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A communication from the Cooper Insti- tute. New York, contained this query for Brother Gardner to answer: “ In case a. bank made a mistake and gave a customer $1.000 LIMA, 0., Dec. 23, 1880. Bnorrmn GARDNERâ€"I am an applicant for the position of janitor of the Common Coun- cil of this city. Certain Aldermen have pro- mised me their votes in case .1 become a member of your club. I am a. poor man, hardly able to read or write, and have hereto- fore been restrained from making application by this fact. In case I am elected I shall strive to become an honorable, upright mem- ber, obeying all rules and regulations, and working for the best interests of the club. This application is written for me by an Alderman whose veracity has never been questioned, and who is one of the best friends the club has in Ohio. Among the twenty four petitions was the following: " If Judas had nebber libed at all wouldn‘t you have jiat as much work an’ jist as good wages as now ?" “ I ’poae so.” “ If dot some Judas had been 500 y’ers old when he took dot money would you have to pay any mere house tent den now '2" “ No. sub.” “ Den it seems to me dat you made a plumb up 311’ down fule of yerself. How does it seams with you 7” “ Jist dat way, seh." “ Werry good ; you kin rceoome your seat. When a man am satisfied in his own mind dat he has made a. fool of hisself dar hain’t much left to orgy about. Be a little keerful in de fuehnr. Let de Opostles etriotly alone, it won‘t make any difierence with you wheder dar wur’ twelve or twenty-four of ’em. Let de ole Prophets alone. No matter how many day numbered or what dey prophesied, de price of cow-hide boots will not be less den free dollars while you an’ your ohill’en exist. Alter dis go yer own way an’ mind yer own bizuess,‘ regardless of Judas Ieceriot, Daniel in the lion’s den, or anybody else who has been buried over a hundred y’are. We will now take up do rig’lar order 0’ biz- ness.” auuo,uuu,UUU U nder present contract the company will build branches without any additional subsidy. ‘ ~ ~ . , 'd' f Mr. Mackenzie in addition to subsidies provided by the Act of 1874, introduced a bill to subsidize branches,_ With. 6.400 _aores porn-1118, 988‘ 01 11516" mu 0 west longitude, 7,680 acres per mile, west of that point, and 12,800 acres per mile for branches connecting the Paelflo railway With Peace River country. Eslimale of quantity of land required for these subsidies. during debate on bill. 12,000,000 at $2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . ......... . 324.00%,083 Present proposal better than Sir Hugh Allan contract .................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . ........ §g§,gg7,g00 0. . BetterthanMr.Maekenzie’soffer. including branches.................... ..... .. ...... ................... ....... . ...... “A 1 . A A, Do. do. do. excludhfig Better than Parliamentary grant of 1879 by In introducing the Act of 1874, Mr. Mackenzie Stated his 0 fled to accomplish it;” that is the means provided in Sir Hugh He proposed therefore to giye $23,627,500 mare to secure i1 “ Bmdder Hurricane,” continued the Presi- dent, “ you war down on de Central Market de adder day. Instead of buying a piece of sturgeon an” a. head oi cabbage an’ gwine home about your bizness. you stopped an’ got into an urgyment wid Dujan Smith about do also of Judas when he betrayed do Saviour. Am I k’reot about dis ‘3” ” Yes, Bah.” “ Arter do argyment had continued for some little time, an’ when it becum eartin dat you couldn’t agree. you called Smith a liar, an’ he called you a human hyena. Your loud voices brought 9. crowd. an’ a purlice- man finally ordered you off (19 market under penalty of arrest. Am Ik’rect, Brudder Hur- ricane ‘2" “Yes, nah.” “ Well, den, let me ask you what difference it makes to you wheder Judas was 25 or 75 years o_i age when he sold out ?" Existing roads with contracts completed Cash subsidy........................ 25,003,000 acres of land at $2 .n.....o. _ _.‘ . -._._..\...._.~ uLU-LLL‘ .Luu LU Lflm UULVLL'A.