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to the end of his 1' use. Somebody re- WEEEBTB? [13:16}? ’(fi'fifl towhié‘lflrreprea â€"-A May isaue of the Norwich Gazette contained a paragraph about a public prayer meeting led by a music teacher named E. P. Potter. Last week Potter was run out of Norwich. by threat oia coat of tar and feath- ers, for taking liberties with several of the younger pupils of his class. _ . â€"A Pennsylvania stage driver with a heavy "lo‘a’dpii, this horses through so vigorously that we of them_ dropped dead as he came â€"â€"An Indianapolis lawyer says that a. citi- Zen on trial for murder has an even chance of adisagrecment ; on trial for robbery he has an even chance of acquittal, and when charg- ed With adultery or bigamy four out of six jurors will vote not’ guilty on the first ballot. Then whenever jurors can be bought, bull dosed or coaxed, lawyers make fame by de tending the guilty, and Judges are not above reproach, it is not a wonder how some men keep out of jail, but how others get in. â€"â€"~They mixed those babies up so complete- ly at Oakland. Tennessee, that no Buttercup can ever tell them apart. The mothers were fiisters, who looked just like each other, and so did the babies, both girls, born in the same house, and at the same time. They were laid down and picked carelessly up again before they were dressed or identified. Three months have passed, and neither looks like its tether ; so that the mystery is yet unsolved. â€"-N\xt time you are told that the distance from Blank to Blank is twenty miles as the crow flies, you can put the actual number of miles at twelve. An Ohio man who has studied the crow for the past dozen years says that the bird was never known to flv 200 yards in a straight line. When he wants to go anywhere he flies to the right and to the left and up and down, and makes a mile and a half out of every mile. â€"Detroit Free Press : A few years ago some young Canadian brothers came to Michigan to make their fortune and a name, and, not liking their Irish one, they An i- cised it to their content, but the father's d18- content. They now wish thev hadn’t, for a few days ago the wealthy old Irishman died, leaving his vast fortune to his daughters. who had not changed their names (they were old maids), bequeething the sons the traditional shilling. â€"0ne of the shrewdest men in Wall street began as an ice man. He advertised for 5,000 laborers. offering unusually liberal in- ducements. Each man was to board himself and furnish his own tools, and was to receive as paynnd carry home each night half as much ice as he could cut during the day. II: was a. splendid speculation and was the foun- dation of his future success. â€"A Pennsylvania mih‘oud gave an excur- sion into Delaware, and some of the excur- sionists helped themselves to a farmer’s fruit. He didn’t rush out with a shm-gun or rush for a constable, bu: quietly brought suit against the railroad company which brought the maumudcrs out to his place, and, strange as it may seem. he got judgment for the amount of loss incurred. â€"Gh&denhutten is second to Marietta, the oldest town in Ohio, and was originally in- tended 3b the capital of the State. In the center of the tmwn there lies a two-acre lot belonging to the State, which was given as a site for the capitol building. For some reason the idea of making it the capital was never car- ried into execution, and little progress has been made in its improvement. ~A Wicklow magistrate said: ” When I was in danger from a Kerry bull I sat down and stared him full in the face." “ How did it answer ‘2" inquired the breathless by- standers. “Excellent. The Kerry didn’t ofier to touch me." “ Very remarkable! very curious I Howdo you account for it ?” “ Well, sometimes I thought it was because I sat down on the top branch of a very tall tree,” said the magistrate. I" My dear fellow, that horse died at Brown- fieldytown, nine miles south of this place, but I didn‘t let him fall till I got to town. â€"The Freethinkers’ Association which will meet at Homellaville. beginning August 31. announce that any orthodox minister of good standing in his denomination. and of sufficient ability to fairly represent the Christian church, will be welcome to the platform of the convention, and granted the same privil- eges and hospitalities as the other speakers, besides having his expenses paid. â€"The Empress Augusta, of Germany, has taken always a grea‘ interest in the develop- ment of medical, and particularly surgical â€"According to the Registrar-Generals re- turn for the week ending July 9. Portsmouth was the healthiest of all the large towns and cities of England, if the rate of mortalityâ€" 11.4 per 1,000 ube accepted as proof. The highest death rate was in Liverpool, and was 24.3 per 1,000. â€"A brave boy of 16 started from Washing- ton to New York to rescue his sister from his father who detained her. His father found him on the train and assaulted him. He was so plucky that the passengers protected him. and he bore his sister home in triumph to the mother. â€"â€"Next time you shiver at having a tooth pulled think of Joseph Browks, of Colorado. He lay still and let a bear chew his arm 03, and thereby saved the rest of his body. Come to read the item over again it wash wooden arm. but Joseph wasn’t to blame for that. â€"Au Iowa. statistician with a, peculiar in- tellectual bent has figured up that the num- ber of ministers who have fallen from grace during the past year is four hundred and fifty. Their oflenses were chiefly emotional and sexual. â€"A young man in this city. a short time ago. proposed to a lady several years his silt/Jr and for answer she said : “ I guess I don’t want to take a boy to raise!" The young man is now raising a. moustache. â€"â€"â€"“ What denomination do you belong to ?” asked the leader of a free prayer meeting. ad- dressing a. rough looking customer who had “rolled in and taken a front seat. " Hose company No. 12," was the Philistme’s answer. -â€"Two tourists escaped the importunities of hackmemt Niagara by occasionally work- ing their fingers like deaf mutes, thus giving the impression that talk would be thrown away on them. â€"Newapaper editors as well as the reading public, will feel very lonesome for a while without the usual daily announcement; of no election at Albany. The deadlock is going to be missed. â€"Mr. Bonner failed to secure the to be continued comet’s tail for his Ledger. It comes too highâ€"Chicago Tribune. And it was not by any means thin enough. â€"â€"A bride is reported to have lately said : “ I told alimy friends to have my name put on my presents, so that if divorced George should not be able to claim them.” ~Seeet thou a man diligent in shunting f‘ He shali dine with the Prince of Wales and the King of the Cannibal Islands.