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The island of Soio or Chio (pronounced Sio) where the recent earthquake wrought the most terrible havoc, lies just off the coast of Asia. Minor. at the entrance to the $11“ of Smyrna. It belongs to the Turks, in 32 miles long, and 18 miles in its greatest breadth. The surface is diversified, and the soil fertile; the climate mild and agreeable. The principal products are corn, wheat, cotton, wine and fruits, marble and paper. Kestro, the capital. is a. town of 19,000 inhabitants ; is located on the east coast, and has an excellent harbor, a. castle and two light-houses. In early times this ilend formed one of the Ionian States. It was taken by the Genoes in 1346, and by the Turks in 1566, and the latter have held it since with the exception of a very short interval. It was visited by a previous earthquake in 1881, by which 5,000 lives were lost, and the island devestteed. Anatolia is the modern name for a patr of Asia Minor, embracing the northwestern portion of Turkey in Asia, and including the divisions of Smyrna, Brusa, Kutaia, Karahissar, Angora, Tokat, Scutari, Tre- bizond and Konijeh. The area of the pen- insula slightly exceeds 200,000 square miles. The interior consists of a great plateau or series of plateaus rising in gra- dations from 2,400 to 5,000 feet, with bare steppes, salt plains, lakes and marshes. The structure is volcanic, and there are several conical mountains, one of which, the Agridagh. With two craters, rises 10,000 feet above the plain of Kaisarich, which has itself an elevation 0! almost 3,000 feet. On the north of the plateau extends a long range of parallel mountains from 4,000 to 6,000 feet high, divided into groups and cross valleys. The population of the town in addition to Turks consists in the west chiefly of Greeks and Jews and inthe east of Armenians. The non-Turkish population With the Euro- peans in maritime mar-ts control the whole trade of the country. The total population of the peninsula does not exceed 5,000,000: including Armenia the population reaches about 11,000,000. The Emperor Maximin was a living sepulehre, where whole hecatombs of butcher’s meat were daily entombed, and no modern keeper nfa tabla d‘halc would stand a succession of such guests as Heliogabalus. Gibbon, who notices this vile propensity to over-feeding, shows that to reconstruetgthe mighty system of domin- ion eatablished by the ragged Republicans, nothing but a bona fide return to simple fare and homely pottage could be efiectual. The Popes, frugal and abstemious, as- cended the vacant throne of the Creaars, and ordered Lent. The theory of fasting and its practical application did wonders in that emergency. What school boy is ignorant ot the historical fact that at the eve of the battle of Hastings, which gave to our Norman ancestors the conquest of this island, the conduct of the Analog Britons was strongly contrasted with that of the gallant invaders from France, for while in Harold’s camp the besotted natives spent the night in revelling and gluttony, the Norman chivalry gave their time to fasting and devotion ? The King’s beef-eaters and the gormandizing Cavalier: of the Puritan period could never stand in fair fight against the austere and fasting Cromwellians.â€"â€"“ The Reliques of Father Prozit,” by Oliver Yorke. CONSTANTxNOPLE, (Jet. â€"â€" Another des- patch says : It is reported that much dum- sga to pn party and great loss of life were caused by the earthquakes on the peninsula between Chesmeh, in Aela. Minor, opposite the ieland of Chins, and Vourle, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. All the Vlllnges in that region are destroyed. It is believed that upwards of 1.000 persons perirhed. The survivors are suffering grain: privatione, end a. complete panic pre- vax s. Alast (Wednesday) night’s Constant: nople cablogram says: Tuesday's eerth queke was most severe in Anatolia, being particularly destructive on that portlon of the coast which lies directly east of the Island of Chloe. All the villages between Chesmeh and Vourla are completely wreaked: At least 2,000 persons lost their lives by 'being‘buried under the falling walls of their dwellings. An immense amount of property has been destroyed. the value of which is at present impossible to estimate. Chesmeh was badly damaged, but no lives were lost. At Smyrna the shock was quite severe. A regular panic prevailed during the continuance of the vibrations. but the damage was slight. On the island of Chios the shock was also Severe, but the duration was short and little damage was done. From reports received from points east of Chesmeh and southeast of Smyrna, it appears that an exteneive- area of country was affected. A “ Did you see that ‘2" asked a curbstone friend of mine the other day, as we stood in front of the Palmer House. ” It means that the sex is encroaching on us.” Two ladies were passing and as they cast sly glances at the reflections in the plate-glass windows one of them gave the coat-tails of her jersey an impatient pull downward. " That meansI don’t you know," said my friend, " that ‘pull down your vest ' cannot much longer remain the exclusive privilege of the sterner sex. The jerseys have not been worn very many years. but already more than half the ladies who wear them have caught that uneasy little mannerism of pulling them down. If the jersey has come to stay. and I hope it has, I believe that ‘pull down your jersey’ will soon be as common a bit of slang among ladies as ‘pull down your vest’ among men. The things fit so close, you see, that what would be the coat tails in the masculine attire Will curl.”»-ll7nshington Post Two Thousand Lives Lostâ€"Severn] \p A Calcutta. telegram to the London Iimos says: A remarkable phenomenon has been observed lately at several places in the Ma.