“ .1. Exemption from taxation of right of way, 100 feet wide, and station buildings, for about 900 miles of the railway, in territory at present unsettled. Northern Pacific is exempt from taxation for 200 feet on each side of the railway. Exemption from taxation of their lands until “ sold or occupied," or for twenty years after they have earned them. ‘ By the laws of Minnesota and Wisconsin. railway lands; are exempt from taxation until they are sold, no matter for how long aflme that may he. . ‘ Exemption from duty of steel rails, fish plates, bolts. nuts, iron for bridges used in original construction of railway, and of Wire and apparatus for original construction and equipment of telegraph lines. “ Am Bmdder Artichoke Hurricane in the hall ?” softly inquired the President. as the trigpglgceaged its echoes. Mr: Hurricane was theie. He rose from his seat and walked slowly forward to the President’s desk. One hundred millions of acres of land in 65,940,000 Acres land at 32................. Cash Subsidy, $10,000 per mile. . ....... . . . . . . . . . ..... Government guarantee on 37,500 per mile at 4 per cent “5075:000 Acres land at 32 Cash Subsidy.... . .uu.co... MAP SHOWING THE LINE 601‘ 'fHE. écANADI-ANâ€"JEACIHC " "I_ (3095! ’spect it makes any difference, THE LIME-KILN CLUB. , r‘Vr---_ .. .V.V.v.- .v b." wuu,ufll,uUU min: LU secure 1 ., or $59, 627, 000 less thaub the late Government considered U uder HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. Faithfully, GLUCOSE J. STANDOFF. PETITION S. VOTE OF PARLIAMENT 1879, ASSENTED TO COST OF fiAILWAY 'BYHDIF’FEâ€"‘RENT PROPOSALS; Mackenzie Staged His opinion that the construction the Northwest at $2 an acre J ‘qu lmrAI-vavI-u‘v "AIAIAM uuv mun“: yxuyunuu uu uu tvided in Sir Hugli Allan contract," ) more to secure its construction. Present contract secures construction for $36,000,000 less than the Allan con~ nment considered necessary. PERIVILEGES GRANTED TO THE COMPANY. They didn’t. Each one shuifled out, got under his hat, and went down stairs with a. burden of sorrow strapped to his back. CAN’T COME IN. Giveadam Jones secured the floor to an- “ What day was it dat you investigated ?” asked the President. " Wednesday, sah." “ I thought so. Dat mawnin’, as I war on my way down town, I noticed you skippin’ Into a. saloon on Beaubein street. I happened in dat naybnrhood agin arter dinner, an’ de Committe on Commerce war still playin’ cut- throat eucher in (19 back room. At; what stage of .10 game did you make up yer mind dat dis kenlry war about ready to quit on de railroad bizness 7” Sunflower would have looked ghostly if it were possible lot a. colored man to turn pale. He (ind the best he could, and as his knee: knocked together the President went on : “ ReasorlSwift nn’ Decline Tompkins, do adder two members of de committee. will please walk up heah." " I didn't ’spect data (18 best report which dis committm would make would have any pertickler efi'eck on the world at large, but de club has a right to believe (text you would do yer dooty in a straightforward man- ner. A9 a. penalty fur de way de club has bin treated, you men amn’ suspended from all lights an’ privileges fur do space of six weeks. Do you wish fur a. wote of :13 club on de matter 7” They came folward heads down and feet; dragging and Brother Gardner said: z A BEBUKE. Sunflower Hopewell, Chairman of the Com- mittee on Commerce, said that his committee had been asked to investigate and roport on the query from the Ohio Agricultural College: “Are we building too many railroads ‘2" One whole day had been spent in investigation, and the committee had come to the conclusion that this nation could stand only about two more railroads. “We am satisfied dat de cold begins some- whar’, but do exact pint no man kin find out. De spot on which it starts grown colder an’ colder, an‘ bime-by, when it gets so all-fired cold dot whiskey would freeze in ten ticks ob de clock, streaks of weather scoot off dis way an’ dat, an’ keep growin’ en’ goin’ till day reach Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo an’ all odder big placee. Dis am de theory of de majority of die committee. De minority, composed of Brudder Hemlock J ones, wishes me to report dat it am hie candid opinyun dat polar waves am de result of wind blowin‘ ober stone sidewalks an’ uroun’ de co'ners of brick build- in‘s.” “ Dar’ kin be but one answer to all sich queshuns,” replied the President. “ In dis speshul case I should count (is money over about fo’ times, to be sure I had too much. Den I’d go home an’ wait fur do bank officers to come an’ see me. If dey didn’t come