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Great Excitement in Britain Over the Alleged Declaration of noslllilics. A. London despatch of last (Sunday) night says: There is great excitement in the city over the Franco-Chinese question. War between France and China. according to the intelligence of yesterday morning, is declared ; and everybody here dreads seri- ous international and trade complications sure to_be involved. France’s task is consid- ered very difficult. If she fight by land she must send 40,000 men at a moment when Toulonâ€"her great port of debarka- tionâ€"is useless. It she fight by sea she will have to attack {great ports, and Kjn this way will interfere wish both German and English trade, and, per- haps, lead to the sacrifice of English and German lives by exasperated Chinese mobs. M. Ferry's position, despite the splendid triumphs of his strategy at the Versailles Congress, is made diificult by the holy horror of all France of war. and by the utter unscrupulousness of his oppo- nents. who, on Friday, when the vote of credit was under consideration, resorted to the worst forms of filibustering, twice trying to wreck the session of the Chamber by breaking up the quorum. The best point in the situation for France is the acquisition of, Kelung. All her naval operations in Chinese waters have hitherto been terribly hampered by her being corn- pelled to resort to the English or Chinese for coal, as they had all the mines in their hands. But Kelung has the finest coal mines in Asia. The chances of the con- flict are the subject of the usual amount of discordant calculations. The Times cor- respondent at Foo Chow declares that the Chinese are utterly unprepared for conflict, and that their entrance into the quarrel is the result of the terrible ignorance of their rulers. A Winnipeg despatch of the 12th inst, t) the New York Tribune, says: The Cana- dian Pacific Raifway authorities have made excellent arrangements for the marketing of the enormous crops of grain growing this year in Manitoba and out 400 miles from Winnipeg along the Saskatchewan. The Inspector will have headquarters at Port Arthur. The samples of grain prepared by him will be sent to every station agent along the main line and branches of the road, and wheat brought in by farmers will be graded by that standard. This will protect the seller as against the buyer. If the farmer is dissatisfied with the grading put upon his wheat by the latter, he may call upon the agent to produce the type sample, and both must abide by it. To further protect the farmer, telegraphic bulletins giving current prices in the princi- pal market! of Canada and the States will be posatd at every station daily. There will bee brisk competition among buyers this fall. Where there was one buyer last year there will be five this year, and any ttempt on their part to form a pool will be eleated by the safeguards thrown around the farmers by the railroad company. The Canadian Pacific is now putting the best and most improved cleaning machines that money can buy into their huge elevators at Port Arthur. Maniacs Chained in oullnousen lor Years ~0nly at Death in the Tale Told. A Philadelphia despatch says : The State Board of Charities has issued a cir- cular to the medical profession of the State, informing them that within the past year two instances of cruel treatment of insane patients in the charge of private individuals have come to the knowledge of the Board. In one case an old man was found naked in an outhouse in a very secluded part of the State, where he had been confined for over thiity years, chained by the leg. In the other case neither the public nor the Board had any knowledge of the inhu. manity practiced upon another old man who had likewise been chained for over a. quarter of a. century, and not until his death were the particulars brought out. The object of the Board is to find out if any such cases are known or believed to exist, and it so the physicians are requested to send them to the State hospitals for the insane. A London cablegram says: The two I’eers who have just died suddenly were among the most eccentric of their order. Lord Lauderdale, disappearing for years, was finally discovered acting as a baggage getter on a railway line. The Duke of ellington was chiefly remarkable {or his fierce quarrels with his illustrious father. Once the 016. Duke was condoled with by a friend because of a caricature of him in a comic paper. His reply in the presence ‘fit his hapless son was that the only carica- ture that annoyed him was that-pointing to his heir. The point of this remark was that the son bore an extraordinary hut grotesque likeness of his father. Heliad the hooked nose and the high cheek bones, but all this was rendered frightful by a small and weak chin andth1n,1rresolute Jaw. Gold-boaters, by hammering, can reduce gold leaves so thin that 282,000 must be laid upon each other to produce the thick- ness of an inch, yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid on any surface, as in gilding, gives the appearance of solid gold. They are so thin that it formed into a book 1,500 would only occupy the space of a single leaf of common paper; and an octave volume of an inch thick would have as many pages as the Racks of a well-stocked library of 1,500 Volumes, with 400 pages in each. Still thinner than this is the coating of gold upon the silver wire of what is called gold lace, and we are not sure that such coating is not of only one atom thick. Platinum and silver can be drawn into wire much finer than human hair. A grain of blue vitriol or carmine will tinge a gallon of water so that in every drop the color may be perceived. Agrain of musk will scent a room for twenty years, and will at the end of that period have lost little of its weight. The carrion crow smells its food many miles off. A burning taper uncov- cred fora single instant, during which