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A' righteous judgment, which is the more satisfactory from the fact that it is eur- risiog, was rendered a few days ago in irginia. Just before Christmas a. young mar: named James Lucas procured several gallons of whiskey in the town of Covington for the avowed purpose of celebrating the coming holiday with a. regal debauch, When the day came he proceeded to carry out the programme to the letter. While he and several companions were guzzling the whiskey, a, boy of 12 years fell into their elutches, affording them the means of hav- ing some “fun.” They bribed him to drink, Lucas administering the whiskey and holding him up while he gulped down the last of three pints. The boy then Bank to the floor, and no physician being within call soon expired. Luces has Just been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to nine years at hard labor in the Stete Penitentiary. What- nearly proved to be in {anal acci- dent occurred to Mr. Wm, Symmington, night miller for Scott Brosl, Balmoml Mill, on Tuesday morning. About 4 o’clock in was in the fourth flat. putting the belt on a. pulley, when his coat» tttli got caught in a belfi behind and carried him (if his feet, where he hung suspended with feet and head down for nearly three hours, exreot- ing eVery second to be his last. When found in that; position by the day miller, Mr. Gordanier, about; half past 6, be im- mediately stopped the machinery and took him down. He was suffering terribly from the cramped position he: had been in so long and the cold. He was immediamly taken to his own home, and Dr. Forbes sent for, who did all he could to make ‘113 old gentleman comfortable. No bones were broken, and wish good care we expeca to see him around again shortly. ~ Caledonia Sachem. A poet in “ Lippincotb ” gives readers the shivers with the line, “ Cold swims the moon light on the snow." The moon mus have been very full, else it would have taken a slide instead of a, swim. Icene at a Railway Stationâ€"The Iuiurul Ila-band. A last (Friday) night's St. Louis despntch $515: More was a stormy 506116 in the alace car at East St. Louis last night. The wife of ex-City MnrshnlJob‘nun Sabine, was eloping with a. butcher, named Thomas Stringer, when Sabine came upon them. For a. time it; looked as if the husband would kill the destroyer of his home, but finally he bent all his energies to finding out the whereabouts of 11in two children, whom his wife had spirited away and concealed, and was informed they were an Alton, which appeaeed him somewhat. Stringer's sou coming upon the Boone, the four Went to a restau'smc Lent by and discussed the situation. Whatever arrangement; was reached, the eloping couple did not con- sider ,it binding upon them, as although Stringer left in a- bnggy for Sb. Louis, evidently with the intention of givmg up the woman, he subsrquently joined her. Sabine has now given up the woman for good, and is making frantic efforts to find his children. i‘ 011, put him up a. tombstone worth about $300 and send around the bill. I’m really too busy to lose any time.”â€" C'alifomia widow. Mr.'Dennis, the British antiquarian, has bought; the site of the temple of Cybele, at Smrdis, Asia. Minor, and great hopes are entertained of the discoveries among the ruins. Suspend“: by {his ()0! [or Three flours. The equestrian smtue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Garner, London, was successfully lowered on Jan. 24th, by means of hydraulic mma, from the arch on which i1: has stood since 1846. It took a. French scientist thirty-one days to discover that a snail always winds tothe rightin ascending a rise of ground. There is nothing straightforward about a snail. Kate Field did not succeed as the boss of a dry goods store. Woman shines best as a. boss when workmen come to make repairs on her house. The real glove fight Occurs when a. woman tries to put a. No. 6 glove on a No. 7‘hand. A N: w renew; ton dated his: ll: this,” night snys : The society sensation of the day is one involving the Aetors, Lorillards, and other families quite as Widely known throughout the country for wealth and social standing. It is the slopement (f Miss Kittie Kernochan, dz light as of J shoes 1’. Kernochen, 384 Fifth fi'mue, with Herbert C.Pell, broker, doing business at 67 Exchange place. A difierence has existed between the families for years, and the young people had been forbidden to meet. Miss Kittie left home after luncheon yesterday, and did not reappear during the afternoon, an occurrence of which little notice was taken, as she was a. young lady of very independent habits. On leaving home she at once repaired to St. Augustine‘s Church, where they were married in the presence of two witnesses, although the pastor, ltev. l". Kunihcr, was not asked to perform the (irreluony. In the evening the district telegraph iiievsenger took to her father’s Fifth KVL‘LUS reeuicnce nbxief note iromMcvl’eil announcing the time and place of her marriage, but nothing more. It was i the first information the family had re~ oeived. Meanwhile there had appeared in the evening newspaper a. brief and formal marriage notice. ‘ There was forthwith hubbub at Union Club and the Turf Club, of which Pall was a. meran 1‘. Pierre llmil- lard is the special partner of Peters & Pell, the firm of which Mr. Pell 1s member, and is an uncle of the new-made lure. Pell, who has been much in Mr. Lorillwrd’s corn- pany,and commonly truvellei with him in summer. Mr. Joseph P. Kernoohan father of the bride, married Mr. Loril- lard’i‘. Lister. Mr. Pall was one of the founders of Mendowbrook Hunt, and his “ pink" dinners were celebrated in his circle. The mnrriage was entirely a. sur- prise to the bride’s family. A friend of the p family said last evening, “Its aterrible blow to them, and wholly unexpected. Miss Astor. who is an intimate friend of Miss Kernnchan, could probably tr 1: some- thing about