arter a. week or so I’d drap aroun’ to the bank and kinder menshun do matter an’ git de load off my conscience. Honesty om de true policy. You may gain a. few dollars by trading off a blind mule in do night. but in less’n fo’ weeks yer dog will die, or de cook stove will gin out, or sunthin’ or odder will occur to sweller up all he profit dishonestly made. POLAR WAVES. Jericho Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Popular Science and Natural Philosophy, announced that his monthly report was ready. His committee had been asked to investigate the origln of the polar waves which sweep across the country during the winter at stated intervals. They had consulted all convenient authorities, and would report as follows : in place of $100, what would be the duty of that customer ?” PROPOSAL NOW BEFORE PARLIAMENT. HON. excluding, branches . SIR HUGH ALLAN CHARTER. MACKENZIE'S ACT A Samuel Shin, Colonel Root. Deacon Dod gar. Veracity Johnson. Welcome Smith and others spoke 1n favor of admitting “ John," but on a call of the yeas and Days a. majority of sixteen was shown in favor of keeping L him out. There being no further business ' before the club the meeting adjourned for one I! week. of the railway was i Some time ago Mr. Morey devised an ap- {paratus for measuring the steps, which he j has called an odograph. It consists of a ‘ small cylinder, rotating by means of clock- , work in its interior, and of a pen which marks 3 on the cylinder, and is raised at each step by ‘1 an impulse communicated by a ball of air be- : neath the sole. Observations have been made '1 ion a number of young soldiers. It was ascer- tained that the step was longer in going up ‘ hill than in going down hill. It is shorter ‘; when a burden is carried; longer with low 1 than with high heeled boots; longer when ' the sole is thick and prolonged alittle beyond 1' the foot that when it is short and flexible. It thus appears that the heel may with benefit he almost indefinitely lowered, while it is dis- advantageous to prolong the sole of the boot beyond a certain limit. or to give it an absolute rigidity. Some influences which lengthen the step lessens its frequency ; so in going up .hill the step becomes at the same time longer :and less frequent. In walking on level ground, ‘ the length of the step and its frequency are ‘ always proportioned; the quicker the walk the longer the step. Nature here proves the folly of the high heel in a most practical manner ; and the objection to them is equally applicable to ladies ; and if they could only see themselves as. 'they totter along perched up on high heels and walking as if stepping on egg-shells, their ludicrous appearance would'at once stop the fashion. Anyone accustomed to country life and long walks on the hills must have felt that terrible leg weariness which a day's shopping with a lady entails. The slow, ir- regular walk, the frequent pauses, and the difficulty of taking short steps with proper balance, are trials well know to men. With- out a good shaped low heeled boot, no lady, however pretty her foot or graceful her car- riageman walk becomingly,with ease to herself. and a. proper flexion of the muscles of the feet and legs. Half the ricked ankles come from heels being too high to form a proper steady base for the weight of the body, and the nar- row pointed toes prevent their proper expan- sion and use. Make a footprint in the sand and then go and place your boot in itâ€"what margin there will be 1 Horses even, with horny feet suffer terribly if their shoes are cramped and donot allow the foot to expand. Much more might be written of the accom- Rev. Penstock presumed that Chinamen had souls, but it was better for them to join some aocilety where the proceedings were conducted in their native language. ' Pickles Smith didn‘t feel like voting against any good man, but no applicant who wore a pig tail down his back could get a. vote from him. Waydown Bebee objected to any such mem- bership. While a. Chinaman was a. colored man. there was something wrong about his 9393.- . , nounce that Web Hap and Chin Lung, two Detroit Chinamen of considerable note, had made personal application to him for mem- bership in the club. The time had now er. rived when the club must face the ques- tion of admitting or rejecting celestials, and he hoped it would be settled at this meeting. The question being open to debate, nearly all the old members hada word to WITHOUT OPPOSITION . HIGH OR LOW HEELS. 