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At a meeting of the Ontario Board of Health yesterday, regulations to be adopted in View of the danger arising from the possible introduction of chulLl‘it were con- sidered and adopted. The following are the regulations in substance suggested for adoption and to be put in force in the event of cholera making its appearance on this continent. The secretary shall at once prepare a complete list of the various cities, towns and Villages in this Provmce, specifying therein the places which have local boards of health, medical health officers and sanitary inspectors, and the amount of money which has been voted for health purposes by the Councils. Where no healih (fibers have been appointed, a list of medical men in the localities who might be eiigible for these positions shall then be prepared. As soon as the danger has become imminent, the Board shall ask for an immediate grant. to be set apart by the Government for effective organization, this grant to be based on .tlie amount necessary to secure an active medical health and quarantine « iii LEI in every incorporated municipality, namely, to 10 cities, 54 towns and 138 v_il- lriges, making in all 202. Where found possib'c or desirable, such officer shall be the Medical Health Officer of the Local Board. The mini nuggesied for each mum. cipality is 3.200. The Medical Health 0f- i'iceru, when appointed by this Board, and in receipt of Government salaries, are to be the executive diicers of the Board,and will be required, immediately upon appoint- ment, to carry out its instructions. Such officers shall immediately prepare a de- tailed statement of the sanitary condition of his municipality, and in addition to hav- ing a nciise-to-houseinspection made-by the Local Board of Health, at once see that the municipality set apart or erect a structure which shall possess all the sanitary requirements of an isolation hospi- tal. and that it be supplied With all struc- tural conveniences, as beds, bedding, bit-h, disinfectants, etc. When this has been done, a full and detailed statement shall be forwarded to the Board. In default of any munimpality not takingimmediate and effective action in carrying out the regula- tions of the Board, the matter shall be at once reported, and the Board will take such steps as will tend to place the municipality in a position to effectually combat the disease. ()n the approach or presence of the first or any case of cholera in a muni- cipality, the executive olliccr shall have the patient removed to the isolation hos- pital. and take every measure for disin- fecting and, if necessary, destroy all cloth- ing, and every conveyance, eithu‘ on railway, steamboat, sailing vessel, carriage or other vehicle which has been exposed to the contagion. Importation of articles of food from any infected district is “to be prevented, and all such as are decayed or tainted shall be destroyed. All persons who have been exposed to the contagion shall be placed in a quaran- tine station to be provided by the local Board of Health, and shall supply them with all necessaries until such time as the period of incubation of the disease shall have elapsed. If any municipality be a port of entry for vessels coming from in- fected districts, a strict inspection of said vessel shall be made before passengers, luggage or freight are landed. All personal effects or other exposed luggage or freight- Shall be thoroughly disinfected before being landed. When cholera exists in any Pro- vince or State adjoining or contiguous to Ontario the executive or health oilicers at all points where railways enter this Pro- vince from these infected districts shall be given the full powers of quarantine oflicm. as far as can be exercised under Provincial or municipal laws, and shall inspec: every train bearing passengers or supposed to contain any article of food for commerce likely to contain contagion, and shall remove such passengers’ baggage and per- sonal effects, and deal with them as pro- vided above. In case it appears that any person, luggage or freight may have escaped detention or disinfection, the medical health officer shall immediately telegraph to the executive officers along the supposed line of travel, who, on the arrival of the train, shall exercise all the powers of quarantine officers. Power is given the Secretary to proceed at all times, under the direction of the Board to any point in the Province to investigate the sanitary condi- tion thereof. These regulations will only go into force if the cholera makes its appearâ€" ance in Canada or the United States, and after being adopted by the Lieut.-Governor in Council. How much better it would have been for if grout number of young couplesÂ¥very young complainâ€"living in Hamilton at the present time it they had been treated the Hume its is told of in the following from the (A uclph Mcrmtrg/ : “A young man in this city who iw‘ noted for his freaks of eccentricity has recently conceived the idea. of joining the army of benediots. The night before lust he saw a damsel on the street who struck his funny as all that could be desired to mama loving and charming lielpmate for lils. Hut in hand he approached his Venus. She seemed in no way loath to receive his advances and a matrimonial contrth was shortly after settled on. To- day was to have been the happiest epoch in their lives, when the two trusting hearts were to be united, but fate decreed other- wise. The person refused to perform the Ceremony without the consent of the young swsin’s parents. This consent has not as yet been given, and the young couple revel in single blessodness tn the chagrin of one of them at least, not to mention the waste of the mitrriage dinner, which is said to lnwe been prepared for the joyous noessinn." Dr. qumre has oommuuioated to the Sounh Carolin». Medial Aafiooiatiou his low unuple and successful rules in the treat- ment of insomnia, as follows: Fxrst, re- tire early to bed. two hours sound