â€"â€"P-rovcrbs, slightly r'evised. â€"The Indian chief, Loais Watso, of Sara- togn, aged 106 years, received his yearly pen- sion from Canada last week. The old warrior is in good health. â€"The daotors of the Wellington district association have decided to discontinue the old time custom of leading the funeral pro- cessions of their victims. â€"A bluck of ice which melted at Cnpners ville. Ind.‘ the other day. was found to cuntain a frog weighing a quarter of a pound and in good» health. drink, so thug again, is to cents a glass." -â€"â€"Dr. Howie, who suicided at Niagara, Was. many years ago, a medical student. as Galc, wnln his brmher-iulaw, Dr. Husband. «The Amazon river colors jthe an; fifty miles 1mm its mouth. A "Tc-fl gawns made of glaee~surah, shot with gold. «m among summer uovelnes. AROUND THE WORLD The way to resent an invitation to so that. the insult will never be offered take something that costs 25 -â€"If animals are not endowed with reason it would be interesting to know just what faculty :1 Santa Barbara weasel summoned to his aid the other day. He had been worsted in an encounter with an enormous rat. who, aware of his own superior strength, subsequently bulldozed him most shamefully. Determined not to submit to such indigni- ties the weasel improved a few moments of solitude to dig through a heap of hardened compost a hole large at one end but so small at the other as just to admit the passage of his body. Having completed the job to his satisfaction he went forth and engaged in another battle with the rat. Again he was defeated, but this time his resources were not exhausted. He darted into the hole with the rat athis heels, emerged at the small end, and entered again at the large end. The rat, tightly wedged in the narrow passage. fell rm easy victim to the cunning of his adversary. â€"An Astronomical Congress is to be held next September in Strasburg. at which cele- brities in this science from America and all parts of Europe are expected to be present. It is said that Strasburg was chosen as the place of meeting for the reason that it pos- sesses an observatory equipped with all the newest astronomical instruments and ap- pliances. In connection with this announce ment it is worth mentioning that the natural popular curiosity to examine the hea‘venly bodies, and especially such celestial phenom- ena as comets. has been gratified in Paris by the establishment in the Trocadero of a public observatory where astronomy is taught by popular lectures, and instruments are provid- ed for the free use of visitors. The present comet has drawn large numbers of people to this place, and the free observatory promises to be one’of the most popular institutions of the French Capital. «Lucy Hamilton Hooper writes from Lon" don : “ I saw Mrs. Langtry the other even- ing at the opera on the occasion of the first performance of Rubinstein’s opera, ‘ Il Demonio.’ She sat with her back to the stage during the entire evening, having evidently come there to be seen and not to see. The Jersey Lily looks worn and faded and her pale grey toilet lacked the showy splendor that used to chefecterize her costumes in former days. I never admired her, even when I first saw her in the very height of her renown. How any face could be considered handsome with that brand heavy Jim was to me a mystery. And then she always lacked the supreme charm of beautyâ€"namely, un- consciousness, whether real or feigned. She is alweps attitudinizing and always on the look out for admirers." â€"An Illinois woman was unwilling, on marrying a second time. to give up the alimony which she had been receiving from her first husband. from whom she had been divorced. She brought a suit to compel the continuance of payments. but the Supreme Court decided against her. “ Treating alimony,” said Judge Scott, “ as the equiva- lent of that obligation for support which arises in favor of the wife out of the marriage contract. and which is lost when that contract is annulled by the decree, she obtains the same obligation for support by a second marriage. It is unreasonable that she should have the equivalent of an obliga- tion for support by way of alimony from a former husband and an obligation from a present husband for an adequate support at the same time. “:Mrslflamuelsl thamothsi- of the James boys, whose exploits in the Western country have given them an infamous notoriety, looks upon her villainous progeny as heroes. She lives about 4 miles from Kearney. Clay county, Mo., and always appears in Kansas city promptly after the committal of a con- spicuous crime. A few hours after the recent train robbery, in which her sons are supposed to have participated, she arrived there in ac- cordance with the predictions of the police, anxious to hear ell the news and talk about her “ boys.” She affirms that Jesse and Frank are dead. and therefore could not have been engaged in the robbery ; but not the least confidence is placed in anything she may say. â€"Hundreds and thousands of old Confed- erate soldiers remember Missionary Ridge, near Chattanoega. It. is the site of one of the most decisive battles of the war~rsgged, rocky. steep, poor in soil as any part of the table land, and was. until recently regarded as worthless. For what purpose men held it was not known by themselves or anybody else. Three or four yems ago its lands would not bring over 32 to $3 an acre Now the ridge is covered with orchards, and the profits are such that no land can be bought for less than $40 or 360 an more. It is thus old ideas give way before new conditions and new in- fusions of brains and energy, -At the opening of the Manchester As- sizes recently, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge expressed the opinion that the crime of per- jury was on the increase. This conclusion had been forced upon him by his observations from the bench. After pointing out that if the oaths of Witnesses could not be relied upon the courts themselves must become instru- ments ofoppression, the Lord Chief Justice remarked that he should not think ill of a law which made the possible punishment of perjury heavier than it now is, for seven years of penal servitude might be a. totally in- adequate punishment for the mischief which a perjurer might commit. â€"A woman at Green Bay incidentally ob- served in conversation that she did not see how a certain girl who was clerkiag on a sal- ary of :35 per week and paying $4 of it for board, could dress in silks and have $20 hats. A suit for slander, with damages laid at $20. 