itâ€"thet is. if she chose to speak." It is said the family believe she was a. witness at the marriage czremony. The consternation of the family at the news was quite dreadful. Mr. Kernochan is said to have become quite prostrated. It is believed the couple are either at Mr. Pell’s residence, on Twenty-second street, where his mother lives, or at the Hotel Brunswick. Miss Montague, the alleged prize beauty, has been awarded 8500 damages for being thrown by Forepaugh’s unruly elephant. In Poland there are four places where the theatres are well supported, and in Warsaw there is a. Government subvention for the support of the theatres,butit is used principally in support of the opera. The less you leave your children when you die, the more they will have twenty years afterwards. Wealth inherited should bethe incentive to exertion. Instead of that “it is the title-deed to sloth." The only money that does a man good is what he earns himself. ' A ready-made fortune, like ready-made cloihes, seldom fits the men who comes into possession. Ambition, stimulated by hope and a. helifilled puree, has a. power that will triumph over all difficulties. ‘ The soul is not poisoned by mere errors of the head, but by evils of the heart. A ST. LOUIS ELOPENIENT. A PE RI IA) US POHITION. A kflk‘ali HENSATifis‘é Bt‘sllll! ol :1 Debnnch :ng. “ No matter WhfiW the process, your words have so far impressed me that I have held out. a friendly hand to a relative from whom I have. been a. good deal estranged, and With whom I have good cause to be displeased. I have directed Wilkins to write for my brother." ” Only twenty 1 Why. I had taken my degree, and wrestled with many a doubt and many 2L tempmtion some years before you were born; and yet your young, half- formed mind appears to grasp t1 utha that almost escape me." “You are always good,” murmured Marie, adding with 21 smile, “You know you must forgive him unto seventy times seven!” Mr. Watson smiled too. “ My brother has been very trying to me. He is a good deal younger than I am. I am the eon of our father’s first marriage. My mother brought a; large fortune and a share in the firm in which I am partner, to my father, who was aristocratic, but impoverished. My brother was the son of a beautiful, high-born womanâ€"bright, witty, thought- less. I, who scarce remembered my own mother, was well inclined to love and admire her; but she treated me with a sort of haltcontemptuoua kindness. She mocked my plebian looks (I took after my mother’s people), and used to laugh, a sweet oareleee laugh, and call me “the little Puritan,” “young Ironsidee.” She meant no harm, but she gave me many a b1tter pangnmeny a lever to the devrl to shake my soul. Then her boy was a splen- did fellowâ€"generous, daring, arrogant, ineolent, truthful, full of spiritâ€"deapising me utterly l I could see that the sympathy of every one about the house, which my mother’s money, or rather mine, kept up, from the lady‘s maid to the grooms and gamekeepera, were with the young squire. ‘7 Nevertheless you speak like one who thinks! How old are you,Mn.r“e?” Her name camg quigepfiurally to his lipg. a “ I {hall be twent'y next welds,” she said, With_a _little quive;ing_§gh._ _ ” Ah! nay-dear ism! that is becuuae Ifcel instggd‘of reasogivg.’j “ I am afraid my words are seldom worth thinking about," said Marie, with a. smile. “ My experience and knowledge are but slight.” “You see I had no knack of attracting hearts. Of course all this roused an antago- nism in me; all that my young brother excelled in I avoided. I could back any horse in my father's stable, but I disdained to ride; my eye was keen, my hand was steady, but I despised mere gamekeepers’ accomplishments; what was the highest skill in fencing or wrestling to one who in the solemn night watches tried a bout with the arch enemy of mankind and came off victorious? The gulf yawned wider and Wider, though silentlyI between my rela- tives and myself. Then I elected to go into the house of Foster 65 Go. By this time Lady Mary, my beautiful step-mother, had been in her grave more than two years, and Guy had entered the army and had gone on active service.” “Who!” asked Marie faintly. “Guy, my half-brother,” returned Mr. Watson, absorbed in his reminiscences and not heeding her wide-opened, terrified eyes. “ I think my father paid his debts before he died, and I think Guy cleared himself once or twice after; at any rate he got rid of his small patrimony before he was thir- ty-three. We scarcely ever saw each other after my father’s death. I confess few men have ever been so disagreeable to me as my father’s son; his indescribable lordly scorn, his absorption in mere physi- cal pleasure, his delight in brutal sports. his utter incapacity for spiritual life! if ever man was born Without a soul,that manAis Guy Neville l” Marie, glad to begin a. subject so far away from when occupied her thoughts. gave him an account of her plans and progress. He did not listen ver'y attentively, nor did he notice her much, and she had carefully placed herself away from the light. I “I have been thinking much of our last conversation,” said Mr. Watson, rather abruptly, after a. mlonce of some minutes had succeeded Marie's report of the school and the scholars. “ You said we should leave the purifying of the heart to God, and do all the good we can. This seems too eas‘y for our self-indulgent natures; yet your words haunt me 1” “I am glut] to be quiet,” said Mr. Wat- son, as Marie drew a. little table on which lay her work and the big book about Dau- iel. “ Yesterday and the'day before were much, though unavoidably, disturbed. You 3.1-9 always quietly busy ; it soothes me to see you work. No, I will not ask you to read the book you disllke so much. Let us talk. Tell me about the school, and he ygu huve gnawed? ' “How dare you say BO," said Marie sternly, but calmly; “ has God given you insight to know what is His, and what is not, in