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Mr. Gladstone, well as others, clearly fore- saw the contest in which he is now engaged, and by means of the Foreign Office informed himself in advanee of the methods of most nations in dealing with factions parliamen- tary minorities. They are all closely alike,- and are generally modeled on the claims, or method of closing a debate, in vogue in France, where the rules adopted after the res- toration mostly still prevail. In either branch of the French Assembly,a quorum being pres- ent. the presiding officer, upon the demand of a sonsiderable number of the members, puts the question whether the debate shall be closed, either at once or after the list of in- scribed speakers is exhausted. A single mem- ber may speak in opposition to the question- and upon its decision in the aflirmative’allde, bate and delay must end. The extremest in- stance of the clown is found in the Austrian Beiohsrath, in which the President, of his own motion, it would seem, may, at the close of any speaker's remarks, put a motion to close the debate, and a bare majority suffices to carry it? In Italy the cloture must he demanded by a member. In the Belgian Senate five mem- bers may call for it, and in the Chamber ten, and a. simple majority prevails. In the Ger- man Beichstag and the Prussian Landtag, thirty members may at any time call upon the President in writing to close the debate, and upon the question “ that the debate be now closed" being put, a majority prevails. In Norway, Hungary and Sweden there is no cloture, and the only form of it in Spainis a rule permitting a motion that aquestion be no further” discussed. In Switzerland the cloturc must be demand by twe- thirds of the thshmembers present before a division on the I question is ordered. In the United States they have put the English motion for the “ previous question”â€"which, in Eng- land, is merely s. device for avoiding a direct yes or no on.the main questionâ€"to the uses of the clotun, and a majority of a quorum is sufficient to order an immediate vote. Thursday the landlord of an up-country summer hotel was in the city and called on several people to see if they would remember his house when deciding on the place to go next summer. He struck a Devonshire street broker who has a large family, and mentioned what he wanted. “ Got a nice place ?” asked the broker. “ First-rate," said the landlord. “ Many attractions?” " Several.” “ How s the scenery ?” “ Fair.” " Any romantic spot where lovers jumped off a high blufi into a pond?” “ No ; folks up our way don’t make such cussed tools of themselves.” “Oh, well, have you got any cave about with an old hermit in it ?” “ No, sir ; if any superannu- ated tramp tries to leaf about that part of the country and get money out of my guests by calling himself a hermit he’ll find himself in the House of' Correction quicker than a hornet can get his work in.” “ Ah! Got a mineral spring on your place?" “ No. sir. If a man is sick we’ve got a good physician in the vicinity, and good. pure water is so plenty with us that we don’t try to economize on it by induc- ing our guests to drink from some nasty pool that’ll give ’em an attack of cholera." “I see. Well, then, how’s the fishing ?” “Can’t catch two fish a day in the whole region, but there’s a number of an ad places for a party to go to with a supply of punch and cigars to play cards and have a good time, and I always keep a supply of trout on hand to fill your baskets when you come home so you can show the speckled beau- ties to the women folks.” "H’m ! You don’t seem to have such attractions as most of the summer resorts advertise.” “No, I haven’t. I have to rely on the fact that I give a man a clean room. decently furnished. plenty of chicken and vegetables to eat, and lots of milk to drink. There’s all out doors for the children to play about anda big, shady piazza for the old folks to loaf on. I charge folks at fair price for what they have. and if I catch a servant skirmishing for fees I give that servant the bounce. That's about all there is to it.” And the broker rose up and said, “You may expect me with my family down at your place about the middle of May, to stay through the season, and it I can make my partner go, too, I shall. You've got the sort of a place I’ve been looking after for ten years."â€"â€"Boston Port. â€"â€"An abstract of the gross produce of the revenue of Great Britain and Ireland for the past year shows that it exceeded thee previous year by £600.000. There was a. decrease of nearly a million in customs and excise. but there was an increase of stamps of £947,000, and the post ofiice and telegraph service shows an increase of nearly £450,000, besides an in- crease in interest on advances of £200,000. The land tax and house duty gave an increase of £75,000. Examination of Mr. Lowe, Secretary to the Department of Agriculture. OTTAWA, Feb. 11.-â€"â€"In the Immigration and Colonization committee to-day, Mr. Lowe, Secretary to the Department of Agriculture, was examined. He said that the total num- ber of immigrants arriving during the last fiscal year were 85,859. Of these there went to the United States from Quebec. 8,495. These were from the United Kingdom, the Scandinavian provinces, etc. ; they were really passengers for the United States, via Que- bec. At the port of Halifax, for the United States, 835; via Suspension Bridge, 37,787.‘ The total settlers in Canada were 88.505.1 including 10,961 emigrants from the Unitco 1 States, reported at the custom houses with settlers’ goods. These figures of immigra- tion irom the United States did not include, any of those who made no entries of settlers’ l goods; it was impossible to ascertain their? numbers. From the 25th of May to the close , of the year, by account made on the trains, it had been ascertained that 13,000 settlers entered Manitoba. He did not think that persons going there for pleasure would. be included. The numbers simply were given, and it was not stated how many were chil- dren. There were no means of ascertaining how many persons left Manitoba last year. The counting on the trains was done by one of the land guides employed by the Depart- ment of the Interior. The total movement of immigrants last year. including those passing through, was 85,000, against 61,000 the previous year. In reply to Mr. Robert- son (Hamilton), Mr. Lowe said that last year the department had paid a good deal of at- tention to the matter of German immigration and had twice visited New York in this con- nection. waiting upon the German steamshlp agents, from whom some valuable informa- tion had been obtained.’ He was informed that Germans were almost entirely influenced by the representations of their friends. The German immigrants into the United States last year were 84,038. A party of German settlers was to be placed in Manitoba in the spring, and it was hoped that the represen- tations made by these people would be of value. No large stream of German emigra- tion would be influenced by the circulation of information from the outside. â€"-A lady named Burchell, accompanied by a school board ofiicer. lately waited upon one of those advisers-general of the wretched, a London police magistrate, and craved his aid in the following trouble: She and her hus- band, advanced in life, had up to within a year, been in well~to do circumstances, but were now reduced to such straits, by reason of the non payment of rents on Irish propâ€" erty. that she had to sell her jewels and her furniture. Their son they had been com- pelled to remove from a good boarding school, and to send to one of the public schools, from which he had been expelled. and she really did not k ow what to do with him. The oflic sai it was all true. What had been a com ortable home was now a wreck of one. Arrangements were made to put the boy on a training ship. The smaller Irish gentry are in many cases in grievous difficulty A MODEL SUMMERING PLACE. IMMIGRATION. THE CLOTURE‘ Dookbme; dot papers, Shudge, und write dis ting a on : Mine house he vos go crazy on ackound Gretch- en und me go out. For dwendy years already we lif so hubby like der deuce, Butuow I. dink dot’s besser, Shudge, of we vas lockt togedder loose. Dem marriage-tings makes a man und voomans ‘ one, you see ; But der tuyfel himself he don’t could told vhich vas der one to be. I dock dot voomaus for besser, und she (looks me for worser too ; We lofed der odder plendy vell ; veil, dot vas der ting to do. She don’d vas pooty for nice, Shudge, but she vas bully for shtrong, Und, ofer I hadn’t believed it, I don'd would seen some wrong; So I shpeaks mit Gretchen a leedle times, und Gretchen vas shpeak mit me, U ml we vus make our seclusions up dot we nefer could agree. Who ish cler matter 2’ Vot ‘2' By chinks, I don'd could said. Der long years b ahead from dis go plaindly liab- by shped ; But, odder of u. somehow, dot ting got ycost plaid 011.; ;| Mine frow got a flirdation of her heart so vorser like der gout. Don’d been extonished, Shudge; I dells you dis ting for true ; Dem vimmens, efry one, could yoost make fool mit you. Dhere hearts vas got changes like der moon vay ub by dot shky, Und, efery time vas got a 7mm in dot, how ub for dot vas high ? Yahi yah l dot's so; und yoost' make on der paper vat I shpeaks mit you. Mine frow vas a pooty mean voomans in some- dings, und inenner in odders, too. I only found me some excendricks out, yoost a couble veeks or dree; Und I dells you vat it is, Shudge, dots who ish der reason mit me. Don’t look of me mit dot tone of voice, but make down yoost vat I say : I vants me lockt out from Gretchen, und dot, too ri ht avav. So ? ou vent to found you out who vas dei reason of due ‘2 Vol], Shudge, dot vas a koorious ting, but you knows how yourself it vas. Some odder teller vos got him, der lofe of mine Gretchen now. Vell, he was gotvmine Syinpody und she could been his frow. Der old lofe vos all go died; dhem hearts vas cold like lend; Und it’s very seldom who ish der reason dis ting vas now go dead. But dots dor vay, und, der more you life, der longer you find it out, Der oxeendricks of dose vimmens vas make you lafl und shout. But dot makes me netting difierence ; I don’d vill cry und fret, 0n ackound I yoost (links (lot dhere vas yoost so good fish in der ,vasser as don’d got pulled out yet. CARL PBETZEL. “ A Calm View of the Temperance Ques- tlon.” (From the New York Christian Union.) Dr. Howard Crosby has made no little ex- citement in Boston by his Monday lecture, “ A Calm View of the Temperance Question." The total abstinence apostles have so long enjoyed the monopoly of anathematizing all temperance men who have declined to join their church and swear allegiance to their standards. that they were at first dazed by an address which indicted them as obstructing temperance reform, and giving practical aid and comfort to the liquor interest. A week sufficed to rally their forces, however, and on the following Monday, an hour and a-half be- fore the regular Monday lecture, they crowded Tremont Temple to hear from a Rev. Malla- lien, a prayer for “ that Rip Van Winkle in the temperance cause”â€"â€"certainly the most extraordinary prayer ever offered to a Boston audienceâ€"and from Wendell Phillips :1 philippic against Chancellor Crosby, con- ceived and executed in the best vein of an orator who is as distinguished for his singular inaccuracy of statement and looseness of logic as for his brilliant diction and elegant elocution. He amply exemplified the popular method of demolishing an antagonist. This consists in making a dummy of straw, hang- ing loosely about him a garment made up of shreds and patches of sentences from the opponent’s address, put in quotation marks, and then beating him to pieces before an admiring audience, who are always sure to applaud such a bloodless gladi- torial show. That Wendell Phillips, retained to demolish the Chancellor, should begin by travestying him was to have been expected; that religious newspapers should represent him as arguing moderate drinking to be a Christian duty is unpardonable. Dr. Crosby’s position can beeasily stated in a paragraph. He distinctly declared that he did not oppose for the individual total absti- nence from all that intoxicates; but be con- demned the total abstinence crusadeâ€"“ the forcing total abstinence upon the community as the duty of all ; the putting under the ban every one who does not follow that standard; the insisting upon total abstinence as the only safOty against drunkenness.” This total ab- stinence crusade he condemned in a vigorous indictment as both inexpedient and immoral.