000. was the result. _The suit will be followed with interest by a large class who are con» stantly puzzled to know how certain men can dress well and live well without labor or known income. If there is a way to make a dollar buy ten times its value, or to keep the grocer satisfied without money, the secret should not belong to a select few. ~A female clerk in New York is out in a letter in which she makes some hard hits. She says that merchants grind the girls down to salaries which scarcely pay board and washing, and then require them to dress like ladies. Girls clerking in dry goods stores receive from 133:0 $9 per peek. Board and washing costs from S4 to 85. and {hey must dress well and look tidy. The employers must know they cannot do it on the salaries paid. A girl who has no relatives to give her cheap board and help her along cannot work on a salary of even $7 per week and wear fine clothes. â€"It is a fashionable fancy in Paris to have dessert wines slipped in satin coache boutilles the corks of which are heads with hair dressed in the fashion of the country whence the wine is produced. Alicsnte is in a. pink satin bottle, and the cork or stopper is a Spanish girl with a high comb. Port wine is in a camel; of ruby satin, with an Oporio beauty 101' its stopper, and she holds a fan in her hand. Parjarete wine is in a sulphor- colored bottle of satin, with abull fighter cork. etc. science She has been lavish in her gifts for promoting chiiuxgical attainments. She oflered handsome prices for the best essays on the nursing at the sick and wounded in war, and look the initiative in inciting the medical faculty to a thorough examination of the causes and eventual remedies of that dreadful diphtheria which was fatal to her grandson common with so many others. VOL. XXIV. â€"St. Margaret’s churchyard is to be transâ€" formed into a piece of green turf. thus aflord ing a more sightly approach to Westminster Abbey. The St. James’ Gazette accompanies the announcement of this plan with the fol- lowing suggestion : “ We wonder if the com- mittee have taken or would be willing to take into consideration the propriety of raising some kind of memorial to certain eminent persons who are buried there ‘2 The year after the Restoration the remains of all the late Protector’s relations and friends who had been interred in Westminster Abbey (with the exception of Mrs. Clsypole. whose grave was undisturbed} Were taken up and cast into the common pit in St. Margaret’s churchyard; the bodies of Cromwell, Brad shaw and Ireton having been previously hanged at Tyburn and otherwise disposed of. But in the common pit or parish grave of St. Margaret’s the bodies of Admiral Blake, John Pym, General Deane. William Strode, Mrs. Cromwell, the Protector-‘8 mother; Mrs. Des- boreugh, his sister; and Anne Fleetwood, his granddaughtermbeside those of many others, more or less distinguished or notorious-~- were buried. The spot where they were in- terred has been ascertained to be on the north side of Westminster Abbey. between the tmnsept and the west end, and a good opportunity seems now to present itself for marking and rescuing it from general oblivion.” -â€"-The secret history has just come to light, according to the San Francisco Call, of the ne- gotiations. which were almost successful. by which, it is alleged, King Kalakaua intended to dispose of his birthright, the kingdom of Hawaii. for a $7,000,000 mess of pottage. Cwssr Uelso Moreno, who acquired some no. toriety not lung ago in San Francisco in con- nection with Chinese steamship lines, was father of the project, and succeeded in inducing the King to consent to it and empower him to carry it to completion. The plan was that the Chinese steamers were to import as speedily as possible 1,000,000 Chi- nese subjects to the islands, and these were to be taxed 357 a head, thereby raising $7,000,000. Immediately the minister of the Interior was to issue a proclamation declaring all persons on the island citizens who wished the franchise. The Government was to proclaim to the peo- ple that it was favorable to an annexation to China, and call upon the people for a popular expression on the question. The 1,000,000 coolies would outvote all the other popula- tion, and naturally would vote for annexation. The $7,000,000 head tax was to be the price, and more was probably to he paid to the islands. Moreno's mission was to withdraw the foreign watchdogs~ the Ministers. When this conspiracy was discovered the wealthier portion of the foreign residents brought every influence to bear, and the King was forced to dismiss the objectionable portion of his Ministry and revoke Moreno’s commie sion, and thus ended, for the present at least, the attempt at turning over to China the Sandwich Islands. â€"To-co be,nhief oi the Shoshone Indians, of Nevada. dzives a pair of beautiful tx'ctters before a handsome carriage. He has been successful in mining, and is an extensive breeder of cattle. â€"A person overheard two countrymen. who were observing a naturalist in the field collecting insects, say one to the other: “ What‘s that, fellow doing, John 1’” “ Why, he's a naturalist.” “ What‘s that ?" “ Why, one who catches gnais, to be aura.” â€"Peraonal noose from the Southwest: “ He was unanimously chosen by a conven- tion of six property-holders to jump from a new nine platform into the sweet subse- quently," ~Unless some one has concocted the ful- lowingz anecdote out of exaggerated loyalty, Duke George of Oldenburg must be one of the best netured princes alive : A few weeks ago three thirsty men broke into his cellars and abstracted three bottles of choice old wine. They were caugnt and indicted for burglary. sit the Duke's instance, by the State Attorney. When their