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â€"Aocording tn the Reichâ€"Medicinal Kal- sndsr. there are in the German empire 17,591 physicians and 44457 apolhecsriea. -â€"In France and Germany, respectively. two francs and two marks are. the medical charges for single visits, excapt in the fuel» bmble watering places. â€"-Bseeufly compiled ntaiiati'es place the death rats from chm ndmiu‘niattafion of chloro- form at one p5: thousauui. â€"â€"A remarkably low death mm is recorded at Dover. England, during the past quarter, the total deaths representing an annual rale of 9.1 per 1000 of p‘apulafiiun. â€"United Stafiea Vice Consul Hummel. at. Munich, says'that slugs proportion of the 5,000,000 0! beer glasses used annually in Berlin are imported from America. -â€"Ii you are not able to keep a yacht it may console you to know them it costs those who can from 39.000 to $13,000 per year, and they are to“; looked upon as sailors either. â€"-The State-1‘} Puebla. Mexico. has ennu- ted that all permms engaged in the cultiva- tion of cotton shall be exempt from the pay~ ment of taxes or peraonal contributions for ten years. ~Acocrding a» . an official return, the quantity of spirétu held in lmnd in Great Britain is now 49,000,000 proof gallons. This is four and a halx‘ times more man was thus stored in 1867. â€"The recent fashmn among surgeons of employing kangaroo tendons for ligatures is said to be giving vmy 10 I116 superior excel- lence of the mimic nurve of the 0qu as now used for that purpoau. â€"Horseshoes made of three thicknesats of green rawhide omnprensed in a steel mould are used to home extent in Eughmd, they weigh about aquarzer as much as an iron Shoe. and are and to Wear longer. â€"-0ne has only to read the fire record of this country to realize that masons alight their work, stoves are unsafe. ranges get out of order, matches are flung everywhere, and the protedsion of inceudnary is a safe and paying one. -â€"The story :hnt Strawberry Hill ma been sold to an American hotel mmpmy is eflect ualty disposed of by $116 announcement that, should it not be 301d by private treaty in the mean time, is will be put up to auction next. ppring. â€"â€"-A work on the diseases of elephants is being mitten. Their mom prominent afieu tions are stated to be meningitis, app :lexy, vomiting. colic, enteritis, Laematuria, tetanus or loohjnw. pneumonia. anthrax. and “foot Ind mouth disease.” -â€"A deputation represencing the Indian contingent lately serving in Egypt; has arrived in England. Ix consists of iourteeu nalive ofiioera. seven non-commisaioned officers, and ten privates, who noted as orderlies and servants. Thsy will be received by the Queen. â€"â€"Two German chemists have discovered that in the aallva. of the maxillery gland of the horse there is preaem a. ferment capable of converting amen into sugar ; that in the saliva of the parotid gland there is a peDton- izlng elemom, though in small quantities. and that the mixed salvia emulsifies fats, but does not dissolva them. â€"--It seems curtain that even the sunflower must go. The London Live Stock Journal says that sunflowar oil is guanly used for adulteratiug enhd oil. and ma: the leaves of the plane um greatly employed in file adultemâ€" tion of mlmouo The (i! is supposed to be unsurpasaed as a lublioant, and soap made from it is unequalled for softening the skin. -â€"-The posts mortem examination of a mu . latte who died reoemly in Cincinnati r6- vealedabmin weighing 61 ounces. There no on record but two brains heavier than this-that of Ouvier, Weighing 64.38 ounces, and Aberorombie’srwhich weighed 63 ounces. The mulatto was not considered bright in. telleotuslly, yet is described as becoming. late in life, “thoughtful and reserved.” He had been I: aim. -â€"-Popular belief in the wisdom of vaccine~ tion has reeeivecl a severe blow in a pm" of Germany. where a large number of children, both those Vaeuinmed for the first time and others revacoinaned alter an interval of twelve years, have fallen dangerously ill, the flesh about the punctured pail; decaying and aloughing off, and the bodies being covered with some and boils. It. is thought unlikely ‘hm a single one of the afleuted children will recover. Impure virus appears to have been the cause of this unfortunate result. â€"â€"In May last a man named Lnnsard fell down the great precipice of Bellavardaz, in the Savoy Alps. and a cross was erected at the place of the accident, according to local custom. October 4 a. Turin merouant named Bibollot visited the scene with his family, and examined the spot omicnlly. “ 1 cannot un deratand what Lansurd was doing to loss ma footing here," said M. Bibulloe. “ and still less how he should have been killed." He had scarcely named the words when he loss his balance and fell headlong down the preci- pice. Few men have their cutiosity a0 promptly gratified. GROWTE OF TEE AUSTRALIAN GUL- ONIES. From R. W. Cameron's report. Queensland, the colony occupying the northeastern corner of the Australian comi- nent, is, in the opinion of Mr. Cameron, destined to become the mo“ wealthy and prosperous 0t \hem all. It hue s coast hue of 2,000 miles. Vast- deposits of iron and copper exiei in its interior, but being 400 miles inland they await the building of the Transcontinental railway. Tm mining is fast becoming a lucraiivo vocation ; mines on the Herberton river are enremoly rich. ‘ yielding from 50 to 70 per cent. Gold mines, 1 too, are being profitably worked. Sugarl plantation, there are which frequently pay a. net profit. of £25 per acre, and it is claimed that “in a few years Queensland. with the adjoining Fiji group, will take the place of Mauritiues,Javo and the Philippines, and supply a large portion of the world’s crop of sugar." Sugar lands are in greatdemuud. the Governmenfi having reoenfily advanced the price from fif‘een shillings to thirty and forty bhillinga per acre. Finally, as to sheep farming, which is meantime the mosm importsni inieresi ot the colony, there are in the interior freoholds upwards of 100,000 acres, paddocked and stocked with sheep and catlle. At. the famous Darling Downs there is one eatme posturing 300,000 sheep. South Australia. whose capital is hAdeluide, in 2,000 miles long by 300 wide. It has 750 miles of railway in operation and 250 more in course of construction. It produces copper, lead quickâ€"silver, zinc and manganese, and export: quantities of wool. A syndicate. re- cently formed, has leased from the Govern