- lme and Bombay Preeidencies, and has mused much interest mingled with not a little alarm amcv g: the superstitioue. For several days the :. nu presented a distinctly green color. Several explanations: have been put, forward, 01 which the most plane- ible appears to he that .cffered by the Gov ernment Astronomer. than it; is due to the passage across Sounhern India. of clouds of sulphuroua vapor from the J eve. volcanoes. Louis Hillhouse says that five years ago he bought a. flock of geese, which were then 20 years old. In the lot was a gander which had only one eye and a. goose with a portion of her bill gone. These two always mated, and would not go With the other geese, but would wander away by them- selves, and it was thought that sympathy for each other in their misfortunes was the prune cause. They continued in this way for five years, and nothing could induce them to separate. Not long since a. horse placed his cruel heel upon the goose and sent her to the happy gooselsnd, and in less than half an hour thereafter the gender laid himself down to die and peacefully breathed his 1th without any apparent cause whatever, except his great grief for his mate. In a. graveyard near Paris there is th-‘a inscription upon a. monument: “ Here re- pose in peace, after 60 years of married life, Mr. and Mrs. Pam." Gonnnndlslug vs. Simple Fun-e. DREADFUI. EARTHOUAKE. ANATOLIA AND THE ISLAND 0F SCIO The un Turns Green in India. ‘5 Pull Down Your Jersey.” once for the Gander. Villages Destroyed. Inlrumnn Bulchcrv of the Anunmites by the French. A last (Friday) night‘s London cablegram says : Pierre Lote, an officer of the French expeditionary force in Tonquin, sends to the Paris Figaro the following description of the fall of Hue: “ The beaten Annamites were moped up in the burning village. The only fond of escape from the flames lay under the guns of the fort, which was filled with sailors armed with Krapotchak repeating rifles with sights carefully adjusted to the distance. The magazines of the rifles were duly loaded. The men looked on, waiting until a flank movement of the other troops and the firing of the bamboo huts should drive the human quarry out before them. We saw them halting at the end of the village with singed hair and garments. Then, after a. few moments’ hesitation, tucking up their flowing robes as high as they could, and trying to protect their heads with planks against the impend- ing shower of bullets, they rushedon. A great butchery then commenced, two volleys were fired, and it was quite a treat to see these fan-like streams of bullets sweeping down upon the fugitives. They were pour- ed in twice in one minute at the word of command, and in a cure,methodical man- ner. It was like a jet from a huge watering- pnt which mowed them down by dozens. In a cloud of dust and gravel we could see some who seemed to be driven mad picking themselves up, limping now one way now anothrr like wounded animals, gathering up their robes in acomical manner. Their long hair unfastened and streaming down their backs made them look like Women. Others tried to escape by su‘imming a lagoon to try to reach the junks These were killed in the water. Some good divers remained a long time underwater. Our man continued to kill them all the same when they came up to breathe like seals. The men then amused themselves counting the dead, fifty on the left and eighty to the right. In the village were small heaps. With those killed in the southern forts about 800 or 1,000 must have been disposed of. The sailors made bets as to the number destroyed. About 9 o’clock in the morning all was over, and the rout of the Anna-mites was complete. The heat was intense, and the sailors, maddened by the sun and the noise and quivering with excitement, rushed out of the fort after the wounded. Some were crouching in holes, others were feigning death, while others at the last gasp were stretching out their hands pleading for mercy and shouting “ Han, han ” in heart- rending accents. Our men slaughtered them with bayonets or hrained them with the butt end of their muekets. The Annamite servants, diminutive effemi- nate lads who had followed the infantry from Saigon, were hunted out. When one of the fugitives was unearthed the sailors would call out, “ Here‘s another, come give him ‘lesng, loang.m These sailors were quite unrec'gnizable, they were absolutely madman The officers attempted to re- strain them, and said to them, “You ought to be ashamed of such cowardly, dirty work." They replied, “ The Aunamites are savages ; they carried the head of Captain Riviera on the top of a pole, and if theycar- ried the day, they would cut the French to pieces, or saw them within two planks.” There was no reply possible to this. It was true, and so they were left to their grim work. Horrible Deeds of One Who is Young in Yenrs but 0111 in Crime. A Somerset, Ky., despatch says: Frank Wolfcrd Slagle, the boy fiend, has, since his conviction last Friday, by his own state- ments and circumstances which go to back the same, placed other nooses around his neck,did not the present one answer all purposes. He confesses to the killing of a man for the paltry sum of $20, near W11- liamsbuig. Ky., on the Louisville & Knox- ville Railroad. and placing the body upon the track to misplace suspicion, some time during the month of July last. This con- fession throws the first light upon the mysterious murder of Fred. Starkey, a Swede, of this place, and carpenter by trade. whose body was found on the track at the time and place above mentioned, completer severed at the abdomen by a pas ing train. Starkey being a poor man and away from home and friends, no investigation of any note was held beyond the fact that not one drop did the mutilated body bleed, which fact Within itself is conclusive evidence that the body was dead long before the cars passed over it. The dead man leaves a wife and eight little children at this place in destitute