1874. ....... . .......... $24,000,000 ..... . ........ $36,000,000 ....... . ...... 085,627,500 ...... 1959627500 .. 397000000 impracticable within the means proposed to be The story of M. de Lesseps’ marriage to his present wife is told by a London writer. She “ was nearly twelve years at the chateau of which she is now the ohatelaine. staying on a visit. Her family name was de Braga. She was the perfection of the French Creole type, and very romantic. She had been in the habit of listening to counts of the diplo- matic and material ifiiculties which M. de Lessepe overcame in Egypt, Paris and Lon- don, and of the courage and humanity he dis. played in assisting the plague stricken French- men when he was Qonsnl at Alexandria. The relations she heard impressed her as the nar- rative of Othello‘s adventures impressed Des- demona. His courthness, chivalrous manners and vivacity enchanted a girl used to the in- dolent planters of the Isle of France. She was at La Chesnaye when all Europe was astir about the achievement of the Suez en- terprise. Mlle. Braga grew silent and solitary. One day, in the garden, she saw M. de Lesseps walking on a terrace. She plucked a rose, and going up to him begged of him for her sake to wear it at dinner. He asked whether she did not mean it for his son ? No, it was f spoil him. John McCullough. Barton Hill, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson. Mrs. Drew, John S. Clarke. Fanny Davenport, Clare Morris. finish the catalogue. France and England produce dramatic genius every hour, and we wear out the little we have by constant use. Our pocketfuls of money are too often emptied upon sensations. composed of melodious Africans. nude dancing women. brainless male seducers, learned dogs, howl~ ing dervishes, counterfeit Turks, false sav- ages, wild Irishmen sud drunken Dutchmen. It is a puzzle why. out of our medley of schools of declamatiol, our parlor comedians and Thespian tyros. we do not pluck an occa- sionsl Forrest, Booth, Warren or Burton. But we do not. Why does not some rich man die and endow an academy for actors ‘2" ' 001. J. W. Forney deplores the scarcity of talent in the theatrical profession. We quote some of his remarks: ” Why do we not have more talent among our actors of both sexes ? Our makers of plays are far ahead of ‘ our players. Why ‘2 We invent incessantly. we print perpetually, we boast brutally. We manufacture for as we feed the nations. We have colleges of artists. swarms of lawyers and doctors, aviaries of poets, congresses of writers and architects, but our actors as a class and in a mass do not show any signifi- cant or decided progress. Add to these signs, there is a plethora of money. And the wonder grows that as elocution is widely taught, private theatricals not only the fashion but the passion. oratory a sort of disease. culture the craze of society, and ambitious young men and lovely girls as plentiful as apples in Autumn. yet we have little home genius on the stage, and squander large fortunes upon foreign singers and players. The age is burst- ing with capacity in skilled mechanics. We make watches, locomotives, pianos, sewing- xnachines for all the world, but we have few superior comedians and tragedians; and when we discover one we enrich and often panying ills of tight and high heeled boots ; but as long as women will hear the pain so as to appear taller and to have tiny feet. so long will they do violence to nature’s gifts. Legs and feet were given us for use to exer- cise the body upon. In fact. so cramped up and stilted has tashion made the walk nowadays that a lady with wooden legs might pass muster in the park undiscovered. -â€"The Lancet. A ROMANTIC 'STORY. $103,000,000 $200,000,000 s 2s.ooo,ooo $162,627,500 $109,000,000 30,000,000 $139,000,000 3111 880,000 29 ,770,000 20.977.500 THE ATRICAL TALENT Hamilton to Sault (mil) ......... Sault to Thunder Bay (water). . . Hamilton to Callander. . .. Callander to Sault. . . ..... Sault to Duluth” ...... .. Dfiluth to Cookstown . . . Cookstown to Selkirk. . . . Construction of the railway, which Liberals have always declared to be beyond the resources of the Dominion to build. Completion of the line, with an annual outlay for interest