ment for 21 years 55,000,000 acres of land, (85,000 square miles) lying in the northern part. the rental for the first mree years being _ u,,_‘-:A.:m. A: AROUND THE WORLD. r'“-v »â€"~ H _ 6d. per square miLe and for the remainder of the lease 2:; 66. per equate mile, and the con- ditions require man we lands nhall be stocked in certain proponions. .1 . ;.u ,4 New South Walea la the oldest of the col- onies. having been first settled about 1788 ‘ It: growth in wealth has been great: and its present prosperity is most remarkable. A few figures will best illustrate min : The ex~ ports of wool in 1863 were 133182900 pounds valued m £1,283,818. In 1881 they were 154.871,000 pounda. and their value £8 040,- 625 st-zz. The inwaras ahipping of the colony was 361,000 tons in the year 1861 and the outwards 370,000 tons. These had increased respectively $0 1,242,000 toms and 1,190,000 tons in 1880. Imports and. exports are thus given: «om 1mm 1861 1880 Imports of N. S. W ............ £6,391,0"0 £14,00 ',000 Exports of NA 8. W ........... 5,595,100 15,525,000 A thousand miles of railway are open and 576 miles more under contract. All the rail- ways in the commy belong to the Govern- ment; and while for the fifteen years of their existence the return they made yearly was but 1.63 per cent they paid 3 85 per cent yearly belween 1870 and 1880, and 4‘88 per cent last year. This we learn from the bud- get Speech of the Ben. the Treasurer, who is led in his enthusiasm over these figures and over a. surplus of some £260,000-to exclaim: “ Seldom does it fall to the lot of 3 Finance Minister to open a budget so replete, and to lay before his audience such a marvelous his- tory of financial. commercial, pastoral, indus- trial and general progression an I , have been enabled to do to night I" Victoria. although the smallest of the five provinces in Australin,ranke first in respect of population, possessing 900.000 souls in 1880. Melbourne, its capital, was founded in 1836 and 45 years after had 250,000 citizens. The Victorian gold fields are among the most famous in the world and their produoe forms, with wool, the great bulk of the exports oi the colony. Its mines are estimated to have produced 31000900900 worth of gold since they were open. ed, and now give employment to some 60,000 persons. Manufactures and agricul- ture have proceeded apaco. There are 954 miles of single track railway open and 174 of double track with half as much more au- thorized. And as to telegraphe, one line, the Trans- cmtinentel. is 2,200 miles long. reaching from Adelaide to Port Darwin on the north coasi, where cables :come in from Java, Singapore, India and London (via the Red Sea.) From the Gulf of Carpentari (8. separ- ate line from the Port Darwin one) there is a continuous Wire, via Brisbane, Sydney, Mel- bourne and Adelaide to Perth, Western Aus- tralia. The north and south line, erected by South Australia at its own expense, was ihe fore runner of all :he other great extensions. The work cost £453,711 for 1,700 miles out of 2,200, of which 500 were already builL The line was carried across territory occupied only by the natives, part; of the line had to be poled twice over. because the white ant, in tropical Australia. destroyed the wooden poles, and rendered necessary the substitution of iron ones.‘ A Pin in a Young Women's Lungs beven Months. From the St. Cstherines Journal. A young lady residing in the village of Besmsville was holding an iron pin in her mouth, while engaged in dressing herself, about seven months ago. The pin was black, one inch and six eighls of an inch long, and was surmounted by a smooth round head the size of a number one shot. She accidently s wallowed the pin.end was 3 good deal alarmed in consequence; but as she felt no other effect. at first, she began to think that it might have passed away without leaving any legacy behind it. Unfortunately this was not the case After a week or two she began to experience 3 pain in the upper part of her chest, on the right side, just below the collar bone. The pain was accompanied by a severe and very harassing cough that was not amenable io treatment. The physician who examined the lungs found that there wss s good'desl of catsrrhsl inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane. and com- mencing consolidation of portion of the lung substance. The ordinary treatment was ren sorted to, and the patient sustained by the ‘ most nourishing5 and invigorating diet. ‘ She complained of a sharp pain of n. pricking ‘ nature in the lung, and whenever she coughed ofs taste of iron in her mouth. She said she was sure the pin was there and was the whole cause of the trouble. She was right. t On Sunday lest, the 12th inst., after s severe attack oi coughing, she felt s strangling sen- sation in her throat, and then something ’pricking the back of her month. On intro- ducing her finger into her month she felb and drew out the very pin. shrunken and corâ€" roded, it is true, but the self same pin that she had swallowed seven months before. Although a good deal of irritation still ran imsins in the lung, resulting from the long ' continued presence of the pin. it already shows signs of absting; and if tubercular disease is not induced, the physcisn in at- tendsi‘ce expects a favorable result. The pin has been compared with s companion pin lwhich was of the same size, and the swsl~ I lowed pin was found to be two-eighths of an inch shorter than the unswsllowed one, and of much smaller calibre from oxidation and 1 corosien while in the air passages. Both pins lure new in the possession of the physician | who has charge of the case. VOL. XXV. If Adrien Magnet, the learned locksmith of Manly, finds that to be famous in a pleas- ant sensation, he must thunk his good fortune for having given him Victorian Sardou for a neighbor. But for the dramatiet'e kindly help in writing a preface to his humble friend’s recently published book, Les Seig- neura de Merly, the Paris literati might never have recognized the merit of its remain keble author. The preiaoe has aroused eo much curiosity in the subject of it that the locksmith. who a iew days ago had scarcely been heard of outside his village, is now ire- ceiviug visits from Paris journalist-s, who describe his poor dwelling. his grey hair and horny hands with graphic exactness, and are eager to publish anything he may tell them about himself. Admin Maqnet has added another name to the list of learned workingmen. For thirty- five years the study of local history and antiquities has been his ruling passion. Whenever he could steal a day from his toil he would betake himself to some library at Paris ofiVersailles, and by the aid of a sys- 1 tom of short hand that he had invented. would often take notes enough to serve him f r three months’ nocturnal study. He had another way of obtaining the information he coveted. When sent to work at a neighbor- ing chateau possessing a history, he would beg leave of the proprietor to look at the family documents, and. the motive being appreciated, the permission was readily granted. In course of time he became an expert in deciphering ancient manuscripts as an adept of the Ecole de's Chartes. The paleographio locksmith is now in a fair way of receivmg some Government appointment which will free him from those hindrances to his beloved pursuit which for thirty five years he has so bravely struggled ngainst.