caae came on for trial before the Shalkammer, the presiding iudge announced from the bench that his Highness had withdrawn the prosecution. and ordered the thieves to be set at liberty. Deeply touched by this act of magnanimitv, they re- solved to seek audience of the Duke in order 0 offer him their humble thanks in person for having let them off so easily. His High- ness received them, and. to their joyful sur- prise, told them that he had by no means resented their vehement desire to rpm-take of his wine. but that the breach of etiquette they committed in visiting the Veellar without giving due notice of their intention to do so had caused him considerable annoyance. “ I attach," he observed, “ much importance to the observance of prescribed forms. If you should, at any future time, wish to invite yourself to my cellar as my guests. let me know when to expect your visit, and you will be welcome.” â€"â€"-King Louis, of Bavaria, is staying, undrr the name of the Count von Barb, on a villa on the Lake of the Four Cantons iu Switzer- land. He has hired a steamboat all to hlm- self and steams about the lake the greater part of the night. listening to his favorite airs played upon an Alpine born by one of his retainers on shore. Late one evening he arrived at the famous Tell’s Chapel accom- panied only by a couple of lackeys. The hour for admission had long passed and the sturdy Switzer in charge of the building was at supper. One of the King’s servants said to him. “ The Count von Berg wishes to see the interior of the Tell’s Chapel.” " It is rather late,” answered the keeper, “ but if the Count will wait tillI have done my supper, I will bring the key." The servant went back to his Bavarian Majesty With this reply. and the King had to wait nearly twenty minutes before the hungry Republican had finished his supper. At last he came down to the shore of the lake with a jovial “Good evening. Herr Count.” The indignant mon- arch made no answer, but wheeled round and turned his royal back to the chapel keeper‘s face. “ So. he ! ’ said the descendant of Tel], “ that is all one gets." and he coolly turned round and walked back up the slope to his house. . â€"Siberia is a singularly misunderstood region. Richer by far than Canada, it en- joys a climate neither warmer in summer nor colder in winter. In all the Dominion there is no soil like the black earth along the Obi and Yenessei ; and even the lumberman of the Ottawa, the St, Lawrence and the Fraser would find themselves in an Elysium among the forests that line the banks of the great; rivers which insersect Siberia from the borders of China to the shores of the Polar Seal Once clear of the dreary ice choked shores along which Baron Nordenskjold was fortunate enough to sail in one stretch during a comparatively open season, the traveler reaches the dreary tundras, or hogs pastured by the insect baited herds of reindeer owned by the Samovedes and Koriake, who are {or the most part sole tenants of this dismal region. But further south ho is in a. land of corn and fruit. Siberia could feed Europe with wheat, could it be profitablj exported, and in the warm plains of the seuth there are vineyards which yield a fair wine, compare» tively cheap, and hence not esteemed in Toblosk or Ekaterinehurg, where English “ porter beer" sells for four shillings a quart. and the best champagne is bought by wealthy exiles at astounding prices. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, AUG. 11. 1881. EAST SAGINAW, Mich. July 27,â€"Hmi-y McCormnck was brought before Judge binge, of the Circuit Court, and readily identified by a. farmer named McDonald from Simcoe county, who accompanied Damn-we Mun'ay here for that purpose. and the hearing um fixed for July 29th. He was Cu)“ niiwl to jail without bail. In an interview with s. reporter. he said he was present at timing ging bee ou the night of the killing of .l..hn Pangman, June 27, 1870. He went there by invitation, taking his cattle with him. He said that he did not strike Pangman, but they. being Protestants, had put up a j )1) to kill certain Catholics, of whom he Wat one. His story is disconnected. and the prisoner is evidently much agitated. Essr SAGINAW, Mich., July . Ji‘he case of Henry McCormick, for extra ition to On- tario for the murder of John Pangman, com- mitted on the 27th day of June, 187 '. Simeoe co., Ont., is now pending; mum J udge Gage, of the J udical Circuit, and will probably be concluded this afternoon. Dr. Thomas B. Dack, who made the post innrtr-m examination of the deceased John Pungm m, J. P. McMillan, County Criminal Attorney, Dufierin county Ontario, are present, as also several witnesses. The evidenbe so far pro- duced goes to show that Henry McCormick did, on the 27th day of June, 1870, kill the deceased. APPLICATION TO QUABH THE COMPLAINT. ' T. E. Tarsney. one of the conned for the prisoner, made a motion to quash the com- plaint and discharge the defendant for the following reasons : First, that the complaint does not show that at the time of the making thereot the respondent was in the tenth judicial district of the State of Michigan ; second, because that no showing was made by his Honor Judge Gage at the time of m thing the complaint and issuing of the warrant that the respondent had been charged with any crime for which he might be extradited within the province of Ontario (overruled); third, that Judge Gage has no jurisdiction to entertain the proceedings in this case without a previous requisition made under the author- ity of Great Britain upon the President of the United States, and his authority obtained for that purpose (overruled); fourth, that no officer or any person shown to have authority from the British Government has made 002114 plaint or asked requisition that would pin: authority to issue a warrant. and that the complaint and warrant should he quash 3 and the prisoner discharged. L. '1‘. Durand, for the Queen presented the requisition and. deposition of the witnesses at the cox-our r'n inquest of the said John Pagmau, They were offered to the court for the purpose of showing that action had been te‘wu by 1‘ «.