a. human heart? Take care how you mistake personal dislike for supernatu- ral insight I”_ “ I 3171 perhaps justly rtbukcd,” returned Mr. Watson, after a pause of fistuuishment. “ But if you knew the man’s life, the sums he has squandered at play, the‘ chances he has lost, the recklessness of a. career that has been peculiarly offensive to me, you Oh, when I LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. And now that I can talk no more with thee Of ancient friends and days too fair to last, A bitterness blends with the memory Of all that happy past. Thus, ever, when I read of generous deeds, Such words us than (lid’st once delight to hear, My. heart is wrung with anguish as it bleeds To think thou art not near. And 1, whose) thoughts go back to happier days That fled with thee, would gladly now resign All that; the world can give of fame and praise For one sweet look of thine. I turn, but see thee not ; before my eyes The image of a. hill-side mound appears Where all of thee that passed not to the skies Was laid wixh bitter tears. And then, as if I thought thou still wert nigh, I turn me, half forgetting thou are dead, To read the gentle gladness in thine eye, That once I might have read. Here, where I sit alone, is sometimes heard. From the great wax-mm. whisper of my mums, Joined, haply, to some kind, commending word, By those Whose praise is fume. Nor dothrthgdiaiy- so beautifully die," Since I can call thee to my side no more, To gaze upon the sky. For thy dear hand, with each return of spring, I sought in sunny nooks the flowers she gave I seek them still, and son-awfully bring The choicest: to thy grave. The March “Century” contains the following hltherto unpublished lines by Mr. Bryant. They are unfiniflhed, and dated “ Roslyn, 1873:” T139 mgr‘q h‘t‘nh pot thg g10ry_tl_1_a.t ll: wore, VOL. By Mrs. Alexander. The Poet to Ills Wife. “ Ah! haw .can you tell? You say he seeks her, this unhappy girl? Perhaps, then, he does love her.” “ He is bound for his own sake to find her.‘ “ For his own sake! Oh, Mr. Watson, imagine what she must suffer if she loves him! conscious' 0t being a. misfortune and an incumbrance, innocent of any wrong,- perhaps, and yep blighted, desolate l” “ If she is such a woman, her lot is cruel ; but the French governess is generally case and world-hardened; Possibly she thought it: a. good chance of settling herself for life; she could not dream the couéitiou of Guy’s finances. “Dear sir,” exclaimed Marie, with aud- den decision. “you have excited yourself; you have talked too much. Pray sleep; I will call your man to stay by you a. while. I have letters of some importance to write, and must leave you.” So spoke Mario. hurriedly, breathlessly; she felt she must run away and be alone, that she must cover up her face and press her hands upon her lips or she would scream aloud in her agony. How was she to bear it I this terrible conviction that Guy sought her solely from a. sense of honor, from a necessity of his standing as a. gentleman. And if he found her, should she be obliged to be his wife, to undergo the terrible humiliation, of being a. Wife on sufferance, married by mistake. Would God or man exact so bitter a forfeit for an involuntary oflence? At one moment she was resolved to keep her incognita and defy Guy Neville to discover her, or, discovering her, to force her to submit to be his wife, merely to save the wound to his honor, to wipe out the blot on his eseutchcon. Never had she felt so bitter, so at war With society and even Mr. \Vateon. How little could he understand her peculiar trials, her ago- nizmg posit-ion 1 His close relationship to Guy seemed to unfit him for the task of consoler and counsellor. “There could she turn? Then the memory of Mr. \Vatson’s bitter words and unfriendlytone respecting his brother came back to complete her dis- satisfaction Wlth her benefuetr r. How little he knew or appreciated Guy Nevillel How little he knew of the delicate tender- ness which was hidden under his proud, cold exteriorl A hundred minute instances came back to her, as she recalled the brief hours they had spent together as man and Wife. Could these moments never come back? Was it possible they were to be strangers evermore? What was the wisest. justest course to pursue? Who could tell her, who could guide her 2 “I cannot tell," said Mr. Watson wea- rily; “whatever Guy Neville may have said or (lone in the excitement of such a. Brushing blow, he will always act like a. gen- tleman, as the jargon of the world goes. He will stand to his word, and stick to the women who has a. right to his name whatever it may cost him ; but he was too disturbed and angry when we met to premit me to judge. He is quite capable of a. strong passion, but of that higher love which seeks the temporal and eternal welfare of the beloved one I should say he knew nothing." Marie could not command her voice for some moments ; her whole destiny seemed to lie before her, and yea ehe was power- less to influence it! She was paralyzed; she felt the moment had come to announce herself. and yet she could not do it. The crieia had come and the had lost her opportunity. At length, with pale and trembling lips, she, with a. painful effort, uttered the words, “And your brother? would he, too, wish to be free from thls unfortunate girl. who seems to be more sinned against than sinning.” ........ new”... , “ Well, cheer the sequel. About five months ago, I had a short, proud applica- tion for help from this half brother of mine. It was couched in language almost offen- sive, conceived in so unchastened a spirit, that I at once determined to reject it. About this time Guy and his friend Sir Frederic Compton became acquainted with a ward of Mr. Foster’s (Sir Frederic is Mr. Foster‘s grandson), and my old friend par- ticularly wished to make a marriage between Sir Frederic and his ward. It seems that as she had a large fortune, which Compton did not want. the comrades agreed that the ‘loot’ should fall to Guy’s share, and accordingly he laid himself out to catch the heiress; but by some jugglery, which I do not understand, my half-brother mistook a French governess in the same school with Mr. Foster's ward, for the New ‘ Orleans heiress, and under that impression i ran away with her I Probably the French girl thought she had caught a prize; at any rate, the truth came out at Dover, where they had gone after the ceremony. I ima- gine Guy was in a state of fury when he discovered the truth, for he is as proud as Lucifer; and to find that he was tied to a penniless nobody must have been, as he would say himself, ‘hard ,lines.’ At any rate, the girl took fright and ran away ; and Guy came to me: like a madman. I was, I confess, sorry for him: it was such an awful disappointment. However, he was determined on the only proper course left for him under the circumstancesâ€"to discover the girl who was certainly his wife, and take .her for better, for worse. He was evidently much to blame, and ought to bear it: but how far the young, lady was responsible for the mistake it was impossible to say. It is an uncomfortable position'for my brother; I ventured to admonish him, and was proceeding to give him some counsel, when he broke from me in a fury,and rushed away in a wild search for this unhappy girl. I scarcely know which will be the greatest misfortunevâ€"to find or to lose her. So long as he is ignorant of her whereabouts he is tied to a myth, a shadow, and can contract no other alliance; _ if he discovers l or, he has an incumbrance the more in a low ,bred wife, possibly an adventuress. However, I feel, especially since we spoke of the law of love which permeates Christianity, that I have been somewhat harsh with my:b1_other; I have therefore desired Mr.Wilkins to write to him to Paris, where it is supposed he is at pres- ent, requesting him to come to me. We must see what can be done; if this unlucky marriage can be broken through, or if it should be carried out. In any case I hope to act in a. Christian spirit, a more broth- erly part i” He ceased and closed his eyes. She passed a. terrible afternoon, and was obliged to plead a. headache to avoid the ordeal of returning to Mr. Watson, which brought upon her many visits and inqui- ries from the nurse, and an excruciating cross-examination on the part of the matron. The following day Marie struggled, she scarce knew how, through her morning classes, and returned to go through a. sem- blance of eating 'her early dinner, which wasfhared by the mgtgonr and nurse. would understand how hard it 1'5 to for. give:â€"â€"’f ‘ ” Uutll seventy times seven,” interrupted Maria in a low expressive tone, full of tapas? _s_uggesbion._ ' I um'auré,” said the latter, 7" it} is well RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, )‘IARCH 8, 1883. “Not for- another fortnight ;7 hide-ed, I am in no hurry to go. The placa looks rough, but I am comfortable, and admirably cared for.” “ This is one of your philanthropic under- takings, eh ‘1’” said Guy; but his tone was perfectly inoffensive. " By George, you spend your money rather difierently from- the way in which I got rid of mine; yet: I suppose you get as much pleasure out of it as I did.” ' “ I might get more ifâ€"-â€"” Mr. Watson paused. “ I have been somewhat hard, Guy, but you have never been concilianiugl Might we not; do better In future? My bodily weakness, my phymcal suffering, seem to have given me a. clearer view of things.’_’ “ And my mental suffering. the crushing weight that hangs over me, seems to have taken the color out of my life and left me neither hope not energy," returned Guy. “ You will come all right in a few weeks, but I am in all senses a. ruined man; still if I could find my wife, and make it all right with her, for I feel awfully to blame in the mutter, I think I could put my shoulder to the wheel, end work for my livingm” “ Then you have no trace of her ?” “ None ; it seems strange that the police should be at fault, but they are. A horrible dread sometimes press on me that she may be dead, seized with fever perhaps, the result of distress, of her anguish of mind. and, alone Without money. she may have breathed her last in a. hospital, unknown and uncsred for. By Heaven I I am some- times on the verge uf madness when I think of it.” " Certain! - She was as sweet and simple and pure a. creature as though she had been brought up in an English country home. It was my hasty tongue, my brutal bad tem‘ per, that suggested the base suspicion, the internal words that stung her into despera- tion. It: 15 now four months since I began this search and I seem as far off as ever.“ ‘.‘ It; is a 01116! position,” said Mr. Watson wirh an amount of sympathy which a. abort time back he could not have given. “Do not: lose heart; we must, make fresh and more strenuous cfforts. ~Meautime, I beg you wi‘i take up your abode in my house; yuu'wiu be Var), welcome ; and as I am laid up here, Why, our mutual peculiarities will not clush.” “You had a. narrow shave of it,” he remarked; “but you are coming round; wheg shay you bq able to leave hhis ‘2" “ I should always have been ready to come if you wished it, but, unless you sent for me, I could never suppose my presence in any way necessary.” There Was a. short pause, and Captain Neville iuquired how the accident occurred and received a. shon- explanation. ” Then you are sure she did not mien tiongfllly‘ d90_exvgyou ?” Mr. Watson was struck by the stem, sombre expression of (Japtain Neville’s face. It gave the impression of a. man who had left hope bebim. ; his large trams looked gamut; his slat“. Luz'g lac-3er upon him; his cheek looked hollow. “ Glad to find you so much better,” said Guy, taking the hand feebly held out: to him. “ Thank you,” said Captain Neville shortly, and then added: “I fear we have been unjust to each other. ,I am glad, deuced glad, by