circumstances. Single also confesses to be the author of another heinous crime, committed at Flat Rock Station, in this county. during the same month, and shortly after the above deed. ,I‘here he entered the house of awoman iwho was within one month of confinement, ‘ whose husband was absent, and demanded to he let stay over night. She re- fusing, he became enraged and threat- ened to kill her, at the same time drawing his pistol, slapping it across her abdomen, and fired. The poor woman’s fright was terrible, and next morning twins were born, the mother and hes dying shortly afterward. By threats d active demonstrations Slsgle finally succeeded in running the husband from the country, and thus escaped prosecution on this score. The triple murder for which he stands convicted, mentioned in Satur? day’s Enquirer, he stoutly denies, but says he was present and saw it all. When approached as to his fate, he said: “ Hurry up with your hanging, I want it over With.” “ You may hang me high as hâ€"l, but I’ll never tell a word." Slagle is indeed a hard case for one so young, and it is thought he may never weaken to a full confession. In explanation of his sudden frights and jumps when standing aside from his cell‘ mates, he says the face of his Williamsburg victim is continually before him. “I would like," said an Austin youth, walking into a. store and addressing the proprietor, “to secure a posifiion in your employ. You can have perfect confidence in my honefity." “Can have perfect confi- dence in your honeaty, eh,” amid the pre- prietcr,“ well 1 don’t know about that. [‘here is so much downright maceliny Mind; now that I have not} gm the leash eonfi fence in my own honesty. How could I have any confidencein yours ‘2" Tm: GREATEST WeMAN.â€"â€"Napoleon B01181 parte having been asked by Madame de Smel, “Whom do you think the greatest woman, dead or alive?” he quickly answered, " Her, madame, who has borne the moat sons." REVO L'I‘ING \VARPARE. California is shipping figs to Europe. VOL. XXV. A BOY MURDERER. Bud Loss 01 Confidence. When the TIMES published the story of MlDDlB Brougham‘n abduction there were not wanting newspapers that sneered at it as improbable and therefore untrue. It was improbable, but it was also true, for improbable things often happenr Astor-y that‘is still more improbable, and which bears a close resemblance to the experience of Minnie Brougham, is related by the Lockport (RY ) correspondent of the Buf- falo Courier. Indeed, the resemblance is so close as to suggest the thought that the abduetresees in both cases must have been the some women. The chief pomt of dif- terencs is that Miss Brougham escaped the terrible fate that beiell the Lockport lady. The correspondence is dated ()ct.12. “About two months ago,” says the writer, “Anna Dunnigan, aged 22 years, living with her parents five miles southwest of Lockport, started from here to Buffalo, where she intended making a few weeks’ stay with kinsfolks. 0n the train she was accosted by a couple of women, who speedily in- gratiated themselves into her good graces, the more readily so, doubtless, because they claimed to be intimately acquainted with the family whom she was going to visit and said they would conduct her to their house immediately on arriving at Buffalo. Upon reaching Bufialo. instead of accompanying or directing her to where she wished to go, she was srrantly de- ceived by them. being taken to one of the dens in the infected district. She was then drugged and subjected to horrible mist-reat- ment Hours later her inquiries led her to find the people whom she sought. Her friends observed that the was laboring under great excitement, the intensity of which steadily increased. The following day her reason was completely overturned, her ravings furnished the first insight to her terrible experience. Two weeks after- ward she was sent home to her parents, who proceeded to do all in their'power to i restore her physical and mental health. From the outset the doctors Were somewhat inclined to regard her insanity as likely to prove permanent, but thought her general condition might be battered. It turned out, however, that the nervous shock, coupled With a slight predisposition to heart disease, had placed her beyond the reach of medical skill. She died last night. The deceased bore a good reputation. was popular among her associates, quite pretty and decidedly intelligent, having been educated at St. Joseph's Convent in this city. The efforts to discover the perpetia tors (f the act which virtually caused her death have thus far been without ever]. It is most probable they will never be found, the girl’s statements in her brief lucid intervals giving very little clue to indicate their identity nor anything definite as to the precise place into which she was inveigled.” A Serum: Girl Seduced by Her Employ er and Killed. A Lincoln (lll ) dcspatoh says: Zora Burns, a domestic in the family of Orrin A. Carpenter, a prominent resident of this city, was found dead near < the outskirts of the city a. week ago. Her throat was cut from ear to our, the skull crushed, and the arms bore evidence of a fierce struggle With her assailant. Her former employer, Mr. Carpenter, was arrested this afternoon. An investigation disolOBed that Zora had left his employ and returned home. On the day preceding her death she came to this city, visited Mr. Carpenter's office, remaining an hour alone with him. It was also discovered that the dead girl was enciente, and that Carpenter had supplied the girl with money and written her let- ters. An examination ofCarpenter's buggy to-day disclosed that the cushion linings and shafts were plainly marked with blood, and a warrant was immediately sworn out for his arrest. The accused is credited with being the wealthiest resident of Lin- coln, owning a large grain elevator here, a farm near the city, and other property. He has a wife