- Be declared it to be inexpedient because it will not and cannot secure the approbation of thinking men; it refuses the co-operation of all in a temperance movement who decline to adopt the total abstinence shibboleth; it violently wrests the meaning of the word temperance, and perverts and belittles it from its true meaning of self-control to the maimed and mutilated function of total abstinence from one particular kind of beverage ; it twists and distorts Scripture, and forces into it a mean- ing repugnant both to the best scholarship and to the common sense of the unlettered reader ; it substitutes for the development ,of a manhood able to judge for itself and govern itself, a system of external checks and arti- ficial rules ; it proceeds by a policy of bull- dozing and intimidation, endeavoring to make unanimity by shutting up the mouths of the other side. But it is more than inexpedient, it is immoral. It has obstructed true, healthy. permanent reform ; has promoted the growth of drunkenness; has demoralized the com- munity by its fanaticism and its lack of dis- crimination. It regulates the diet of the well by the needs of the sick, and forges for the virtuous and temperate bonds which are needed only for the vicious and the self-in- dulgent ; it falsely assumes that moderate drinking leads to drunkennessI a dogma eon- tradicted by the experience of milllons upon millions of the race who have been accustomed to drink wine and yet never knew drunken- ness ; it ignores all discriminations as be- tween fermented and distilled liquors, liquors pure and liuuors adulterated ; it represents all alcohol as poison, whereas science shows that “ there is an essential difference between the efiects of large and small quantities of alcohol, a difference of kind and not of degree ; it depends for Imoral re- form on pledges, not on permanent change of character; on a contract, not on the moral sense; on resolutions signed in a momentary excitement, not on principle ; it debauches the conscience by leading to a Wholesale mak- ng and breaking of promises ; and, finally, it includes in its condemnation of wine drink- ers, as sinners, Jesus Christ and his apostles, who customarily and habitually used fer- mented wines in an age when drinking was universal and drunkenness not uncommon, and attempts to evade so doing by wresting the Scriptures with a learned ignorance which is fairly splendid with boldness. Over against the total “abstinence system thus indicated Dr. Howard Crosby sets the system he would have temperance men adopt : A discrimin- ating system which would practically recogâ€" nize the difference between excess and mod- eration, and between injurious and harmless drinks ; an honest system, which would deal VOL. XXIII. DR. CROSBY’S LECTURE. GRETCHEN UND ME GO OUT. fairly with history, science and Scripmre ; a manly system, which would have no cant and no foolery of orders or ribbons, degrading a. matter of high principle to the hocus pocus of a child’s play ; a. system which would ex- clude distilled liquors from common use as a beverage, both by public opinion and by law, and would regulate the use of vin- one and malt liquors. which would shut out from. society the drinking usages which lead to excess. and reduce by a license law the liquor shops to not over one to every thousand inhabitants, which would make eon- viction of the law breaker easy, and the pun- ishment imprisonment as well as fine. On such a system the union of all good men could be secured in an effort to stop drunk- enness and its attendant crimes and misery â€"-a union which can never be accomplished on the principles of the total abstinence pro- pagandn. â€" We are glad that some one has been found bold enough to deliver such an address in Tremont Temple, for it will compel men to think, and the chief hindrance to the temper- ance cause is want of clear thinking. There has been a superabundance of impetuous, pas- sionate, hasty action, but very little calm, thoughtful, impartial thought. Some of Dr. Crosby’s assertions are too positive. It is still an open question in scienceâ€"in spite of Dr. Ainstie’s positive declarationsâ€"whether alco- hol ever properly serves the purpose of food in the human body ; it is tolerably certain that in any form it is injurious to men under middle life, when health demands rapid disintegration and reconstruction of the tissues, which alco- hol delays. The example of Christ is not con- clusive on the question of personal use of wine Because in the warm climate and sluggish civilization 'of Palestine Christ drank a mild wine mixed with water, it does not follow that it is wise for hot-blooded Americans, in the cold climate and intense civilization of the Northern States, to drink fiery wines mixed with alcohol.- But the main premises of the address need some better refutation than that of the Mr. Phillips philippic on Mr. Malle- lieu’s prayer. Temperance is not synonymous with total abstinence ; a total obstainer may be a more intemperate man, and a good many of them are. The Bible commends the use of wine; Christ lived in an age when drunken- ness was more excessive than in our own time, when total abstinence societies existed and pledges were prescribed, and he never joined the one or recommended the other; he made wine by a miracle, used it socially, and dying recommended it to his followers in a memorial service appointed to keep his name in loving remembrance among his fol- lowers. In the face of these facts, to de‘ no'unce all wine drinking as a sin is to de- nounce Christ, and to enforce total abstin- ence as the sole rgmedy for intemperance is to renounce His example. To avoid this conclusion by inventing two kinds of :wines, one fermented, the other unfer- mented, is to violate intellectual honesty for the sake of securing Biblical sanction to an ethical hobby. The cost is too great for the benefits. There is not a single living inde- pendent Bible scholar in England, America or Germany who can be cited in support of this weak and untenable invention. There is a clear and unquestionable distinction be- tween distilled and fermented liquors, in the process of their production, their essential nature and their inevitable eflects on the system. Dr. Willard Parker the foremost authorit‘ on“ ten: rance rob ' t '5, country has recentl" in oufio‘ffis domai- strated this diiference so clearly that no reply to the demonstration has even been attempted. Any method of reform that ignores or denies these principles sets itself against truth; and though in short battles passionate invective sometimes vanquishes truth, in long cam- paigns truth always conquers. The perman- ent and final temperance reform must recog- nize these truths and reconcile itself to them. We wish that Dr. Crosby, in his proposed method of temperance reform, had placed greater emphasis on the truth that there is no specific for intemperance; that the only true remedy is a reform of the whole nature. Temperance is a plant of slow growth; it cannot be forced. Intemperance is the mas- tery of the animal over the intellectual and the spiritual; temperance is the mastery of the intellectual and the spiritual