sleep before nudmghn being of more benefit to the body than double that number of hours in the day; Hecoud, eat little, and always smne hours before going to bed, and cold food only tn be taken for supper; third, tho euros and burdens of the mind must be put abide Winona to be earned to bedâ€"and no reading orubudyiug there; fourth, the bed ohmnher should contain pure, sound nit, be roomy and high if possible, and the window“ be always kept open. except in the high;- timo ', fifth, when in bed endeavor so lie horn-utmhully, with the head slightly raised, uvoding any forced or constrained prmturo that: male the form an angle, as by this means the circulatinu in the ‘Hmmaoh is checked. REGULATIONS TO BE ENFORCED. A Fonda. N. Y., deepatch says: The ‘J‘Zud birthday of Mrs. Anna McIntyre was nelebmted at the home of Martin McIntyre :1. day or two ago. There were present G How“, 28 grandchildren and 17 greet-grand- children. Mrs. McIntyre retains her faculties to a remarkable degree, and in the afternoon favored her descendants with “ Auld Lang Syne " on the piano. Precautions Taken Against the Plague by the Ontario Board of Health. Blandâ€"” How did your son pass his \ollege examination“? 1 suppose he passed vithout conditions?” Bluntâ€"4‘ Yes ; that ‘to say, they said they would take him ‘66: no conditions." iil'lnt‘dll'n [or I Iwonlnln. niblt- 1 lergymnn. I'Iny in; lIu- l’inno n! 9‘). THE CHOLERA. REENAN & HANCOCK. Meanwhile the living had been put in quarantineâ€"4n pens separate from the cor- mls in use by bunches orother stock. Some were dead since their removal from the cars, and others were dying. It was a sick- ening spectacle. The largest and strongest were the victims. A great steer was sud- denly seized with a tremor while he was chewing grass. He stretched out his front feet and lowed. Then he drew up his back and distended his belly and flattened his paw against the ground and lowed. Suddenly he jumped high in the air, bellowing as he did so. He fell in a ditch, and when approached a moment later he was dead. The symptoms were those of congestion of the bowels. Late in the evening, after a careful examination, some of the older stockmen said the cattle had drank too much water utter thirsting for a long period. The tminmen could not say whether the opinion was correct or nob. Health officers killed twenty-two to relieve them of their suffering. About fifty-one others died in horxible agony at the pens. The oflicial investigation is awaited with interest. M-nllug Accounts will- lhe (:nrclou "er-j min. Now it is no part of our commission to scold people. Our duty and our pleasure is, and Will be, to help them. Therefore, in I this time of roses and green fly, we will cc impress into a few words the sum of our experience in a run of nearly forty years of experimental gardening. It is this: If all that is neediul to ensure healthy and vigor- ous growth is provided for plants (of what- ever kind), they will pretty well take care of themselves as regards the vermin. It will be found that the sickly plants are first attacked, and the poor, lean-growing things seem always to invite the vermin. But this is not to he understood as a general indict. ment implying that wherever the ver- min are seen the general cultivation is faulty. By no means is such a positive conclusion to be deduced from negative cvxdence. As accidents will happen in the best regulated families, so vermin will appear in the best kept gardens and on the most vigorous and healthy plants. But when all reservations and exceptions have been taken into account, the golden rule remains, and should be kept in mind, that the vigorous and healthy growth of plants is the surest protection against the insects that assail them. When you plant, there- fore, have the ground well made up for the purpose, and when you give water, imitate the sound logician and go to the root of the matter. You will hear of insecticides innumerable. But amongst them all tobacco is the leading nostrum, and tobacco and sulphur are often combined. But there is at every amateur’s command a a very cheap and effectual insecticide in the shape of water, and a nice shower from the engine or syringe, combined with occasional watering at the roots, will do wonders for roses, for insects, generally speaking, hate water ; it is deadly to them. But there is a matter of special interest and importance in connection with the use of water. It is that hot water is more deadly to insects than cold water, and all kinds of plants may be sprinkled or dipped in hot water without injury, provided only it is not too hot. You may. by using a trusty thermometer, make a safe rule and use the water at from 120 deg. to 140 deg. oi! Fah- renheit, and With {his simple agent you may deal out death to the vermin and life to the plantsâ€"a very curious example of killing two birds with one stone. In prac- tising this plan a few careful trials should be made. Trust not your hand to know howmt the water is, for you may make a The 1119Rtrnfiub1¢e report we can get is that the castle that arrived here this morning drunk alkali water before landing. At 2 o’cioek in the afternoon the Live Stock Exohenge had a. session and resolved to have an investigation made. . To that end Dr. N. H. Peeren, the State Veterinar- inn, was notified. Having heard that one of the health officers had asserted the cause of death wee poisoning from the use of alkali water, the Enchangc deliberately settled upon that as the proper conclusion. It was a queer procedure, for no investi- gation was to be made till next day. Then a message was received directing that the herd be delivered to Keenan & Hancock, commieeion merchants. And Meeere. Keenan (‘1 Hancock gave notice by writing as follows : Exc'hl'lnenl at; Inc Chicago mock Yards-â€" Dread ol "Texan Fever. The Chicago Times" of yesterday had the following: “Apprehenél’on reigned at the stock yards Monday because of a puzzling malady that led witlnn a few hours to the death of 120 cattle in it drove 