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Application has been made to Parliament for the incorporation of a company to build, own and operate a canal from the harbor at Midland to the Bay of Quinte. A London farmer named A. Metcalf hos absconded. leaving liabilities of about‘ 810,000, due partly to Mr. R. Webster, of London township, and partly to a loan com- pany of London. The other creditors hold paper from $300 to $700. The absconder used to make many pious professions and often read in the church. His family are left destitute. A meeting is to be held at Kingston on Tuesday to take into consideratlon the for- matior; of gt qual branch of ghe Laud League. The freight business at Halifax station, on the Intercolonial;during last week, amounfied to two hundred and fifty oars inward and one hundred and sixty-nine outward. It is stated that gold to the extent of eleven ounces per ton. and silver to the extent of fifty-two ounces per ton, has been found in the township of Wakefield, Ottawa. county. American. Coal prices has gone up to $7 a, ton for stove size in Albany, N._Y. The London Bearci of Trade is called together‘ior today to discuss the London Junction railway, application for the incorporation of which will be made at the next session of the Ontario Legislature. The railway is designed to give independent access to the Canada. Southern. 001. D. B. Sackei has been orderedto report to the Secretary of War as Inspector-General of the army. A speciaf meeting of the Ladies’ Land League of Bufi'alo was announced for Sunday afternoon at two o’clock. The loss at the Cincinnati harbor by the breaking of the ice in the river is estimated at $125,000. It is now believed that all danger is past The amount of assessable property in New York city, according to the tax commission- er’s books, shows an increase over last year of $38,209,000. It is stated that the failure of the Brazilian government to provide subsidies for the air line steamers will necessitate the withdrawn of the line between New York and Rio. B. D. Bryant, agent for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine company in Albany, is charged whh absconding with $3,000 be- longing to the firm. He has been arrested in Jersey City. _ An eflort will be made at the next meeting of the Legislature of South Carolina to divest ‘he Governor oi portioning power and place it with the Board of Pardons. Complaint is made that this power has been abused fre- quently in South Carolina during the past few years. The Waterloo regular monthly cattle fair was held yesterday. The attendance was large. About fifty cattle were offered. and being second quality they were bought up readily at about 40 per 1b. All the first class cattle in this section have been bought up for export at from 50 to Ego per lb. . The mulution of Colorado is 194,649, and the pogflujqn oi Gem-gig. 1_.6_38,9_83._ The chief engineer of the Belleville fire department reports {Lit during the past year nine wooden and two brick buildings were burned in the city, and that the loss was greater than during the previous year. The Chicago Tribune publishes a three column article over the signature of U. S. Grant, alleged to be his views on the Nicar- agua canal scheme. He considers the Nicar- agua. route has distafice, ease of constructxon and eéonomy _in its favor. ' S. A. Adams 02 00., oil refiners of London East. have made an assignment te John Macdonald, of Petroh'a. Liabilities believed naflarge.» The father of'the late Miss McRae yester- day got a oertifiefl copy of the indictment against Archibald W. Brown from the Clerk of the Superior Court, Buffalo, to be used in the proceedings ‘0 extradite Brown, who is 1101 in prison in Chatham. A-oo'lcod jury was evened for'the first time in fiewflpgk yestgrdrqy by a cpgoxger. A message from the President transmitted the correspondence from the French Republic to this Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Electricians in Paris in 1881. The President recommends an appropriation for that purpose. In the Senate yesterday a. bill was intro- duced to cede the Illinois and Michigan canal and improvements on the Illinois river to the United States, on condition that the national Government agree to convert them into a. water course for ships from Mississippi to Lake Michigan; A Carleton, N. Y., publisher argues in be- half of lutemational copyright. that the re- cent practice-of stealing all publications not protected. and issuing them in cheap form, is not only dishonest, but is cheapening the brain work of American authors. The pub lishers who pay good prices cannot compete with those who steal their works. A Washington dispatch says a The sense at the House has practically settled upon 300 as the number of representatives under the new apportionment. This will cause the loss of one member in New York. The New York delegation will support the bill providing for 300 members. Nobody seems to waver at the cutting down at the present number. Ah Ott'awa young than named Irvin had his iathet sent to jail for one month for stealing a Rid; of_ qhearsAfz-gm higplacfa of bagiyess: .Canadian. Pettythefts are becoming numerous in Peterboro’. _ The revenue of the Bellevflle harbor during the_ pugs year was $3,475.90. The Woman who Bees and Talks with the Murdered. The strange powers of the bcdeviled Chinese woman whose astounding walks and talks with ghosts have been already chronicled have been put to a severe test. Last evenmg Sergt. Bloomfield conducted the Chinaman who has been in custody for more than a year upon suspicion of having chopped to death an old Ghinaman and a young Chinawoman on Gov- ernment street a year ago. to the “den" of the seer. The Sergeant was accompanied by a medical gentleman. The ghosts were very accommodating. At shortg notice they ap- peared seized the woman, threw her on her back on the bed and straightway she begsnl to tell the ghastly story. They identified thel prisoner as a murderer detailed with minute- s the manner in which the crime s committed, described the axe with which they were done to death, the ar-l ticles the murderer had stolen and their died position. All eyes were turned on the prisoner.