~8t. Jamee’ Gazette. BRADSTREET’S WEEKLY RE- PORT. NEW YORK. Novl 17.â€"A feeling'oi uneasi- ness has been developed in the States regard- ing the trade and industrial situation. The dispatches to Bradetreet’s this week are, however, reassuring, and while the iron trade and some collateral lines are undergoing the depression which accompanies a deeline of prices, it is no: thought met anything like a credit storm is at hand. There were 167 failures in the United Slams reported to Bradstreet‘s during the past week, 18 more than in the preceding week and 51 more mhiiu in the corresponding week of 1th year. i Canada had 13, a decrease of 4. â€"â€"Eecent returns give the Italian populn. tion on Jim. 1, 1882. at 28,941,374, 5 gain in ten years of nearly four millions. and um; notwithstanding the enormous emigration. What a contrast to envious France. A LEARNED LOCKSMITH. SINGULAR CASE. ABOUT PREACHERS CHURCHES AND RELIGION. The Veneto Gattolioo says that a citizen 0! Vicenza has left a very large fortune to the Pope, as the first and greatest benetactor on earth of the poor and abandoned. "The Tosh; Couhcil of Berlin have voted 3 sum of money in support of a scholastic 0e1- ebration of Lu‘her’s 40th birthday, which falls on the tenth of November next ygsg. Bishop Talbot 01 the Proiestant Episco- pal diocese of Indiana suffers from a second slroke of paralysis, which so completely dis- ables him that he has announced his inten~ tion of resigning his position. The Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of the famous London preacher, told a Boston au- dience the osher day that nobody had set wine before him since his arrival in this country. several weeks ago, and. that he had seen none on private tables. H. ex- pressed his glndneee thereof. A young missionary visiting Thibet for the first time recently expressed hls horror at finding the practices of Mormonism reversed under the protemion of the King of Cash- mere. The In... allows women several living husbands. and a lad gave the names of five men when asked whe his lather was. A clergyman in Biohmond,Va.,while con- ducting a. funeral service raised a stir and a amlle among the assembled mourners by praying for the undertaker. There was no reason whatsoever why the undertaker should not he prayed for as much as any other man. But the departure from ordinary custom was so unusual that; it seemed queer. The Lutheran and Dutch Reform con- gregetione of Shillington, Pm, held iheir services in the same house at different hours, but concluded to consolidate their Sunday echools,the understanding being that the children should become Lutherans or Dutch Reform, according to thedicmtes of their own consciences. Charges of proselyiinq were soon made, and the schools were separ- ated. Thy are now in the courts with l quarrel over the ownership of the organ, lib- rary, and other things. At a conference of the Free Church society. in Boston, clergymen of various denomina- tions urged the abolition of seat selling, on grounds of both right and expediency; but the Rev. Edward Abbott at Cambridge spoke on the other side 01 the question. The rich needed the Gospel as much as the poor, he thought, and many lamilies would not go to church at all if they could not have the seats they wanted. His opinion was decidedly that more than hell the congregations Would be destroyed it free seats should become gen- ersl. Because of an insinuation that he had not properly accounted for money furnished by tha Rev. Dr. Curry, agent for the Peabody fund for holding normal institutes. and other persons, are Rev. J. W. Demon. Arknamas Stake Superintendent for Public Education, committed suicide as Fayettville. The ubarges against him had been fully disproved, buk injudicioua gersons kept reitersting them, and thus drove the untoriunate man to his doom. A troublesome case has arisen in a Free- byterian church in San Rafael, California, on the literal interpretation of the passage in Episcopal of James which is in favor of annointing with oil with a View to the healing of disease. A sick man desired the elders to come and annoint him and pray over him ac. cording to the Soripfiure. They had never been called on to do this, and so they hes- itmed until they should ask the Presbytery. discussed the matter at some length, and the). handed it over to the Synod. The pro- babilin is that it may now go all the way to the general Assembly, and possibly be laid over there, as the dancing quesiion was in May last. Meanwhile the sick man is in great quandary as to what he shall do. An amiable old gentleman has for thirty or forty years been collecting sermons. He does not preach them, but simply garners them as in a museum, carefully cataloguing them and arranging them according to subjects. He has now more than 12.000, and is justly proud of havmg the largest collection, not only in New York, but on this continent. About 3,000 different sermoniaers are repre- sented on his shelves. He still proceeds with patient industry to add to his lot. securing either suoh sermons as are on extraordinary subjects or those which are delivered by pe- culiarly eminent clergymen, regardless of subject or occasion. Most of his sermonic ‘ treasures are in pamphlet form, but many are in the manuscipt of the authors. These are, of course, the most valuable as historic relics. Hori-aiter on one Monday morning in eech month the Baptist ministers of Richmond, Vs.. are to have hezore them for analysis, dissection, criticism. and suggestion a sermon written by one of their