- Home Government. (Overruled) THE EVIDEF CE . Andrew McDonald testified he wag a resi dent of Mulmur township, Dufierin minty. The Proceedings for the Extradition of McCormick. Two days were spent at Nuin for the pur- pose of procunng witnesses against the fero- cious Esquimaux murderer. By keeping close along the shore the Kite safely reached Battle harbor on the 23;! July, where the passengers and mails were transferred to the Plover. THE MULMUR TRAGEDY. The Proteus doubtless found a soft pene- trahle vein thy/«ugh at hard ice field. Having due regard. to the exceptional mildness of the past winter. in the western Arctic regions, it would appear reasonable to conclude that as soon as the Proteus bursts through the glacial barriers extending from the shores of Labra- dor to the coast of Greenland she will emerge into the unfettered waters and be enabled to proceed Without further hindrance on her voyage of exploration. Several accounts of the unwonted cold past winter in Iceland, to- ward which the Alliance is now ploughing her way, stand in singular contrast to those recorded on the northern Labrador coast. The eastern Arctic waters Will in all proba- bility be mantled with heavy floe ice, while an open untrammeled sea will greet the eyes of the western circumpolar voyagers. They had during the spring elicited the inâ€" telhgence bearing upon some matters from the far north, Cape Chidleigh. ten miles further north than Cape Farewell in the 60th circle of north latitude. The oldest inhabit- ant fails to remember a winter less rigorous than that of 1880 81. They describe it as without exception mild beyond former ex- perience, and express the belief that the Arctic ice is now pretty nearly all passed out of Beflin’e Bay through Devis’ Strait into the open basin of the North Atlantic. This opinion they ueduot from general meteorogi- cal appearances, and mainly from what they term “ the watery sky.” They also lay great stress on the fact that when the wind blows from the north instead, a cold keen, crispy atmosphere that betokens a vast stretch of northern ice. the air is invariably humid, and when the sun is out. quite warm. On the 12th of July from high land westward of Nain was visible a cloud of dense black smoke which continued during the whole day and curled upward from the distant horizon.» Remembering that the Proteus had sailed from St. John's on the 7 th, and that Captain Pike had promised to give an average speed of 200 miles a-day, barring insuperable ob- stacles, the smoke must have been issuing from the smokestack of the Arctic steamer. The captain made enquiries touching the past winter, the general movements of the ice flees, and the opinions of the people on the prospects of the Arctic exploration. The foliwving facts were gleumed from converse- tion with European settlers : The Kite steamed through the canal, formed by the coast on one side and the wall of ice on. the other. The surface of this canal was covered with “ trash ” ice. Herds of seals and colonies of walrus were disporting on all sides. 0n the 18111 of July the Kite dropped anchor in the harbor of the settle- ment. ST. Jonn’s, Nfld.. July 29. -â€"The royal mail steamer Plover has arrived from the southern portion of the Labrador coast, where she con- nected with the Arctic steamer Kite, from Nein on the northern part of the Labrador shore. The Kite was dispatched to Nain by the Newfoundland Government with police for the purpose of investigating a murder of particular atrocity and fiendishness commit- ted among the Esquimaux population. The Kite reports that after leaving St. Johns she met no considerable impediment till in the neighborhood of Cape Harrison, although several intervening harbors on the Labrador cos-st were absolutely blockaded with heavy flees ; but once Cape Harrison was reaeht d the steamer was confronted by a. towering blue impenetrable wall of ice. From the lookout alolt nothing could be discerned in the direct- ion of Greenland but a vast unbroken ice sea, high over which towered countless numbers of every variety and form of gigantic, stately icebergs. Captain Delaney almost despaired of advancing further northward. An interval of two days. however, disclosed a large rent in the ice tending north-westward toward the land. This was caused by the wheeling of the ice when it impinged upon the headlands of the coast. Taking advent age of a rupture the Kite steamed close to shore, along which she prosecuted the re- mainder of her voyage to the Nain famous Moravian missionary settlement. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Echo du Luxembourg says the expor' tation of frogs from Belgium to France has developed considerably of late. A dealer in Vance has forwarded 200.000 in the last three weeks ; . on Thursday he sent ofi 30,000. They are chiefly sent to Rheims, Nancy and Paris. A thousand frogs fetch thirteen francs ('32 60). and weigh fifty kilogrammes. They (l France «luty free. At Rheims 25 pairs . l fu~o;;’s 19).}: «am he bought for sixty centimes (12 cents). in Paris the hind quarters of frogs denuded of their skins, arranged on shivers. are offered for sale in all the markets. Visitmrs m Paris who have enjoyed the de licious Irog’s legs are not probably aware that the savory mock turtle soup of the restau- rants has for its chief foundation the sticky, slimy skins of frogs. In Germany every part of mv frog except the intestines and the skin is made use of as food. The flesh of the frog, then, is so tender and nutritious that when properly cooked it is considered one of the most dainty dishes that the gustatory sense of an epicure could desire, surpassing u delicacy any flesh. fish or fowl“ and can be cooked as broth, frie ‘. stewed or fricaseed. “ .Puxdau me for troubling you, sir, but did yod drop a 820 gold piece ? asked a. man with an earnest look on his face and a memo- randum book in his hand, of a well dressed individual on the corner of Jefferson and Woodward avenues. “ Well. new, i declare ! 