it does not lose one-thousandth part of a. grain, would fill with light a sphere four miles in diameter, so as to be visible in every part of it. The thread of the silk- worm is so small that many of them are twisted together to form our finest sewing thread; but that of the spider is smaller still, for two drains of it by weight would reach from London to Edinburgh, or 400 miles. In the m'ilt of a codfish or in water in which vegetables have been infused the microscope discovers animalcules of which any‘thousands together do not equal in ulk a grain of sand ; and yet nature, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of these with organs as complete as those of the whale or the elephant, and their bodies consist of the same substance, or ultimate atoms, as that of man himself. In asingle pound of such matter there are more livmg creatures than of human beings on the face of the globe. The harbor of Canton has been block. aded with tn‘pedoea. A Syatem cl Grading [or the Norlhwest. At Winnlpeg potatoes are down to 750. per bushel. No sooner has California. succeeded in con- vinuing the East that it is not desolsted by grasshoppers, than information comes that large areas of Texas have been made “ ver- dureless deserts” by the ravages of prairie dogs. suovnma INHUNIANI'I‘Y. FBAN‘SO-CIIINE SE WAR. URANII‘OBA \VIIEAT. Scientific Curiosities. 'l‘wo Eccentric Peers. When the mud is not axle deep, rocks and atumpa lend ahand to make it intar- estmg for the tenmsters. The largest teams can, with difficulty, haul ten hundred weight to a laud. Perhaps the most noticeable feature in making the descent of the Kmking Home is the rapidâ€" ity with which improves in size, quantity and quality. Several more varieties are seen west of the summit than there are on the east side. Balsam 75 feet and cedar 100 feet high are not uncommon ; but the bulk of the timber is Douglers fir and spruce. It is to be regretted that the burning off of the rail- way right of way has fired the timber adjacent, and now from Kicking Horse Lake to the Columbia all the timber is fire- killed. The heaviest work on the C. P. R. construction this season is down the first seventeen miles of the Kicking Horse. Here the gradient of 116 feet to the mile is mostly used, but near Tunnel Mountain four and a. half feet to the hundred feet is required for a. short distance. This heavy gradient will, however, only be temporary, and is made to allow the track to be laid past Glacier Mountain while the work of TUNNELLING THE MOUNTAIN is being proceeded with. This tunnel will be 4,400 feet in length, and is the longest on the unoompleted part of the O. P. R. Away up amongst the clouds is the glacier that gives a name to the mountain. Anti- cipating a slide of this frozen accumulation, it is projected by the engineers to practise a little O'Dynamite Rossa on it before the track is laid beneath it. From the indif- ferent success that has attended the efforts of the patricti in Europe and elsewhere it would stand them in hand to come west and wile away a few months practising on the Rocky Mountain peaks and ice fields. Their experience might teach them a thing or two about " How to liberate Ireland.” The engineers are at present trying to cross the Columbia. near the mouth of the Kickv ing Horse, and proceed with the line along the west bank northwards to the mouth of the Rogers Pass. The present located route lies along the east bank of the Colum- bia. It the crossing is practicable the nature of the western bank will render the building of the line less expensive and can be pushed more rapidly. Quite One oi the Great Passes Through the Buckies Descrlbrdâ€"Tuunelliug Gla- tier Mon nmiu. An hour’s ride on horseback from the end of the track at Summit Lake bring the traveller to the shores of Kicking Horse Lake. This is a. beautiful circular sheet of clear, ice cold wster, 5,000 feet above the level of the sea, and surrounded by lofty snowâ€"osppad peaks. iNumerous small streams can be seen leaping down the mountain slopes and emptymg into the lake. The Kicking Horse river issues, in a. stream forty yards wide. from the westâ€" ern side of the lake. From the “ turn loose ” this worldâ€"renowned mountain stream means business. Only 9. few feet from the lake it begins its racket of roaring and racing and never lets up until it joins the Columbis, The first three miles of its course is down an indescribably rocky csnyon. Then, sitar sweeping pest Glacier Mountain, its valley widens out to from half a. mile to one mile in width. The G. P. R. waggon road first crosses the river just where it leaves the lake. This road is perhaps the worst in the world to-dsy. It is too narrow to admit of teams passing each other except at appointed places. All traffic over it is regulated by time-table. Sometimes, how- ever, an untortunste driver ventures out in disregard of the warnings posted st either end of the road. Before he gets through he wishes he was never born. A RAILROAD TOWN has sprung up at the junction of the Kick- ing Horse and the Columbia Rivers. It is the terminus for the pack trains and the depot for contractors’ supplies. Boats and bateaux are being constructed to ship rail- way material and provisions down the Columbia. Gold mining is being prosecuted successfully on the creeks flowing into the river. Bay will be required on the construc- tion work during the coming winter, and consequently hay marshes, bottoms or meadows are as eagerly sought alter and of as much value as silver leads, it being im- possible ta bring in hay from the outer world. Large quantities of charcoal is be- ing burned for theuse of the blacksmiths. A whiskey mill has been established on the Columbia, twenty miles south of the rail- way line, where, under protection of British Columbia law, " tough foot " is dispensed to the unwary miner and navvy at prices only equalled by the destructive- ness of said liquid.