet into the bare bed of the river on the Canada side, I have no doubt. I have lived in Buffalo 53 years, have witnessed so many 1fluctuations in the levels of the lake and river that I have perfect confidence in the late Mr. Street’s account of the fact you name. He wasa gentleman of such accu- rate statement that no one knowing him could doubt any one that he should seriously make. Most truly and respectfully yours, ‘ L. F. ALLEN. Since the delivery of my lecture in March l last, a short synopsis of it was published in ‘ our local papers. Amongst other things ‘ given in my lecture, this fact of “ the Falls of Niagara having been dry for a whole day,” was mentioned ; and, shortly afterwards, a slip from your paper was handed to me, in my son’s office in this city in which was stated the‘fact that I had made such a statement in a recently delivered lec- ture, and your editor stated that “some rum: ors had been afloat at times regarding the matter, ” but he looked upon it as “rather a fishy story.” When this was read to me in my son’s office, a man by the name of John B. Smythe,lhappened to be in the office at the time. On hearing the slip road from your paper, he said, “There is nothing fishy about the story for I witnessed the thing myself.” He promised to give me a proof of the fact, taken before a notary public (as our laws forbid taking oath in such cases, but alléwa person to make a statutory declara~ tion). Unfortunately, however, he has been ill, and has not been able to attend to it. However, I am enabled to send you Before deliverng my lecture I wrote to the Hon. L. F. Allen, of Buffalo, a well known gentleman of that city, giving Mr. Street’s statement, and asking him if he recollected anything about the ooaurrence,,and n! have ”his reply before me as I write this. whic’fi is as follows : Mr. Street‘s theory was this: That the winds had been blowing down Lake Erie, whiehis only about thirty feet deep. and rushing 9. great deal of the water from it over the Falls. and suddenly changed blew this little water (comparatively speaking) up to the western portion of the lake; and that at this juncture the ice on Lake Erie which had been broken up by these high Winds, got jammed m the river between Buffalo and the Canada. side, and formed a dam which kept back the waters of Lake Erie a whole day. In the month of March last I delivered in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, a lecture on- titled “Upper Canada as It Was Fifty Years Ago, and Ontario as It Now Is" ; and in the course of my lecture I spoke of the great difficulty of constructing the International Bridge betweeen Buffalo and the Canada side opposite to that city on account of the great current of water running at times down the Niagara river, where the waters are driven by strong westerly winds down Lake Erie, Whereas the quantity of water running down the river is very much diminished when the winds drive up Lake Erie. I then remarked : “This fact caused an event thirty-two years ago this month, of which probably very few of you have ever heard. I refer to the time when the falls of Niegara were dry for a whole day ! That day was the 3lst of March, 1848.‘ I did not witness it myself,but I was told of it the next day by my late brother-in-law, Thomas C. Street, Esq., M. P. Happening to go out to his place the next day, he told me that his miller (for he has a grist mill on the rapids above the Falls) knocked at his bedroom door about five o’clock in the morning of that day, and told him to get up, as there was no water in the mill-race, and no water in the great river outside of the race. He said that he was startled at the intelligence, and hula ried out as soon as he could dress himself, and then saw the river. on the edge of which he had been born thirtyâ€"four years before, dry. After a hurried breakfast, 'he and his youngest daughter (then unmarried) went down about three-quarters of a mile to the precipice itself, over which there was so little water running that. having provided himself with a strong pole, they started from the Table-rock, and walked near the edge of the precipice about ONE-THIRD or THE WAY TOWARD eon 13mm), on the American shore, and having stuck this pole in a crevice of the rock, and Miss Street having tied her pocket handkerchief firmly on the top of the pole, they returned. He said that he then turned his view towards the river below the Falls, and