01 375. The herd was the property of Oberly d’ Frazier, of Kansas City, and it came from the firm’s ranch in the Indian Territory. They arrived in the morning. When the cars were opened forty were found lying dead at the feet of nearly as many more which were shaking as with an ague, bellowing loudly and humping their banks as though effected” by pain. “My God! it’s the Texas feverl”astockuian ejaculated, and then the new» spreai throughout the yards and the cattle-dealers outside that the disease most dreaded in the trade had made its appearance here in virulent type. There was a rush for the shipping platform._ The dead and the dying were oerelully exam- ined, and numerous conjectures as to the cause of the astounding fatality were ad- vanced; but no effort to secure the im- mediate attendanoe of a veterinary surgeon ' was made. mi. and hold us responsible for the consequences. Provide a bucket of hot water and stir it well about, and by adding hot or cold bring it to 120 deg. Then take a. few pot plants, such as fairy roses, prim- ulus, etc., and dip them head dowuwards, so we to wash the leaves, and move them up and down a few times. und then set them aside to drain. They will be none the worse for it. and the green fly will be com- pletely washed from them.â€"Amateur Gar- (Inning. Wc'nllh ol Colorado. Nowfiomes to the front our cattle inter- ests, says the Denver Republican, which to- day reaches. in good round numbers, over 1,500,000 cattle roamimg over Colorado’s plains. with a valuation attached to them of not lees than $10,000,000 ; and the field is open for many millions more. While we are unable accurately to give the figures on sheep and other live stock, such as horses and mules, we can safely place them at a. nominal valuation of over \ $13,000,000. And accepting the records as correct for 1883, in agricultural products we will not fall far short of $15,000,000 in 1584. Then add to this the value of all our other industries, and Colorado finds herself a. magnet of such power that it rightly used by her peoPle cannot fail in securing for he; all the wealth and immigration desir- ab 6. A IIIJNI)IKED CA "ELIE DIE. VOL. XXV II. ANew York despatch says: Mrs. Van- derbilt Allen, plaintiff in the celebrated di- vorce case. gave evidence yesterday before the referee. She stated her husband left her February 25th, 1883. He left a note stating he had gone away because he was offended at some language she had need towards him. Mrs. Allen said her husband was very intemperate. He threatened once to kick her out of bed. She had an income of $1,400 of her own, and thought 35200 a month would be necessary to enable her to keep up the style of living she had always been accustomed to. Witness said she resided at Cape May in 1882, but never had enough to eat there. She discovered her husband’s infidelity by a letter she found in his pocket addressed to Edith De Belleville. She also found a letter from Walker to 001. Allen congratulating him on his ” success with the ladies of Philadelphia." She made up her mind she would never again live with Allen under any circum- stances when he failed to prove his inno- cencet In March, 1883, she saw on the blotter of the Tremont house the entry “ J. Andrews and wife" written in her hus- band’s handwriting. Joined in Wedlock Io his Bt-lrolllml “’hile l.)iufl on Ilia Beau-bed. Frederick A. Oowdin, of Cambridge, Mass. over a year ago met and tell violently in love with Miss Gertrude Morey, at that time living in the same city. His love was returned and engagement of marriage was made, but owing to Mr. Cowdin’s ill health the marriage was from time to time post- poned. In the meantime Miss Morey re- moved to this village. By the advice of his physician Mr.Cowdin came here a month ago, thinking he would be benefited by the change. Until Wednesday he had strong hopes of recovery, and the cough which was slowly wearing him out had improved. On that morning, however, he was very low, and unable to rise. Death was seen to be near. In compliance with his earnest request, Miss Morey agreed to marry him, and they were joined in wed- lock by the Rev. Thomas Bobb. The responses of the dying man were scarcely audible. He at once began to sink, lost consciousness and in three hours was dead. The bride has since been completely pros- trated. Cowdin was 35 years old and pos- sessed some property. . Vnulln'bill Allen’s Charges Against Ilol' nubnud. Sm‘l Rule 0! Three Children Nenr King- slon. Last evening about 7 o’clock James Bur- gess, an employee of Chicago Granite 00., at Grindstone Island, near Kingston, had his attention attracted by an unusual noise. Remembering that his three little children had been playing about he rushed out to seek them. He ran down to an adjacent marsh and there met some chil- dren, who informed him that his little ones were at the river bank. Thither Mr. Bur- gess ran, and to his horror found that about fifty feet of the bank at that spot and eleven feet in depth had caved in, crushing his children to death. The tore- man of the Chicago Granite Company was soon on hand with assistance. and they removed the earth where the children had been killed. The bodies, with the excep- tion of one of the girls, were found to be terribly mangled. The little boy’s head was crushed and broken. The little boy was nine years old, the eldest of the two, the other two being girls. Yesterday he called at the house and'when he attempted to get into her room he was met by a Mrs. Livingstone, another mem~ ber of the strange family, who had a razor in one hand and a knife in the other. In her frenzied efforts to induce him not to interfere with a case already in the hands of the witches, she attacked and out him savagely in the breast, inflicting a bad wound. She has been arrested, and a. young man named Whitney, a brother of Mrs. Livingston, is also in custody. Other members of the family may be arrested. The neighborhood is full of stories of the strange hallucinations of the occupants. Some