â€"-â€"Edmontan Bulletin. Ills Career and Who Will be Ills Succes- sorâ€"Jl'he Lite ol the Latter Blighted by n Scandal. A London cablegram says: The sudden death from heart disease of the Duke of Wellington as he was entering a railway train at Brighton yesterday has caused a sensation in society circles, and recalls the death of his illustrious father, the Iron Duke, which occurred almost as suddenly, in 1852, at Walmer Castle. The duke who hasJust died was 77 years old, and child. less. He was married in 1829 in Lady Elizabeth Hay, who was the daughter of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and a celebrated beauty, but the union was never blessed with children. The present death raises to the ducal dignity the eldest living nephew of the late duke, Henry Wellesley, a. lieu- tenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards and formerly a member of Parliament for Andover. The new heir presumptive is the new duke’s younger brother, ‘ Lieut.-Col. Arthur Charles Wellesley, of the Grenadier Guards. whose domestic life has been clouded by a sad scandal. He was married twalve years ago to Miss Kathleen Williams, by whom he has had three children, now aged respectively ll, 8 and 5 years. After a few years of marital pro- priety, the dashing grenadier became enamored of Kate Vaughn. a pretty and popular danseusc at the Gsiety Theatre. Last summer he accompanied her upon her provincial tour, and the scandal became so notorious that Mrs. Wellesley had no diffi- culty in obtaining a divorce on the ground of adultery. The climax of Col. Wellesley’s infatuation for the pretty dancer was reached a. few weeks ago, when he took her to Paris and made her his wife. As there is now but one life be: en Col. W'ellesley and the dukedom, it is not at all impossible that the whilon: queen of the ballet may yet wear the oorunet of a duchess. Following the example of the arniat Browning in painting his father, Miilais is now making for 01mm: Church, Oxford, a portrait of the Premier in scarlet robes, the progress of mathetioxsm requirmg that even Mr. Gladstone shall be painted red. VOL. XXVII. . I A'l‘ “IUICING XIORSE. THE DEAD DUIKE. THE TIMBER Self-satisfied linguist to French diplomat ~“ How much would I have to say before you knew by my pronunciation that I was not; a. Frenchman ?" “ One word," was the prompt and decisive reply. It is said that the Grand Duke of Hesse contemplates abdicabing in favor of his son, Prince Ernst Ludwig, who is only 17 years old. His recent marriage and oonssquences have seriously compromised his position among his sujmts. The new English Church opened on the Rifle] Alp, above Zennatt, is 7,000 feet above the sea level, and it is the loftiesb place of worship in the world, wish the excepuon of the Monastery of St. Bernard. The English railway companies. improv- ing the occasion and taking advantage of the cholera. score, which will keep thousands of paople in England this summer and autumn, have made extensive arrange- ments for trips to well-known English watering and pleasure places, Sir William Gull says that for many peo- ple who :86 susceptible to seasicknese a pill of cayenne pepper and opium is the correct thing to take an hour before em- barking. Then keep your eyes shut and don't move about,and the chances are that you’ll escape the horrid mal de mer. Da Lesaeps organ, La Bulletin du Canal Interoceanique, tells at gxeat length how the Panama Canal is to be opened in 1888, and yet, according to its own showing, (nly oneâ€"ibixtiebh Qf the work has been done in three years and a. half. There has been épaut there about $49,000 000. Mr. Bigger, the Irish Home Ruler and memberof Parliament, gave notice to the Clerk of the House “ to ask the Chief Sec- retary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland it it is true that Sergeant Corbett, of Sbreé- bully, is in the habit; of firing ehots out of the berrack door and on the berreek pre- mises, killing birds and crows." Gabriel Max is exhibiting his last grand painting, “ The Conversion,” which is making quitea sensation in Munich. It represents a Roman girl, who for having embraced Christianity is imprisoned and sentenced to death, and whom three young Romans vainly attempt to save by per- suading her to renounce the new faith. The aesthetic boom inaugurated by that shrewd apostle, Oscar Wilde, is completely defunct in England. To be msthetic now is to be out of the fashion, and the greenery- yellowery maidens are looked upon with contempt by their more robust sisters and brothers. Mr. Wilde himself has settled down to aquiet and prosaic citizenship, broken occasionally by lectures which are quite sensible and commonplace. Mean- while the man who made the {cathetics ridiculous made Oscar Wilde famous, and gave Gilbert his theme for “Patience”â€" the man, In fact, who was responsible for the Whole aesthetic craze, and who started it on his own boomâ€"is comparatively unknown. M. De Maurier, of Punch, deserves all the honors and gets few of them. Mr. Edwm Atnolé’s “Light of Asia ” is being translated into Bengali, and is also very likely to be reproduced in India. in a. Sanskrit version. The Czar of Cmoow announcer; that the meeting of the Emperor of Austria. and the Czar will take place at Granicu, in Poland. Thenca their Imperial Majesties will pro- ceed together, via Warsaw. to Alcxandroff, where they W111 be joined by the Emperor of Garmany. Five days’ quarantine is enforced on going through the St. Gobbard and Mount Cenia tunnels. M. Alexandre Dumas inveighs against the extravagance of women in France, where they spend enormous sums on their dresses. Female students are to be allowed to compete for positions as surgeons in the Paris hc spicules. Norway is free from cholera, quarantine and accusations of dynamite carrying, t3 travellers. ' The ex‘Khedlve of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, has permanently taken up his