‘ In accordance with the orthodox rule he should have trembled, turned pale and sunk through the earth or confessed his crime. But the obstinate creature, instead of doing either, laughed and jeered at the woman and her familiar spirits and remarked, “ You sabe that woman. She lazy. No good. Heap tell lies. Bimeby, spose she die she go to allee same Amelican man‘s hellee.” The medical gentleman, meanwhile, had not been idle. He felt the woman’s pulse and arrived at the conclusion that she and her ghosts were shams. So under his directions a. tub of water was turned over the woman and in a trice~in the twinkling of an opticâ€"she came out of the trance and announced that the spirits had disappe;red. Leaving directions to “ souse her well ” in case of a return of the trance the visitors withdrew, impressed with the belief that the woman is a. vile hum- bug.-â€"Victoria Colonist. ORANGE, N. J .. Jan. S.â€"â€"A distressing water famine prevaiis in this place. Nine-tenths of the wells are dry, and farmers drive their cat- tle miles for water. The livery men are cart- ing water from running streams and selling it at $2 a load to factories to use in their boil- ers. The street sprinklers are mounted on runners, and water therefrom is sold to fami- fies for drinking and cooking. M ISCELLAN EOUS N EWS. ‘AN EVENING WITH CHINESE SPOOKS. A WATER FAMIN E. Lennon, Jan. 5. â€"â€"A special corresponden writes from Ireland to the Glasgow Evening Times, giving an account of an interview held by him with a gentleman who might not un- fairly be described as a Fenian head~center. So intimate is he with all the proceedings of the fraternity, that he states when the land agitation was inaugurated a determined re- sistance was made to it by the supporters of the Fenian propaganda. That organization then had 63,000 members paying a small weekly contribution. Scarcely had the Land League movement commenced when the Fenian agitation as an organization collapsed, and there was an almost immediate transfer- ence of the members to the League. The correspondent adds that there were included in the leadership of the land movement men who speedily developed into more thorough- going Young Irelanders than ever before lived. The writer then proceeds as follows : “ Since the extreme party began to have greater weight in the councils. Fenian principles have had freer play. The distribution of arms. which was never entirely suspended, has since been prosecuted with vigor, and the number of Sniders now scattered over the country cannot be well calculated. Any man, I understand, who puts down one pound in the proper quarter. can be provrded with a Snider rifle and 100 rounds of ball and car- tridge, with waist belts, shoulder belts and cartridge pouch, a sword and bayonet for the rifle. It is unnecessary to state that the one pound does not cover the expenses, but the difference is made good from a fund; contrib- uted to by sympathizers with the proceed- ings. One or two persons whose names have been before the public of late, and who are credited with efiecting The Change in the Land Agitation. which it has recently assumedâ€"I mean the change toward the repeal movementâ€"have been particularly active in distributing arms, and the strategies resorted to for carrying out this purpose would be worthy of ‘a better cause. Though matters are taking this turn the Fenians are not hopeful that the rising can be eflectually carried out in Ireland. They acknowledge that a great portion of the people of the country are not disposed to run the risk that will attend a rising, anxious as they are to secure self-government. therefore the leaders of the organization have longbeen turning their eyes in another direction, and have come to the conclusion that the blow must be struck at home and at the English Parliament. Another Clerkenwell outrage, they imagine, would go a great way to the furtherance of Home Rule. They pray that Britain may be entangled in some active foreign controversy, for then their opportunity will come. In that emergency they conceive that all that will be needed in order to para- lyze the country and the Government, will be the destruction of a few public edifices, par- ticularly about the dock-yard towns.” Two more bottles of petroleum were found yester- day, one at Carrier's dock and the other one one at Huskisson’s dock. A dispatch from Dublin to the Times says : The effect of such an anomaly and satire upon the constitution as the continuance of a criminal trial in the absence of the accused can hardly be favorable to the administra- tion of justice. The people will only see that Mr. Parnell and his associates care as little for, the Queen’s Bench as for the law it- self, and ignore its authority when it inter- feres with the pursuit of their political ob- ject. AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. The London correspondent of the Man- chester Guardian says that previous to the issue of the War Office circular directing that a strict guard be kept over the armories of the volunteers, more than one hundred rifles were stolen from oneiplaee near London. LONDON, Jan. 7.â€"The Home Rule party yesterday resolved not to discuss the land question in the debate on the address in reply to _t_he Queen’s speechi LONDON, Jan. 8.â€"In consequence of the report that a number of the members of the Land League in Cork would be arrested to- day all the members of the organization and a great crowd of spectators were present at the meeting, but there were no arrests. A reso- lution was passed that in the event of the committee being arrested fresh officers of the League shonid be elected. Truman. J an. 8.â€"â€"The examination at the officers of the Tralee branch of the Land League continued to-day in the jail in con- seqence of information received by the police that there would be a. dangerous riot if the prisoners wetle taken through the town. DUBLIN, Jan. 9.-â€"â€"A land meeting which was to have been 'held near Tralee, today, was prohibited. A large crowd, however, were assembled. Four hundred troops were on the ground. The local magistrate ex- plained the reason for the prohibition and the people quietly dispersed. Davitt sub- sequently addressed a. large assembly from a. hotel in Tralee. LONDON, Jan. 9.â€"-English Radicals are dissatisfied with the tone of the Queen’s speech in reference to Ireland, and consider the Government too conservative. It is beâ€" lieved that the Dutch Republic in South Africa will yet be reestablished. The best attainable information indicates that Mr. Forster will propose on Monday the re-enactment of the mam provisions of the West Meath Act, with a permissive suspen- sion of the Habeas Corpus Act. In answer to aletter from the Trades’ Union Commit- tee, thanking the Government for its promise of legislation on the land question, and en- deavoring to extract a pledge in favor of peasant proprietorship, Mr. Gladstone de- clares that it would be premature and incon- venient to state the nature of the intended proposals until they are explained in Par- liament. ROME, J an. 8.