things they have done are worthy of the old witchcraft days of Massachusetts. The pigs and cows have had little nicks out in their ears to let the devil out. (hailing Nil-ks in Pigu' Ear~ Io Let Ille Devil Out. A Mt. Morris (Mioh.) deepatoh says: In a. little farm house four and one-half miles west of here lives a family of sixteen per- sons, all being huddled together in apert- ments not large enough for four. Some time ago a. child died in the family, and since then several members of the house- hold heve been impressed with the belief that everything around the premises was bewitohedâ€"people. stock, and the very air and water all being controlled by evil spirits. A Mrs. Sumner. who is, and has for some time been, quite ill, was afflicted With this hallucination to a. marked degree, and, while not pretending to prescribe for her mental trouble, Dr. Lumen L. Fuller, of Clio, has been trying to minister to her ph_ysice.l ailments. For many years it has been known to ophthalmic surgeons that abuse of tobacco may lead to failure of sight. This fact has been made use of by the anti-tobacconists, who are mostly well-meaning but meddle- some persons, and whose actions have too close a resemblance to those of agitators in the cause of various reactionary measures for the impediment of scientific research and the obttruction of sanitary legislation. In the report of forty cases of tobacco amblycpia, by Mr. Shears, of Liverpool, it appeared that atrophy of the optic nerves is very rarely met with as the result of excessive smoking, although tobacco is the essential agent in producing failure of sight. Greatmoderation in smoking, and especially the employment of mild forms of tobacco. is all that is necessary to insure recovery. Mr. Hutchison has found that a very small proportion of smokers sufler from amblyo- plat, and that among those who do become subject to impaired vision are many who show an hereditary tendency to that infirmity, many of their relatives who do not smoke being similarly afflicted. Work- men in tobacco factories do not appear to be subject to deterioration of eyesight; in one large manufactory, where twelve thousand men and women are employed, Mr. Shears has found that not one single person on the remises suffered from failure offiyesight, athough many of the hands had been working there for ten years. â€"No wonder American travellers ara avoiding Marseilles. Not a watermelon is to be sold there this season. SCANDAL IN IllGll PLACES. A FAl'lll." BEWI'I‘CIIE I). A WIDOWED BRIDE- ’l‘obnm‘o and Eyesight. BURIED ALIVE. RICHMOND IIILL THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1884. The McLeod River is the next stream of importance beyond the Pembina. It also flows between high lands clothed with poplar and some spruce, and is very wind- ing in its course It heads well in the first range and is subject to sudden and great floods during the hot weather or the sum- mer, but dwindlee to a small body of water in the tall, with a wide stretch of gravelly beach on each side. In high water this stream will have a width of six chains. Its current is very rapid, rendering it totally unfit for steamboat navigation. In the lower forty miles of the river is a succession of falls and basins. The falls are about a mile apart, over archy rapids from two to three feet in height._ In the autumn the basins are very deep, with no percepti~ ble current, while on the rapids there is hardly water enough to float a canoe. In the summer, with a high stage of water, the rapids are hid and the steady fall of two or three feet to the mile gives a current of tremendous velocity. Gold in quantities sufficient to pay for the working 113 access could be had with provisions, is to he found and will, in time be worked, no doubt. The country along this river has at one time been very heavily timbered, but fires have done their work here as well as further ,eouth, and any timber which ' still cxists will be found to be surrounded by a network of muskegs and creeks. Coal is also to be found,but is not likely to be of any economic value for some generations. Sandstone is the only rock seen in place. while the drift is of the kind usually found in the bars of some of our western rivers. The Athabascaâ€"called by the Indians “the big river"â€"â€"takes its head far in the mountains, its western and southern branches rising close to the Fraser and Columbia rivers respectively, and fl)ws east to the junction of the McLeod. The Jasper pass. through which the Govern- ment route of the C. P. R. was located, is the head of the river. The Indians of the Jasper country are descendants of the Iro- quois of Quebec, and still speak that lan- guage as well as the Cree, which they have learnt from their neighbors. Leather from the east side of the moun- tains. years ago, was taken by boat to Jasper, thence transferred by horses to the boat encampment on the Columbia river, and taken thence to the coast for sale to the Indians of British Columbia. The banks of the Athabasca are high and are covered with brute and second-growth poplar, spruce and pitch pine the result of the ravages of fire wil- fully and carelessly set out years ago, when no value was set on the primeval forest. Coal is to be seen, but not in as great quan- tities as on the Pembina and Saskatche- wan. Gold can also also be found from the head of the river to the Landing, but whether in paying quantities or not remains to be demonstrated. The river is about twelve chains wide at l the mouth of the McLeod, with a strong‘ current, and could undoubtedly be navigat- ed by steamer as far as the Ghost Rapids, some distance above that point. The awful current lasts to Old Fort Aseinihcine, when the river takes a bend to the north and becomes wider, with more sand bars. Nothing new remains to mark the site of Fort Assiniboine save the heaps cause by the fallen chimneys and the half~filled cellars. It was situated on a prairie of about two hundred acres, on the north side of the river, and about