number. The sermon is first to be read in their hearing, after which each minister in turn is free to speak his mind concerning it. It is expected that for two or three months this exercise will be a grant success. After that it will become wesrisome, or else lead to dissatisfaction and consequent alienation of friendship. If the little men criticise the big men’s sermons too severely. there will be trouble. If the big men show their loftv contempt for the comparatively poor sermons of the less expensive brethren, there Will he s coolness between the two clssees which will soon proveiistal to the pros- perity of the meeting. A clerical scandal is just now agitating a parish of south London. It would appear that the wife of a curate of a church ire» quented by a congregation which snbueban society loves to call fashionable had given great ofiense to her neighbors by reason of the varying hues of her hair, her panelled eyebrows, her artifieal complexion, and her general dressy style. A deputation of ladies placed the matter before the vicar, who there- upon wrote to the curate, calling on him to resign. The curate happens to be a thorough- ly practical man, who had gained consider- able worldly wisdom by rendering obedience, he forwarded} the vicar’s letter to the bishop. and appealed to his lordship for protection. The bishop has replied by reproving the vicar for heeding envious gossip. and informing him that he is not justified in dismissing his curate for such trivxal reasons stated. The congregation is now divided into two camps, and great curiesity is expressed concerning the result of the squabble. A BOARDING sonoon sroar; If anyone ever wanted to laugh when it would have been the height of impropriety to even have smiled, they may be reminded of their feelings on such occasions by the follow- ing good story : “ In an Episcopal boarding school. a few years since. the scholars and teachers were assembled for morning prayer. The reading and singing were over, and all were resuming their seats, when one of the ‘ young ladies, of a very short and very thick stature. missing her chair, seated herselt with a “thu'd” on the floor. Nobody smiled. All were too deeorous for that. The fallen one, embarrassed into the momentary loss of common sense, retained her lowly seat, opened her prayer book, and appeared to be earnestly engaged in examining its contents. This was almost too much for her compan- ions, and a smile began to struggle on many a fair countenance. when the rector rose and commenced reading the first morning lesson. He read from the fifth chapter of Amos, as follows : " The virgin of Israel has fallen ; she shall rise no more ; she is forsaken upon her land ; there is none to raise her up.” This was too much ; the voice of the rector trembled as he looked up and saw the Mien RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1882. virgin ; the echolara turned red in their laces, and the exercises were brought to a hasty close. ‘ The Canada Presbyterian says : Quite frequently we see paragraphs in our local ex- changes. stating that the Rev. Mr. A., of the Presbyterian church, exchanged pulpits last Sabbath with the Rev. Mr. B.. of the Meth~ odist, or some other church. Then follows another sentence or two on brotherly love, the dying out of bigotry. and sundry kindred topics. Now. an occasional exchange of pul- 3 pits may be a pleasant and profitable thing for all parties concerned. It is, however, the very height of absurdity to suppose that the Christian regard which ministers of Christ have [or each other depends on any such trifling incidents. The minister who never, or very rarely, exchanges. may have just as much brotherly love as the minister who is always on the look out for an exchange. The fact is. that. nine times out of ten, ministers who honestly prepare their sermons, exchange simply because they have been so overworked during the week that they have had no time to prepare for their pulpits. There may be a few ministers who like very much to have an exchange frequently. because they areâ€"well, shall we say, constitutionally tired. At all events. the Christian regard and professional \ courtesy which ministers that are Christian gentlemen entertain for each other, do not i depend on any such trifles as an occasional exchange ei pulpits. Moody is seriously ill in England. The Rev. Canon Wilberforce denies that he stated at a meeting that he wonld not give his wife brandy, though it were to save her life. ' Booth, of the Salvation Army. says ihat you have got to get a. sinner exoitea, afraid and pulverised before an opening can be found to introduce religion. ~ WGeneral AbeuBuford proposes to start a pager tojopalled the purisgi'ap Turffngn. The High Court of Justiciary, sitting at Dundee, Scotland, has confirmed the action of the magistrates of Arhroath, in suppressing processions of the Salvation Army, on the ground that such processions only are to be permitted as do not endanger the public peace. This decision seems to throw the government of towns. so far as processions are concerned, into the hands of the mob, who alone can decide which processions will endanger the public peace, and the consti~ tutional method, according to this decision, of doing away with an obnoxious celebration, is to threaten it with an attack. Brooklyn has one clergyman. si least, who is a philosopher. On Sunday he found a punched halt dollar in ‘he con‘ribution box. and mentioned the fact. But instead of in- veighing. as so many ministers would have done, against the meanness o! the act. he took an eminently practical view of ihe waiter and said : " It noi unfrequently happens that a gentlemen puts a filty cent piece with a hole through it on the plate. The coin would not be taken by a broker for its face value ; bu; then, it we consider thee had the donor not had that mutilated halt dollar he mighi not have given one cent, we should be grateful." How much wiser this was than it would have been to abuse the un- known oontributor and drive him away from the place altogether. Two Views of the Political Discussion rebonmzt. i EDUCATION AND POLXTIOS . In the discussion of the Marmion question the Reform press generally took the view that the poem was immoral, and ofiensive to Catholics. while Conservative journals in general took the opposite side of the question. The discussion on the use of the bible in the public schools has also been conducted from a party standpoint, the Globe and its lesser Reform contemporaries being as a rule op- posed to any change, while the Conservative press is generally in favor of the use of the bible as a text beck. Now these are ques- tions which should not be mixed up with ‘party politics at all, and deserve to be dis~ l cussed on their own merits. Would these discussions have been dragged into the polit- ical arena had the Minister of Education not also ' been a member oi the Government ? The fact that party politics have been mixed up with the consideration oi these important discussions, is one of the best arguments which could be advanced in favor of making the head of the Educational Department altogether independent 0! the fortunes of the political party which may be in power. If this divorce of education from politics he- comes an accomplished fact, the interests of education would be advanced in preference to the interests of the party which may hold the reins of power.