â€"The condition of affairs in Ireland continues to be a matter of much con- cern to the Pope, who, it is reported, has sent fresh instructions to some Irish bishops, with a View of promoting the re-establishment of order. NEW YORK. J an. 8.â€"A London special cor- respondent telegrnphs : The increased activi- ty of secret societies of various sorts in Eng. land already excites some uneasiness, more perhaps than most people are willing to con- cede. During the past few weeks frequent attempts have been made to throw railway trains from the track, and outrages of a mysterious character have been committed in Birmingham, Oldham, Sheffield, and other places. Some of these attempts and outrages are suspected to be the work of men connect- ed with the Irish Land League, while others are ascribed to foreign agents lat oring in the cause of Nihilism and Socialism. '1here is clearly a necessity existing for a. strong and vigilant Government at such a. moment, and the Ministry must feel that they cannot afi'ord to be made sport of by Mr. Parnell and the ohstructives. A meeting of Irish Liberal members of Parliament as distinguished from Parnellites. will be held today to express regret at the incompleteness in the changes proposed in the land system, a. comprehensive reform in which, they assert, should be immediately supplemental to any coercion bill. It is re- ported that a considerable section of the English Radicals will support this view. and some members of the Ministry do not dis-- approve of such a pressure. A serious riot seems to have occurred in the town of Tuam, but the only certain news to- nigm brought from that point is to the effect that sixteen men have been arrested and re- VOL. XXIII. Damn, Jan. 11,â€"In the Court of Queen’s Bench to-day the Crown announced their case complete, with the exception of evidence oigne witness now on the way from London. The joint deputation of Home Rule and Liberal members which is to wait on Glad- stone on Wednesday will urge that it is essential' 111 order to secure unity and enthu- siasm among the Liberals 1n Parliament and contentment In Ireland that the Land Bill shall include a comprehensive scheme of peasant proprietary, accompanied lay the three F’. The bill, as hitherto sketched by the Government would annihilate the Liberal party 1n Ireland. DUBLIN, Jan. 11. â€"The property defense association urge persons of all creeds and pohtics to join in stemming the tide of crime and engage. The English and Irish members of Parlia- ment arranging for a. deputation to wait on Gladstone in regard to the Irish land reform, held a numerously attended meeting to-day. Shaw (Home Ruler) depreciated the idea of British members forming part of the deputa- tion, for fear Gladstone might consider it an attempt to dictate. It was arranged. how- ever, that Gladstone should be informed of their desire for a strong land bill. More than fifty-five members of Parlia- ment attended the meeting of the English and Irish Liberals yesterday, and only about five represented Irish constituencies. It is stated that none of those at the meeting could be classed as Whigs. All were sincere admirers and adherents of Gladstone. Lieut. Schwatka. since his recent return from a successful expedition in search of the remains of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated com- pany, combats the prevalent opinion that the Arctic winter, especiallyijn the higher lati- tudes. is a period of total darkness. In latitude 83 degrees, 20 min., 20 secs. north, the high- est point ever reached by man. there are four hours and forty-two minutes of twilight on December 22, the shortest day in the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In latitude 82 degrees 27 minutes north, the highest point where white men have wintered, there are six hours and two minutes in the shortest day ; and latitude 84 degrees, 32 minutes north, 272 geographical miles nearer the north pole than Markham reached and 328 geographical miles from that point, must yet be attained before the true Plutonic zone, or that one in which there is no twilight whatsoever, even upon the shortest day of the year, can be said to have been entered by man. Of course, about the beginning and ending of this twilight it is very feeble and easily extinguished by even the slightest mists. but nevertheless exists, and is quite appreciable on clear cold days. or nights, properly speak~ ing. The north pole itself is only shrouded in perfect blackness from November 13 to J anu-- cry 29, a period of seventy-seven days. Sup- posing that the sun has set (supposing a cir- cumpolar sea or body of water unlimited to vision) on September 24,» not to rise until March 18 for that particular point, giving a period of aboufififty days ofuniformly varying twilight, the pole has about 188 days of con. tinuous daylight, 100 days of varying twilight and seventy seven of perfect inky darkness (save when the moon has a northern inclina- tion) in the period of a typical year. During a period of a little over four days the sun shines continously on both the north and south poles at the same time, owing’to re- fraction parallax, semi-diameter and dip of the horizon. Yesterday’s meeting of the English and Irish Liberals to express dissatisfaction at the incompleteness of the change proposed in the land system is attracting much atten- tion. The Times says: A body of politicians, English as well as Irish, are conveying the menace that unless sweeping changes in the land system, going far beyond the lines of the set of 1870, are proposed '9. stand will be made against coercion. It IS rumored that Earl Cowper desires to regign the ofl‘lceof Lord Lieutenant o'fIreland. LONDON, Jan.11.