forty feet above it. It was the connecting link between Edmonton and Lesser Slave Lake, and a pack trail extending to the north and a cart trail to the south. The goods were forwarded by water via the Athabasca and Little Slave River and lake, to the H. B. post on the west end of theflake. The Upper Athabaska has very little flat land alongit, the high banks in many places rising straight from the river. A number of fine streams come in from the north, some of them rising in close proximity to the Smoky River, notably the Baptiste, Big Hawk, Burnt, Halfbreed and Little Slave Rivers. These are from two to five chains wide, and drain a large extent of country. They are high in the spring. but as they do not rise in the mountains they add little to the volume of water that pours down the Athabasca during June, July and August. After leaving the mouth of Little Slave River the Athabasca bends away to the south with a somewhat swifter current than for the previous eighty miles, till the Landing is reached, thence after its somewhat erratic course it seems to make up its mind and strikes away northward to join its waters with those of the great Mackenzie. The country immediately to the north and northwest of Edmonton is almost un- known save along the few trails extending from here towards the mountains. Those large rivers taking their rise in the foot hills and first range of mountains are the most southerly branches of the great Mac- kenzte River. Leaving Edmonton i'or Jasper House, the first river of this sys- tem passed is the Pembina ~ a stream about eight chains wideâ€"carrying a large volume of water in the spring and rainy season, but not subject to rushes of high water from the mountains, as it does not head far enough into the mountains to feel the effects of the melting snows and glaciers. The banks are high and timbered with a flair growth of poplar, balm of Gilead and in some places of spruce. The river winds its tortuous course in a general north-eastern direction. Goal in quantities is to be found on its banks, and some seams are known that have been burning for years. The watershed which divides the water flowing to the north from those which flow to the Baskr 'chewan is in some places very narrow. the indians say only a day’s travel ; in other v5 .rds. about 15 or 20 miles. Large quantities of timber are to be found in the valleys at the head of this stream. A GOOD GRAZING COUNTRY. Much good land, though timbered, can be found in the region traversed by these rivers and much that is bad. covered with a. small and stunted growth of poplar, spruce and pitch pine. Much of it, by thorough burning, could be made good grazing land. The snow is not extensive, and good water is plentiful. But, alto- gether, it is nota. country that will be sought by settlers until the vast prairies both to the south, on the Saskatchewan, and to the north, on the Peace River, have been settled. THE FAR NORTHWEST. Interesting Description of ihoflrtai Rivers and Their Tributaries. There is one blind person in every 1,150 in the United Kingdom. (From the Edmonton Bulletin.) l TheChairman, Mr. H. P. D’Auvergne, proposed the toast of the evening, the health of Mr.Edward Parsons Fowler, who, he said, commenced the trade of exporting Jersey cattle at the age of 18, in opposition to his own father. He was the first ext porter of Jersey cattle to America, com- mencing in 1842, and later on supplied great part of the nobility and gentry of England with the island breed of cattle. Mr. Fowler also extended his opera- tions to the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and India, and he (the Chair- man) hoped and believed that a great im- petus would be given to the importation to our Indian empire. From a beardless boy as he was when he commenced his career of exporter of Jersey cattle, Mr. Fowler had ripened into a green old age. He had ex- ported aunually from 700 to 800 cattle from the island during several years. Taking these at an average value of £20, they had . an annual value of £14,000 accruing to the island through Mr. Fowler’s labors. He had now reached his 66th birthday, and it had been resolved to present him with a memorial of the value the Jersey farmers attached to the benefit he had been the means of securing to the island by his mak- ing so widely known the value of the island breed of cattle. This had resulted in the present which he had now the pleasure of handing over to Mr. Fowler, the salver, the watch, and the 250 sovereignsâ€"the latter contained in the old Jersey traditional “stocking foot.” He had great pleasure in making the resentation of these to Mr. 'F6w16r, who or nearly hall a. century had been laboring in a manner that had so vastly benefited the island, and be trusted that he might be spared yet many years to carry on the same remunerative trade, with benefit to himself and the whole island of Jersey (loud applause). Mr. Fowler, who was considerably affected by the proud position in which he was placed, was on rising received with loud cheers. He expressed his thanks for the great kindness he had received amongst the farmers of Jersey. He had done nothing more than his duty, to the best of his skill and energy. He had received at their hands what he believed no English- man had ever received before or anything like it. In carrying on this export trade he had crossed the Atlantic forty times, and had been the means of bringing the Jersey cattle largely before the notice of American breeders. After Jersey cattle were known and appreciated in America, Jerseymen found out what could be done to increase the value of their island breed. They had got prices that were never dreamed of by the most san- guine amongst them :10 years ago, and if the quality were kept up the Jersey cattle would still retain their present proud position. Mr. Fowler then made some very pertinent remarks respecting the artificial system of feeding, now so much in vogue, and recommended a return to the more natural system, pointing