over the ani- mal. Prohibition puts the tiger in a cage and denies him the use of blood ;the pledge is his promise to turn vegetarian ; Christianity takes his bloodthirsty dispositon out of him. Prohibitory laws and personal pledges may sometimes serve a useful temporary purpose; but nothing less than Christian life makes radical and permanent reform. A genuine revival of religion is the best temperance movement, a genuine Christian church is the best temperance society; and a genuine Christian preacher who puts temperance where Paul put it, between righteousness and judgment to come, is the best of all temper- ance lecturers. A correspondent wrote to Mr. Gladstone, a short time ago, for information as to the lega position of the Jesuits in England. The en- swer was a reference to the Act 10 George IV., c. 7, by which it is enacted that any members of that and certain other religious orders com- ing into the realm without a license shall be considered guilty of misdemeanor and pun- ished accordingly. The punishment is ban- ishment for life, which may also be inflicted on anyone joining the orders within the King- dom. There is a strange provision. however. attached to the law, which seems to have been framed purposely to give the ineriminated person a chance of escape. If, after being banished, he is still found in the country, he may be removed beyond sea by force. If he return, he may be again convicted and sen- tenced to penal servitude. The law, we be- lieve, has never been put in force. Like many laws which are retained on the statute book, it is entirely out of harmony with the exist- ing public sentiment. The net of which it forms part is the famous Catholic Emancipa- tion Act. â€"“ To me," writes the Rev. Phillipa Brooks, in reply to an impeachment of his orthodoxy. “ the incarnation and thamiracles which Jesus Christ is said to have wrought seem to be sublimely reasonable, and contra. dicted by no knowledge of man or of the world which God has given us. I believe that they are true historically, and most natural philosophically.” â€"“Murder,” according to the San Bernar- dino Times, “still stalks red handed through the Pacific coast.” The record of violent deaths for a single week is given as a sample; At Cucamona “a man undertook to shoot another ; his hand was struck up, the pistol discharged, and a young man entirely innou cent of‘he row now lies at the point of death at El Monte, Hunt, who is known to have murdered one or more men in Utah and others in Arizona, and was allowed to elude the law, butchered one of the best citizens of Los Angeles, and came withina hair's breadth of killing a citizen of the Monte at the same time ; in Reno, on the 17th, a man shot another over a. game of cards ; at Bodie the people arose in their indignation and lynched a murderer who had been arrested and allowed to escape ; at San Diego, 3. day or two since, a saloon keeper shot two men in self defense, and they are now in a dying condition." The Times says this record is reported week after week, and thinks it about time that jurors should begin to convict murderers, and that a severe penalty should be imposed upon carry- ing a deadly weapon of any kind. THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1881. The highway from Clifton to the Falls skirts the edge of the precipitous banks of the Niagara.H. o Are mm 9:9 rm drenturons cedar whose roots find sustenance' m the crevices of the rock, shows its trunk above the cliff; some. indeed, with a great air of bravado hang l[at a dizzy angle. over the precipice. The snow is beaten down in the middle of the road, but there are places where the slant 13 toward the margin of the clifi and where the sleigh shows an alarming disposition to topple that way. Far down below the intense green of the river shows itselfâ€"intenser if possible by contrast with the snow. The nervous traveler shudders as he contemplates a tumble from the verge of the cliff, turns his eyes away and instinct- ively leans over to the other side. moi: AND cnvsran. Approaching the upper suspension bridge the American side shows reaches of white ice, the overflow of the mill races, solidly ex- tended from the river’s edge to the top of the bank. Folded and convulated they drape the rough dark stone clifl’ as with curtains of lace. The new suspension bridge looks more like a. spider’s web in the sunlight than ever b fore. The heat frost has formed on ca.- bles and stays and the iron work fairly glis- tens. This Burning Springs' is one of the sights of Niagara which can be omitted without special loss , but it is regarded as a “ power- ful card " by the hackmen. A BABGAXN. The Falls are about a mile from Clifton and with this fact in mind, the visitor can regu- late the charges of the driver. We bargained with “ No. 1.” Mr. Wilson.who as a man and boy has driven sightseers about that region for thirty-three years, to take us to the farth- est verge of the cataract, up to the rapids near the Prince of Wales River and return for one dollar and a toll, ten cents. If one desires to cross the upper suspension bridge. drive down the American side and return to Clifton by the railway suspension bridge, the fare will be an additional half dollar and the bridge tollsâ€" twenty-five cents for each pas- senger and half a dollar for the team and driver. Ample time will be given to see everythingâ€"as long a time in fact as any one wishes to remain out in the cold. Warmly wrapped in fur robes and seated in a sleigh is not an uncomfortable way to view the Falls. Another thing should be borne in mind. The most extensive view is to be had from \the Canada side. The Falls from it can be ‘ob- served as a whole and in detail and there are dozens of points from which the scene can be taken in. The Horse- shoe Falls, Goat Island. the American Falls. the river below the Falls,the new Suspension Bridge. everything that can give a proper idea of the great wonder may be seen to best advantage from the Canada side and there is no charge. 