-â€"-The Fenian scare has extended to Portsmouth. The authorities have received various anonymous warnings of a contemplated attack on the Government establishments. They do not attach much importance to them. THE DAYLIGHT OF AN ARCTIC WIN- TER. DUBLIN. Jan. 10. â€"A largeland meeting has been held at Armag h. The [farmers are gfor- cibly hunting over 8the landlords’ property In county Galway. Three arrests have been made' 111 connection with the attempt to mur- der apoliceman near Hesdford last week. A desperate attempt was made on Sunday to murder a school teacher at Tulle. named Dorney. He was under the protection of the police, between whom and a party of’ dis- guised men a. regular fusillade was main- tsined. The Home Rule members of the House of Commons having opened the campaign with obstruction, are determined to follow that policy to the end of the session, notwithstand- ing the predictions made not only at the clubs, but in the Times and Daily Neu e thismom- ing. that the Government will shortly take strong measures to prevent further filibuster- ing. It is announced to-day that they will prolong the debate on the address to the utmost limit. manded to jail, without bail. for having taken pafi in _a distgrhance. The Miserles of a. Poor Old Colored Couple in Toronto. TORONTO, Jan. 11.â€"â€"-For many years an old 1 colored couple named Anderson have lived at ; the corner of Spadina avenue and Bloor street. 1 Beyond owning the property upon which they I lived the Andersons were in very poor and destitute circumstances. Three months ago a purchaser was found who paid $500 down, only $93 of which sum however was handed ‘ over to the old colored couple, the real estate ‘ agent claiming the balance for fees and other expenses. When the place was sold they 1 moved to a small shanty in Seaton village. 1 At the commencement of the cold weather the ‘ couple were badly provided to withstand it. The shanty was a cold, tumble cown affair, and there was very little money in the purse to procure coacs or a suitable stove. One night Mrs. Anderson was badly frozen. and even since has been unable to get out, being paralyzed and bedridden. Her Old husband did what he could for her, but during the last cold snap he got badly frozen likewise, and became unable to get about. The neigh- bors do not appear to have been aware of the circumstances in the Anderson shanty. for when one of them called at the place yester. day and found Mrs. Anderson naked and dead in her bed. and the husoand in a dying condition, no fire and no food in the house, she was considerably startled. It was be- lieved that the couple had both food and fuel in the house, as it was known that they had . a little money left out of the 893, but it ap- pears that they were both too feeble to be able to get out of the house to buy anything. 3 Mrs. Anderson died of sheer starvation, and . her husband’s life is fast slipping away from the same cause. He is unable to speak, is I almost unconscious and too weak to eat. 1 now that food has been procured. ‘ uuu uvn'yv-lv-u‘uuuu u. uuqa â€"It i5 {118 thing now for young geritlemen I â€"An American University has taken the to carry ““19 perfume bottles, Whmh “395' 1 profession of journalism under its wing and use at the door when they make a call. 111° made it one of its departments of study. This clove trade is in danger. . is a correct move. DEATH BY STARVATION. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY;‘:J-AN. 20, 1881, --4. A. B. asks: What is the best way to remove oinders from the eye? A. A small camel’s hair brush dripped in water and passed over the ball of the eye on milk ing the lid. The operation requires no skill, takes but a moment, and instantly removes any cinder or particle of dust or dirt without inflaming the eye. ‘George Eliot’s passion for musiewas remark- able Nature seems to have denied her only one giftâ€"personal beauty. Justin McCarthy said of her. “ 8119' 111 what we. in England. call decidedly plain; what people 111 NewY ork call homely ; and persons who did not care to soften the forms of an unpleasant truth would describe probably by a still harsher and more emphatic epithet ; her lace, it is said, not even being formed and illuminated by the light of her genius.” â€"An American millionaire not long since visit _ Europe. A traveled friend asked him what e had seen, mentioning all the noted sights; among other places, he inquired if he had seen the Dardanellel. “ Oh. yes,” replied old money bags ; “ they dined with us the last night we were in Paris 1" -â€"A funny fact. Sol Smith Russell tell the following story of his experience as an ant iner : At a small Ohio town. where he had 31 on his performance the previous night, he met at the depot the following morning an elderly granger, who. while he peacefully munched 9. huge quid of tobacco. intently eyed the humorist and finally said : “ Bay, mister, hen't you the fellow wot gin-the show up to Smoot’e Hall last night ‘2” “ Yes,” replied Russell, “ I did give on internment at Smoot’s Hall last night." " Wall, I thought you was the chap. I wanted to tell you ’bont a boy of mine; you ought to have him ; he’s just the fellow for your show ;he’sthe d--dest fool I ever see.” -â€"-It may not be generally known that Mr. James Anthony Fronds. the historian. is a regularly ordained deacon in the Established Church of England, but it is a fact that he was ordained in 1844, and was also a writer in Cardinal Newman’s “ Livesof the Saints.” Mr. Froude was at that time an. ardent dis- ciple of Puseyism, although he has sinoegone so far in the other direction as to speak of the Scriptures as the “ Hebrew Mythology.” His “Personal Reminiscences of the Oxford High Church Revival,” which he proposes to write in six numbers of Good Words, will therefore be likely to attract considerable attention. â€"The sudden departure for St. Petersburg of Herr Krupp, oi the famous Essen Works near Cologne. has excited a. great deal of speculation in Germany. A perlect arsenal of wen-pone has been for several months in pro- cess of construction at Ben: Krupp’s estab- lishment for the Chinese Government, and all the entreeties of the Czer's Ministers have not availed to induce Prince Bismarcl'i'y. to interfere in the matter, and prohibit their exportation so it seems probable that the great gunmeker is to be bribed or cajoled, or threatened into giving up the contract. He has supplied Russia with guns and rails for many years. but some of his letter trans- actions with the Holy Empire have not been concluded without wrengles, and as he is now comparatively out of favor at St. Peters- burg, it will require very strong inducements to lead him to throw over his Celestial clients. â€"â€"A Dutchman who married his second wife soon alter the funeral of the first Was visited with a two hours’ serenade in token of dis- approval. He expostulated pathetically thus. “I say. pays. you ought: to be ashamed of yourself to be making all filsh noise ven not 733 a. funeral here so soon." -â€"-The mysterious gift of money . which Lord Beaconsfield’s hero, Endymion Ferrets; receives recalls the fact that to William ‘Pitt the