saw the water so shallow that immense jagged rocks stood up in such a trightiul manner that ho shud- dered when he thought of his having fre- quently passed over them in the little Maid of the Mist (as I often had done). “He then returned towardhorne, and drove from the Canada shore some one-half mile above the Falls toward Goat Island. When he told me this he reproached himself very much for not having sent out for me about eight miles distant,but he said that, although he had several times intended doing so, he each time concluded not to do it. lest, beiore we could reach the wonderful scene,the waters should have returned to their old course. Of course everybody was speaking of the wonder- ful event when I was out there the next day. and I have heard others who witnessed i speak of it since that time.” [low Niagara Falls flan Da'y,l7lurch Slim, 1848. The Fuels Subumulinlul in a Leuer from 1&1. Rev. Dr. Fuller, Bishop of Niagara Under date of Hamilton, Ont. June. 9, Right ’uev. Bishop Fuller wrizes to the Ohio- ago Tribune as follows : - So far can Itestifygto the evidence of the fact at the time of its occurrence. A F‘DRGOTTEN PilEWOHENUN â€"â€"After the night alarm was over and it was discovered that a. out had merely upset a. vase the husband said, “ Dear, you should never rush ahead of me in that way when you think there are burglars down ‘stairs, for I might want to shoot into them and you might be killed.” The Rev. Donald Macrae, Moderator of the Presbyterlan General Assembly, was born at the East River of Pietou. Nova Scotia, Where his father was, for seventeen years, a minister in connection with the Church of Scotland. In 1846 the family went to Scotland. where, in 1848 at the age of twelve, Mr. Macrae matriculated in the University and Kings College, Aberdeen. There he studied during, 1 seven sessions, and spent one additional year ‘of college life 1n Edinburgh. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Aberdeen in 1856, and ordained during the same year by the P1 es- bytery of Leeds as a missionary to Nova Scotia. Returning to that Province imme- diately after his ordination he became pastor soon after his arrival of his father’s former charge. In 1858 he went to St. John’ s, New- foundland, and continued there twelve years. He then retulned to the East River of Pictou, and. after laboring there four years, was called' 1n 1874 to St. Stephen‘s church. in St. John, New Brunswick. where he has been settled during the last six years. Mr. Macrae took an active part in the negotiations which resulted in the Presbyterian Union of 1874. And the life in the beautiful old castle in those mellow autumn days was gay and bright as heart could desire. The head of the house was young and light-hearted, the visitors all proud and happy to contribute to her amuse- ment, and to keep the palace gay. The way of life in Windsor (luring the stay of the princes was much as follows: “ The Queen break~ fasted in her own room, they afterward paid her a. visit there. and at two o’clock had luncheon with her and the Duchess of Kent. In the afternoon they all rode, the Queen and Duch- ess and the two Princes, with Lord Melbourne and most of the ladies and gentlemen in at- tendance, forming a large cavalcude. There was a great dinnerevery evening, with a. dance after it three times a week.” This pleasant reaction went on for a week. The brothers had arrived on the 8th, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. being then both of a mind (to believe their own statements) that the tacit understanding tween them was over, and they would not narryâ€"not theyâ€"for years to come. But before the 15th had come, something had changed the notions of the young pair. Yet the wooing was not all easy and plain before them, as before other pairs. These were not the days in which any noble knight, even a prince, would address a queen. What had to be said must be said by her, not by himâ€"a strange necessity. But no doubt it seems a more difiicult matter in talking of it than it was in the doing of it. When the young Prince was summoned alone to the young sovereign’s presence, no doubt the first glance, the first word. was enough to tell him that his cause was won. “After a few min- utes’ conversation the Queen told him why she had sent for him.” A happy mist falls over all that .was said and done. When the young pair emerge from it. and are seen again of