0313 it be possible that I was so careless as to drop that coin ? Yes, it’s gone. I must havelostit righb here. near where we stand.” The man opened his memorandum book, took from his vest pocket the stub of a. lead pencjl, 5nd said : “ Hi, there! Where's the money. Give me 1133 gqltj piece." The man addressed ran his hand nervously into by: various Pockgts and replied: “ Will you favor me with your name and adrireas ?" They were g1ven,and the questioner started on, when the well dressed man cried. " Oh, I didn't find any money. Itook a. notion this morning that in a city like this, Where thousands and thousands of dollars are handled every hour, there must be great losses, and started out to investigate the matter. Between here and the river I found seven men that lost twenty dollar gold pieces, and I expect to run the list up to 200 before I reach the City Hall. Good day. air. â€"-M. Quad. -â€"A Mame pastor, not far from Bangor, Hither mrsonally or by agents, runs three churclws. s. salmon fishery. a large farm, 1). mm} olfice, s teamster‘s route, is a car pro- prietor, a road contractor, at stage coach .nvner, 1L chief owner in a public bath and a mineral spring, a, holder of turnpike gates, n lodging house keeper, a. guardian of the poor, a member of the board of health, and last. and probhbly least. a. shepherd of the sheep. OUR NEIGHDOBB ACROSS THE BORDER pay a. high price for frogs. Large frog ponds or froggeries have been established on Long Island, New Jersey. and other places for the supply of the city markets. The proprietors of these froggeries keep the frogs alive until their customers purchase them. The prices range from 50 cents to {$2 per dozen. accord- ing to size, quality. etc. A correspondent of a good newspaper states that large sums of money are made by men engaged in frog catching, one of them who catches for the New York market having in one month last season caught sufficient to make 1.600 lbs. of dressed frog, for which he got 30 cents a pound, or $480 for his month’s work. One week near Hudson he caught upwards of 500 lbs.. and sold them for $160, or at an average of 22 cents per lb. The Flesh of the Frogâ€"It is Used all Over Europe and the United States. Frogs are eaten in many countries besides Canada. including the United States, South America. Europe, China. etc. Frog eating is usually associated with Irisllmen, and no doubt that nation first introduced the dainty to the epicures of Europe. It is more than 300 years since frogs were first placed among the dishes at the noble feasts in Europe. The°physic1ans of Europe early made use of the nutritious property of the flesh of the frog in their practice. Frog soup was highly recommended for consumptive patients. The well known discovery of gslvanism arose from the celebrated anatomist. Galvnin, hav- ing prescribed a diet of frogs for his consump- tive wife. And now the taste for 8. dish of frogs has developed itself into a feast for gourmands with long purses. FROGS FOR FOODâ€"FRIED AND FRICASEED. The counsel forthe prisoner requested that he be discharged. for the reason that the evi- dence produced by the Britlsh Government did not show that the respondent was guilty of murder. After further evidence and considerable legal ekirmishiug the Queen‘s counsel de- clined to produce further testimony at the present time. defendant, Henry McCormick, and have known him for about thirteen years. He lived in Mulmur on the 27th of June. 1860. I knew John Pangman, who lived in Mulmur at that time, who is now deceased; he resided in Mulmur ; he was a farmer; the defendant was also a farmer. I also knew at that time one Wm. Pangman. who lived in the same township at that time. On that day I was at ‘ Wm. Pangman’s place. There was a logging ‘ bee and there were present about twenty other men. McCormick was there. A die 1 pute arose in the evening of the day between Reuben Pangman and a man named Thos. ; McCormick. brother of the defendant. It was caused by a party jumping, when these two got into an argument and came to blows, both of them falling to the ground. John McCormick then went to help his brother. and Henry McCormick, the defendant, picked up the roller to a sleigh and proceeded to strike Reuben Pangman in order to help his brother. John Pangman. who was in the house. came running out and raised his hands to make peace, and ran up to Henry McCor- mick and the defendant. Henry McCormick struck him with the roller of the sleigh on the left side of the head, holding the roller with his hands and John Pangman fell, and McCormick then walked and left him lying on the ground. He was helped to the house. put to bed, and he lay there senseless until next afternoon. when he died. The deceased had nothing in his hands, nor did he attempt to strike the prisoner at the time he went up to him. He simply went towards him with both of his hands up, so as to make peace ; neither said anything that I heard as the blow was struck. I was present at the post mortem examination of the body of the de- ceased. No one else struck the deceased ex- ‘ cept Henry McCormick. The deceased had ‘ not been engaged in any quarrel with the ; defendant, or anyone else on that day. I did i not hear the defendant make any threats to- i wards the deceased. I saw the prisoner I leave after the blow was struck. He jumped l over the fence, and ran on straight through i the fields. I saw him run about twenty rods. i I Province of Ontario. and said : I knew the John Leslie testified to substantially the same facts as those of McDonald in reference ‘0 the murder. The motion was denied. LOSERS OF MONEY. IN FRANCE One of the oldest and most valuable of illustrated books is the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an allegorical romance, published in 1499. Here is a. brief extract from it : “I was standing, as in the manner of women young and fair, at the window, or rather on the balcony of my palace. My yellow hair, the charm of maidens,was floatlng around my shining shoulders. My locks were steeped in unguents that made them glitter like threads of gold, and they were slowly drying in the rays of the burning sun. A handmaid, happy in her task, was drawing a comb through my tresses. and surely those of Andromeda seemed not more lovely to Perseus, nor to Lucius the locks of Photis. On a sudden Poliphilus beheld me, and could not with- draw from me his glances of fire, and even in that moment a ray of the sun of love was kindled in his heart,” etc. That a man may become great in spite of a. humble origin has been shown in numerous inetances ; but it was not creditable on the part of the Duke Who taunted Bishop Fletcher before a. company with being of low degree.by saying that he smelt; burning fat. The Bishop rejoined, “ Your Grace, it is true that my father was a tullow chandler. and if your father had been the same his son would prob- ably have remained a tallow chandler all the days of his life.” The Princess of Wales leads the fashion in