younger came one day from an unknown benefactor a present {of $50,000 to-promote his early career in Parliament. So ,that the fiction is no stranger than the truth. -â€"In the church of St.Mary Major at Rome, is a picture of the Blessed Virgin and Child. which popular tradition has long attributed to St. Luke. The undoubted history of this picture goes, at all events, back to the sixtli‘ century. when Pope Gregory the Great had it carried in procession through the streets of the city during the pestilence then raging. In the sixteenth century a. copy of this picture was carefully and skilfully made and pre- sented to the Jesuit college of Ingoletadt, in Bavaria, where it has ever since remained. Messrs. Herder, the Catholic publishers of Freiberg, have had a xylographic print in colors executed after the original picture at Rome. It is about twenty one inches high and fifteen wide. The background of the pic- ture is in dead goldthe Byzantine style. â€"‘ ‘Tom, where is th at ten dollar counterfeit bill you had a. while ago 7" "Well, manna, I never was pos'tivo about v 'r at bill. Some days I tink it war a bad bill; Oder day s I tink it war a. good bill; so one «(gem day s whenI tinks it war a good bill I jes’ dun gone and passed It.” Mary is represented holding the Ghild in he: left arm. her right hand resting on her left. The faces of Mother and Child are decidedly Oriental ; the Child holds in his left hand a book, while with his rig ht, the third and fourth fingers of which are bent down, he is giving a blessing. â€"A thick-headed squire being worsted by Sydney Smith in an argument. took his revenge by exclaiming. “ It I had a son who was an idiot. by Jove, I’d make him a par- son." “ Very probably,” repiied Sydney, “ but I see that your father was of a different opinion." ' Second A. “Weel, so is yet; grsnfiié. Peter, an’ av heard ye say ye believed 'there wusnae a mair sensible wummun in 'the World." v -â€"“ Mixed.”-Short-sighted Irishman (who meetsagentlemsn in Liverpool whom he thinks he knows) : “ Be Jabez, sorr,‘I beg your pardon ; but at first I thoughtit was you. thin I thought it was your brother, and now I see it’s nayther of yez."â€"â€"Judy. â€"A writer for the Cincnnati Enquirer has been looking critically at New York women, and the following is one of his conclusions : “As a rule the higher you go up in the social scale of New York the less beauty you find. I could name top lofty families whose women are generally ugly to the extent of positive hideousness. There is a theory that the pro~ duct of several generations of high cul- ture is 9. palpably superior article of women, with small hands and feet. arched insteps, sensetive nostrils. and other points supposed to indicate physi- cal and mantel refinement. Observation proves that the truth is no such thing. The shop girls of the Bowery are prettier, as a class, then the idle girls of fifth avenue. This reads like heresy, no doubt, but'it is never? theless a. plain statement of a fact. Criticise the two sorts without allowing the judgment to be prejudiced by the matter of dress. and the prize model must be awarded to the Bow- ery, notwithstanding its sins of clothing and manners." â€"-First A. “ In fact, George, yer minister’s jisg an apld wilt: A _ â€"C. A. Barnes. P. S. I.,for the East Ridin of Lambton has been charged with partiality and non-perfoymanpp 9i durty. _ MISCELLANEOUS NOTES; “ They thought at last it must be my own name and called me Queenie whenever they addressed me or spoke of me together. The voyage was rather long. owing to adverse winds and the bad condition of the ship, but they reached their destination at last, and gave me at once into the charge of some Eng- lish who were living there. But these could get no satisfaction from me with regard to my home, or friends, or name. I had fallen into a. weak. half-imbecile frame of mind, and was taciturn and reserved, refusing sometimes to talk at all, though always, when I did {speak begging them to carry me home. At inter- vals I sufiered greatly in my head. and even now at times. if I touch the spot upon my temple where I received the blow, I experi- ence a sensation like an electric shock, show- ing that the injury I received was s most se- rious one. “ Oh, Phil 1” Queenie cried, with streaming eyes ; “ and I was mourning for you, and thinking you were dead, and was so sorry for having sent you away. Can you ever forgive me, Phil, for all I have made you suffer ?" “And so the time wore on, and, as I was perfectly harmless, I was allowed to do as I pleased, and gradually. as I grew stronger in health, my mind regained its balance, and I was able to recall the past, or rather to re- member up to the time when I was in the water holding to the grating of the boat. Everything else was a blank, and is so to me now. I have no recollection whatever of the voyage to Zanguibar, or of the months which followed my arrival there, and it was some little time before I could comprehend my po- sition, or realize how long it was since I was at Madras and started with my friend on the excursion which ended so disastrously. My first act was to write at once to my father, who, I naturally supposed, must think me dead. but the letter was probably miscarried or lost, for it never‘reached him. “At last daylight broke over the waters, and a small vessel, bound for the southern coast of Africa, passed near me as I floated. I had then no power to signal them, my arms were so cramp and numb, but one of the sailors spied me, and a boat was at once lowered and sent to my rescue. How they got me on board I do not know, for all sense forsook me from the moment I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder as the boat came up to me, and when next I awoke to a consciousness of anything I was lying' in a close berth, and a dark face was bending over me, speaking in a language I could not comprehend. But the voice was kind, and the face a good-natured one, and I remember thinking that I should be cared for until I reached some point where I could make myself understood. My head was pain- ing me dreadfully, and was probably the cause of the weeks and months of partial in- sanity which followed. I had taken a frightful cold. a. burning fever set in,' and for days I raved like a madman, they told me afterward, and made several attempts to throw myself into the sea. It was useless for them to ask me anything, as their language was gibberish to me. as mine was to them. But one word they learned perfectlyâ€"it, was on my lips so constantlyâ€"and