ordinary men, there is a maze of gladness about them which finds: expression in the same words all unawares. “These last few days have passed likea dream to me, and I am so much bewildered by it all that I know hardly how to write, but I do feel very happy,” writes the Queer to her uncleâ€" he to whom this good news would be so wel- come. And, "More I can‘t write to you. for at this moment I am too bewildered,” says the Prince on his side, striking, as became him, a bolder note. and throwing his rapture and happiness into the words of the poet : “Das Ange sieht den Himmel offen, Es sehwimmt das Herz in Seligkeit." “Upon the eyes heaven opens bright, The heart is flooded with dellght.” All this charming little idyl is told to us by the chief actor in it, the Queen herself, in the fulness of her heart; and the wonderful humility and simplicity with which she throughout puts herself in the secondary place is one of the most remarkable exhibi- tions of womanly nature that ever was re- vealed to the world. “How I will strive to make him feel as little as possible the great sacrifice he has made 1” she says in her jour- nal, noting down the events of that wonderful day. “I told him it was a great sacrifice on his part, but he would not allow it."â€"Mr:. Olipham, in Harper’s Magazine for July. The young men arrived. Their cousin, no longer the little girl of Kensington in the homely, old-fashioned house, but a great Queen, received them at the top of the royal staircase amidst all the magnificence of Wind- sor Castle, as if the two wandering knights had been emperors. But after this grand re- ception the commonest of incidents brings back the princely travellers and the royal cir- cle into the sympathy of homlier life. Their portmanteaus, it is to be supposed, had gone astray, as happens to so many of usâ€"or at least did not arrive in time â€" and the dinner hour was near. “ Their clothes not having arrived.” the Queen writes in her journal, “they could not appear at dinner. but came in after it, in spite of their morning clothes.” There was a circle of visitors assembled, and no doubt some little tremor in the airâ€"«wonderings and whisperings, and close watchiugs of all the looks and words interchanged between the cousins. Prince Albert was new full grown, in all the freshness of twenty, the age at which a handsome youth is haudsomest. , before any of the blood] has been rubbed oh. 1 "There was in his countenance a gentleness ‘ of expression, and a peculiar sweetness in his smile, with a look of deep thought and high intelligence in his clear blue eyes and expau- ‘ sive forehead that added a charm to the ‘ effect he produced in those who saw him, far beyond that derived from mere regularity or beauty of features.” He was as good as he was handsome, full of high purpose and the most delicate couscientiousness, “ County of Welland, to wit: I, James Fiancis Machlmi. of the village of Chippewa. in the county of Welland,Province of Ontario, notary public and justice of the peace, do solemnly declare that about the 315i day of March, A. D. 1848. the waters of the Niagara. river were so low that comparatively but little was flowing over the Falls for a whole day. I well remember a flag which was fixed upon a short staff and planted far out from ‘Teble Rock,’ and very near the brink of the preci- pice, which appeared to be over one-third of the way across the river, between Table Rock and Goat Island. This flag was placed there by the late Thomas C. Street, Esq., he having walked out to that spot from the Table Rock upon the bed of the river where the waters had previously rushed down in great force. ‘The phenomenon of the Falls of Niagara running dry,‘ as was the term used in speak- ing of the occurrence,cnused great excitement in the neighborhood at the time. “M11 DEAREBT V10T0R1A,â€"Yourcousiua will themselves be the bearers of these lines. I recommend them to you. They are good and honest creatures, deserving your kindnessâ€" not pedantic, but really sensible and trust- worthy I have told them that your great wish 1:} that they should be quite at their eaten with you.” Notary Public and Justice of Peace for County of Welland. CEIPPEWA, May 17th, 1880.” I trust that the above letter and declara- tions will be sulficient to prove to you that my statement regarding "the Falls ofNiugm'n having been dry” on the 3131; day of March, A. D. 1848, is not “a fishy story.” I