and two daughters. The mOVement in favor of “ rational I dress " is one for making all ladies sensible. Dress is but the outward and visible sign of character, and when all ladies become wise ‘ they will dress according to common sense i â€"that is. each will adopt the style of cos- 3 turns and the colors best suited to her face, l figure and position in life. There is this much to be said for the age in which we are * living, that at no former timewere fashions less absolute than they are now, so, that if good taste is continually shocked by the sight of Ill-dressed women this is because few ladies apparently devote themselves to a serious course of self-study. A new fashion is generally started by some pretty woman to whom the novelty is becoming. but the trouble begins when ' the plump matron difigures herself with a grotesque protuberance in copying the. bustle that was contrived for her slim niece ; and when the fair-haired girl sports the colors that were admired on her dark-haired sister. To be told that a certain tint is in fashion is like hearing that a large section of the fair sex have temporarily parted with their wits. A craze for red and yellow willnot alter the fact that these colors seldom suit the blonds; while the brunette Would be silly to discard them if some change brought the light shades of blue in- to vogue. On the question of tight-lacing, there is not much to be said beyond this, that no woman who cramps her breathing and digestive apparatus can look pretty for long. and Nature as a rule asserts her ‘ rights so unpleasantly that perhaps the ‘ offence of tightlaoingis less common than dress reformers supposeâ€"Graphic. Abduclion “mi Subsecuent Death of a Bcnulltnl Young anlr. It is claimed that Mount Pilatus, Swiiz~ erland, derives its name from Pontius Pilate, the pro-consul of Judas, who, filled with remorse at Jhe part he had taken in the great tragedy of the crucifixion of the Saviour, wandered away into the moun- tains of the north and made his home on Mount Pilatus, until finally overcome by his despair he drowned himself in the small lake at the summit. When the clouds gather above it darkly. and essume the shape of a. bet, it is said that the spirit of Pilete hovers over the “ hiltth mount,” and then if a. stone shall be hurls-d into the lake where he was drowned, which in fatthomleen, groans and cries for mercy will fill the gorges of the mountain, accom panied by terrible storms of thunder and lightning, in imitation of the darkness. clouds and lightning which prevailed at Golgotha. The Presbyterian of ( tendered an unanimous c Beatty, of Port Hope. '1 mined is $1,200 per annum. A BI‘ACIl-IIEAR’I‘ED VILLAIN. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1883. A DAS'I‘ARDLY DEED, Legend ofPonuus Pilate: It mionnl Dress. Orangeville have 03.11 to Rev. Mr. The stipend pro- Prof. Dawson Finds an Inexliansuble supply at Coal in the Fur “‘cst.“ A Winnipeg despatch says: George M. Dawson, of the Geological Bureau, Ottawa, has just returned from a. four months’ exploratory tourof the coal-fields‘on the Saskatchewan. Bow and Belly rivers, also ssurvey of the Rockies. His researches confirm the existence of vast coal areas in the district referred to. The supply is inexhaustible, and the quality varies from lignite on the plains to bituminous as the mountains are approached, and real anthra- cite in the Rockies. This Virtually settles the fuel diflic ilty. whioh was feared on the vast plains of the Northwest territories. Apracticsl illustration of the discoveries is already manifesting itself, as one hun- dred tons daily are arrivmg in the city from a. ‘mine near Medicine Hat. Coal from the Gslt mine, on Belly River, is also being got out in large quantities. and will soon reach the market. Native coal is sold at the depot for $9 per ton. and Pennser vsnis coal, which used to sell here at $20 and later at 3517, has now been forced down to $13 per ton. Mr. Dawson also reports good mineral finds in several of the [1.1.3868 in the Rockies. The Chinese are succeed- ing well in the placer diggings in Kootenuy and Columbia. districts, out other prospec- tors have struck valuable leans that promise a permanent mining industry. Both in Paris and London the most ex- pensive materials will be worn for bonnets and mantles. Chenille flowers simulating nature and velvet leaves are much in favor. Rich brocaded mantles, embroidered with shaded silks in rather stiff. mathematical designs, are all the tags in London, which has discarded the frivolous fashions so popular this summer. The French. after long denouncing ulsters as hideous, have graciously adopted them and are doing their best to improve them by judicious shapes and trimmings. One of the most effective ulstersis of geranium red, trim» med round the edges with four rows of narrow ribbon velvet of the same color and surmounted by a smell cape reaching to the elbows. liar and feathers will be much used as trimmings. Winter cents and Whole capes made of dark brown msrabout are very feshionable. Skunk and bear skin are also popular with those who can afford them. PoOrer folk will cling to out and rabbit skin. A last (Wednesday) night's Port Hope despatoh says : On the arrival of the train from the west this morning at 9.30 the express messenger on the train handed to Mr. Thomas Spry, the messenger here, a large package of money. said to have con- tained 310,000. Mr. Spry at once looked the money in the safe in the Express oflioe at the station,and went about his other duties, which occupied between ten and fifteen minutes. When he went to get the package to take down town, after unlocking the safe, he found some thief had been before him, and had opened the safe, taken out the satchel containing the money, locked it again and made his escape. Up to the present time no trace of either the money or thief has beenfound. This is the first loss that has been sustained by the Express Company under Mr. Patterson's manage- ment. Mr. Spry is one of the most reliable servants in the employ of the company. It is thought that some professional thief did the job. A cablegmm from London says: Th ways of fashion are inscrutable. Paris usually famous for good taste, threatens this Winter to revive some of the most eccentric fashions of other days. 