that was your name. No matter what they said to me, I always an- swered Queenie, until every ofiiccr and com- mon sailor in the boat had the name upon their lips, and could say it as well as I, though they little dreamed who the Queenie was I talked about so constantly.” “At last there was a chance for me to leave the coast, and I availed myself of it. An Eng- lish sailing vessel, bound for Liverpool, took me on board, but, as if I were a second Jonah we encountered heavy seas and violent storms, so that we were double the usual time in reaching Liverpool, from where I took a steamer for New York, where I landed just a week belore you found me here. Not wishing to shook my family, as I knew they would be shocked if they had never received my letter, I telegraphed to Mr. Beresford that I should be home on the next train from New York. The news took him as much by surprise as if one of the dead bodies of the graveyard had walked in upon him, and I have been told that all Merrivale was wild with excitement and that Uncle Tom, usually so quiet and undemonetrative, went himself and rang the fire bell, to call the people out so as to tell them the news. I really believe the entire town was at the station to meet me when the train came in, and had I permitted it some of the men would have carried me in their arms up the hill to my very door, where Ethel and Grace and grandma were waiting to receive me. Mother was in bed, going from one fainting fit to another, and father, I used to think he cared more for his ferns and his flowers than for his children, but I have changed my mind, and never shall forget the expression of his face when he met me at the door, and, leading me to my mother, said to ‘ her. so tenderly and like a woman : His answer, not given in w'ords, was quite satisfiqctory, am! then_ he went on :_ ‘ My friend wrote you,” he said, “ how the accident occurred, and how for hours we clung to the boat, which was being drawn rapidly out to sea. For a time I kept up bravely. though for myself I cared but little to live, life was so dark and hopeless to me then. But I remembered my mother, who would mourn for me. and made every possi- ble exertion to hold on. When we were cap- sized I struck my head just above the temple upon some iron surface of the boat, and I know that the blow was of itself almost suffi- cient to cause my death. As it was, I felt stunned and bewildered. and my strength was fast failing me when my friend bade me try and reach him. as he thought he could help me. I remember making the effortâ€" remember reaching out one hand toward him, while I tried to change my position, but my foot was caught in something which, when I lost my hold and floated away from the boat, was also detached and floated away with me. It was the grating from the bottom of the boat. and it proved my salvation, for, as I came to the surface after sinking once beneath the waters. I caught at it and clung to it desperately. while the waves car- ried me far away from my companion, who, seeing me go down, naturally supposed I must be drowned. Indeed, I do not myself know how I was saved, or had the strength to endure the horrors of that night and hold my frail support asI did. _ He did not tell it until two days after Christine’s burial, for Queenie would not listen to him until she felt he was able to tell it. and past all possible danger of a relapse. Then, nest-ling close to his side, with her head leaning upon his arm and his hand clas p'ed in here, she heard how he had escaped from death on that night when the boat was capsized and he found himself struggling for life in the angry waters. “ Here he is: Maryâ€"here Is our boy. Now pleagdon’t faiqt again. , firaised be God.’ “ That was what he said to her, but. to me he never spoke a word for fully five minutes, but sat smoothing and patting my hands, and rubbing with his handkerchief a. speck of dirt from my coat sleeve, while he looked at- me so lovingly, with the great tears in his eyes and his lips quivering with his emotions. He has grown old so fast within the last few months. His hair is quite gray. and he Author of “Tempest gnd Sunshine." ”Daisy Thornton.” “Ethelyn’s Mistake," “Fortes House.‘ em. quwnm HETHERI'ON. By Mn. Mary .I. Holmes, CHAPTER LII‘ PHIL'S STORY. He told her of a. little spot which the physician had recommended, where the air was pure and the water good, and then con- tinued : “ But I cannot go alone; it would be so poky and forlorn, with nobody I know. I must have a nurse to look after me and keep me straight. Will you go with me, Queenie. 9” he said, locking earnestly into the eyes which met his so innocently, as, without a blush, Queenie answered: “ And now, Queenie, I have been talking with the physician, who says I must leave the city at once if I would recover my strength and he advises a stay of a. few weeks in some quiet, cool spot among the mountains of Tennessee, where I shall grow strong and lazy again. You know that is my strong pointâ€" laziness.” “ 1 think that would be so nio'e. Have you decided upon the place ?" ’ “ Of course I’ll go with you, Phil. Did you 1511in I’d let you goialone P” She was so guileless and unsuspecting of evil that it seemed almost a pity to open her eyes and show her that the world is not al- ways charitable in its construction of acts, however innocent in themselvesâ€"that Mrs. Grundy is a great stickler for the proprieties, and that for a young girl to go alone to a hotel or boarding-house as nurse to a young man in no way related to her would make every hair of that venerable lady’s head stand upnght with horror. But Phil must do it, both for her sake. and by way of accom- plishing the end he had in view. So he said to her : H I knew you would go with me; knew you would not hesitate a moment, but, Queenie, do you know that for Queenie Hetherton to go to the mountains as nurse to a. great long- legged, rather fast-looking fellow like Phil Rossiter. would be to compromise herself sadly in the estimation of some people ‘2” “ I don’t 1:an what you mean by my being compromised. I think it is an ugly word, and not at all one you should use with refer- ence to myself, as if I should not always act like a lady whether [ was taking care of you among the mountains, or here in Memphis, as I am doing now." “Queenie,” and Phil drew the trembling girl to him, and stroking her bowecbhead, continued : “Do you for a moment suppose that I have ever given the accident of your birth a thought, except to be glad, with a gladness I cannot express, that