have taken all this trouble about this matter be- cause I consider that this important fact should be better known than it is. I am. sir, your obedient servant, It was in October of the year 1839 that the two young Goburg princes came to England. They brought w1th them a letter from King Leopold. which ran as follows : THE “E". DONALD lVlACISAE. A ROYAL ROHIAPHJE. T. D. FULLER, D.D.D.C.L. J. F. MACKLAN, ‘ ~Guelph Herald: “ Somebody has been giving taffy to the Dundasb‘tandard man. He profesas to be of opinion that that the Prin- cess Louise, when she looked down from the G. W. R., when passing Dundas, said that it was the “ most romantically beatuiful scenery she had seen since leaving Ottawa.” What the Princess really did say, when she saw the alleged town, was : “ 0h, fmyl what an awfully awful charming site for a vil- lagel I wonder somebody don’t build one here I” â€"There has just been a new sensation in St. Petersburg. A young widow, left penni- less, tried her utmost to make a. living, but failed ; she then resorted to a. strategy. As- suming the name of her deceased husband, she changed her dress for that of a. man, proâ€" cured employment in a. factory, and worked there for years, undiscovered and contented. By and by she met a. young woman who was maltreated by her parents, and. in order to save her from further persecution, proposed marriage, after having informed her of her own sex. The wedding ceremony was duly performed in a. church of St. Petersburg, and the pmr lived happily until the facts were dis- covered and exposed. The pair were arrested and committed to trial; but the judges were puzzled by a case whichhud not been foreseen by Russian law, and it has been sent to the Senate for decision. A Herald reporter called yesterday at the residence in Newark, No. 41 Spruce street, of Rev. James P. Wilson. D. D.. pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church and formerly pro- fessor in Union Theological Seminary in New York, and gathered some interesting details about the late Miss Sydney Paul Gill, the au- thoress of the widelyknown and popular hymn ”I Want To Be An Angel." Miss Gill died on Saturday night at the residence of Dr. Wilson, her brother-in-law. She was the daughter of the late Bennington Gill, of Phil- adelphia. While her father was doing busi. ness as a merchant in Birmingham, England, sixty years ago, Miss Gill was born. the youngest of four children. Her childhood was spent in England, but soon the family returned to Philadelphia. There, after her father’s death, Miss Gill and her sister con- ducted a large boarding school for young ladies, and made a handsome fortune. They retired twenty-four years ago, and Miss Gill removed to Newark and took up her residence With Dr. Wilson. About a year ago she began to decline and finally breathed her last quietly and entirely resigned. Her death was unex- pected. She had made arrangements to spend the summer at the sea shore. Miss Gill was a fine business woman and was closely identi- fied with Newark Protestant charities,_having long been secretary 'of the Female Charitable Society, and being identified with other insti- tions. The way she came to write the well known hymn was this :â€"She was a member of the Clinton street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, of which Rev. Dr. Joel Parker iwas pastor. One Sunday they had an anni jversary celebration, and between the morning and afternoon services Miss Gill wrote the hymn. It was read then for the first time, and afterward published and translated into several foreign languages. Great numbers of letters were received from parents saying that their little ones had died with “I want to be an angel” on their lips. Miss Gill wrote a good many other hymns, but this alone com- manded attention because of its simplicity. Except the good it did Miss Gill never realized anything from her composition. She died leaving a good estate. The funeral takes place to-day. Rev. Drs. Stearns and Smith will officiate. and the interment will take place at Laurel Hill, near Philadelphia. Maryland . 1.25 15.80 73.01 9.74 _ “ Pennsylvn, 0.82 17.01 68.83 13.35 “ Virginia. 1 .64 36.63 50.99 10.74 " Jogging 2. 50 36.30 56.00 5.24 " S ring H 1. 80 25. 40 56. 6|) 13. 20‘ .1 “ Pctou ......... 7.21.750 25. 875 61.950 10.425 ‘ u The Dunwich coal therefore forms 51'. good coke, and the ash, of which it contains but I small percentage, is free from Iron. Dunwich 4.00 Pombinn ...... 