0n the American side, however, payment is exacted at nearly every step and without a fee no view of the Falls is attain- a le. The trees in Prospect Part, Luna Island, Goat Island and the Canada. shore in the vicinity of the Falls are loaded down with crystals. Such fantastic forms of foliage were never seen, and the imagination of man could scarce depict such wonderful objects as trees, shrubs and bushes everywhere present. The evenrising mist has glorified the forests after a rare manner. A writer in the current number of Scribner‘s deals with the music of Niagara. There is a sound of grandeur to the fall of the waters. The reverberations, broken, modified and re- flected by the ice masses which hem them about, ring out on the frosty air with 8. musi- cal clamor at times soft keyed and melodious like the distant sound of heavy bells. I there is music at Niagara it is surely during this winter Season. THE ion. Ice bridges have been formed and have dis- appeared. There are none there now. The ice that comes over the falls is broken into bits and sweeps down the river in diminutive drifts and panoramic lines much like the foam flecks that fill the surface on a. still day in summer. At the loot of the Falls, at the Cave of the Wind, under the bank on the Canada side, below the Horse Shoe, at the Goat Island side, gigantic ice mounds have formed from the spray. Some of these glaciers are round like haystacks, others are irregular and riven. Some are white and snow-covered, others are of crystalline ice and congealed snow, with masses of dependent icicles. Visitors clamber up to the top of some of these mounds, but others are inaccessible. If the cold weather continues. they are likely to grow in altitude until they tower up as high or even higher than the Falls. unless the vehement flood which boils and bubbles at their bases, scorn ing the stilling hand of winter, should sweep them away as icebergs are borne on the bosom of the Atlantic. A WONDERFUL sraocrunn. There is a large stone house of Gothic con- struction, near the Horse Shoe Falls, on the Canadian side. It is across the road from Table Rock, or rather the place where Table Rock was before its fall. The winds have driven the rising mists of the cataract against this house and they have clung to it.:It is now a study for an architect. Its sides are plated with an armor of ice, the scales of which point upward at a most extraordinary angle. A cat for instance, might climb from ground to gable with every advantage of foot- hold which the ice scales present, so large and protrusive are they. and at such close and regular intervals. The cornices and dormers, the balconies, chimneys and oupola are orna- mented with surprising icicles and crystalline agglomerations. Such a palace for a winter king was never dreamed of outside of the fairy tales; A Forenoon at the Fallsâ€"The Highway on the Canada Sideâ€"Cliffs and Cedarsâ€" Rough Walls and Laceâ€"The New Sus- pension Bridgeâ€"Trees of Crystalâ€"Ice Mounds â€" Beatifled Architecture â€"- Wonderful Ice Statuary. The oldest inhabitant cannot remember a time when Niagara Falls presented such a sight as at present. The unremitting cold of the winter has had a wonderful efl'ect in transforming the great cataract. Iee began to form in November, and has kept on form- ing ever since, without a day’s thaw. The snowfall has been plentifulâ€"successive storms heaping it up to a degree seldom before wit- nessed. The ice dams at the foot of Lake Erie check the flow of the Niagara somewhat, but the contract plunges with the same irre- sistable force as ever. In consequence of the ice dams near Bufialo the water at the Falls is not so deep as usual, and the dark 'oolor of the bed rock is visible through the shallows and rapids on the Canada side. spotting in broad patches the green of the flood and the spume of the torrent. “The famous Niagara Falls hackman will be found ready to take every advantage that circumstances and the temperament of his customer will allow. There is no need, how- ever, of beginning with the first one that ofiera his services. “ A nice sleigh, sir ; take your party to the Falls for 34," so one of the hackmen ac- costed two who were taking an observation. “ Take you to the Burning Springs, too." gummy. Further up toward the Prince of Wale: tower the trees and shrubs are so thickly coated with ice as to present a. statuesque ap- pearance. All the gracesmymphs and heme: NIAGARA IN WINTER; ON THE ROAD. Sunday afternoon, Samuel Wilkinson. who tesideso’n the mountain, walked down to see the spot where the water had been running from the mountain drain over the brow of the mountain near the head of the James street road. The place was then a sheet of glitter- ing ice, and Mr. Wilkinson, in order to get a better view over the mountain of the rocks below, walked along the fence which skirts the edge of the precipice, stepping on the narrow foot-board which runs along the bottom of the fence, and holding the top rail with his hand. Unfor- tunately he failed to notice that the board on which he was walking was broken off for a few feet, and he went on along the fence, until suddenly he found himself treading on air, his grasp of the upper portion of ' the fence loosened. and in an instant his feet struck the ice and he slid down over the edge of the mountain with rapidity. Luckily, just as he slid under the fence over the hill, he managed to catch one arm around the bottom of a fence post, and there lay dangling over the moun- tain, unable to get back to a place of safety, and with an excellent chance of being dashed to the foot of the mountain below. Mr. Wil- kinson shouted for help, and a man who hap- pened to be passing along the road heard his cries, ran up, and with considerable trouble managed to draw him out of his perilous posi- tion. _ We Hid so. The views were sublime. If ever Niagara was worth a. journey is worth it now ---Detroit Free Press. In the spheres of higher Paris gaming, draw poker has obtained a foothold, though only within the last fewmonths, and in these latter circles it is cultivated in a manner much more orthodox than among the frolic- some artists and idlers of Montmartre. It was at one of these ceremonious sittings, in a cosy little club, not far from the Place de l’Opera, that the writer witnessed a hand worthy to be consigned in poker annals. There were five players, the game admitting of a very high limit, and, on a jack pot being opened, four of the~five “ went in.” After due drawing the wagering ran high, and it was evident that large hands were out. Three or four limits, bet in rapid succession, drove out two of the players, who parted respectively from three of a kind and from a little full. or the other two players, one, the opener of the pot, had drawn to three nines, and had obtained a fourth; he was, of course. deter- mined not to lay down such a collection as this, and returned his adversary’s shots wig all the more confidence that the latter had drawn to tour cards, and be suspected him of merely holding a flush. And a flush was. surely enough, the hand announced by the drawer to four, when at last there was a call, to which the gentleman of the nines negli- gently responded by the mention, “ Quatre neuf l" “ Yes, but wait a moment,” said his adversary; “ my flush is a straight one and high.” All negligence on the other side very suddenly disappeared ; the four nines were relinquished. and their holder sat gazing at a remarkably pretty gathering ot ace, king, queen, knave and ten of clubs. The fortunate possessor of this extraordinary hand had taken a share in the jack pot, drawing for queen of clubs, and had got it. After this incident the game stopped, and it was stated the next day that the one of the straight flush had had it handsomely framed and hung upon the wall of his dressing-room.