you are not my cousin ? And when Ethel told me of your grief at my supposed death, and the love you were not then ashamed to confess for me, I felt that I must fly to you at once, and only my mother’s weak condition, and her entreat- ice for me to wait a little, kept me from doing so. She and my sisters thought you were in Florida, for Margery had kept your secret, as you wished, and had not told them of your rash plan of coming here into this atmosphere of infection and death. But she told me when I went next day to see her, and told me, too, of all the remorse, and pain, and bitter hu- miliation you had endured, and, better than all the rest, of the perfect trust and faith you had in meâ€"that were I living, a hundred Christines could make no difference with me. and she was right. I would have called that woman mother for your sake had she lived, and treated her with as much respect as if she had been Margaret Ferguson once. instead of Christine Bodine. My cousin Margery I adopted at once. She is a noble woman, and so true to you. By the way, I fancy that Mr. Beresford visits Hetherton Place quite as often as he used to do in the days when I was so horribly jealous of him and you played with us both as the cat plays with the mouse it has captured. And I am glad. for the match is every way suitable. Beresford is a noble fellowâ€"a little too proud, perhaps, in some respects, and a trifle peculiar, too. Mar- gery will cure all that, and I’d rather see him master of Hetherton Place 1han anyone I know, if Margery must be its mistress. She wishes you so much to return and live with her, but of that by and by. When she told me where you were, my heart gave a great throb of terror for you, and I resolved to start at once and take you away, if I should find you alive. I had a mortal fear of the fever, and this, I think. added to my men- tal excitement. and the low state of my health made me more liable to take it, as I did almost immediately, for I was sick and unable to leave my bed the very first morning of my arrival here, and before I had time to inquire for you. You know how Christine found me and saved my life, for but for her I should most surely have died. He looked a little quizzical 1y at her, but she Ensign? attentioqz _She only said : I doubt if Queeme quite comprehended him, for she looked at him wonderingly. and said: She was getting a. little excited, and her eyes shone with the gleam Phil remembered so well aqd_rathe1:_1il<ed tq provgke. “ Yes, I know,” he said, “ but don’t you remember what you told me of the cuts at the St. James, who used to spy upon the young people and make remarks about them? Well there are cute everywhere, and they would find us out in the mountains. and how- ever quiet and modest you would be they would set up a dreadfuloaterweuling because you were with me. and were neither ‘my uncle, nor my cousin, nor uunt.’ They would tear you in pieces, till you had not a. shred of a. reputation left. Do you understand now that as Queenie Hetherton you cannot go with me ?” “ No, Irdon’t understand at all,” she an- swered, wrathfully, “ and I think it mean in you to ask me first if I will go, and then, when I soy yes. to talk to me about oats, and compromise and reputation, as if I were bad, and immodest, and every sort of a thing. No, Phil, I didn’ I; expect this from you; I must say I did not, and I don’t like it, and I don’t like you eitherâ€"there. ' and I won‘t stay here any longer to hear such dreadful talk. "’ For one who had pledged herself never to lose her temper again under any circum- stances, Queenie was a good deal excited, as she wrenched her hand from Phil’s and fiounced from the room, leaving him to chuckle over her anger, which he had antici- “ Yes, Phil, I know what I am, Don't re mini} me, please."_ stoops when he walks, though I do believe he was straighter when I came away, and young- er, too, in looks. I did not know my friends were so fond of a g-ood for. nothing like me. It was almost worth8 my while to go and he drowned for the sake of all the petting I had at home the few days I remained there. But one thing was wanting. You did not come to meet me, and I wondered at it for I think I had half expected to see your face among the very first to welcome me, and felt disappoint- ed and a little hurt at its absence. I did not know but what you were Mr. Beresford’si wife, and though the thought that it might be so hurt me cruelly, I had made up my mind to hide the hurt and make the best of the inevitable. It would be some comfort to see you, even if you belonged to another, and all the time I was receiving the welcome and congratulations of my friends. I was thinking of and watching for you. But you did not appear, and no one mentioned your name until late in the evening, when Ethel asked me to go with her for a walk in the gar- den before retiring, and then she told me the strangest story I ever heard of you and Margery, who, it seems, is my cousin, while you â€"â€" . He papsed a moment, while Queenie tumed very white, and with a long, gaspmg breath, said, faintly: WHOLE N0. 1,178.~â€"N0, 33. “ Your wile, Phil 1” Queenie exclaimed. 1 starting suddenly, and trying to free her’ 1 self from him. But'he held her fast, and ‘enswered : “ Yes, my wife, and why not 2’ You are bound to be that some time and why wait any longer ? We can be married here to. night or tomorrow. if you please, with Pierre and our landlord for witnesses, and we shall be as firmly tied as if all Merrlvale were pre- sent at the ceremony. You do not care for bride-maids. and flowers, and flummery. I am sure Anna exhausted all that. And to me you are sweeter and fairer in this black dress, which was put on for me, than you would be in all the white satin robes and laces in the world. Shall it be so love 2 Will you marry me to-morrow, and start at once for Tennessee ‘2" Every one has a kindly feeling for youth and beauty in petticoats, and sorry to find the shapely head filled with vanity and ob- stinaoy. Miss Minnie Palmer is an example of the unpleasant combination. During her starring career Miss Palmer has been treated with much kindness by both public and press, critics generally having been more complimentary than severe. Without stop- ping to consider whether she had cause to be grateful under the circumstances, looking upon the kindliuess shown her as so much encouragement toward the accomplishment of better results, Miss Minnie became puffed up in spirit and assumed desert, perhaps be- yond the measure of merit. Her first demon- stration was to cast off all maternal restrict- ion, and take her affairs into personal con- trol. Next she made matters so very uncom- fortable that Mr. Scanlon, the best feature of her company, found it convenient to seek other employment. And during her brief engagement in Chicago, which closed last evening. she succeeded in performing a numâ€" ber of feats that indicate hot temper and great self-esteem, as well as strong-headed- ness.