'Ladies may expect s. resuscitation of the stifi, bro- ceaed and quilted hkntfi which delighted the court or good Queen Anne, while the newest color invented borrows the Bed tint of London smoke, and is called fumec de Londres. Itis described by rhapsodists as a warm, deep tone of grey. such as crowns the hills on a. rainy morning. Worth has just turned out a. marvellous dinner dress of this unpromising shade. Mauve, violet and geranium red are likely to be nearly as fashionable astmmee dc Londr'es, especially the peculiarly deep violet tint known as eveque. ‘i‘ The Latest SHIMAVel-v Gwen! Novel- ncs lmroduced into London and Paris. A Richmond, Va“, despntch says : Yes- terday morning the family of Dr. Willis,on Franklin street, were thrown into the greatest grief by the somnambulistio death of his grunddaughter, Miss Emily Jones. The young lady, a daughter of Captain Pembroke Jones, ot Powhattan County,wns attending school in this city an} boarding at the residence of her grandfather. She was beautiful and accomplished and aged about 17. beloved and admired by a. large circle of friends. 011 Wednesdav night she retired as usual in the best of health, but this morning before any of the family or domestics had arisen she got out of her bed while still asleep and walked out of her chamber. and continuing her way in the darkness reached the head of the stuircsse, down which she fell with great force. When discovered her nick wss broken and life extinct. An Erie, Pa“, despatch says : A trial of peculiar interest; closed in tshe Common Pleas on Friday, by which Mlss Teresa. Condron, an Irish woman, wins a. farm worth $80,000. The plaintiff alleges that she was warned by the unquiet spirit of her dead brother, Michael Condron, to come to Erie and dispossess James Young, al- leged to have gamed fraudulent possession of Michael’s estate, Miss Condron packed up, come to Erie from Ireland. and investi- gated until she discovered sufiicient proofs to bring suit. The proofs were sufficient for the jury Without going into the ghost business. An$80.000‘finrm ‘Von'l‘hl-ough n Ghoul. More than 21,000 square miles in Maine are in woodland, despite the immense lumbering operations in the State in years past. Maine’s lakes, of which there are some 1.620. and her Btreame, of which were are 5151, abound in fish. Mooeehead Lake is 1.070 feel: above sea level, and Reungeley Luke is almost as high in ltaeca, cut the head of the Ml-ifilzihlppi, The Battle: went; at M0058 Raver is bypiml of the “ plantation' ettlemeut in Maine. It has just two voters, one a. Democrat and one a. Republican. Big Ilnul From an Express [Messenger- Rosa. Boubeur, although she dresses in male attire while at work, does not advise others of her sex to do so. “ It doesn't pay to be eccentric," she says. 8nd Death of (1 Pretty Young Lmly. A BOJINAMBULISI"S IIEATII. FUEL I81 '1‘ o WINTER EASlllou $10,000 BIDBBERY. EXPENSIVE MATERIALS There is no animal so well~liked and so badly treated as a eat. It is pleasant to find once in a while a. writer saying a good word for them. Fish is a great treat for a cat; in many cases of illness they will eat this when they can take nothing else, says a writer in “ Chambers’ J mmsl." Horse flesh, when it can be had, is good occasion- ally, but it has a laxative tendency. Nice , tripe or cowheel is excellent; but, indeed, 3 nothing comes amiss that one eats one’s self, only we must be careful to give bread and Vegetables as well as meat. Raw beef minced finely is often given to cats when ill; so are boiled eggs and cream. Milk seems to be one of the necessaries of life to a cat; let it be good and abundant. Few people know that cats cannot be kept in health unless they be supplied with water. If a cat does not get water she will have to help herself to it. This in the country she has generally a chance of doing, but not in towns. A saucer Should be always kept in a corner for pussy, and the water ought to be fresh,and fresh every morning. Another thing that cats do not thrive well without is grass. Herein, again, 1 the hu'ppy country out has the advantage of the feline dweller in cities; nevertheless, grass may be pulled for a cat. I have ‘known it placed between two bricks in the corner of the soullerv, where it would keep fresh for a week and be alway s handy when the little creature wanted it. There is no domestic animal in our possession more fond of cleanliness in every Way than puss. Habits of cleanliness in the house are very easily taught; and a well-(aredfor and properly treated out will teach her kittens to be cleanly. But pussy’s food ought always to be nice and clean, and the dish that contains it should be washed every day. Putting fresh food among that which has been left from a former meal is a sure way of preventing a cat from enjoying or even touchingit. If well fed, at cat’s coat is beautifully soft, thick and sheeny, and she seems to take a delight in keepirg it re. When ill or neglected the coat becomes rough and thin. It is usually after a meal that a cat sits down contontedlv to wash herself and pay attention to her personal appearance ; and those who breed beautiful oats take ad- vanta e of this and give the animal a tiny bit of utter after her dinner or put a little Cream on her paws. She requires no other incentive to cause her to proceed forthWith to groom herself all over. The oil of the butter and her own saliva. seem to form a kind of soap, which acts like magic when arplied by means of her rough tongue to the