residence in London. Sir Lapel Gtifiin is called by a. Paris papa): “ the lurid English dyspeptic.” The Empress of Germany, who is in feeble health, will pass the autumn at Badenâ€"Baden. The Gordon Expedition Home. A London cablegrarn says : Soarcely had the Government announced its final decision as to the route by which the expe- dition for the relief of General Gordon was to proceed to Khartoum, than a chorus of hostile criticism arose from certain old iogies of the military service, whose days for active campaigning are about over. The responsibility of advising the Govern- ment has rested with General Wolseley. Guided by the rapid success of his move- ments against Arabi and the effective assistance rendered to the military by the naval service, he thinks that Jack Tar may just as well be made of use on the Nile as on the Mahmoud canal. The expedition will be half naval and half miiitary, and for the overcoming or these difficulties to be met with on the route, caused by the cataracts and other natural impediments, the bulk of the work during the advance will fall on the naval service. The counter proposal of the United Service Club loungers is to reach Khartoum from the Red Sea, via Suakim and Berber, which would be a purely military under- taking and would give whatever heavy and hard knocks that were going to the Horse Guards. Our unfriendly critic says that before Mr. Gladstone has done with him he will make Jack Tar aland crab ;but public opinion takes but little stock in the various arguments adduced, as long as an expedi- tions starts by any of the routes recom- mended. ‘The troops are likely to meet but little. opposition on the road until they have passed Dongola, and any danger from the enemy is but trifling as compared with that involved in an attempt to march heavily armed British troops across the desert. The general opinion of the experts is favorable to Lord Wolseley’s scheme. A French almanac prophesies the death of both the Emperor of Germamy and General Von Moltke before December, 1884. Mr. Parnell’s Land Purghmse and Settle- ment Company have made their first purchase in an csbate of Kiloluoney, in the county of Galway, the property of the Bodkin family, one of whom for many yearB ragresented that county in Par-liar menf. In consists of about 3 000 acres, and the sum given was $216,000. bsing about twelve yea-ra’ purchase on the present rental. Mum Mabel Robb, aged only 13 aummen, of this city, has distmguihhed herself as a. disciple of Isaak Wulnon. While fishing at Bobauygeon the other day she landed a. nable maskllonge weighing 10 lbs., and shortly afterwards brought out a beautiful two-pound baas.â€"1‘oronto World. LATE OLD WORLD NEWS. RICHBIOND HILL THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1884. A Blaple Business. One branch of trade, says the Albany Journal, shown no effects of the panic. “ I am a. manufacturer of babiee’ cape,” said a New York merchant, “ and I regard It as the most staple business in the countrv. Babies are coming into the world 8.11 the time, and every mother ~wilt stint herself before she denies her infant a. cap. No panics interfere with my business.” Some Dresses Seen in London. At a. recent gathering in bnfion the fol- lowing fitees‘ee veye Beef}: A skirt of white tulle over satin; the front (f the dress covered with flounoea of lace, and at one side a. carelessly knotted sash of blue satin, with a. cluster of frag- rant June lilies; the low bodice of tulle and lace, with a silver trimmed White satin ooreelet; bracelets of paletblue satin olesped the arms above the elbow, and the wearer carried a monster bouquet of lilies and foliage, with sash ends of ribbon to match. Lady Constance Howard was in dark blue tulle and satin, with trimmings of scarlet poinaettas ; u. tiara. of diamond stars in the hair. Fashion in silverware. The fashion in silverware just now is not only that of antique designs, but the real antique, says the San Francisco Alta, even though it be of unknown history and has seen the world from the shelves of the bums-bran dealer, is used by those who love beauty and antiquity under any small amount of rust and the grime of time. Wedding gifts in antique silver are con- sidered rcchcrchc,and are valued more it they can be truly endowed with an inter- esting and old-world history. This mode has rather the air of buying one’a heir- looms and giving them as presents. At the some time fashion decrees that it is the thing to do and it is done. One may polish it up, or not, as one chooses, before pre- senting it. Another was composed of clouds of crimâ€" son tulle and a coraelet bodies of satin, bordered with a pmaaementerie of shaded and deadAgold beads. Lady Buchanan wore black lace over white satin, relieved by pale blue feathers, diamond brooches on the bodice and in the hair. The low berthes, which were gener- ally worn. were in some instances literally trimmed with diamonds in chains of single stones lestooned from the shoulders and fastened in the centre of the chest by a large brooch with riviere drops. One lady in a. handsome toilet of white terry velvet and satin displayed no less than fourteen diamond brooches of all sizes and of fan- txstic shapes on the lace covered berthe of her bodice. One of the old-fashioned flavors, too little used nowadays, isthe rosewster, or essence of rose. It used to find a. place in every closet, and was a constant and valuable adjunct in cooking. It is too bad that so delicate a flavor should he allowed to be crowded to one side by the more positive and assertive flowers which reign supreme at present. One may, with a. little care, make a rose preparation for flavoring that shall be much nicer than the distilled rose- water. It is a. southern rule, one that is in high favor with the women in that portion of the country, where cooking is regarded as one o! the fine arts. It is given by Stuart Smith. Gather leaves from