out the great difficulty that was often experienced with cattle when taking them across the Atlantic and feeding them on the ortho- dox principle for the development of those qualities for which they were in such demand. He advised them to feed their cattle on plain food and not to resort to feeding which had been found so detri- mental to them. (Cheers.) If they kept up the fattening system of feeding they must necessarily destroy their good milk- ing qualities, and he advised them in their own interest to pay special need to this fact. He concluded by thanking them heartily for the honor they had done him. (Loud applause.) Testimonial to the Pioneer oi the Trade. (Jersey Weekly Express, June 21st.) Upwards of 100 gentlemen interested in , agricultural pursuits sat down on Wednes- lday evening to a banquet at the Pomme d’Or Hotel, set out in excellent style by Mons. Mouraud, on the occasion of a pre- sentation to Mr. E. P. Fowler, a gentleman who for many years has been a large exporter of Jersey cattle, and who, in tact, commenced the trade which has been pro- ductive of so much benefit‘to the agricul- turists of the island.‘ Some idea of the value of this trade, which owes to a large extent its value to Mr. Fowler, may be gleaned from the fact of £1,000 having been at length given for a Jersey cow. The , services Mr. Fowler has thus been the means of rendering to the island led to the proposal to make him a testi- monial of the appreciation by the Jersey farmers of the value of the trade he had been the means of introducing, and the beneficial results that had accrued to them thereby. This proposal was Well responded to, the result being that over 800 persons subscribed to the testimonial, which con- sisted of a massive silver salver, a gold ohronometer watch (supplied by Mr. J. 1’. Grange, silversmith), and apurse containing 250 sovereigns. They were accompanied by an address, beautifully executed by Mr. W. J. Ogier, containing the whole of the names of the subscribers to the testimonial. Mr.“ 0. F. Dorey, one of the Vice-Presi- dents, proposed the heaJth of the Chairman, who replied in felicitoue terms, after which Mr. J. A. Deereeux, the Secretary to the Presentation Committee, proposed the health of Mr. 0.1“. Dorey and Mr. J. P. Marett, the two Vice-Presldente. These gentlemen replied, and the meeting broke up a. little after 11 o’clock. After the dinner had been disposed of and the healbh of the Queen given and drunk with the usual honors. Mons. Feret, the recently appointed French Consul to the island, was amongst the guests, and occupied a seat on the left of the Chairman. One evening the grand charity ball in aid of the poor of Alexandria took place, and was a. most brilliant success. Everybody of importance in Cairo, whether native or European, was present, including the Khedive,who wore only one decoration, that of Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, and who appeared to take great interest in all the proceedings. The ball was opened by a court quadrille, in which Prince Osmond, representing the Khedive, danced with Lady Dufferin, Lord Dufferin’s partner being Mme. Martino, wife of the agent and Consul-General for Italy. A Scotch reel, organized and led by Lady Alison,was one of the most pictur- esque and interesting features of the pro~ ceedings. All who took part in it, both ladies and gentlemen, were dressed in com- glete Highland costume, the music being performed by the pipers of the Black Watch, and the necessary space for the dance being kept by four stalwart ser- geants of the same regiment. The Khedive Watched the reel with the greatest interest, and personally congratulated Lady Alison upon the successful manner in which it had been performedâ€"Lady Brassey in Good Words. ~Switzerland contains 1,002 hotels, with 8,137 beds. TIIE EXPoll'l‘ 0F JERSEYH. Al :1 Chin'in Bull in Alcxnudrln. WHOLE NO 1,362 NO. 10. M Teefy copious and never failing spring, which was at once accepted as the traditional well of Hagar. It is pro- bable at least that the masonry dated from the old days of the mercantile prosperity of Mecca. perhaps even from pre-Christian times. Ever since this rediscovery of the well Zemzen has held a prominent place among the holy things in the Arabian tem- ple. The millions of pilgrims who have fol- lowed the steps of Hagar and run naked from Safe. to Marwa, and have performed the circuit of the Kaaba seven times, as their pagan ancestors did before Mahomet made the Meooan pilgrimage a part of his religion, do not leave the “Harem esh Sherif ” without washing in, or at least tasting, the water of the well Zemzem, and most of them carry away a flask of the holy water. No more valuable present can be offered to a returned Hajjy to his friends than a bottle of this miraculous, though admittedly brackish, fluid. Its properties are quite unique in the eyes of the faithful. It can cure disease ; sprinkled on grave clothes it produces the most salutary results in the future state of the deceased; while a single sip is the best cordial that a host can ofler to his most distinguished guest. One famous traditionist, whose memory was pro- verbial, ascribed his retentive powers entirely to the copious draughts he had taken of the waters of Zemzem, which Sale gravely remarks appears to be really as efficacious in its own province as the spring of Helicon has proved to the inspiration of poets. Professor Heaton’s analysis of this miraculous water will cause a severe shock to all true believers who read the Lancet, though from what one knows of the sanitary methods of the East there is is nothing surprising in the discovery that the well of Zemzem is as foul as a good many other saintly springs. The water in the fountains of mosques never strikes the eye to nose with any very pleasing expression, and Zemzen is in the midst of a thickly- built city, where drainage is of a peculiarly primitive description, and the well is almost necessarily affected by the drainings from the countless