â€"â€"Muskoka Herald. A CLEBGTMAN GIVE! IT TO HIS BON- ‘ In the course of his address at Queen’s College last evening, Principal Grant re- marked: "1am informed that a discussion has been going on for some time, in the in- terest of politicians, as to whether Mar- mion is a poem that may be read by young men preparing for our university. Perhaps I have no right to speak on so grave a sub- ject, first. because Marmion is prescribed for our own matriculation examination, and no politician has any power to interfere with our self-government in the matter; second, because last year I myself gave my little son. a boy oi nine years old, Marmion to read. It is a terrible business. A clergyman, the head of a college, in cold blood. let his son read Marmion, and the little fellow had the wickedness to like the book. So I shall say nothing on the subject at present, save to express the hope that the matter may be hushed up as quickly as possible. Let it not be known abroad any more widely than it already is. Tell it not in Japan that 09.- nadians are so hopelessly and helplessly stupid as to allow themselves to discuss whether Marmion may or may not be read anywhere or by anyone." A Wisconsin man who left there under peculiar circumstances found himself in Lon- don without a penny. He ran across the kind hearted Bronson Howard, who got him a place at the Princess Theater on a salary 0! six dollars a week. He suddenly emerged as the husband of a woman 01 high connections and lots of money. He became connected with all sorts cl operations. got $150,000 of stock in a big company without paying a cent in cash, and if he had had sense enough to improve his opportunity might have placed it all and doubled his capital. Instead he played a “coal oil Johnny" career ; treated to 1 champagne by the basket, had the hand- somest carriage and pair in the city, paid oabmen five dollars to drive him a few blocks, spent all his wife’s money, mortgaged her furniture. induced a well-known peer to pledge his family plate so as to loan him a large sum of money. and then went away owing 8100.000. His wife stuck to him to his last day in London. At the station she beg- ged him to take her for she was pennilese. He had the station master prevent her from entering the train, and just as it was rolling out of the place, he tossed her a sovereign. He got to Paris; from there to America; then back to London, under cover. The wife he cruelly wronged is now protecting him. -Buioide in said to be increasing in Prus- sia, the figures having risen from 13 per 100,000 population in 1869 to 18 in 1830. A WOMAN’S LOVE. MARMION. “ It gives me great pleasure to announce," said the presidem as the meaning opened," “ dat de Hon. Judge Lougjolm, of North Carolina. am waitin’ in de entity-room to ’peer bafo’ us an’ deliber his celebrated poem on do dyin’ y’ar. De Judge has predicted three airthquekes, two cyclones. six freebeta. five droughts, an' a sweepin’ Dlmooretio victory, an’ am probably better posted on do science of gnvernment an’ political economy dun de hull caboodle of us put togeiher. I went to warn Samuel Shin in advance an it he opens do stove door doorin‘ de rendin’ of <13: pogo hia_flqe will not be less den 87,000, __.4____.. A... an' Elder Tooismkin possibly manage to keep awake it will be taken as a greet compli- ment. De hero will now be brnng in.” TE! IUDGE. The committee on reception robed them- selves in gorgeous raiment and proceeded to the ante room, where they found the Judge seated on a nail-keg with a bottle of hurtshorn held to his nose. He had been suddenly seized with stagenlright, and would have dashed down stsirs and skipped the town had not the watchmen halted him at the muzzle of a shotgun. 1 _ |__..-._ v; u..." 0-... The reception committee procured 9. lemon for him, rubbed the back 0! his neck with a cold beer bottle and alter ten minutes of hard work he rallied sufiiciently to be escorted in. In appearance he seemed lo be a man about 60 years of ego, and he had a deceiv- ing gait and a reckless look around the mouth. He was introduced amidst a storm of applause which braced him up wonderfully, and bowing righs and left with smiling digni- ty he said : . .. I -,.. 1’ .L._" -nnp: u; uv u...“ . ” My (fiends, the poem which I shall read to you this evening was compo sed by myself. instead 01 being molen from Shakespeare. 1 think it is one of the first things in this coun- try. and have been assured that it will go down to posterity slang with Milton’s best efforts. I will now place the pearls and gems belore you.” The poem consisted of sixty-eight verses, and the judge was exactly fortyatwo minutes reading it. We have space only for a tow flashes from the brilliant Kohinoor. Verse 4 ran 2 “ 'Tis sad to know we've got 0 die. An' be klvered by the silo: ~ But we shall have a porch in Heaven An' put on a heap of eull'd style." At the reading of the above verse the judge was greeted with long continued spplsuse. The eighth verse slipped ofl as follows: " Thanksgiving Day will soon be here, And we shell least on turkey ; 1 And it will not be the fault 01 Providence ‘ It anybody becomes sick and jerky." The only applause at the finish 01 the above came from Whalebone Howker, who was promptly wilted by 3 look from the president. The forty second verse ran : " When I think that the year is dying, And that soon it will be '33 : I cannot retlst shedding a. tear And Wishing I had never been born." When the entire poem had been finished the poet was roundly applauded. and taken out and laid on a bench and covered with a buflalo-robe to get up a. perspiration. ELEMION. The following candidates were put through the bean box, while the Glee Club sang “Ohl Sally. Mind the Baby ;" Blissful White, 0.1L Jones. Golden Johnson, Filer Judson, Elder Kybool, Prof. Jaundiee and the Hon Lyssnder Linx. The committee on the nick reporSed that Brother Jogalong Speed. 