fra- grant roses, taking care not to bruise the delicate petals; fill a. pitcher with them, and cover them with French brandy; the next day pour off the brandy, take out the leaves and fill the piicher with fresh ones, and return the bmndy ; repeat this pro- cess until the brandy is strongly impreg- nated with the rose ; then bottle it. The pitcher should he, lie-pt closely covered during the entire process, that none of the aroma may escape. Ladies who have rose gardens can utilize the blossoms in this way. 01! course, it goes without saying that only the fragrant varieties are of use for this purpose. A noticeable dress was of black net over satin, arranged as a ballet skirt; the upper one was scattered with closely placed groups of small cherries of yellow chenille han g- ing by their stalks and one or two dull green leaves ; on the skirt was a. large cluster of orange-hued ostrich tips, which also were placed on the right shoulder of the low-cut black satin bodice, and again at the edge of the basque. Two sisters were black tulle skirts and satin bodicee, both being trimmed with red birds and long loops of scarlet velvet. The very short sleeves were merely of folded tulle, fastened on the top of the shoulder by a solitaire diamond stud, and the bodice had no sort cf tucker; on the left shoulder and on the back of the skirt, which was edged with a very thick ruche, was a large- sized orangehued bird. and the blue feather fan had also a bird in the centre. Tulle was much affected by married ladies as well as by quite young girls; indeed, every other dress was of this material, with bodice of velvet or satin. Many of the bodices were outlined with colored beads, with several rows festooned on the arms and carried around the berthe. A BUSINESS THAT NEVER GETS DULL Seasonable Dresses, Extravagant and Economical. Miss Bigelow, an Americzm belle, wore a. charming dress of the paleat apricot tulle ; it was beautlfully draped and devoid of all trimming ; the only addition was a knot of tea-scented roses, attached to a palm-leaf fan and fastened with loosely-tied ribbons. The expenditure for dress is extravagant or not, according as the indulgers can't or can well afford it. Hard times have not appreciably lessened the display of costly clothes. A few of the wearers in former years have disappeared, but their places are taken by fresh dressers. On the Whole there is no deterioration. I was chatting on this subject with an operator in Long Branch real estate, when a. particularly fine equipago rolled past. In it set a. middle aged woman with all the repose of a. duchess. I asked who she was. «Mrs. Connolly, the dressmaker," he replied, " or Mme. Connolly, as she puts it. She does business in New York and hes a. sum- mer branch of it here. She is the owner of six houses, ranging from exceedingly handsome villas down to no lower than pretty fine cottages, and worth in the aggreâ€" gate $200 000. That represents only a part of her immense Wealth, all acquired by decorating the women of New York within ten years. I am agent for several insur- ance companies, and, upon my word, I sometimes feel that I ought to charge Mrs. Connolly a. higher premium than other per- , sons. Why? Because it seems to me 1 that some day the husbands and fathers of her customers are going to get revenge by THE LADIES’ COLUMN. 7xtrnvnuance in Illjesu. Essence ol Roses. Fnuinlu e Fanclcs. “Dear me, look at this,” said a fashion- able young lady in a. blue Jersey and apoke bonnet with a. white feather, as she paused with her friend to look into the window of a store. “ See the cunning little frog 51t- tlng under an umbrella," said she, indicat- ing the well-known picture of a. toad quietly sealed beneth a toadhtml. The English royal family sets an excel- lent example to the public in the neatnesa with which its young girls are always dressed. Ree ntly at aMarlborough House garden paity t e three “Wales ” Princesses were simple gray foulatds with black sashes and round black hate, and the daughters of the Crown Prinee anti Princess of Prussia. were dressed in what: and black trimmings. On Saturday, when the cousins met again at the Coombe House representation of “As You Like It ” the English ones wore gray tailor-made dresses and the Germans gray silk, all having simple black jackets and hats. The jaunty jackets 0t light clot-h with braided borders now imported for extra. wraps at the sea-side are made quite short and plain behind to lie smoothly on the tourntre, and the fronts are longer and painted. For and About “'omen. " Ouida " writas : “Until the vine leaves of youth are faded, who knows their value or sweetness ?" The low corsages of young ladies‘ evening dresses are now seen with full gathered waists and full sleeves in the simple fashions worn twenty years ago. These are called baby-waists, and are worn WIth a. wide sash tied behind. The fulness is gathered to a. band of insertion and lace around the top, and again below to a belt. At one of the watering place hope the most superbly dressed women was the wife of agrain operator who had failed for a. million a short time ago. Her diamonds were worth $60,000,, and the observer thought her husband must have made a good settlement. burning her propertyâ€" and that makes it extra hazardous, don’t you see?" But it those husbands and fathers stop to think that the loss will all figure in subsequent bills they Will see the futility of arson in any scheme of vengeance.