‘ She summarily evicted Mr. Iugh D’Arcy from his position as business agent, and as- signed as a reason for so doing that he was incompetent. It took her a year to find this out. Next she brought about the detection of Mr. George Davenport. who has quit the company. The latest evidence of “ self-inan- agement " was developed yesterday, when Mr. Marcus Mayer wrote to the little lady de- clining to be further interested in her welfare. At the beginning of the season Mr. Mayer, at the solicitation of Mrs. Palmer, undertook to fill dates for Miss Palmer, and did so up to the present time. Yesterday the little actress, in conversation with Mr. Mayer, informed him that she had filled eight weeks after Jan. 22, with some Chicago party. This consider- ably surprised Mr. Mayer, and he remon- strated with her. Miss Palmer partly in- formed him that she thought herself quite. capable of managing her own affairs. She was told that she could do as she pleased in future. Mr. Meyer declared he would have nothing more to do with fixing dates for her, and should cancel all those he had made sub. sequent to Jan. 22. in order to obviate chance of litigation. Miss Palmer seems now to be wholly without proper management. Mr. D’Arcy has begun suit against her for injury to reputation in publishing in a daily paper the statement that he was incompetent to manage a theatrical enterprise. The suit is set {or call January 3. at which time Miss Palmer will be in St. Louisâ€"Chicago Inter- Ocean. brate the relief of Derry i5 this 'city, Angel}: 12th. HANOVER, Ont. Jun. 6.â€"â€"Willie Johnston, aged 12, son of J. H. Johnston, met with a serious accident this morning by the explo- sion of a. dynamite cartridge. The had was not awane of the dangerous nature of the cartridge, which he struck with 9. hammer, when it instantly exploded, tearing off his thumb and seriously mutilating his hand. It was found necessary to amputate 5 portion of his hand. “ Next fall we will come here again, and place a tablet at mother‘s grave,” she said to Phil, and by the name she gave the dead he knew that the old bitterness was gone, and- that Queenie was content. They took the first train for Brietstone, a quiet, lovely spot among the mountains of Tennessee. where, in the cool, bracing air, Phil felt himself growing stronger every hour. and where the bright ~color came back to Queenie’s cheeks, and the old sparkle to the eyes which had shed so many bitter tears since the day when the news first came to her of the lover drowned in theIndian waters. -â€"-It is pleasant to know that teachers are growing too wise to take starvation wages. In one county in Kansas there are several schools unable to secure teachers. -â€"It is proposed to call Profesébr Telephone Alexander Graham Bell, Ph. D., of Brantford, Hello Bell, for short. Queenie did not care for satins, or laces, or bridal favors, but to be married so suddenly, and in such an informal manner, shocked her at first, and Phil had some little diflicsltv in getting her consent. But it was won at last. A desire to be with him, to go Where he went, and have him to herself prevailed over every other feeling, and early the next morning, with Pierre, and their landlord, and the sister who had cared for yoor Christine as witnesses, Queenie and Phil were married, their wedding a great contrast to what Queenie had thought her wedding would be. But she was very, very happy, and Pierre thought he had never seen his young mis tress one-half as beautiful as she was in her simple bleak dress. with only bands of white linen at her throat and wrists, and the brightâ€" ness of a great happiness in her face and in her brilliant eyes. She was Phil’s at last. The joy she had thought never could be hers had come to her, greater far than she had ever dreamed. and in her happiness all the sad past was forgotten, and she could think of Christine without a pang. “ You are an innocent chick, that’s a fact, and cannot see through a millsbone. I said that as Queenie Hetherton you must not go scurriping around the world with a yellow- haired chap of the period like me ; but as Queenie Rossiter. my wife, you will be a man tron sans reproche. Comprendez yous ?” “ But I thought you'said I wasn’t to 30- that it would be very disreputable, or some other dreadful word like that ? I don’t under- stand you at all." Queeme said. a little hotly, and Ehil replied F “ Yes, darling. if you are in Florida, next winter, or next week, I shall be there, too ; tor, in the words of Naomi, ‘ Where thou goal: I shall go,’ whether to the mountains or to the moon, am}. as the mountains suit me best just now, what say you to going thnre at once 7” She was crying by this time, and Phil,who, as she was talking, had stolen his arm around her, drew her down upon his knee, and brush- ing away her tears, said; pated, and which he felt sure would result in her doing just as he wished her to do. And he was right in his calculations, for after the lap se of an hour or two, during which Pierre had brought him his lunch, the little lady ap- peared in a most repentant frame of mind, and standing by him, with her hands on his ahoulder. said: “ I am sorry y, Phil I was so angry with you. I did not think I ever should. be again, but you did rouse me so with your cats and. 06m.» promlsmg, and all that, after you had asked me to go. But I see ybu were rig ht. It would not be2 proper at all and people would be sure“ to talk. But you must take Pierre. 1 should feel safer about you and can do very well with- out him. I know the way to Florida, and shall start to-morrow, for if it is improper for me to take care of you in the mountains, it is improper here now you are so much better, so I am going back to Magnolia Park, where there ain’t any ,world. But, Ph' ," and Queenie’s voice began‘ to tremble, “ you’ll come there next Winter, won’t you ? You, and Ethel. and Grace and Margery? That will make it quite proper and conventional, and it is so lonely there." -_â€"T_h_1e Brgnyfoycl Young Bxitons will cele- MINNIE PALMER’S PRANKS. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.