George 1. to have your help, and what the women cull sympathy. But I am probably outataying my time ; I suppose you ought; not to talk too much." Cardinal Newman 82 years of age to day. “ Thank you for coining so Qdiékffgé my summons,” returned Mr. Watson. “ It shows more frigndlinegs thap 1 expeqbed.” Miss Minnie Hank met with an accident on Monday night; at Kansas City. Whilst standing on a chair and attempting to light .the gas in her room she accidentally fell, apmming her wrist and otherwise injuring herself. ' Meantime the meeting batween the brothers was of an unusually amiable char- Marie could uply Bull in reply; words would not come in reply, and as soon as she could she rose from the table, put on her walking things, an'! slipped out, her trembling limbs almosis refusing to hear her. To her relief Mrs. Bushel was amt, but “ Jermimar" readily gave her permisâ€" sion to sit in the little parlor in silence and safety. amen Some [hiloaopher has observed that, “ To be a. gO'od oonversationalist one must needs be agood listener.” This is especially true if the conversation is to he by tele- phone. ' " ' ‘ “ Then, as you are not likely to want me, I shall take the opportunity of going out a'little way; for I ('30 not feel my head- ache of yegterday quite gone,” said Marie, putting away her plat/e. ‘ j‘Anvd. if Slou st-‘atvé yuurself, you will neve‘r gather any shreugh," observad the mgtirop seveggly. ~. V“I do not know, I am sure. The doctor is to be here 58.". three, and very likely he will wait; to‘ see hxm. So Mr. Roberts (the valet) swag/but I am sure, if he stays talking aftlmt time to my patient, we will have l-im in a. high fever again.” “I suppose diplfiiiu Neville will not stay vegy long ?” she asked in an unsteady vowe. Marie was stunned ; the danger of deliver- ance had, then, come so near her. A few minutes earlier, in her return from the class, and she would have met Guy face to face. Even now she feared to go up to her own room, lest she should encounter him. She dreaded to stay in. lest she should be asked for ; or go out lest she should be seen. At length, collecting her forces, she remembered that Mr. Watson’s room looked out on a. dreary garden, and that the road- way was therefore safe. and as she had laid aside her hat and mantle in the matron’s room she could escape unseen ; she would slip out, and take refuger with Mrs. Bushel, who would be only too delighted to I'EOBIVB her. There she would be safe, and oould remain for some hours. “Oh. about half an hour ago, or lessf tie has been away on the Contine nt, believe, and only arrived in town this morning; I was Just giving Mr. Watson his beaf-teu when he came in, and I was ordered offprepty sharp.” 7 r ” Why, his brother, that is up there with him nowâ€"a. very fine man and agrand gen- tlemau.” “ His brother!” gasped Marie. “When did he come ‘2” that Mr. Watson has a. sound, untried 'constitootion,’ or all this excitement would go hard with himâ€"first one thing and then anomer. The only one Ilike to leave him with is you, Miss Thibauh; he is always as quiet and peaceful 8:8 a. lamb when you bum been reading to him. Bub he is getting on ; only. they ought not; to be in a. hurry to move him. “ Who Wants to move him ?" 'askedmhrie wemfly. To 119 continued It is such fun to skate, to throw snow balls and to make snow men, that you may some time, in the enjoyment of these winter sports, forget how cold it is. Most painful troubles often follow frosted feet and ears. The old fashioned skates, put on with tight scrape, are very bad. They stop the alrou- latioo. end a foot may get frosted before one knows it. On a very cold day look to your ears; it one loses feeling, at once rub it with enow until feeling or color is restored. If a. foot becomes numb, do not delay, but take off skates, shoes and stockings and rub the foot with snow until it feels warm again. Do not allow the sport to make you neglect theuc matters. It is not often that the feet, etc., are actually frozen, but they get so cold that the circulation of the blood is stopped. When the foot has no feeling, there is danger. Avoid freezing your limbs now, and much furture pain will be saved. Quebec t-o.....‘ Bostonto ...... New York to P'ladelp'iato Baltimore to N. Orleans to President Arthur weighs 250 pounds. He looks the picture of health and has never failed to go through a. thirteen-course dinner as expeditiously and with as good an appetite as anybody. Yet the cor- respondents sey that he is low spirited, that he doesn’t expect to live out his term, that he seems like a men preoccupied with distressing thoughts. Some of these enter- prising letter-writers account for this by making out the President to be morbidly superstitious. The death of Minister Allen. together with other omeusLthey say, has shaken his nerves. One correspondent, however, darkly hints at another reason. He says: ” The birds that carry messages about their necks, written by Mme. Rumork are darkening the air and whispering evil things about him (the President) in the ear ‘ of the listener. There is a. tremendous‘ scandal about to be developed, which would not probably have hsppened had Arthur married either of the women who jilted him last season." What on earth does this mean? . On a. calm day the nonnday gun at Ottawa, says the lj’cce Press, can be heard at Wakefield, twenty-six miles distant. It; has been heard at Portland, forty miles away, when the wind was favorable. On a. clean: day the city can be clearly seen with the naked eye from Sam Hall’s mountain, in the Guinean region, some twenty-five milea fiWfly. The glare of the sun on the Basilica. steeplea and tin~roofed buildings in the city attracts the eye at these dis» tances. After every preparation had been made for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Albany at Buckingham Palace. it is now arranged that; they will go to Windsor for the impending “ ioyfu‘l event,” ‘ It would certainly be very "inconvenient to have an extra. establishment and a. sick lady at the games with drawing rooms going‘on. - [nu-resting Table of Distance. From the Atlantic Coast. _ A number of interesting tables of dis- tances are embraced in a recent report published in Ottawa. From the Straits of Belle Isle to Duluth at the head of Lake Superior, the distance by water is 2,384 statute miles, of which w71§ are artifi- cial, and 2,31% open navigation. The dis- tance to Liverpool via. Cape Clear, from Halifax, is 2,910 statute miles; from St. John, 3,243 miles; from Portland, 3,278 miles, and from Quebec, 3,242 miles. The disiuube from Quebec to Liverpool via. Straits of Belle Isle and Melin Head, nerth of Ireland, is 3,060 miles. The following is a. table of distances, by geographical miles, from the principal sea.