3 local member, living on Ohio street, was ill and in need 01 reliei. nun... " Did do chairmen visit do house I" asked the president. “ We did, ssh." “ An’ did you note da symptoms 2" " We did, eah. Feelin’ dat Brudder Speed wer' a leetle tricky we insisted on an examin- ashun, an' satisfied ourselves det he had really been knocked down 311’ mu chat by a. baker's wagon. All ’peemnees went to show dat fo'teen different wheels had passed ober him sbouk eix times apiece, sn’it am out een~ did opinynn data he won't be able to run any tut rsoes beio' nex’ Mush}: The treasurer was ordered to pay the vie- tim 83 per week Item the relief fund until further orders, and it was suggested that Givendsm Jones hunt up the driver of the vehicle and bestow on him such reward as he deemed beat. A communication from a. state official of the State of Ohio, inquired if Brother Gord- nar could explnin the recent overwhelming change in the political situation and the old man motioned for the janitor to put more wood in the stove ond replied : “ Jist fur once I will break ober {our role on‘ newer dat query as beat I kin. While de American people am great pollytiahuns, dey nebber iorgit dat day am also free citi. zens. You kin lead '31:) about no tax in pollytioks, relinnn, charity or debility. De Dimooratio party lead do people to a sartin pint an’ den lost its hold. Dlmocrnts let no of de party to become citizens. De Bepnbli cans have lead do people to a rartin pint, nn’ do reackshnn has not in. Sulpirhun, leer an’ disgust am takin’ hold of do people. Let me say to youâ€"_ _.... . .1,_ “ An American luba his kerntry mo’ dan his parfiy.“ -v ,-.. .u . lyu u I,‘I,__J “ Plollytiahumu will be blindly follered to a satin turn in de road, an’ den do party will halt nn’ scatter. I”: :11“ strength A party has. oonupsypn will scan-er 1‘ {an time. I ,_-A__ ” 4. Bigotry, avarice, selfishness. knavery and open fraud are e‘emants of pollytioka. Dey wxll bring success fur a time, hm dey am also snrtin to bring defeat. " De kennry has got tired of do present rule an’ its evils an' em gwine to make a change. When do President of do United States becomes a ward pollytishnm. en' Sen- More rob de kentry a: large to pave do way to a second or third nominaehun do honest Republican will let go on party ties to look out for do kentry. “ An' now one word to de onll‘d people We be: woted solid an' we be: bin left. In die country we had our candidates on boa! tickets. 311‘ (19] war' buried outer light. De Dimooreu owed us neffin’. 311' day paid us off. De Republicans owed us do lent sixteen y’ars of rule. 33’ yei Republican wotea beat our oandydates crude Republican ticket Det’s all. Figger it out in: yen-selves." BEBQLYRD. Pickles Smith sighed heavily as he arose and introduced the followiog _resolutien f. THE LIME-KILN CL UB- “'7 iégglvgarbat we am lifiin’ too ran, an’ an is am the opinyun of dis club dat retran- chmem an’ economy should become the standard mofios of de kentfiry.’_' Waydown Bebee opposed the resolution. He had lived all summer on potatoes. oodfish and bakers’ bread and i! that was too last living he didn’t know himself. Whalebone Hawker said he must also op- pose it. He had worn the same suit of clothes {or four years, and it had been eighteen months since he had a mince pic on his table. Any further stretch of economy would leave him without atocxinga for fine winter. bamnel Shin didn’téwant to seem captions and as a rule he always voted in flavor 0! every motion or resolufion introduced, but in “11! case he must rebel. He was tour momhu behindin his rent. needed 0. hundred new BONE EXTEAOTB. JUST FOR ONCE. THE SICK. M Teefy things in his house. and was forced to make 0119 papex: «1115: last him 9 whole week. ,LA :_ AL- m“..- "éévia'ri'x firembers 'apoke in the same vein, and the president placed the resolution on the window sill with theremmik} v» 'uv "nuâ€"v" -___ .. , “ If de kentry can't take hear of herself she must hunt. I! we had the money to fling on good clothes an’ order quail on toast, I reckon dat all do mottoea eber hung up wouldn’t stop us. Do resolution will be laid Aside and sold by do pound." Elder Penstook arose to remark that be had been asked how the Limo Kiln Club stood on the question of woman suflmge, and he would now ask for a plain expression of opinion. â€"-~ 1..” "3355 Cadaver added am on his recent trip to Virginia he had been naked the same quesfion and could give no satistaetory re» fily. Prof. Darius Gherkina stood up in his cor- ner to any that he had lately received three letters bearing on the subject, and was anx- iously awaiting a decision; n 2,; A“ “2; “Gem’len,” replied Brother Gardner, “it ’pears to me den when de men of dis kentry make a failure of de bizness of runnin' it der will be an opporzunity fur de wxmen folks to take hold. If God had designed women fur a pollytishnn he wouldn’t have wnsied so much time on her he’r, teeth, eyes, complex- ion and ginersl outfit. Any sort of a thing on legs kin wote, en’ moas’ any sort of a men kin git ofiis. When woman becomes a failure as 9. wife, mother and sister, we’ll try an’ make an elector of her. When der am no iurder use in: modesty. charity, and womanly kindness we’ll all go in fur a high ole pollyti- cal campaign. . . . .u ,,,L__L:_. v... vu...r...c._ “So in: as a poo’ ole nigger like me has bin able to observe doorin' do lan’ twenty y’are. de ideal] of womm enflrage has bin advo- vated only by eich puesone as am too silly to keep a place among men an’ too hom’ly to secure do respect of wimen. Die club would recommend doc day soak deir heads in butter milk or so: up a new kingdom in some co’ncr of some 903’ kentry. We will now oatoeh to our homes.” [Let some member 0! the lumily read this story aloud, while with the dictionary, u late edition either of Woroeeter or Webster, and any good helper to the study of language, the others criticise and correct or confirm the reader’s pronounoiation. There are 225 words here which are frequently miepro- nouneed.) _ m. . .