feminine dress. In England her ideas are zealously followed, and she is said to display great taste. Sir Wilfrid Lawson the advocate of a local option liquor law in England, is a. strict absteiner from the use of alcoholic drinks. When he gives a dinner party he says to the company : “ There is wine. which you can take if you like. It is very good wine, I believe, but I advise you not to drink it. I think water would be much better for you. At any rate I mean to eat youa good example and stick to it myself.” â€"The Delaware peach crop may fail, the Georgia peanut crop fail to materialize, and the Western apple crop not pan out a peck to‘ the county. but a wave of pleasure must per meate every breast with an electric thrill when it is known that the pair crop will be an unusually heavy one. Twme are being born in untold numbers all over the land. A curate at Warrinqion, England, having to christen a. couple of pug gnosed twins, he got one on each arm. and then burst out laughing, the congregation joining him. The mother snatched the children from the curate, when the vicar hastened to explain that his curate is subject to attacks of hys~ teria. which often cause him to laugh at the wrong time. The King of Abyssinia would not answer for any other country than his own. He cuts 03 the noses of Lbbse who make snuff, and the lips of those who smoke. He outs of the feet and hands of people who offend him. He puts out their eyes by pouring hot tallow'into their ears. Nothing can be boughx without his order, nor will any one shelter you withâ€" out. his order. Pope Pius the ninth died worth less than 84,000 as his personal estate in England. His will to than effect having recently been proved in London. â€"-Fritz’5 best proverbâ€"Gin cocktails put out the kitchen fire. Lord Brougham was very sensitive about the pronunciation of his name. Lord Eldon called him Bruflam,and Brougham informed him that it should be pronounced Broom. Lord Eldon replied : “ Every authority upon the question has been brought before us. New brooms sweep clean.” George Kidger, who out of a crew 0t sixteen sailors,survived the horrors of a. mid- winter tramp on the Newfoundland shore after shipwreck, has been presented with fif- teen pounds by the Queen. The poor fellow snflered so severely from frost that both his feet had to be amputated. At the old English fair held"at Kennington last month, the Prince of Wales paid ten guineae for a. pair of kittens. At the same fair a gentleman boasted of having sold a box of cigarettes for a guinea, and that the box contained only six cigarettes. Stained glass wmdowe are to be placed in the Chapter house, Westminster, at a. cost of $30,000. The building was erected in 1250. and served for .300 years as the House of Commons. William Bowles Bedford, & comedian of more than thirny years standing, Jierl recom- 1y. He made his first appearance on the stage in 1847 in Glasgow in the Hunchback, and played in 32 Shakesperian plays at Sad- ler’s Wells. . Mr. James E. Brown, of Kimning. Pennsyl- vania, has given an various times for church pugpoges, the total sum of $1,680,000. M. Vieuxtemps,1he great; violinist. is dead. He was born in 1820. When ten years old he made I} successful debut In Paris and subsequently madaa tour of the conti- nent. The great Beriot was his instructor for some months. He married Josephine Ed_er, a pianists of much fame. in 1845. The weather prophets have been at fault in their recent; predictions. “ 01d probabilities" is more reliable for he can tell prenty nearly for twenty-four hours what weather we will have. It il folly to attempt prognostications beyond that length of time. Mr. Biggar, the Home Rule M. P. for Gavan, was booted from the Royal Exchange of Glasgow when visiting there u. short time since. The gentleman afterwards crossed the Solway and met with more cangenial spiri‘s in England. One of the strangest accidents on record happened recently to a lady near Rochester. She was walking in a. lot where a cow was tied by a long rope, one end of which was fastened to a stake in the ground. She stepped into a post ho‘e, over which the rope lay,and the animal becoming frlghtened ran about. This tightened the rope around the lady’s leg, which was so deep m the hole that she was unable to extricate herself, and one of her hips was broken. The centenary of the birth of George Step- henson, the world famed Engineer was cele- brated on the 91:11 11113., at Newcastle-on-Tyne \vinh greet eclat. A procession of 60,000 workmen, public bodies and societies merch- ed to the Town moor. A banquet took place in the evening, presided over by the mayor. Sir William Armstrong proposed a. toast in honor of the memory of George Stephenson, which was responded to by Sir Gr. R. Step. 11611901]. A musical fete and fireworks closed the proceedings. Teefy Mr. Andrew Wilson. author of The Abode of Snow, orientalist and litterateur. died in Ullewater, amid the Cumberland Lakes, on the 8th 1111:. He was a man of rare attainments. and had traveled through every quarter of the globe. spending several years inIndia asejournalist. He was for some years a. resident of China. and editor of the China Mail. A life long connection with Blackwood's Magazine afforded him an op- portuniny of contributing many valuable papers on various subjects. The Marquis of Bute is rebuilding his resi- dence, burnt. down two years since. 340,000 have already been expanded on the founda- tions. Three hundred men are employed. and three years will be required to complete the structure which is located on the shores of the Isle of Bute. At an inspection of the Coast Guards at Exmouth by the Duke of Edinburgh asentry stopped the Duchess andLady Seymour when pressing their way to the enclosure. WHOLE N0. 1,202.-â€"â€"N0. 