- ports of America to Liverpool, Havre, Havana. and R10 Jaueiro : THE MODERN SMALL Boxâ€"The Bishop (severely)â€"-â€"When I was your age. my young friend, it was not considered good manners for little boys to join in the con- versation of grown up people unless they were invited to do 50. Small Americanâ€"- Guess that was seventy or eighty years ago. We’ve changed all that, you bet lâ€"Punch. Crowning oi Ille Swellishly Inclined King or the Sandwich Island!- If the royal programme was carried out Kalakaua was crowned King of the Sand- wich Islands at Honolulu on Monday with imposing ceremonies. Abrand-new crown, made by Paris jewellers regardless of cost, was ordered for the occasion, and prepara- tions for acivic and military demonstration were made on a scale befitting a European court. The new king is a thoroughbred Hawaiian. and 1s a fine specimen of his race. He is tall, broad shouldered and muscular. His complexion has a warm, olive hue, and his features express great good humor. In his youth he received a good education, and years of experience and travel have given him a diplomatic polish. He speaks English with accuracy and with courteous grace ol gesture. His fondness for jewellery, fast horses and regal 1 display is almost a passion. The little army of 60 men which guards the royal palace know this to their cost, for many an irksome drill have they been com- pelled to perform at the wish of their royal master. Kalakaua is now 46 and may wear his crown for years to come. The ‘reigns of rulers in the Sandwich Islands since the days of their discovery by Captain lCook, when the inhabitants were given up to cannibalism,have not been verytranquil. The grandfather or the present monarch was hanged in 1841 for the idle caprice he one day indulged in of poisoning his wife. Lunalilo, the predecessor of Kalakaua, was, too fond of American whiskey, liberally supplied to him by passing ships. and finally succumbed to its attacks. At the very beginning of his reign Kalakaua found himself surrounded by trouble on all sides. The election for a successor to Lunalilo fell to the native assembly, which was divided in-its preference between Queen Emma. the widow of a former monarch, and the present king. The latter was declared elected ; but party spirit ran high, and there were charges, that the legislators had been bribed in the interest of the foreign element. The adherents of Queen Emma began a riot in Honolulu, and set fire to the capitol, where the assembly held its meetings. A party of American and English marines from men- of-war in the harbor landed, extinguished the flames and restored order. The elec- tion took place on February 12th, 1874. Scandalizlng President Arthur. Be Cnrelul, Youngsters. HO‘V FAB, IS IT? KING KA [‘AKAUA. 2,808 2,895 3,095 3, 275 3,450 4 780 2,939 2,993 3,228 3,358 3,543 2,891 1,530 1,240 1.190 1,100 595 WHOLE NO. 1,287 NO. 40. 5,010 5,315 5,546 4,939 The annual report of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries shows that there are 2,105 persons employed in the service. The total number of vessels on the register books at the close of last year was 7,312, measuring 1,260,777 tons. being a. decrease of 82 vessels and 50,119 tons as competed with 1881. The value of the registered tonnage of Canada is $37,823,310. During the past year the total number of casual- ties and wrecks of British, Canadian and foreign see-going vessels in Canadian waters and of Canadian vessels in foreign wet-ere, was 301, representing a. tonnage of 136,786 tons, and the amount of loss was $1,740,552 and 3,661,438 of tonnage. The number of lives lost was 111. The disasters of the yesr to vessels on the inland waters were 34, and the number of lives lost ‘116. J ones declates that his wife is the mosti thrifty woman he ever knew. “Why he exclaimed, “she has made ten patch- work quilts during the last two years out of the samples she collected while shop- ping.” ' - Jumbo, P. T.Barnum’s colossal elephant, has now been in this country a. year. After travelling over a great part of the States he was safely housed in November in win- ter quarters at Bridgeport, Conn., and he has remained there ever since. His keepers say that at no time since his arrival here has Jumbo shown anything but the most docile and kind disposition. He has grown in size more proportionably than any other elephant ever received, having increased in weight three-quarters of a ton and gained in height a fraction over seven inches. He has now become quite acclimated, and evinces a. remarkable afiection for the baby elephant. When seen Jumbo was sur- rounded by a herd of. twenty-nine other elephants, above whom he towered several feet. Mr. Barnum says that he is con- stantly in receipt of letters from persons in England making the most tender inquiries about “ dear old Jumbo,” and that packages arrive containing bonbons, cakes and sweet- meats to be given to him. Jumbo's daily food consists of two‘ bales of hay. half a bar- rel eaeh of potatoes, carrots, bran and roots, and sixty gallons of water. ” We some- times give him a little whiskey when Mr. Barnum is not around,” said his keeper. E. J. Pareloe appeared at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1828, in a Chinese dance. 