coat. How Man’s Surroundings Shape Ills Ballets. Thus do the peculiarities of natural objects supply molds in which the metal of relignus faith, already lying latent, readily sets. And not only directly, but indirectly, do they shape the forms of faith. The rushirg river, 6. g., not merely attracts the reverence of the primitive mun to itself, but by its sw1ft and treacherous motion, its sinuous course and snakerlike hiss und gleam,it is personified as amighty divine serpent, and next makes sacred by association the serpents of the country about. The sky, personified by the ancient Egyptian as a. heavenly goose, enveloping and matching the cosmic egg, made sacred henceforth all geese to the pious dwellers by the Nile. 1n olimes like Egypt, where the skies are rmnless and the whole aspect of nature equable, almost unchanging, there the gods are marked by cilmness of bearing and serenity of nature. We must go to the slopes of the Himalayas or the ridges of he Apcnnines to find the howling Rudrs, with his attendant Maruts, the pounders, rushing wildly through the glans, or to see the bollocks slain in honor of Jupiter Tonsns, the Thunderer. In cold and temperate climes it is the enlivening and warming sun that is loved and adored ; but. in the sultry air of the tropics, the sun and the skyof day become evil and destruc- ‘ tive deities, and affection is transferred to y the refreshing sky of night. So. also, in their ideas of heaven and hell, there is a natural contrast between the faith of the man of the tropics and the man of the Arctic zone. To the first, the future home of the good is some abode of coolness, some garden of the Hesperides, or a. breezy Olympian height, and the place of punish- ment 8. place of fire. To the Icelander, hell is the place of cold, worse far to him than fire, and heaven, some comfortable hall surrounded by a hedge of flame. Again, in hot clinics, where the soil of the river- bottcms is deep and rich, and nature teams with productiveness, there the gods are credited With the same sensuous nature ; religious ideas are apt to revolve about the mysteries of procreation, and the worship of the people is apt to include not a. few im- pure rites and symbolsâ€"From “ Influence of the Environment on erligz'on," by Professor James T. Bixby, in Popular Science Monthly for November, Long courtshipa are to be avoidedâ€"espe- cially when they last until 3 o’clock in the morning. When a. young man escorts his girl home after evening service he finds that the Ingest way round is near enough for him. Tha young woman who was conned by an old millionaire, but loved another fellow, said the old man’s eptire fortune, as far as she was concerned, was not worth assent. A mere spark often produces an explo- sion. This hint: is thrown out for the benefit of the young man who is meditat- ing on using up coal and gas in the front parlor this winter. ' “ Gonjugal in felicity,” says a Philadel~ phian. “is the result of bad courting.” But if a. young man were to do his courting thoroughly he might never marry at all. An exchange tells of a. widow of 22. Twenty-two what ? Husbands 7â€"Philadel- phia Call. Naw! Tweuny-two admirers of course. And the number is not unusu- ally large, either, if the widow is wealthy and comely. ANew York gul has just enjoyed the triumph of having the biggest wedding given in that city for years. She whispered around blunt; the man she was to marry had a. red-headed wife somewhere, and most likely the woman wouid be on hand to interrupt: the ceremony. The church was crammed. AH a result of the arrangements madefor the union of the Mathndlet Gnu a 198, Rev. J. Markham. of ngham, has formally closed the Primitive Methodist Church in that town. Some short time ago there were three branches of the Methodist Church in Wingham, but they are now can- solidated into one, to be known as the Main Street Methodist Church. flout: Eh: V0“ Take (‘mrr of. Them? Matrimonial Notes. WHOLE NO. 1,321 NO. 34. Paint Spots.â€"To effectually remove paint spots from any kind of clothing. take equal parts of turpentine and spirits of ammonia; saturate ‘the spot until the p3.th is removed, then wash out the place in soap Buds. A comfortablelooking wrap to lie on a. couch or sofa, or for use in the carriage on autumn days, is knit in strips of nine inches wide, of blue and wine-colored worsted. ~ Acorrespondenh of one of the medical journals says that the application of a. strong solution of ohromio acid three or four times a day by means of a. camel's hair pencil is the best and easiest method of removing warts. Uncooked meats should nob be placed directly on ice. as the juices are withdrawn in this way. Neither should they be kept in wrapping paper, but put. uncovered, in a dish or pan, and then placed on the we. To make coffee cream take three table- spoonfuls oflhe beet mocha; pour over it one gill of boiling water; let it stand ten minutes, then strain through a. fine sieve ; beat one pint of cream. add two ounces of caster sugar and beam 111 slowly the coffee ; serve in a glass dihh, as above. To prevent. mould on the top of glasses of jelly. place a lump of paraffin on the top of the hot jelly, letting it melts and spread over it. No brandy-paper and no other oovermg is necessary. If preferred, the paraflin can be melted and poured over after’the jelly is cold. Egg plants when cooked as follows are very palatable: Slice very _thin, soak in salt and water, then fry in hot lard in a batter of egg and bread crumbs, plenti~ fully sprinkled with pepper, Cabbage is made digestible by first; slicing and than putting in boiling water, withupinch of soda. and some salt, and boiling just 15 minutes. The unpleasant odor left, in the breath after eating onions is entirely removed by a. cup of strong coffee. and the coffee being prepared while the onions are being cooked counteracts the smell. Steel knives which are not in daily use may be kept-item rusting if-‘they are dipped in a. strong solution of soda-one path of water to four of 8068.; then wipe dry, roll in flannel and keep in a. dry place. Seats of dining-room chairs it covered with real morocco leather can be rubbed over with oil with most beneficial results, it looking worn and white. Fruit put up in tin cans should be taken out when the can is opened for use. If allowed to remain after the can is opened the action of acid juices upon the solder when exposed to the air may form acetate of lead, which is poisonous. Pour the fruit out into glass or earthenware dishes, and the danger of poisoning is avoided. Jamaica. rum, constantly used to wash the hair, keeps it very clean and pro- motes its growth. It is most injurious to sleep with the hair plaited. To Can Grapee.