10‘ CULLING-S BY THE WAY. An English critic draws tnis unlovely por- trait of the novelest “ Ouida." Some years ago visitors to the Langham hotel, London, used often to notice in the reading room a lady whose evident object it was to attract attention. She was of uncertain age, appar- ently in the forties, but affected a very young lady style of costume. She had a mass of curiously dressed yellow hair, which seemed to be cooked up in a different fashion every day, now being fluffed over her forehead, doggy wise. now being allowed to fly out in wild wisps like horse hair. This lady was by no means pretty. and her apparel was more ostentatious than tasteful. She wholly lacked the French art of good taste in dress. She had no idea of assorting her colors. nor could she even attain to that original eccen- tricity which, being ahead of the fashions of to-day. sometimes sets those {or tomorrow. All this would have been immaterial if the lady in question had not. as above said, being so evidently desirous of being stared at. Her stupid posture, her intent way of gazing at people through a double eye glass as if she had met them all before, but could not re- member where, and her tripping gait when she crossed the room to fetch a newspaper or speak to a. waiter, often induced her visitors to wonder who she was. Many took her for an actress, but when a man had stayed a few days in the hotel, he always learned that the fair oddity was a Miss de la Remee, better known as “ Ouida.” â€"“ If I punish you," said a mother to her naughty little girl, “ do you think it will be for my pleasure?" “ For whose pleasure in it. than ? It isn’t for mine,” returned the child. â€"â€"Europe. continental and insular, con- sumes two milliards of matches daily. As- suming that each several set of ignition occupies the brief period of one secondâ€"and we have reason to believe it is rarely per- formed in a shorter timeâ€"it will be obvious to wary readv reckoner that five hundred and fifty five thousand hours of each succes- sive day are spent by the inhabitants of Europe in striking matches. There is food for much speculation in the fact that Euro- peans dispose of nearly 64 years per day in scraping tiny sticks, tipped with some inflam- mable composition. It is also interesting to lnarn that 400,000 cubic yards of timber and 420,000 pounds’ weight of phosphorus are in annual request for the manufacture of seven hundred and thirty thousand million of matches used up by Europe in one year. â€"-How much the resident population of the city of London proper has declined during the present century may be seen from the following figures : In 1801 the num- bers were 156,859 ; in 1811 they tell to 120,909; by the year 1821 they had risen again to 125,434 ; and, within a few hundreds, the resident population of the city remained at this figure for twenty or thirty years. But the census of 1851 recorded a. fall to 122,440; that of 1861 showed a deâ€" cline to 112,063 ; a still more rapid decresse was marked in 1871, when the numbers were 74,897; and this year they are no more than 52,881. Thus the resident population of the city is little more than one third of what it was at the beginning of the century, and not half what it was twenty years ago. â€"-â€"The coinage of the United States mim for April aggregates 6,054,100 piecemvalut at $11,158,900. -â€"-The average English and American brain is said to weigh 45.7 ounces against French, 44.6 ; German, 44.1; Italian. 44; negro. 40.5. â€"In 1830 the native Christians in Indiu- Burmnh and North and South Ceylon num- bered 27. 000 Last October there were 400,. (100. â€"-'1‘he American Bible Society. since its formation, 61 years ago, his issued 38.882.- 811 copies of the Bible. â€"The mean depth of the sea. is from {our to five miles. , â€"â€"The average of human life is about 33 years. â€"There are about 100,000 Shikora in the United States. â€"It rains three times as often in Ireland as it does in Italy. “ Don’t remember the name ; don’t recol- lect the circumstances, and didn’t. know you had a wife. I’d heard you would have a party, but couldn‘t remember the number of your house. I should have forgotten to come if you’d invited me," and the bored man depart- ed in dungeon. A vast proportion of society is made of I vacuum in memory. and some of the shining social lights of Brooklyn wlll compare pleas- antly in converlational ability with the genius here protrayed.â€"- Brooklyn Eagle ' " Never heard of him.” “ It’s the same name except the last syll- able. Funny I don’t catch it." “ Is that all of your story ?” “ Why, yes. You see if I could remember my man's name and the insurance company, and the landlord’s name. I’d bust you right open with the best thing you ever listened to. By the way we had a little party at our house last night, and the queen-est thing is that I didn't know I’d forgotten to invite you until my wife asked why you wasn’t there. Good one on you wasn't it ? I said to â€" that fel. low I loaned twenty»five dollars to on your guarantee, what’s his name, fat fellow ? Never paid it, and I wish you could leave me have the money.” “ Well, he got there and perpetrated the heat pun you ever heard on the landlord’s name. The landlord got ofl a pretty good thing on this man’s name. but I can’t remem- ber what it was. Anyhow, this man asked the landlord, ‘ Why are you like an insur~ ance eompenyLâ€"he named the company but I’ve forgotten what it was : ‘Why are you like an insurance company?‘ Give it up 7" “ Yes; I give it up.” “ Well, air. the answer is the funniest thing you ever heard. It broke me all up when I heard it." “ What is it I” “ Why, it I could remember the name of the landlord, I’d know in a. moment. Who's that fellow that invented theâ€"pshaw that machine for makingâ€"what’re they called? You understand, something about stair rods." ‘- Why. he'd come up from that plantation on this line to the town in Wisconsin. and struck for the â€"that<â€"hotel on the corner of J eflerson and that other street. Named after a Frenchman. Strange I can’t remember it. Don’t you know the house ?” “ Néver heard of it. Don’t know anything abgni 1t .Go on wjth your _story." “ What the deuce is the name of ‘that town 7 A big politician came from there. You know him. Well, this fellowâ€"" ‘-' Which fellow ?” “I can’t think of his name. It's a good joke, nd I nearly died when Iheard it. He'd oome ' p from that big plantation in Louisi- ana, kept byâ€"hy : Who’s that big banker in St. Louis? The man who built a line of steamboats from Keokuk toâ€"to-â€"1’ll think of the name ina minuteâ€"the town at the mouth of you know that river in Arkansas. Anyway he’d come up on theâ€"that road that runs at the west bank of the Miasisaipi from that place opposite Cairo. Consolidated with the Cairo and Fulton Road. What’s the name of that line 2’” “ Don’t know. Never was in the country. What @id you}; man do tpat was_ so {puny z” f< FACTS AND FIGURES. THE STORY TELLER. “ OUIDA.”