0. T. Parsloe, his somnow a famous exponent of Chinese character, is in America, and is aeknowledged one of the 12:51th the stage in his line of business. The London World has the following: The Duke and Duchess of Albany appear to be the, victims of superstitious fancies. Their wedding was inconveniently hurried on, in order that it might take place in April, as the Queen entertained a prejudice against the ceremony being celebrated in May. It is a fitting sequel to this fact that Her Majesty, remembering the tragedy of Princess Charlotte, is understood to be averse to the Duchess being laid up at Claremcnt; so H. R. H. is coming up to Buckingham Palace for a few weeks. If the Duke and Duchess are to be blessed with alarge family they will find it very in- convenient and expensive to be forced to move away from home for each accouche- ment. Before long Parliament will have to be asked for a grant for Prince Albert Victor. According to the precedent of the Princess Charlotte and her present Majesty the allowance should have been demanded before this. Except in the case of Princess Beatrice the only members of the royal family who have now a claim on the country are the children of the Prince of Wales. W'ith regard to titles the only precedent for the young prince is that of Frederick, Prince of Wales. When George I. ascended the throne in 1714 he created his son Prince of Wales and Duke and Marquis of Cam- bridge. Iu 1716 the Prince's eldest son. Frederick. then 10 years old, was created Duke of Gloucester, and, nine years later. Duke of Edinburgh, Marquis of Ely, Earl of Ethan. Viscount Launceston and Baron Snowdon. At his death all these peerages ‘ descended to his eldest son George, then a 1 boy of 13, who was directly afterward created by George II. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, and who, nine years later. succeeded to the throne. The ostensible cause of the Duke of Edinburgh’s early arrival at Berlin was the necessity for his attendance at the chapter of the Black Eagle last Thursday,- butI understand that the real reason was a desire to conclude the negotiations which have recently been going on for the sale to the German Gov- ernment of His Royal Highness‘ rever- sionary interest in the succession to the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The transaction was on the point of com- pletion when the Queen visited Baden- Baden in 1876, but .it collapsed on a dispute about a pecuniary detail. ’ The attendance at the Lord Lieutenant’s levee at Dublin Castle, on January 30th, was the largest for many years back, persons from all parts of the country apparently taking advantage of the occa- sion to testify their loyalty and adhesion to law and order. Mr. O’Sullivan, the eX-Mayor of Cork, was knighted. A number of Belfast merchants have taken steps to raise capital for the estab- lishment of a direct line of powarful steam- ers to the United States, having their headquarters in Belfast. Two steamers of about 4,000 tons burthen are to be at once acquired. The Limerick County Hunt had just left Bellingrane station for the covers, when it was found that the ground was thickly strewn with poison, and the!) six of the bounds were dying. The pack were instantly recalled. On January 29th, William John Fitzpat- rick, J. P., 49 Fitzwilliam square, Dublin, and Portanure, Lanesborough. was sworn in ads High Sheriff for the County of Long- or . . The Irish Order of St. Patrick was insti- tuted by George III., 1783. Twenty-two knights besides the Soverelgn and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland oompleteits number. On January 14th. the remains of the wife of Mr. George Harley Kirk, ex-M.P. for Louth, were laid to rest In the family burial ground at Clogher Head. The ceremony of unveiling the Celtic Cross erected in the old churchyard 0! Donors over the grave of Wm. Reynolds took place on J annex-y 215$. On January 28th, Dr. Henry Langetafl, after a lengthened illness, expired at his residence, Connaught street, Athlone. A sound busipess â€"the operatic. Mr. Arthur O’Connor, M. P., has been called to the Bar at Middle Temple, London. Jumbo's First Year in America. Canadian Shipping summon. 'he English lidyally. ,eefr Ireland. William Y1 ung ,the drumming twho wrote Pendragon " for Lawrence Barrett, has written a. comedv entitled “ The Rajah,” which Charles Wyndham may produce next season. CONDEMNED ms: Lemmaâ€"At a. Masonic dinner held last night in Toronto. Mr. J. K. Kerr, Q.C., P.G.M., in the Masonic Order. condemned the lottery recently held at London, and asserted that it was held in direct opposition to the protest of the Grand Lodge, and was merely a. joint stock enter- prise, in which the fraternity had no in- erest. Mme. Modjeska. at the close of her then.- trical career, contemplates retiring to Poland, as she has a. large circle of friends in that country. The moving bog in the vicinity of Caetletea, in Irelmnd, is advancing rapidly toward that town. Several thousand acres of land are submerged, mills are stopped, bridges are choked up. and traffic. on the road from Ballingara to Castlerea is now suspended. The bog at: Baaliok. which moved some time ago, is also breaking up in several places. Next week.