â€"Pick them carefully from the stems. taking care not to tear the skins much. put them in a. porcelain kettle with a. littl water, atlr them very carefully and only enough to make sure they are well heated through, then put them in the cams. The'pulp will then be whole and the sauce not all needs and skins. Washing the hands twice a. day with Indian cornmeal,and rubbing on a. little glyceriue at night, will keep them soft and white. There is no better exercise for strength- ening the chest organs than reading aloud, provided always the reader be made to stand, to keep the shoulders up, and the chest well braced back. Reading has. of course, the advantage over singing, that while comparatively few persons are able to sing, all are able to read. For children. especially, the exercise implied in reading aloud is invaluable as a means of strength- ening the lungs. Tough meat may be made as tender as any by the addition of a. little vinegar to the water when it is put on to boil. To Take Mildew Out of Garments.â€"Mix a. little soft soap with powdered starch, adding a pinch of salt and the juice of a. lemon. When this is made into the con- sistency of paint, put a portion of it on the garment in the form of a varnish, and let it remain exposed to the air, when all stain of mildew will gradually disappear. Of course this remedy should be applied at an early stage, because if mildew remains upon garments for any lengthened period they very quickly rot. NOTES ON COOKING AND PRESERVING If a little salad oil is mixed WIth mus- tard for the table it is greatly improved. Seasonable Recipes and Bomestic Gossip of Various Descriptions. Orange Marmaladeâ€"Wash the oranges, and out off any discolored part; out them into round slices; to each pound add one lemon; also sliced ; put them into a. pre- serving pan with water in the proportion of three pints to a. pound of fruit; boil till reduced to one pint ; strain through a. sieve, and to every pint of liquor add a pound of pounded loaf sugar; boil them together for ten minutes; skim it well. and when nearly cold put into moulds or jars. If a man is wounded so that blood flows, that flow is either regular, or by jets or spurts. If it flows regularly, avein has been wounded, and a string should be bound tightly around below the wounded part. that is, beyond it from the heart. If the blood comes out in leaps or jets an artery has been severed and the person may bleed to death in a. few minutes ; to prevent which apply the cord above the wound, that is between the wound and the heart. - Dr. Ritzy has found hot water systemati- oelly employed as a gargle of great benefit in overcoming the sensation of rawness inei- dentto acute pharyngitis. He found that the use of hot water paled the red and inflamed mucous membrane more or less perme- nently. And. so far as unpleasant per- sons] sensations went, it cured the pharyn- gitis. He also believes that this simple plum of treatment would prove beneficial in diphtheria. in patients old enough to gargle intelligently. In ordinary tonsillitls hot water, he thinks, would hardly fail to not well. The water should be used as hot as can be well borne, and gurgling should be practised for several minutes at a time. To Make Porridgeâ€"Let the water boil before the meal is stirred in ; then the meal should be poured in regularly from the hand in a. continuous atream,atirring all the time. In this consists the art of pot; HINTS T0” HOUSEKEEPEBSO \Compiled by Aunt Kate.» A Calhodn, (3a., despatch says: Margaret Harrison, the colored murderess of little Lela. Lewis, was hanged yesterday morning in presence of four thousand people. The prisoner did not sleep. but prayed all the previous night. At 10.35 a.m. she Was taken from the jail under an armed escort to the gallows, and after singing " Jesus, Lover of my. Soul,” prayer by Rev,Mr. Johnson (colored), singing of “ Sweet By- and-Bye," she made a statement maintaining she was innocent of the crime of poisoning Lela Lewis. She hoped to meet her in heaven. Her kinspeople, she said, had brought her to this and she wanted them to pray to meet her in heaven. “ Every tub must stand on its own bottom here, but up there it will get justice. ’ Her sister was on the scaffold. Turning to her, she warned her by her fate and concluded with “ Good- bye, sister, good-bye.” Her neck was broken by the fall and she died without a struggle. The woman was 18 years of age. She wanted to marry a negro, and Mrs. Lewis, who raised her, opposed the match. She stated in court that the man, Dave McDowell, induced her to try to "conjure" the old lady’s life away by putting some white beans in a bottle with water in it and burying itwith the neck or the bottle down-- wards. The conjuring did not work, so he gave her poison to put in the food. The whole family were taken sick. All recov- ered but the child. She later made aswcrn statement that McDowell had no knowledge of the crime, but fixed the guilt upon Dick Barnes, who, she says. gave her poison and told her to fix the crime upon McDowell, so she and Barnes could marry. On