11.88 Saskawh’n 11.41 Belly River 6 6') Maryland ...... 1.25 Pennsylvania. 0.82 Virginia. A. 1.64 Jogging . 2.50 S ring Hill. 1.80 P ctou 1.750 “Hummer-w” of [he Anthems: 0! [he About five thousand acres are now under leaseâ€"say two and a. half miles front and three miles in depth, taking a northwest course, and. this will embrace the range of de- posit. The coal has been analyzed for gas purposes by Joseph Spencer, Esq., P.L.D.. F. R. 8., at the Collegiate Institute, Hamilton. Mâ€"r. Spencer is u. professor of mineralogy and geology of high repute, he having won a gold medal in Germany. The result of his analysis is of the most satisfactory character. It shows that the new deposit will produce nearly 20 PER CENT. MORE GAS THAN OTHER COAL. Following is the analysis of the Dunwich coal, compared with seveml others, showing the purity of the former. The aample an- alyzed was obtained on the north part of Mr. Crane’ a farm. Samples have also been secured from the farms of Mr. McGeoch, Mr. R. Backus, and near Mr. John Gow’s: . Gas pra- Fixed Ash Water. ducts. Carbon. (white) Pts. Dunwich ...... 4.00 35.90 58 40 1.70 100 Pombinn ...... 11. 88 28.66 57.25 2.21 “ Saskatch’n 11.41 29.07 56.514 2.58 " Belly River 0 6') 33.70 53.25 0.36 “ Maryland ...... 1.25 15.80 73.01 9.74 _ “ Pennsylvania. 0.82 17.01 68.83 13.35 “ Virginia. ......... 1.64 36.63 50.99 10.74 " Jogging 2.50 36.30 56.00 5.24 " s tingHm ..'.' 1.80 25.40 56.51) 13.20.... “ Pctou .. 1.750 25.875 61.950 10.425 : “ Discoverv M lion! Depositâ€"unit! of En mid “health for Canada. (St. Thomas Times' Correspondence.) Mr. G. Rosebrugh, of Drumbo, 0nt., has now all the land he wants for mining pur- poses in the township of Dunwich under con- trol. , The secret of the mineral found being kept with that view. he now informs me that he has discovered coal. the very article to make this a great mining centre and of im- mense value to Canada. To our rich deposits of gold, silver, iron and other valuable de- posits, we have now to add coal. Coal has been a long felt want and for it, annually, of large amount of our money goes to the United States. No doubt, as soon as this discovery is made more plainly manifest. works for smelting our iron ores fwill be started, and this will be a new industiy in our midst. For six years the parties have known of the coal deposit here, and have prospected secretly, as they were well aware that in the event of any one getting trace of what they were after, some difficulty would be experienced in securing lands. Several new remember having ob. served a person strolling about their farms at various times, but never suspected the pur. port of his rambles. Mr. James Parker about three years ago ploughed up some fine coal on his farm, and tested it by burning in a fireplace, never bothering his head about 1 what he little dreamed would prove so valua- ble a deposit. Squire McIntyre some years ago ploughed up on the side of a ravine a wheelbarrow load of as fine coal as he ever saw, and tested it also by burning; at other times also he has ploughed up specimens of the mineral. Landslides occur annually on the side of the ravine, covering up the spot. The discoverers are of the opinion that no very great depth will have to be gone ere a solid bed of coal will be struckâ€"no such depth as in English mines. There is this fact to be taken into considera- tion, we are not very far from the oil produc- ing region of Canada, and in Pennsylvania oil and coal are found in close proximity. Very lately, too. oil has been found in the Maritime Provinces near the coal iields, and such, it is claimed, is the case here now. Another cir- cumstance which is considered of vital im- portance is that our oil is of a soft nature and the coal now discovered is a bituminous con], fairly glistening with an oily appearance. The prospectors have been offered $30,000 for their right. but they refused this offer, believ- ing, as they do, that the mine will prove of untold wealth. A substantial and wealthy firm of experienced capitalists have made a proposition to Messrs. Rosebrugh & Co. to work the mine upon certain conditions, and allow the last mentioned gentlemen twenty- five per cent. of all the profits realized. Wallacetown, June 21, 1880. Popular [Innaâ€"Sketch of the Lula Miss Gill. “I \VANT ’1'0 Ills? AN ANGEL.” “UNIV“!!! NIINING NE “’8. (New York Herald)