â€"-â€"Long Branch letter in Galveston News. Small Economies. We do not honestly think, says a writer on small economies, women, as a rule, are extravagant in large things, and they will cheerfully make large sacrifices; but in small things they do not usually find econ- omy pleasant. This proceeds chiefly from ignorance, false shame, and, in extreme cases, from idleness. Mistresses far too often do not know how to make the most of things, though, as far as their lights go, they will use them themselves, and oblige those connected with them to do likewise. Then, again, these petty economies are so small that one dreads to encounter the cook’s face of horror at such unheard-of meanness. The things are so petty I What diflerence can they make? The whole thing would not save sixpence in the 24 hours, etc. Granted; but look through your accounts and see how your money goes. It is mostly carried off by odd six-l pances, that at the time seem almost too unimportant to consider. None, until they i try, realize how tiny sums will mount up‘ in a short space of time, and how far scraps will go in making dainty dishes, tempting , to eat and saving the butcher’s book. It is just in these small economies that Frenchi women are such splendid managers. They know exactly how far everything Will go, and have no false shame at any manage, ment that will save even a penny. l When a woman boasts that she has spent the leisure of ten years in making tapestry backs for four chairs, it is fair to conclude she has not found the portion of work that belongs to her in this world, and that somebody else is doing ip. In Macon, G3", 9. Wife has just been fined {$2.50 for disciplining her husband with a. bed slat, the justice regarding it as a. case of malicious injury to furniture. In Lon- don only a. few days earlier a magisfimto sent a. young woman to prison for thrashing her husband, who had complained about the coffee. In is a. mistake to keep pieces of stale bread in an earthen jar, as It will surely mould. It should be put into an open dish and covered with a wire‘cover or coarse muslin. It; will then dry and keep sweet till required. For nine seasons 3. little sparrow with a deformed foot returned with each summer to the window of a. Boston woman and tap- ped at the pane. She always received him kindly, and finally fell into the habit of making him a. special cake, This summer, on his first: call, he alighted on her hand, showing plainly thathe was ill. She carried him out into the fresh air, but he would not. flyY and died while she btill held him. The knife~grinder has, after all, a story 1 to tell, and avery dismal one it is. He is environed by dangersY as completely as he is saturated with the wet “ swaxfi” (powdered stone) which dyes him a deep saffron color l from head to toe. He site over a tool which at any moment may send him ‘ through the roof with all the suddenness and velocity of dynamite, and he works in ‘ an attitude and (especially if he be a “dry ” grinder) inhalee a dust which he knows will shorten his life by ten, twenty, or even thirty years as constitution and fortune may serve him. The sharp crack of a breaking stone is an appalling sound to the occupants of a grinding hull. A bang in atrough, a crash in the root and a piteous moan. and all is over. If the vic- line be alive he is hurried to the hospital; it dead, his crushed body is reverently carried away. No vigilance in the master, no care in the workman, seems able to avert these periodical catastrophes. The insidious water-rot, the hidden flaw and the unequal grain do their fatal work in spite of all precautions.â€"â€"The English Illustrated Magazine, August. At Caress, near Turin. a. young woman poisoned herself last; month on the marriage of her younger Fisher, from fear of becom- ing an old maid. William Still, one of the wealthiest and best known colored man of Philadelphia, a tau-worker with Garrison, Plnllips anil Luozetia. Moth in the anti-slavery cause, and the author of the book “The Under- ground Railroad,” has announced himselt forGleveland and Hendricks. Mr. Steubing,counsel for Mr.J. M.Dykes, the champion draught player. has filed a. bill for divorce against Eliza. Draper Dykeo in the Foxt Wayne Divorce Court, Indiana. The grounds upon which the champion asks for Reputation are dosertion and incompatibility of fiempqr. Queen Victoria. and the Royal Family keep their accounts with the firm of (30111173, as Royalty has done since the days of Queen Anne. The [Kaila-Grinder and his “’ol‘k. WHOLE NO 1,364 NO. 12. 'eefy [low she Conlrlvcs to Keep the Little Toddlers Quiet and Amused. New York Journal: “ I met: there was some way to keep those children quiet: on a. rainy day or when it. is too warm for them to be out; in the sun playing,” said. a. weary mother the other day to her friend and neighbor. ” I always notice what little trouble you have with your children, al- though you have three more than I have, and I thought perhaps you could. tell me how _you managed it." A steward named Perry entered a hotel in Galway on the 29th ult. and fired five shots from a. revolvar at Alice Byrne, step- daughter of the landlord, who died a. few minutes afterwards. Perry afterwards trigd to commit suicide. In the Dublin Zoological Gardens a. fine lioness has eaten her own tail. One day she removed 12 inches of this appendage, and after an interval renewed her repeat and swallowed more. Efforts were made to heal the bleeding stump, but the lioness continued eating the tail, which has entirely disappeared, and she has now commenced to eat one of her fore paws. “ A very emit mattsr: my dear,” repliegi h‘er £11995: “Children must; be amused or they will become cross and naughty ; so would you or 1. Suppose we were doomed to stay all day, or half a day, in one room, were not allowed to read, write, or sew, could only sit on certain chairs and handle certain articles, and there was no one to talk to or nothing but a game of solitaire for us to play. Why, we’d be almost crazy. Any one. man, woman, or child, in good health, must have something to do during their waking hours. Yet how few mothers try to give this something to the busy hands and active brains of the little ones. You notice children out in the street or garden. Are they ever still or quiet? No. It is true they find amusement in the most trivial things. Now. I have thought about all this, and