her sworn statement McDowell was convicted as accessory to the deed and sentenced to penal servitude. The life sentence has been suspended pending a n ew trial. He is 64 years old, and says he knows nothing of the poisoning. About once in three years a controversy springs up on " reading aloud." We have one now in full blast. Usually conducted on the same conventional lines, leadingvto nowhere in particular, it has been enlivened by a brief letter to a contemporary, whose correspondent points out that one reason why there is so little good reading aloud among English people is that many per- sons are afraid to trust themselves to pronounce words which they have never heard pronounced by others, and that this is one of the penalties which we pay for irregular spelling. The correspondent is quite justified in strengthening his argument by the well-known and genuine story of the French lady who, speaking of “ high life," pronounced the word so as to rhyme with fig-leaf. But when we come to consider the case of those who are afraid to read aloud lest they should stumble across words which they have never heard pronounced by others, it must be asked who and where those others are who can teach their fellows to pronounce the English language properly. At how many school examinations is not the critical ear offended by hearing the senior pupil, boy or girl, in reciting the prize harangue prov nounce the word “ to ” as " tew l” What could teachers have been about to let such a barbarism pass ? And yet in another school examination further north, it might be found that the word " unto ” was pronounced; “untcw " We entered one church to hear the clergyman extolling the Virtues of “ noledge," in another of “n01- lege ” ; while in the next Dissenting chapel we may be told about “ nollidge.” All the three preachers mean "knowledge," but they vary in their manner of pronouncing the word. Some readers aloud say “of-ten," and others “ awfien,” for “often.” Actors pronounce " mine own ”“ min own ” ; other orators say “ myne own.” It is quite un- certain whether the proper rhyme tor "tea" is not “hay ” instead of "flea." Many educated English people speak of an hotel, and they are justified in doing so, since hotel is the French word " hotel,”in which the h is not sounded, whereas, in the old English word “ hostel " the h is aspirated. But, for all that, we rob the ostler of the hotel of his h, while the American sturdin claps it on to hotel, and spells our “ theatre " as “ theater.” It is all very well to bid us read aloud, but who is to correct us when we mispronounce our words 7â€"Landon Telegraph. Mr.Edward Ashdown, commander of the P. & 0. steamship Siam. states that his vessel on her voyage from King George’s Sound to Colombo, on August lot. when in Ian. 6 deg 8., long. 89 deg. E., passed, for upwards of four hours, through large quan- tities of lava, which extended as far as could be seen (the ship was going 11 knots at the time). The lava was floating in a succession of lanes of from five to ten yards wide, and trending in a direction north- west to southeast. The nearest land was the coast of Sumatra (distant 700 miles), but as there was a current of fifteen to thirty miles a day, setting to the eastward. the lava could not have come from there, and must have been an upheaval from somewhere near the spot. The soundings on the chart show over 2,000 fathoms. There was a submarine volcano near the spot in 1789. I know a very bright little girlâ€"whose eyes, I hope, may not meet this paragraph. for it seems almost mean to tell a joke at the expense of so interesting a maidenâ€" who never neglects an opportunity of wav- ing her handkerchief at passengers on passing boats, or people on land, when she is out yachting. A few weeks ago she had been out for a sail, and when nearing home she espied a signal of welcome waving in the air at her house. Out came her hand- kerchief, and with all the innocent happi- ness of youth she waved it vigorously in response. The white emblem on shore waved even more vigorously. and the little girl continued to respond until, when the boat put about on another tack, my youn friend suddenly discovered that she ha been responding to the signal of a cow, the white tip of whose tail could be seen just around the corner of the house, briskly brushing away the annoying flies. A Colored Man and Girl Expime Their Crimes by Banning. ‘ A Monroe, Ga..,despe.toh says: Taylor Bryant, colored, was hanged yesterday for feloniouely assaulting areapeotable white woman. The gallows was erected in a field a mile from the court house. Ten thoue‘and epecfigtorg were present._ ridge-making, as on its being well done de- pends the absence of all unpalatable lumps, and its smoothness when dished. Allow the porridge to boil ten minutes, stirring treqnently, and then put in the salt. It is best not to put in the salt till the end of ten minutes, as it has a. tendency to harden the meal and prevent its fully expending. After the salt has been putin boil for other ten minutes, then dish. LADY BEAUTIFIEES.â€"Ladiefl, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and spark lug eyes with all the cosmetics of France or beautifiera of the world while in poor health, and nothing will give on such rich blood, good health. trength and eauty as Hop Bitters. Atrial is certain proof. Early marriages are the rule in China Parents deem it a. religious duty to provide matches for their children as soon as they are of marriagesble years, and the young peo 1e go to the altar in much the same waists they go to school in other lands. This accounts for the dense population of the Empire. “Augustus,” she said, " why is there so much contusion in that store 7” “ I know not, dearest.” he simvered, " unless it is oaund by that bustle in the window.” Bending Aloud and Mispronoundul. Mysterious Submarine Volcano. one \ane Too Much. THE GALLOWS.