of $2,650,000, being $350,000 less than the amount appropriated for the purpose by Mr. Mackenzie in 1874, according to his statement to Lord Garnarvon. , , Absolute release from any further liability, including release from liability of loss in working the railway, which Mr. Blake estimated at between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 annually. _ , Active assistance of the railway company in promoting immigration into the Northwest, and release from a large share of responsibility and cost involved in that work. An enormous enhancement of the revenues of the Dominion from lands, made valuable by the construction of the railway, and from customs and excise. duties from settlers. Removal of the railway from political and party influence, and its construction and management as a commercial enterprise. Prospect of immediate construction of Sault Ste. Marie branch, and American connection with St. Paul, by the fact that the company is deeply interested in both ends of that line. There is no duty now on steel rails and fish plates. If Government had built the road, all these articles would have been free of duty. and in addition all the rolling stock for the equipment of the railway. upon which the company will now have to pay duty. Right to build branches from the main line wherever they please. ' They do not receive any subsidy for these branches. but must build them with their own money. Mr. Mackenzie proposed to subsidize a Company willing to build branches with $10,000 a mile, or by a land grant, equivalent, at $2 an acre, to $24,000,000. Before the company can impose a single toll on the railway. they have to submit a tarifi‘ to the Governorâ€"in-Couucil, and it must be approved by them. Parliament can interfere to reduce tolls the moment the railway pays ten per cent. on capital actually employed in the construction of the railway. The law relating to other railways only authorizes interference by Parliament when the railway pays fifteen per eent.~ ~ Total.... Total . THE SAULT ROD TE BUFFALO, Jan. 5.â€"Five or six years ago Louis C. F. Ehrenberger, now a conductor for the Street Railway Company. was a first lieutenant in the German army, and main- tained a large establishment in Berlin. There he met Miss Regina. daughter of Mr. George Boos, of Bufi‘alo, who was studyinzmusie at Berlin with her aunt, Mrs. Steinway. wife of the famous New York piano munuiac- turer. Miss Boos became Mrs. Ehrenber- ger. The young lieutenant had somewisun- L‘derstandjng with his mother. and his fortunes were "materially reduced. He resigned his commisssion and came to this country and to :‘Buflalo. For a time the couple kept a mill- iu'ery store on Broadway. but the emei‘prise proved unsuccessful. He entered the service of the Street Railway Company, first as a driver on the East Side. and later as a con- ductor on the Main street line. his wife and three children residing at Cold Springs. A few days ago Mr. Ehrenberge‘r received a cablegrem from the family lawyer in Europe to the effect that the elder Mrs. Ehrenber- ger had died, and that our conductor had fallen heir to the entire estate, the value of which is estimated at between 880,000 and $100,000. â€"The Toronto World publishes a startling item to the effect that a member of the local staff has taken a. bath The story lacks eon- firmation. -â€"The dynamrte cartridge is superseding the buzz-saw as a news item manufacturer. ernsn. Jan. 6.â€"â€"A dastardly assault was committed on Mr. Barr, editor of the Post, last evening by J. 0. Grace. son of Mr. Wm. Grace, of this town. Mr. Barr was proceed- ing along Lindsay street at six o’clock, and when opposite the Separate School, young Grace stepped out of the recess of the gate- way, where he had been waiting, and rushing forward struck Mr. Barr a violent blow in the face with his fist without a word of warm ing. It was quite dark, and Mr. Barr had not the least idea who his ruflainly assailant was, but closed with him, and in the struggle fell into the ditch. Here Grace gave several blows, and either kicked or stamped on Mr. Barr. who managed in a few moments \to get to his feet. Grace then drew a rawhide from his breast, whereupon Mr. Barr, to prevent the attack. closed with him and thus foiled his assailant’s design, and for the first time recognized Grace. The assault is be- lieved