â€"Spirit of the Times. “Take as back to Clifton for dinner, and we’ll stop at half a dozen points of View on the way down and take our sights through an opera glgss." _ A terrible story of cruelty to children is told by the Philadelphia Times. The victims are orphans who were sent from vari- ous asylums of the Quaker City to Dela- ware. Tom, a little boy, in the household of a Sussex farmer â€"Rueben Johnson-was worked almost to death, and during the cold weather was furnished with such an insufi- cient supply of clothing that his feet were frozen and ,the flesh dropped 03 from the toes, the frest- bitten flesh extending to his knees. This poor, little boy with a pair of nearly worn-out brogans, had been on the morning of December 30, when the mer- cury was seventeen degrees below zero, in the face of a driving snow storm, sent to protect his master’s unhusked corn from the cows and crows. He remained standing around in the snow until 4 o’clock, when he drove the cows home, received a piece of cold corn pone, and was sent out in the snow again to chop stove wood until dark. Having no bed he slept that nightin front of the fire-place, with his frozen feet buried in warm ashes. The following day he was hardly able to walk, and from that time forward he sufiered in- tensely. This is only, however, a hint to the shocking story. Johnson was ar- rested and fined $32. The boy’s feet had to be cut oil and he is in danger of losing his legs. This is only a sample of other cases quite as bad. , The good people of Sussex county appear to have done all they could for these poor maltreated little orphans, but if they had given their new sheriff an opportu- nity to practice with the whipping post for about an hour on‘ the man Johnson it would have been a good use of him ; although the punishment would be too light. Such things as these make one almost regret that the rack and red-hot tongs have boed abol- ished. “ Thirty-three winters‘" he answered, “have I seen these fall with ice bridges, mounds and figures, but never anything like this. The wind, you see, this winter has been mainly always up stream and toward this side. That has earned the spray here and spattered it over tree. house and boulder, and it has frozen as you see. Shall I take you up above the rapids? There is a fine road now along side the river and five little bridges, such as you see there. You‘ll see more rare sights and another dollarâ€"” â€"Lord Carlingford, better Known as Chichester Fortescue, and fourth husband of the late Countess Waldgrave, will go out, it is said, as Governor-General to India, in case Lord Bipon yields to the argent pressure of Lady Emma and his physicians to return home. Lord Carlingford was very good look- ing, at least up to 40, and younger than his wife. She never had children by any of her husbands, so that he, like his brother, Lord Olermont, to whom he is heir presumptive, is heirless. He has estates in Louth and Armagh, in Ireland, of the value of 1316.000 ayear, and large property through his Wife in England. He won some distinction at Oxford University, but is a heavy debater, and, though a gentlemanly looking and really a gentlemanly personage, is not a man of much calibre, of antiquity are here reproduced in ice. It needs but little play of the imagination to pick out the figures. The river. shore appears like a pastoral scene filled with flocks. Round- hecked end fleeoy these ice sheep rest upon the margin of the swift moving stream. and here and there among them ice figures of men in motions and attendants with crook and stave. “ These are strange sights," I said to the driver. HORRIBLE CRUELTY To A CHILD. A TERRIBLE PREDICAMEN‘I‘. DRAW POKER IN PARIS, The cotton satteen are first shown, and rank highest in price of these new fabrics, as they are marked 50 cents a yard. These have closely twilled surfaces with a luster like sat- in ; the grounds are dark, either plum, brown, blue, or the deepest garnet, and these ale strewn with rather large figures of some grace ful flower. such as fleur~devlis, fuchsias, or lilies, with pale green foliage ; to go with this figured fabric, which now makes the over-dress, or' at least the jacket waist, is plain satteen of the color of the ground. The batistes show great improvement over those of previous seasons; they are as soft as mull muslin, and almost as transparent, yet they are beautifully marked with Japanese designs and quaint coloring on the palest cream, lavender, and pink grounds. They are usual- ly supplied with awideborder of larger figures than those in the body of the fabric, and this border may be stitched on plainly for trim- ming down box pleats and around the foot of the skirts, basque, and sleeves, or else it may edge wide flounces, or of itself form narrow ruffles for trimming the whole dress. Carna- tion pinks, chrysanthemums, dwarfed peonies, and other flowers dear to the Japanese are repeated in their intense colors on the most delicate grounds of these sheer soft batistes; the price is 40 cents a. yard ; the border is near one selvedge only instead of on both sides, like those of last year. SCOTCH GIN GBAMB. Scotch ginghams have come to be staple goods for summer dresses, as experience has shown that they are far better for washing and wearing than any other ginghams, either French or American, and are worth the differ- ence in the price. They are now sold for 40 cents a yard in exquisitr ly fine qualities, and colors that are warranted not to fade by wash- ing, though some of the dark shades are changed by perspiration. The newest patterns in these have wide stripes made up of many smaller stripes, and also large plaids, or else perfectly plain colors. The favorite combina- tion of colors seems to be pink with blue, and three are three times as many blue-and-white ginghams as of any other color; besides these are stripes in new contrasts of color, such as olive, red, black and buff lines forming an inch-wide stripe beside a