I have fixed up one room in the house. the play-room, exclusively for my ghildren. Alderman MoArthur, Londonderry, left his house at Waterside on July 24th in apparently his usual health. At 10 o'clock his dead body was found in the public reservoir. New burial grounds are being established in Mayo in lieu of old ones, which had to be closed on aooounfi of the overcrowding of graves, rendering them unfit; for further interments. Plans have been prepared for conducting a. ship canal, 127 miles long. from Dublin ta Galway, at: a. cost of 8 millions for ships ot1,500 tons ; of 12 millions for ships of 2,500 tons; and of 20 millions for ahlpa of 5,000 tons and upwards. On July 213% the remains of the late Mr. Daniel Creation, for many years managing director in the establishment of Arnott & 00., Dublin, were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery. Mr. Charles Moneypenny, linen manu- facturer,Belfaat and Portadown, was on July 26m found shot: dead in a mail train between Paris and Brussels. ' “ The room is a large one on the top floor. It is all I had to spare, and as I could not afford a. good carpet I painted the floor and left it bare. A poor carpet. would be worn out in six momma. In the winter the room is heated by a little circular stove, endover this I put a. wire screen, so there is no danger of the children burning them- selves. The walls are painted a. delicate gray with a pale pink border, and I have a. wainscoting than is one of the chief charms of the room. Mr. James O’Brien, one of the oldest and moat respected of the inhabztants of Nenagh, died on July 24th. MLThomas Doyle, Inspector of Tele- graphs for Derry, has been appointed Post- master of Wexford. “ What is it 7 Well, I collected all the pictures I could out of magazines, illustrated papers, etc., and pasted the on the wall from the floor almost as high as the mantel. Pictures of birds and animals and those of child-life, are. of course, the greater number. I put the colored prints down near the surface, so that the smaller child- ren could enjoy them, and they are pasted on so nicely that tearing them is impos- sible. “ Then,” continued this nice little mother, “ lhsve five boxes in the room, all of different sizes. These boxes have covers that fasten down, and are padded on the top, with a. flounee around the edge, so that when the box is cloned they have the appearance of little ottomans. Esch child keeps his playthings in the box, and it is his particular property. A nursey rug with all kinds of animals eat out of cloth, with the name embroidered underneath, is among the furnishings of the room. One hundred and eight goats were ex- ported from Ireland to Great Britain in one week lately. Thomas St. George Pepper, oiBallygaz-th Castle, Deputy-Lieutenant of County Meath, died on July 216$. David Ross, Q.C., has been appointed by the Lord Lieutenant Recorder of Belfast. “ My children 'amuse themselves for hours in that room, with only excursions now and then to the kitchen for something to play ‘ teaâ€"party’ with, and I flatter my- self that they learn considerable from the pictures, as well as neatness and order with their playthings.” In East Africa. nearly every woman wears ‘ the pclele. When she is a little girl a small‘ hole is pierced through the middle of her upper lip, and into this is pressed a small wooden pin to prevent the puncture from closing up. After a time this is changed for a larger pin, and so on till the hole is big enough to admit a. ring. In proportion as the pclele is made gradually larger, so the lip enlarges also and comes to look like asnout. An average specimen measures 1} inches in diameter and almost an inch in length. When she becomes a widow fashion compels her to take out her pelele, the lip falls, and the great round hole, called luperele, shows the teeth and jaw quite plainly, making her hideous. Capua,whoae luxury proved too much for Hannibal’s army, is frequently ravaged by a. band of brigands who have settled down to business near it. The black ex-Queen of Aasab, Tutin’s r0321! guest, refused the aid of doctors dur- ing a. recent maiaposition, on the ground that it was against African court etiquette for white hands to touch her. The celebrated painter Franz Lenbaoh, of Munich, has just finished a portrait of the Pope, with which his Holiness has expressed his extreme satisfaction. The Pontifi has further desired Herr Lenbanh to execute for him a. likeness of Prince Bismarck in tho same style“, [IE IIANDI! IlOUSEWIFE. Latest Irish News. Fashion in Ens! Ail-Ion. I have prepared the following table from statistics derived from the Board of Health. It consists of a comparison of the death rates from diarrhoea] diseases in New York between two winter months and two sum. mer months, together with the mean temperature of each month. Under dierrhoosl diseases are Included simple diarrhoos, dysentery, entero-colitis, cholera infantum, cholera. morbus, Asiatic cholera, diarrhoea] gastroenteritis and diarrhoea] enteritis : Jan. Feb. July. Aug. Mean temp. Fahr 28.770 85.21 0 75.79 0 73.420 Deaths under 5 ys. 34 32 1,533 81'] Deaths over 5 ys.... 14 15 131 149 Mean temp.Fahr 25.180 30.240 74.460 70.400 Deaths under5ys. 32! 