carcasses of beasts which are annually sacrificed by the pilgrims in the neighboring valley of Mina. It 18, however, some satisfaction to remember that mud. diness in a source of inspiration has never been held a bar to miraculous effects, and that the impious Wotton, if we are to believe the "Battle of the Books," found slime even beneath the limpid waters of Helicon. Zemzem will doubtless work wonders in spite of the “ completion of the putrefactive process.” When Hagar and the infant Ishmael were abandoned by Abraham for domestic reasons which every family man must approve, observes the London'Lancct, they wandered into the valley of Mecca, or rather where Mecca was afterwards founded, and Hagar, oppressed by the heat, began to search for water to relieve the thirst from which she and the child were suffering. She ran back- wards and forwards between the hills of Safe and Marwa, seeking in vain; but, returning to the spot where she had left the infant, found that Ishmael had himself discovered the spring they both needed by a simple expedient familiar to babies of all nations and periods. Kicking out against the ground, his infantile efforts had laid bare one of those springs which in Arabia are frequently concealed by a light layer of sand. This spring, which saved the life of the ancestor of the Arabs, is the well Zemzen, so called (by obvious onomatopoea) from the murmuring sound ‘of its waters. Such at least is the Arab tradition of the origin of the well that new ,forms one of the most sacred objects within the precincts of the Kaaba, or Holy Temple of Mecca. The Kaaba itselfâ€"~a cubical buildingcovered outside with hang- ings of rick black damask, and famous for the sacred stone in one of its corners, which is said (and not improbably, as it seems to be an mrolite) to have fallen from heaven, and which has therefore been kissed black by centuries of adoring pil- grimsâ€"was, according to the same auth- ority, built by Abraham after the pattern of a temple which Adam had seen in Para- , dise, and of which he had transmitted the design to his descendants. Without pro- fessing absolute faith in this interesting history, it is certain that the Kaaba and, the well Zemzem are among the most ancient of the antiquities of Arabia. They both were connected with the oldest rites of the pagan Arabs, and existed in very much their present form, and were applied to very much their present uses before the time of Mahomet. It was the prophet's grandfather who reopened the well, of the position of which he had been warned in a dream, while he was trying to devrse some convenient means of fulfilling his special duty and privileges of supplying water to the tribes who flocked annually to worship at the Kaaba. Dig- ging in the appointed spot, he found two golden gazelles, and some swords and suits of armor which had been buried there three centuries before, and further exca- vation revealed the remains of an ancient piece of masonry inclcsing a copious and never failing spring, which was at once accepted as the traditional well of Hagar. It is pro- The Chilian Government has declared a war of extermination against the condor, It oflers a reward of $5 for every condor killed. The hunting of this bird of prey has, under the circumstances, become a lucrative business, though it seems doubt- ful. if one considers the astounding powers of the bird and its wonderful habits, that the Government can or will ever succeed in destroying the species at any price. A Southern paper, in speaking of this matter, says: " Shooting the condor on the wing is almost out of the question ; for it sails at altitudes far beyond the reach of the human eye, and roosts on peaks immea- surably above the clouds. It has been seen at altitudes of 20,000 feet. It haunts the whole western slope of the Andesâ€"not only Chili, but Peru, Bolivia and Pata- gonia. Latterly the birds have so increased as to form a veritable scourgeâ€"notwith- standing the fact that the female lays but two eggs at s time. and that condor-killing has been a regular and lucrative calling for more than a century."â€"New York Tribune. ‘ This book is of no value whatever," said the literary editor to the managing editor of a Provincial daily. “But we get; so much advertising from the publishers that I dislike to out it up. What shall I do?" “ Well, you might say that the binding is remarkably handsome,” was the reply.â€" Boston Globe. French papers. in order to make their funny paragraphs acceptable, have recourse to wit of the following description: La France says General Gordon invited an Arab to breakfast and then amused him- selt by running a fork repeatedly into the body of his guest. Traditional II istory o! the Kaahn Temple. 1m: AB’S WELL A’l‘ mmmA. llnnling Condor». “ Talk about hanging a. cripple! These vigilance committees will heugechild when they warm to their work. Let me tell you what I saw with my own eyes at â€"â€", a. town halt-avday’s journey back here. A little, one-legged regsmuffin boy came into the town one day. He was foul in person and tongue. Sold songs for a living, and it you didn’t buy he'd abuse you terribly. Well, [gentlemenh he hadn’t been there a. week before nearly the whole town got down on him, and he was told to leave; but he wouldn’t goâ€" said he’d come to stay and no â€" â€"â€" - couldn’t drive him off. It was a fine evening two months ago that a lot of the best citizens of the town just turned out and snatched that boy up and carried him off towards the bridge, just outside the limits. He wasn’t much of a load. I guess he was half-starved and sick. He cried a. good deal as they carried him through the town, and promised 1! they’d let him go he’d be a. good boy and go away. But they said ‘No; you've sassed the best citizens of the place, and you’ve got to die.’ I -didn*t follow them ; but they hanged him fromone of the rails of the bridge, and after he was dead they buried him near by.