pale blue stripe two inchesvbroad, shading off into white ;' another pattern has a series of alternating pink and pale blue stripes beside a wide band of pale blue and a broad white line ;. a third is made up of dark red, blue and orange-yellow.» These colors are also shown in the large plaids which are to take the place of the handkerchief dresses of last year. Though made in Scotland, these are altogether what merchants call fancy plaids, the clan tartans having disappeared for the present. The solid-colored Scotch zephyr ginghams. es- pecially in pink and blueâ€" the latter either dark or lightâ€"will make charming summer dresses. trimmed with the white cotton em- broideries that are imported in larger quanti- ties than at any previous season. The fur- nishing houses are already making these dresses with a short skirt and very simple over skirt, accompanied by the belted shoot- ing-jacket, with wide box pleats in front and back, or else with a yoke and full basque, either shirred at the waist in front or behind, with the belt on the sides only, or it may be with the belt passing all around the waist; the wide round collar, like those worn by children, is edged with embroidery, or may be made entirely of the French embroidery on cambric that is now imported in half and threequarter yard widths; there are also square cuffs of this embroidery worn outside the sleeves. Old China patterns are shown in percales, especially in the blue-and‘white patterns of old Nankin. The merchants have shown their faith in these colors and designs by im- porting them in great quantities; these goods are said to wash well. especially in these clear blue shades. Plain grounds with a border in contrasting color are also liked in this soft- finished percale. and dark grounds promise to be particularly useful, such as dark solid green with pale blue arabesques for the border, seal brown with French gray border, or dark blue or garnet with gray or cream- color for the trimming. These are 30 cents a yard. The new patterns of Valenciennes lace with plain meshes and heavily wrought points are imported for trimming batiste and lawn dresses. There are also new Hamburg em- broideries that copy the designs of the braid trimmings that ladies have been crocheting of late for cottun dresses. The large poke, in various shapes, is the bonnet most generally imported for spring and summer. This is made up of two kinds of braid. either smooth braid for the crown and open lace braid for the brim, or else this arrangement is reversed ; lew bonnets are made entirely of smooth braid, though some- times the lace braids are used for both crown and brim. The yellow-tinted Tuscan braids, Leghorns, cactus lace straw, the Belgian split straw, and the oldfashioned ermoline braids, known also as Neapolitan, make up the bulk of the importations, almost to the exclusion of French ships. A few chip round hats are shown, but even these having a lining of Tuscan braid in the brim. as, for instance, a black chip Gains- borough hat, with straw lace edging in the brim. has the brim entirely lined with yellow Tuscan braid. A novelty both for bonnets and round hats is porcupine braid, with short loops of braid bristling outward, like “ quills on fretful porcupine.” over the whole list. The lace straws are “ open-worked," andneed to be made up over colored linings; some of these are in patterns of torchon lace. others look like serpentine braid. The black straw lace bonnets are so fine and light that at a little distance they look like thread lace ; these and the creamy yellow straw laces are very handsome for early spring bonnets made up over dark red Sarah, and trimmefl with red silk pompous and a cluster of red ostrich tips, or else dark red fruits, such as currants or strawberries. The Sarah Bernhardt poke, seen among the new bonnets, is a great im- provement on the large, clumsy pokes im- norted early in the fall. The front of its large brim pokes outward, and sometimes, downward rather than upward, in a narrow space, while the sides are ~very close to The first importations of spring goods are not the light woolen fabrics that will be worn in the earliest spring days, but rather thewash goods that are made into house and street dresses to be worn in the warmest weather. These inexpensive fabrics are purchased in the late winter months, so that ladies can make them up at home during the leisure of Lent, when the dressmaker has plenty of time, and because they are made in simple designs more with reference to being easily laundried than to the latest styles the mod- istes may bring back from Paris in March or April. Two features are noticed in the new fabricsâ€"first, that figured goods in artistic and, indeed, decorative designs are most used and are usually accompanied by a plain fabric for combining with them ; and secondly, the absence of all dressing in the fine cottons. which should give laundresses to understand that all starch must be omitted when doing them up. ' WHOLE NO. 1,178.â€"NO, 88. Spring- and Summer Goods. FOR THE LADIES. BATTEEN AND BATISTE. SPRING MILLINEBY. PEBOALEB, ETC. if the business promised at the beginning is realized to any reesonabirextent. In'o‘t'rfi’i“ nection with this enterprise, steamboat men are canvassing the revival of the tri-weekly steamer line to Port Stanley, 0nt., on the opposite side of the lake. The business of this line was destroyed when the N. T. boats changed their route from Ogdensburg. N. Y., to connect with the Grand Trunk railway at Sarnie. All but fourâ€"possibly threeâ€"of the N. '1’. beats have been sold by Mr. Chamber- lain, and the line broken up. The field is now open from Cleveland across the lake (or m enterprising line to make some money as before. The business in former years was excellent across the lake, and the growth of Cleveland has been such as now would make it much better than ever. As yet nothing definite has been settled in this line, but the enterprise is occupying the attention of several enterprising menâ€"Cleveland Leader. In order that the readers of this paper may have it for reference, and in answer to several inquiries recently sent to this office, the fol- lowing list of all horses that have trotted in 2.20 or better has been prepared. Those in the list that have died are denoted by an asterisk (*), and those that have been retired from the turf by a dagger : Name. Sire. Record. Maud S ........ . ............ Harold..................... St. Julian. .. Volunteer...... .. 11 Rarus+ .. Conklin’sAbdellah... 213 Goldsmith Maid’r. .. Alex. Abdallah ......... 2.14 Hopeful... .: Godfrey’s Petehen... 