- it, Geoflrey, aumnmed Winthrop. sat in the depot at Chicago. waiting for his train and reading the Tribune,, when a squadron of street Aruba (incomparable for squalor) thronged from a neighboring alley, uttering hideous cries, accompanied by inimitable ges- tures o? heinous exultation, as they tortured a. humble black and tan dog. “ You little blaokrgnrards T” cried Winthrop stepping outside and confronting them, add- ing [lite inquiry.“ Whhoae dpg is that f" n, _ L__ WHOLE N0. 1,273 -â€"â€"NO, 27, "â€"o 'â€"~ ""1"": v ~- WV w “ That audacious Caucasian has the bra- vndo to interfere with our clique." tauntiugly shriked ihe indisputable little ruffin, exhibit.- ing oombativehass. .. . .. -u 1,3.‘A “.5 -.._~,... . V “ What willifirxrzrtake for him ? ” asked the lenient Geoffrey, ignoring tfhe vanial tirade. “any... v.--__-_, , -9‘", “ Twenty-seven cents,W piquantly answered the ribald urchin, grabbing the crouching dog by £139 nape. . 1 u ,,,_ knL LL- ~_, ._- __,-_ " You can buy licorice and share with the indecorous coadjutors of your oondemnable cruelty," said Winthrop, paying the price and taking the dog from the child. Then catch- ing up his valise and umbrella, he hastened to his train. Winthrop satisfied himself that his sleek protege was not wounded, and then cleaned the cement from the pretty collar and read these words : “ Leicester. Licensed, No. 1880." Hearingthe pronunciation of his name. the docile canine expressed gratitude and pleasure, and then sank exhausted at his new patron’s feet and slept. Among the other passengers was a maga- ‘ zine contributor. writing vagaries of Indian literature. also two physicians. a somber, it revocable, irrefragable allopathist, and a gen- ial homeopathist, who made a specialty of bronchitis. Two peremptory attorneys from the Legislature of Iowa were discussing the politics of the epoch and the details of na- tional finance, while a wan, dolorous person wearing concave glasses alternately ate tro- chees and almonds for a sedative, and sought condolence in a high lamentable treble from a lethargic and somewhat deaf and enervate comrade not yet acclimated. Near three exemplary brethren (probably sinecurists) sat a group of humorous youths ; and. a jocose sailor (lately from Asia) in a blouse waist and tarpaulin hat was amusing his patriotic juve- nile listeners by relating a series of the most extraordinary legends :extant, suggested by the contents of the knapsack, which he was calmly and leisurely arranging in a pyram- idal form of a three-legged stool. Above swung figured placards with museum and lyceum advertisements. too verboosq to be i misconstred. A mature matron of medium height and her comely daughter soon entered the ear and took seats in front of Winthrop (who recalled having seen them one Tuesday in February in the parquette o! a theater). The young lady had recently made her debut into society at a musical eoiree at her aunt’s. She had an exquisite bouquet of flowers that exhaled sweet perlume. She said to her parent : “ Mamma, shall we ever find my lost Leices- ter 2" mdeoflrey immediately addressed her, saying as hg prgsented his card ‘: ‘ I ‘ __L .0. _- r_____,”‘ , “ Pardon my Apparent intrusiveneu ; but prifllee, hays ygu 1038 a pet dog 2" -AJ-.. The explanation that he had 5 been stolen was scarcely necessary, for Leicester. just awakening. vehemently expresned his inex- plicable joy by buoyantly vibrating between the two like the sounding lever used in tele gruphy (for to neither of them would he show purtiality). till succumbing to enmi, he put- poraed to take a race: a. and not on his haunches, compleieantly contemplating his friends. It was truly uninteresting picture. They reached their. destination are the sun 1 was beneath the horizon. Often during the summer Winthrop gallantly rowed from the quay with the naive and blithe Beatrice in her jaunty yachting suit, but no coquetry shone from the depths of her alnre eyes. Lit- tle Less their joound confidante and courier (who was as sagaeioue as a spaniel), always attended them on these occasions, and when- ’er they rambledphmugh the woodland paths. While the band played strains from Beeth- oven, Mendelssohn. Bach and others, they promenaded the long corridors of the hotel. And one evening. as Beatrice lighted the gas by the etagere in her charming boudoir in their suite of rooms. there glistened brilliantly a valuable solitaire diamond on her finger. Let us look into the {mute for the sequel to perfect this romance. and around 3 cheer- ful hearth we see again Geoflry and Beanies. who are paying due homage to their tiny friend Leicester.â€"-Cmoinnati Gazette. â€"â€"The grasshopper has, according to its size, 120 times the kicking power of an av- erage man. It. must be exciting times {or the young grasshoppers, which no courting and find the old man at home l-Boaton Pout. After six months’ absence from Munith, the King of Bavaria WM expected there M the clone of last month to mend me than“ representation. READ THIS IF YOU CAN. WOHAN BUFFBAGE. BEECHER AND . MRS. bPOOPENDYXE. Reviewing the SituatioanNhy he has Abandoned Religion. “ I me that Mr. Beecher has abandoned the ministry and quit religion altogether,” observed Mrs. Spoopendyke, holding up the pattern of a. polonaise and wondering if it would come up high enough in the neck. “ I suppose the poor man will have to speculate in stocks or write jokes for the Chris‘y min- strels to make a living now ; won’t be 7” ." Who’s been lending you a. circus poster this trip 7" demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. springing up like a trunk lid. " What patent medicine label have you been studying latele Who says he quit the ministry. He’s only left the Society of Congregational Ministers because he doesn’t believe exactly as they do." “ That’s what I said,” argued Mrs. Spoop- endyke, laying the pattern on the cloth and beginning to out it out. “ Be disagreed with the Congregational religion, and said he guessed ,he’d go away somewhere and let ’em have it to themselves. I don’t know what Plymouth church ; will do without him. thoughâ€"" _ “ Do i” ripped Mr. Bpoopendyke, " do ! it will :89: a rat trap and catch him again I” What d‘ye s’pose it will do ? Got some idea ii will hire out as a cook, washer and ironer P No objection to going a short dinenoe in the country. haven’t ye 7 Well, it won't, and it won’t open as a hotel l Well, it won't, and it won’t put on a long shirt and a shot: apron and go howling around as a two legged luna- tic asylum, either I Don’t I tell ye he has only just quit the society of