- The next . day some oi the people who didn‘t think it was right to hang the poor boy went out and found his crutch lying by the roadside and the little stock of songs he’d tried to sell scattered about.” And there, sure enough, were the four graves with the pan- ot crutches standingâ€" one at the head and one at the foot of the resting place of theiame gambler. “ 1'5 'as soon think of hanging a woman as a. lame man,” quoth one of the passen- gers. " There’s something cowardly about in." ' Some of the company defended and others condemned the act, and the discus- sion was growing warm when an odd-look- ing, elderly man who had not: previously spoken a. word, said; " Oh, yes, they did. You see, he was a. bad man, too, and a. little while before he was strung up he and another fellow shot at each other. He killed the other fellow and got wounded in the leg. Well, when people of the town below hereâ€"~VVeeksville â€"got tired of harboring gamblers, murderers, thieves and â€"â€", they just turned loose one day and seized three of the worst and warned the rest to leave by the first train. When the three men were seized the fellow with the lame leg was limping about the gambling houses on crutches. Being lame he didn’t think the vigilantes would trouble him. So when the three scoundrels (chums of his) were seized and marched down to the spot we‘ll come to presently, the man on the crutches just hobbled along after the crowd to see the fun. When he got there the three men had been hanged and the crowd were coming away; but the moment they saw him coming they set up a. yell and started for him. He couldn‘t run, so they just gathered him up in their‘erms and rushed him along to the trees where his friends were swinging. Some One got a. piece of rope and before he could say a. prayer he was swinging from one of the limbs. He died game, though; only asked time to write to his mother, which they didn’t give him. When the men were hung long enough the bodies were cut down and buried, and some one took the lame man’s crutches and stuck them in the grave. There they are now,” cried the conductor pointing towards the side of the track. Silence prevailed in the smoking-room for full a minute. Then one of the com. pany asked~ " But why did they hang him 7" “ Because,” replied the stranger, deliberv ately, “ ho was sassy !" Arrival of the Relic! Squadron nl Port-v mouth lluI-borwolllcinl llecepllon. A Portsmouth, N.H., telegram says: The Thetis, Bear and Alert, comprising the Greely relief squadron, dropped anchor in the harbor at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Their arrival not being expected till to- morrow, the reception, though hearty, was of a rather impromptu character. A salute was fired in honor of the Arctic heroes, bells were rung, whistles were blown and the band played “ Home Again.” All the naval vessels were handsomely decorated. Greely’s wife arrived at noon with General Hazen and party, and his mother is also here. The meeting between them was quite affecting. Rev. Fred. C. Iglehart, pastor of a Methodist Church of Buffalo, recently preached to the young ladies of the city, nearly 2,000 of them being present to listen to his sermon. in the midst of which he perpetrated the following: “The front door is open. The parlor is unswept and undusted. The door back of it is Open, re- vealing the sitting-room in a state of chaos. The doors opening into the several bed- ohembers are open, showing the beds as the sleepers left them on rising. The door leading to the kitchen is open, and there, bending over the wash-tub, her brow beaded with perspiration and her arms reeking with suds, stands the mother of the family. In the parlor sits her daughter at the piano, pounding out an accompaniment as she sings ‘ Who WillCare for Mother Now ?' Well, I will tell you, brethren and sisters, who would care for mother now, if I were the head of that family I It would be that same young lady who plaintively asks the question in song. She would use her arms more and permit her mouth to enjoys. much-needed season of repose. She would be playing on the zinc washophone, and her mother would be dusting the par-11:): and doing other light and agreeable wor .” “Why, you'aon’t mean to say that they hanggd a cripple I” “ Right below here, if you look sharp as we flaah along. you’ll see tour graves. There rest four men who were hung a. short time ago by 8. vigilance committee and buried there as a warning to other murderers and thieves. At one of the graves a. pair at crutches are sticking in the ground. They belonged to one of the men Wholvaa hanged." 7, , A Last fall there came to Victoria. a. one- legged trampâ€"glib of tongue, impudont in demeanor. and low in association. He hopped about on a. crutch, and sold songs to whoever would buy. He was quite youngâ€"scarcely 17; but was no novice in the dark ways of this sinful world. When he failed to effect a. sale by coaxing he sometimes “ oheeked ” persons into buying a song or two. From here he returned to the Sound and Oregon, and this place saw him no more. While passing over the Northern Pacific Railway the other day a. conductor said to the writer of this sketch : 011 1 little band of gold! A wealth of joy untold, Your shining circle conjures to my mind And will, until my breauh Shall meet the kiss of death, And all the pain of earth be left behind. The form of youthful grace. 'I‘lm smiling, tender face, Is near me still, in spirit, though the you“ Have slowly come and lled, And cherished hopes lie dead, Along my way too thickly strewn for team I seem to see the gate, At which I used to wait For her who gave to me this token sweet ; I feel a tender thrill, That calls to mind the hill Where hours, like momentmflea on pininne fleet. A band of burnished gold, My fingers gently hold, And through the magic circle of its rim, Before my dreaming eyes A thousand memories rise, And fill my soul with longing, vague and Prnflicui Sermon to Young Ladies. “ llnugml Because He “has San-V !" TIIE GIKEEIIY SURV volts. A ()NE-LEGGEB 1301' The Ring. vague and dim.