2.145 Lula+ .. Alex. Norman... 2.15 Smugglert . . .. Blanca ............ 2.15 Hattie Woodward...... Aberdeen.. .. 2.15 Lucille Golddustt. .. Golddust... .. 2.16 Darby ................ .. Delmonico .. 2.1 American Girl". .. C. M. Clay... . 2.1 Charlie Ford. Grey Eagle .. 2.1 OocidentiL .. Dot .......... .. 2.1 Gloster*.... .. Volunteer ...... . 2.1 Dexteri. .. Hambletonian... .. 2.1 Hennis ............ . Mambrino Pilot .. 2.1 Diok Swivelleri.;.. .. Walkill Chief... . 2.1 GrentEastern.... .. Walkill Chief... 2.1 Judge Fullertoni: 21 Proteins ...... . Blackwood ..... .. Red Cloud’r Santa. Claus .. Edwin Forrestt Nettie*.... ........ . Legal Tender . Strathmore .. Ned Forrest .. Hamhletonian .. Lady Maud Gen Knox ..... Lady Thorne .. Mambrino Chief . .. Lucy} Geo. M. Patchen . . . Midnight Peacemaker .. .. wwpwwpmwpmw- E2 3 vi 8 8 8 18 18 18 18 18 1 .1 El Monroe Chief Jim Monroe . .1 ColLewist... Riflem'en ........ .1 Slow Got... Young Sharatsc . 2.1 Nutwood . Belmont .. 2.1 Patchen . Unknown. 21 Albemarle. Tom Hunter .. 2.19 Alley ....... .. Volunteer. 2.19 Bonesetter .. .. Brooks ...... . 2.19 Cozette’r.... .. Black Bashew .. 2.19 Edwardl .. Fisk‘s Hamb ..... . 2.19 Graves ...... . .. Whipple’s Hamb .. 2.19 Kitty Bates. .. Cloud Mambrino .. 2.19 Wedgewood. . Belmont ....... 2.19 Bobinet.... .. Volunteer.. 2.1 Comee+.. . DenielLambert.. 2.1 Croxic-l-.. . Clerk Chief ..... 2.] George Palmer .. Ames’s Bogus. .. 2.1 Keene Jim .. Keene’s Lookout. .. 2.19 Parana ...... Memb. Hamb... 219 Trinket.. Princeps ...... 2.19 Driver. . Volunteer. ........ . 2.1 Moose ..... Washburn Horse. . 2.19 Thomas L Young}... Yellow Jacket... .. 2.19 Will Cody... Blue Bull...... .. 2.1 Adelaide’r . Phil Sheridan .. 2.19 Camors“ ...... Gen. Knox... . 219 Flora Temnle Kentucky Hunter . 2.19 Daisydale.... . Thornedale ......... . 2.19 Deck Wright Hinsdale Horse .. 2.19 Belle Brasfield . Viley’s Cripple. . 2.20 Etta Jones ......... Pamsh's P110t...... 2.20 Fleety Golddusti... Golddust ..... . 2.20 Frank ..... Pathfinder.. . 2.20 John H... BlaokBashaw... .. 2.20 Little Fred+.... Eastman Morgan. . 2.20 Mambrino Gift”. Mambrino Pilot... 2.20 May Queeni- ...... Alex Norman... . 2.20 Nancy Hackett+ Wood’s Hamb... 2.20 Prospero“... Messenger Duroe 2.20 Cept.Emmons Continental......... . 22) Elaine ............ Messenger Duroa. . 220 Orange Girl. .. Hambletonian.. .. 2.20 â€"The color line is drawn sharply in the free schools of Fort Worth, Texas, and the question has arisen as to which side of it two children from Peru belong. They are of In- dian parentage, and copper in color. They went to the white school, and all the other pupils, acting under orders from their parents, packed up their books and retired. They re- fuse to go to the black school, as they are not negroes. The authorities are in a fix. For Passengers and Freight From Cleve- land to Montreal. ' Arrangements are now so nearly compl‘od for the starting of a new propeller line from this city to Montreal, with the opening of navigation in the spring, that there is no doubt the enterprise will be undertaken. The boats which will comprise the line are chiefly owned in Canada. They are all good, staunch propellers, of good size as can be safely handled in the rapids of the St. Lawrence. The headquarters of the line will probably be Kingston, Ont. The line is already chartered for all the freight the boats can carry except deck freight, by a Liverpool firm, and the bulk freight will be grain. Thus the success this season is secured. The point at which the grain will be taken is not definitely settled, but if facilities for loading can be advantageously assured here. If not the propellers will run to Toledo. If the grain is taken here the boats will proceed direct from Cleveland to the canal, where they will connect with the Toronto boat. From the canal they will run direct to Kingston, 0nt., then down the St. Lawrence through the Thousand Islands, touching at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., Brock- ville and Prescott, Ont., and at all towns be- low on the Canadian side. The run through Lake Ontario will be during the night. and this will be the only tedious’part of the jour- ney, the remainder of the route will be by daylight, and afiord travelers ample oppor- tunity to see the most delightful river on the globe. It is very evident that this is the ini- tial step toward a much needed line of steam- ers touching at the large and important American lake and river ports, and running down the St. Lawrence river. It is in fur-then ance of the purpose of enterprising Canadians, in enlarging the Welland and St. Lawrence canal locks, to open a capacions water way from the western granaries to Europe, via the St. Lawrence. Those who are interested in the enterprise admit that the intention is to be early in the field, and increase into a first class Flowers, that have been banished this winter, will be very much used on summer bonnets. Large flowers will be chosen in wreaths of a single color, but of several shades. as a wreath of roses without foliage will range from the palest pink to the-darkest damask red, or from the cream of tea-roses to the deepest yellow. Floral monstrosities are to be Moided this season. and artificial flowers will have natural tints, and look as much as possible like the natural flowers that have lately been used almost to the exclusion of unnatural and artificial ones. he head, and the back is quite small below the crown, doing away with the necessity of pinching the bonnet into curves to make it fit the back hair. This picturesque shape will certainly prevail for summer hats, espe- cially at the country resorts, and is already being made up in white mull and lace for midsummer wear. A young face, especially if the features are small. looks arch and piquant in a poke bonnet, but there is no- thing more unbecoming to the face that is no longer young, or that has large features ; for the latter, smaller bonnets are provided in cottage shapes, some of which have rolled fronts, and others have slight coronets, but even these bonnets are much larger than the tiny shapes that have been worn during the winter. The straw laces brought from Switzerland are hand-made, and are there- forelexpensive. The Belgian split straws that are plaited in Belgium, and sent to Eng- land to be made into shape, are an excellent choice, because of their beauty and service alike. The yellow Tuscan braids made in various paits of Italy are both strong and handsome. NEW PROPELLER LINE DAILY LXNE 0F BTEAMEBS. THE 2.20 HORSES. 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