to have arisen out of a criticism in the Post, concerning the action of his lather, who is chairman of the school board, as shortly after the article was published Grace, sr., declared publicly that if it were not that he might lose his position as clerk of the court he would give Barr the worst licking he ever not in his life. Fortunately Mr. Barr is not seriously injured. An Editor Assaulted for Publishing an Adverse Criticism. for himself. Her host explained to her that he§was on the wrong side of sixty, while she was not yet nineteen. That did not matter. What his age was never occurred to her. She had only thought of his greatness and good- ness. In short he was her beau ideal. How was it possible for a man reared on thesnnny side of 9. Pyrenean mountain to reason down the feelings this confession aroused? Time was given to Mlle. de Braga to reflect, and she was made to understand that no friend- ship would be 1036 were she to change her mind after the banns had been published. The marriage was celebrated contemporane- ously with the Suez fetes.”-â€"-London News. THE SAULT ROUTE NOT A HAPPY LIFE. A LUCKY CAR DRIVER. Miles. . 253 290 450‘ 2341 1,402 ADVANTAGES TO THE COUNTRY. Hamilton to Detroit. Detroit to Chicago. . . Chicago to St. Paul. St. Paul to Selkirk... Total....... TABLE OF DISTANCES; I have know a peanut to spoil a tragedy, and in this wise : It was one of Nilsson’s grandest nights. The Opera House was filled with beauty and fashionâ€"so the papers said next day. A few of the gallery gods were aloft. Brignoli had just sung the prison song of “ Trovatore,” and never before so pathetic- ally. There was a silence of suspenseâ€"the climaxâ€"the tragic part of the drama. Nilsson came forward, waiting and holding that sus- It would not be difficult to hang a history of England on page supplied by the dates at which Parliament has been exceptionally summoned for the despatch of business. In the humdrum course of political events, home or foreign, Parliament is accustomed to meet within the first week of February. When any other date is chosen “ history is being made." It was so in 1830. George IV. wasjust dead, '_ and the new King had his new Parliament, which brought back the whigs to power after ' twenty years’ wandering in the wilderness of ' opposition. The Reform bill being defeated in committee on the 18th of April, Parliament was straightway dissolved. The new Parlia- ment met again on the 21st of June, the de- bates on the Reform bill being temporarily closed at twenty minutes past six on the morn- ing of Saturday, October 8, when the Lords ‘ threw it out on the second reading by a ma- jority of forty-one. Seven years later died William IV.. and the new Parliament was opened by the young Queen on November 20. The session was marked by dis- orders arising out of Irish affairs. and the hero of the hour was Smith O'Brien. In 1846 Parliament met on the 22nd of January. Having repealed the Corn laws Sir Robert Peel came to. grief on an Irish coercion bill, which was refused a second reading by 292 against 219. In the courseof the debate, which lasted six nights, Disraeli deplored the nonappearance of “an- other Canning, a man who ruled the House as a. highbred steed." “The temper of the House is not now as spirited as it was then ; and," Disraeli added, “I am therefore not sur- prised that the vulture rules where once the eagle reigned.” Another Irish Coercion bill was triumphantly carried through both Houses in 1848. Four years later Parliament met in November. The Duke of Wellington was dead, and Disraeli, as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. found himself called upon to pronounce a panegyric on the dead soldier; an occasion which be improved by incor- porating in his oration a eulogy passed by M. Thiers twenty-three years earlier on a second rate French Marshal. In 1854, winter troubles having commenced in the Crimea, Parliament was summoned, meeting the Queen on the 12th of December. Three years later, on the 3rd of December, 1857, the country being yet agi- tated and depressed by a. great commercial ,crisis. Parliament was called together to pass ‘a bill idemnifying Ministers for the suspen- sion of the Bank Charter act. In 1867 Par- liament was called together on November 19 to vote the supplies necessary for the Abys- sinian war. There was a winter session in 1868. but the proceedings were purely for- mal. and arose in connection with the general election of that year. which led to the estab- lishment in power of Mr. Gladstone. Finally, in 1878, there were two winter sessions. Par- liament met earlier than usual (on the 16th of January) to vote £6,000,000 in menace of Russia, and was summoned again in Decem- ber to vote money on account of the still unsettled bill for the war in Afghanistan.