ministers f” VI“ Iii-iii); éfififigserthey’d hurt him," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, scratching her nose with the scissors and figuring out the allowance for the same." “ Hurt him ‘1" roared Mr. Spoopondyke, “ ol course they hurt him 1 They used to lay him down and walk on him. and they’d set astride his stomach and play euohre on his chin, till he swallowed the joker. and they fished for it with umbrellas until they choked him. Don’t ye know the difference between a society of ministers and a religion 2 He's quit the ministers and not the church! Got a tooth you can stow that idea in_?" “Well, of course, the man had a right to pick his own associates, but I understand you to say he didn’t agree with their religion. If that’s the case they ought to Alter it, has cause a man like Mr. Beechetâ€"â€"" “Alter it I” demanded Mr. Sp’oopondyke, “how’re they gain to alter it? Think they can put another flounce around the bottom and a patch on the elbowe.like s dod gated frock? Imagine th’ y can make it straight up and down, or a bell crown, by ironing it out like a stove pipe hat? It’s the tenet of the church, the basis of the faith. that he dissent: from and as they can't change that he goes out. Does a streak of intelligence be- gin i0 dawn on you now 7 Think you feel an idea wobbling round in your back hair 1" "I sews.” ihhiinfired'Mrs. Spoopandyke, “ he‘ just abandons religion and ministers, but he sticks to the church. I understand it now." “Oh, you understand it f" howled Mr. Spoopendyke. “You’ve got your claws in it at last! All you want now iae row among the faculty and a gymnasium to be a. dad gasted theological aeminaryl He hasn’t abandoned religion! He’s only announced he don’t believe certain parts of the Con- gregntionnl faith! Think your mind in long and thin enough to penetrate that f" “ Certainly," returned Mrs. Spoopendykc. ” That’s plain enough. He didn’t like some- thing they did. and so he concluded to leave those ministers te their own devices. But what is he going to do for a faith to keep Plymouth church going ‘2" h Buy one I” snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. “ He’s a going to get measured to: one and heveit sent home, If the tailor don’t disap- point him. P’mps you think he’s going to sit out in the back yard and pop over the that faith he sees running along the tenee 1 Maybe you think he’ll find some second hand faith chap somewhere, have the bottom lol- dered up, a new snout set in, and palm it ofl on his congregations for new, I tell ye he sticks to the atonement and hell “he: read about the atonement? Got gany kind 0! a notion about hell '1” “30! course I have," replied Mrs. Bpoopen- dyke. “ I begin to see the drift now. The ministers wentedjhe atonement andâ€"Indâ€" the other thing, and he gave it so them, and he’s going to substitute Plymouth church for thosa things, and let the ministers look (me: :hemeelvee. Now 13’s clear to me." " Oh, you’ve got it 1" yelled Mr. Spoopen- dyke. “ There's the whole christian religion in a teacup. If you only had red cushions and a rack nailed up in front you, you'd only need an overdue mortgage and a fight in the choir to be a dod seated fashionable church I Let it alone will ya I Drop the subject before that wonderful intelligence of yours drowns me out. Another time you went to talk re- ligion, I’ll get a measly hen to listen to you X and Mr. Spoopendyke lunged his head among ,the pillows and rooded over his wrongs. “ I don’t care.” murmured Mrs. :Bpoopen- dyke, basting the lining into the front 01 the dress, " Mr. Beecher may not like these poor ministers or their religion, but that’s no rev son why he should leave them. He ought to show them the ainfulneaa of their wayl and get them to abandon their hold on till bad place. Anyway, I’m glad he’s going to keep up preaching, for the poor man has got a family on his hands, and I think I'll go Bun- day and hear his explanation. if I can get this dress done.”â€"-Boston Eagle. Melancholy Death of Alexander Jones in Manitoba. From the Winnipeg Times. Winnipeg and the Northegst present more chances to the young man who is determined to do right and succeed than any other spot on earth. 011 the contrary it he is addicted to bad habits of which that of drinking is paramount. he has more chances than on any other part of the continent, of going down to ruin and death. There is no stopping place in Manitoba. You have either to climb up the ladder and keep your eyes fixed on the top, or you have to turn round to go down to the very bottom. The latter is the awful fate which befel Alexander Jones. Born of a good iamily. at Ottawa, well educated, permitted to mix in the best society in his youth, his was a pleasant lot indeed and everything pointed to a more than successful future for a favored young man of unusual qualifications. * This young man was Alexander Jones, of Ottawa. known to very many of our citizens. His conduct did not bear out the hopes entertained for him and it is his destiny to fill an untimely grave and to have died almost unknown and unpitied among strangers. He came to Winnipeg some months ago and had not the strength to with- stand the strong current of temptation. He began to drink and tell gradually from bad to worse. For a while his friends assisted him but as he showed no hopeful signs of reform they too dropped away from him and he was alone and friendless. One night last week he stumbled over the 0. P. B. track near Main street and fell down. A locomotive passed over his right hand. crushing it horri- bly. His body became so entangled with the machinery that some 0! the iron working the tender had to be taken of! to get him free. He was promptly taken to the hospital and the crushed member amputated. But the shock was too great to a system undermined by excessive drinking, want of food and care. He sank gradually until last night at twenty minutes to one o'clock he died. Here is a more eloquent temperance lecture than Gough or Murphy ever preached and brings to mind the horrible scenes of last winter. Such is the head of the serpent i The {filler ofâ€"zhe deceased is “1.8 contractor who built the Parliament buildmge at Oltawa and one of his uncles is the celebrated Judge Jones, of Bpenlford. Optjario: The hospital rainirliorritiea have communica- ted with the friends of deceased in 0mm: and will hold the bodyAuntil they get a reply. â€"The Simon~pure prize-fighter likes to handled without gloves. TEE SERPENT’S HEAD.