32 1,355 507 Deaths over5ys.... 14 16 125 116 A glance at this table will show the tremendous increase in the death rate under the age of five years in comparison with that occurring above that age, the difference in winter being about double, while in summer it is vastly higher than that proportion. It also shows that the month having the highest mean tempera- ture, July, has much the highest death rate in children under five years ; while in cases above five years of age there is no appreciable difference between July and August. In 1882 and 1883 there was an increase of the mean temperature of July over August of from 2 37° to 4.06° Fahr. The difference in heat represented by these few degrees doubled the death rate in children under five years. As tenemen houses and streets are no cleaner in August than in July, and as there is quite suifi- cient heat and moisture during August to cause free fermentation in any filth, it is evident that the increased infantile mortality during July is due to a slight increase in the heat, as the other elements causing it are about the same. It is an impressive com- mentary on the inability of infants to stand a high temperature well that in 1882 [low Ihe DI:th Rule 01 Children in Aflecled by Heat. Henry Dwight Chapin, M.D., attending physician to the out-door department at Bellevue Hospital, in an article on summer diseases in the Medical Record for July 26th., presents the following statistips ; an increase of 2° in temperature was sufficient to raise the death rate by just 716 young children in one month. It is also seen by referring to the table that the mean temperature of July, 1882, was 1.33 ° higher than in J uly, 1883, and there were 178 more deaths in children under five years in the former month. I think that sufficient stress has not been devoted to the injurious eflects of heat itself upon young children by writers on this sub ject, and that relatively too preponderat‘ ing an influence has been given to impure air. The disastrous effects are due to such an intimate combination of these two agents that it is somewhat difficult to estiâ€" mate their separate influences. But while it is easy to underatand the injurious effects of breathing a foul atmosphere, and its depreciating consequences are con- stantly seen, yet the system, in a sense, gets accustomed to impurity, and throws it off more or less readily. Young children live for months shut up in filthy apart- ments without dying, and even seeming to enjoy tolerable health. Landed estates are at present quite». drug in the Scotch market. One week recently eight estates were exposed to sue- tion in Edinburgh, and there was not a bid for one of them. They were : Balhaldies, Perthshire, at £30,000 ; Rossie, Perthshire, at £18,000; Rossie Oohil, Perthshite. at £24,000; Colzium and Wester Cairns, Mid- lothian, £27.000; Drongan, Ayrshire; Soutramains, Heddingtonshire ; Onttonside, Roxburghshire; Belheven, Haddington- shire; besides several small estates near Lochmaben belonging to the Marquis of Queensberry. A Crank on Loyalty to Native Land. Our esteemed crank friend says: "Do you ever read poetry ? Did you ever read that piece in which this runs Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ‘2 Well, now, there does breathe such a man. I’m the man. I don’t care a cent about my native land, and if there were no human lives involved I would not give one dime to prevent it being sunk under the sea and wiped off the face of the earth. The land for me is the land where I can earn the best living with the greatest degree of comfort to myself. I had nothing to do with selecting my native land, and it possesses no more interest for me than do the clothes I have worn out or the come I cut off my feet. I never hear a man blowing about his native land but I feel like getting up on my hind legs and asking him why, if he thinks so much of it, he ever left it, and why he does not go back. The land I live in is the land I‘m shouting for.” his very depressing to find a soul so utterly devoid of poetry.â€"London Advertiser. Speaking on July 29th, at the dinner of the Governors of the Edinburgh Merchant Company, Lord Young referred to the great decrease of crime in Scotland, which, he said, was now less than when the popula- tion was one-halt whatitis at present. This happy state of matters His Lordship attri- buted to the spread of education. The captain and crew of the steamer Silks- worth, now in Montreal, assert that they saw the sea serpent off the Gaspe coast on the voyage up. The monster rose fre- quently thirty feet out of the water and swelled out tremendously every time. At the waterline it was about four teat in diameter; its head was that of a conger eel; mouth that of a shark ; body striped like a mackerel ; fins simply immense. and voices. horrible yell. There is no doubt that the captain, who is fully corroborated by the crew and passengers, believes his story, which is regularly entered in the ship’s log. Seeptics can object to nothing except that the monster was seen at half a mile distance by moonlight. which may have exaggerated his size ifnot his awful lbsllow. It would appear that Mr. Gladstone’s visit to Mid-Lothian is to be followed by a political tour in Scotland in September on the part of Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford N orthcote. The Conservative leaders are to address meetings in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Mrs. Tam-bah, of Forfar, has succeeded in rearing and domesticating a swallowâ€"an exceedingly difficult thing to do. The bird obeys her call, and treats her with the utmost confidence. Arrangements are in progress for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales in Aberdeen on the 28th inst., where they will present new colors to the 3rd Battalion Gordonyighlanders. The spade at Zoar, Egypt, has just un- earthed a huge sarcophagus in a royal tomb. Its extraordinary dimensions are 143;, feet in length, 7 feet 9; inches in width, Steet in height and the material is hard granite. Mr. Pattie recently excavated the broken colossus of Rameses 11., the op- pressor of the Israelites. of proportions unknown in Egyptologioal annals of colossal statues. The sarcophagus has not yet been assigned a. king or dynasty. Mr. H. W. Scott, 0: Balgay, will baa 09.n- didate for the representation of Dundee at the; general election. The ex-Empress Eugenie is building a grand mausoleum at Farnbotough. It is expected that it will be ready in October to receive the remains of her husband and he: on, the Prince Imperial. Latest from Scotland. THE LITTLE (INKS. The Sea Serpenl. 1883 . 1882‘