“ My Partner” will have reached its 1,000 representation. Aldrich 65 Parsloe’a Company' will be at the Wind- sor and appropriate souvenirs will com- memorate the occasion. Marie Geistinger'a parents were promi- nent members of the St. Petersburg Im- perial Theatre. She lost her parents at the age of 14, and has gained her livelihood ever since by appearing on the 5119.39,}, v One of the church members says that the difficulty most encountered is a feeling among men that women are after all only second-rate creatures, and he tells the story of a. men who had become a. buck- slider from Methodism, and was re-con. vetted by MISS Oliver after some men had failed to revive his religion. He became 9. member of the church, and often spoke in meetings of the girl-pastor’s wonderful work, but when the obstacles to success were cleared away, and the repairs to the church and the building were about finished, he expressed his delight. and rubbing his hands, said: “Well, now our church is doing so wellâ€"fair membership, large audiences, good incomes. handsome buildings, and all thatâ€"I don’t see why we can’t have a man for a. minister.” He was silenced by the information that the place would probably have been a. beer garden and he would most likely have been calling out “ Ein beer " there if it had not been for the Rev. Miss Anna. Oliver. ” She’s got a. head like Jay Gould for business,” said one of her friends yester- day. “ She has clung to her tenets of economy,a.nd the result is that last year the receipts of the church amounted to $4,709‘99, being an increase of $1,219.52 over the year before. The interest on the debt has been reduced $120. and the 61,000 above referred to reduce the debt to $12,000. This sum Miss Oliver is extremely anxious to raise. Acting under the advice of others, a year ago she issued an appeal, oflering to send her picture to all subscribers. The returns amounted to only $137, but she thinks this is due to the fact that the appeal did not get into the hands of a. suf- ficient number of persons. as only a small number of the 8,000 printed were dis- tributed. ‘We still believe,’ she says, 'thet there is $13,000 for us in Brooklyn and New York, if we can only get the appeal to the people, with some one to stand by and take the money.’ Miss Oliver planned to send an inexpensive engraving to the subscribers, but one of her admirers had a. steel engraving of her portrait mode at his own expense, and a fine piotpre is the result.” When Miss Oliver completed the usual Methodist pastoral term of three years last April, she resigned, saying that she was a Methodist and believed in itinerapoy, but the trustees declined to present the subject to the church, and the official board. which has seven female members. unanimously re-extended a call to her. She had worked herself down in health, but she accepted on conditions which gave her some relief. She has had her study in the church, has had a room on Willoughby avenue, and has been a table-boarder at another place. Now it is pro- posed to erect a cottage alongside the church for her home. She hit upon a way by which she could erect a house, if she had land owned by herself, and accordingly she made a proposition to the church, that if its members would raise $1,000 at once, she would accept it for salary due and to come, would pay it on the $13,000 mort- gage, secure the release of the building lot alongside of the church, and put up a home for herself. This ingenious plan, which went to the solution of a question that had troubled many men in the church, was responded to at once. and Miss Oliver he! filed plans for a cottage she B going to build in the spring. _ _ '_ “.__-_ u..- .. ran’uuuDU, nu waging-nunuuu, or a bazaar. She, however, favored lectures, concerts, spellingabees, historical examinations, debates, and a. reading-room, and manages to get a. little revenue from letting the church-rooms for a. school, for she contends that if the intelligence of the community is promoted the cause of religion is advanced. She does not under- stand what is meant by the constant cry in so many churches, “ For the benefit of the church." She set her face resolutely against church fairs, festivals, oyster suppers, necktie sooiablesJeap-year entertainments, char- ades, tableaux, ountatas, wax-work shown. or any other projects that would turn the church Into a. play-house: an crating-maloouj The church, which she purchased from the Williamsburg Savmgs Bank for $14,000, was about to be turned into a livery stable or a beer garden when she got it. She held the title in her own name for some time. giving her bond for {$13,000, but she subse- quently conveyed the property to trustees. It was found that if the property was deeded in the customary way the confer- ence might repudiate the Methodism that tolerated a young woman as pastor, and appropriate the church. Miss Oliver began to run the church on strict business prin- ciples, making her own salary the last payment due, and requiring all bills to he settled monthly. Each month's propor- tion of interest on the mortgage has been uniformly deposited in the savings bank, so that at the end of six months the full amount is always on hand. She deter- mined to make her enterprise unique in its economy. She figured out that $2350 would meet all the expenses, her own salary included, and when the revenue fell short she gave to the church what was due her. Mis Anna. Oliver has almost completed her- fourth year in the pulpit o! the Wil- loughby Avenue Methodist Church in Brooklyn, and having demonstrated that a young women can be e. successful pastor, she and her friends think it is about time the Methodist Bishops received her into the Church work. She says that she has ,no other ambition than to do sstorsl work. Bred as a. strict Episcopa in, she had overcome the scruples of her family after she became an evengelist.' Not to dis see them, as some of her relatives fears she might, she declined to use the family name of Snowden, to which she was entitled, and adopted instead the name she had become accustomed to under an aunt‘s tutelage, that of Anna Oliver. Hard work has told upon her. Opposition from Methodist preachers has rendered her life more than ordinarily serious, and she appears now to be a demure young woman of Quakerish testes, who, though frail in body, is abund- snt in energy. The Succeutnl Fluorine of lulu Alma Oliver In a Brooklyn Mel-oil» Chm-ch. ' All mmnixcn 'w6m 'rmcn’ii. (New York Sun.)