â€" N. Y. Harald. i m wan HOW A PEANUT SPOILED A TRA- GEDY. EXISTING Water Rail Routes. Miles. 543 250 793 WINTER SESSIONS. Routes. Hamilton to Collingwood (mil) .......... . . . . . Collingwood to Thunder Bay (water) ...... ROADS. Total...... Miles. » 185 272 406 476 1 ,339 THE PRESENT ROUTE Hamilton to Callander. . . . Callander tc Selkirk. . . . . . [mil-mu? Total. . l â€"~Mlle.de Montgolfler, Whojdiedon Dec. 16, l at the age of 91, was the daughter of Etienne de Montgolfler, the inventor of the balloon. The father, who was the scion of an opulent commercial family of Lyons, was ennobled for his scientific inventions, of which the balloon was but one ; and the daughter, who survived him for eighty-one years, lived to see communication maintained by balloons dur- ing the siege of Paris. In "‘" 4 Mlle. de Montgolfler resisted all Y" 111 to quit Paris on the approach c ' ssians. She lived on the south side ,ityâ€"the side exposed to the Prussian ries; and she remained with her maid ei l. youth in her service, the only tenants of a large, old house of ‘msny flats, whence every other had fled. Old as she was even then she went inces- santly to visit the wounded in the ambulances, and was found at the and of the siege to have given away all her house linen and every article useful for the sick. But here Mr. Weatherwise, who had been reclining. against the lamp-post, began, de- spite all his efforts, to slide up it. and was only rescued after great exertions on the part of Mr. Yarnspinner. -“,I stick to it.” remarked Mr. Wentherwise,as they proceeded on their journey. “thatflthese be slippery times.” ‘ . yagd.” “ The ice is a little smooth," conceded Mr. Yarnspinner, helping his friend up, “ but it’s nothing to what it was aback in the war. Why we had a sleet in 1864 that was so slippery that rubbers were discarded, and a man who put on a pair of nutmeg graters slipped up and broke his neck." “ You don’t say?” ‘ “ Yes; it’s a fact. But that’s nothing to what it was in 1857. In that winter we didn’t have much snow, but it did some tall sleet- ing. I remember walking down the avenue with Beau Hickman, and at the corner of First street a friend handed him a $5 note. Beau reached forward to take it, when he com- menced to slip and slide, and right up Capitol Hill he went." “ No stopping ?” “ No, sir. He floundered along like a we- man on a run, the steam pouring out of his mouth like a. locomotive, and as he rounded the crest of the hill, his coat flapping like a signal of distress in the breeze, he repre~ sented a living example of things slippery. He didn’t wind up until he reached the navy "n ml 7- _ _.___‘,._ net at a snail’s pacefén the dvénfié yesterday. “ Slippery times "â€"and Mr. Weatherwise in- continently sat upon himself. so to speak. “ Slippery times, these," remarked Mr. Weatherwise as he approgched Mr. Yarnspin. h-.. -L » ”‘h-u pense up to the last limit ere she should utter her thrilling cry of despair. But in that tragic moment, from the far height came a crash that echoed through the silent theater. The sound was unmistakableâ€"it was that of a stout, thicklshelled peanut being smashed by a stouter pair of jaws. It seemed, too, that these same jaws had been holding their victim in suspense and closed upon it just at the nick of time. Nilsson‘s despairing cry was entirely fgrestulled. That awful pemut came in just a second too soon-the thing was irresistible. Beauty and fashion-grinned and giggled, and the “ boys ” burst into a loud laugh. Nilsson was completely overset. She looked at first as blank as a collapsed dumpling ; then the lines of her angular face sharpened, and her eyes darted angry arrows all over the place and audience. She forgot the singular truth that from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. and that peanut certainly upset the tragedy. CANADA PACIFIC. SLIPPERY TIMES. . ........1,308 Miles. 126- 460