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has been changed into “ meal-offering." the former term having ceased to be the generic name for all food. A new pluralâ€"peoples â€"has been introduced, although sometimes this becomes “ geetiles " when the contrast to “chosen people” is marked. All the headings of the chapters have been dropped, and the text has been divided into paragraphs. By this means the revisers have been enabled to rejoin Psalm x. to Psalm ix. and Psalm xiu to Psalm mi. and to begin lsalah liii. at chapter lii. verse 13. The several days of the creation are made more prominent by breaks of a line between the verses. This expedient has enabled the revisers to make use of a dialogue form and to show the dramatic character of the Song of Songsâ€" the first chapter for example is divided into seven speeches. The Psalms are definitely divided into five books, the last four beginning respectively at Psalms xlii., lziiL; xc. and cvii. A striking im- lziiLI xc. and cvii. A striking im- provement is noticed in the printing of all the poetical passages in poetical form. This has been done in Psalms, Proverbs. Job and Csnticles, but the prophets have been left in prose, however passionate their oratory. The songs of Lsmech, Jacob, Miriam, Moses, Deborah and Hannah, Psalms of Jonah and Hubskuk, and David’s Lament (in 11. Samuel L), appear in versifiad ballad. The origin of Joshua’s miracle, “ Sun, stand thou still upon Gibson,” is indicated by its verse character, so also is the triumphsl cry of Samson (Judges xv. 16.) Examination of the more familiar passages and phrases discloses the fact that csre was taken in preserving intact the household words of the Old Testament. The old literary form has been held sacred, and the revisers cannot be charged with any pedantic straining after the original text, but not all the familiar features of the Scripture have escaped untouched. The ,h priest no longer casts lots for the scape goat, he does so fora. “zazel.” Thesummsry 0! each day's work at the creation now runs according to formulaâ€"“ and there was evening and there was morning, one day." “ there was evening and there was morning a second day,” 9. third day, and so on, giv- ing ssnggestion of successive stages with long intervals. The “ apples of gold," of Proverbs xx. 4-11, are now encased in “ figured work" of silver, not in “ pictures." " Vanity,snd vexaticn of spirit ” (Eccle- siastes ii. 17), has become “ vanity and a striving after wind." “ Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them " (Psalms cxxv. 115), has been changed into " Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver With them.” 1 CHANGES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED wi as much uniformity as practicable. For instance, “ tabernacle of the congrega- tion " has been everywhere changed to “ tent of meeting.” In regard to the word “Jehovah,” the usage of the authorized version is followed, the revisers not think- ing it advisable to insert it uniformly in place of “Lord” or “God,” which, when printed in small capitals, represent words substituted by Jewish custom for the in- effible name. 0! technical terms from the Hebrew one in three seems to have been gradually introduced. The word " grove ” (Judges vi. 28) has been replaced by “ asheru,” with its plurals “ asherim " and " asheroth.” In the poetical books “ sheol ” replaces “ hall,” which has been changed in prose passages to “ the grave” and “ the pit," with “ the sheol” in margin. Of these renderings of “ hell,” says the pre- face, “if it would be taken in its original sense as used in creeds, would be a fairly adequate equivalent for the Hebrew word. but itis so commonly understood as the place of torment. that to employ in fre- quently would lead to inevitable misunder- standing.” In Isaiah xi. 4, where “ hell" is usedin more of its original sense, revisers have left “hell " in the text, putting “ sheol” in the margin. “ Abaddon," which has hitherto been known to English readers of the Bible only from the New Testament (Revelations ix. 11), has been introduced in three passagesâ€"once in Job and twice in Proverbs. Queen Mary restricted the wearing of broad-toad shoes bv proclamation. The proclamation ran to the effect that shoes should not be worn wider than six inches. Cider is called by a new essayist, “ wine with the bar sinister.” Loving Numen. " They onthainly do quarrel, Mrs.Grap- asyi’ _ Those who have labored in the prepare.- tion of it have carefully examined and re- examined every verse, sentence and word. They now commit it to the English-speak- ing world, knowing that the book will live while critics will die, and wishing only that their labors may contribute in this genera.- tion or the coming ones to make the scrip- tures clearer in their true meaning to all the men of the English race. The Bible appears bound With the New Testament. The preface opens with a statement of the general principles on which the revision has been conducted. The rev1sers have borne in mind their duty not to make a new translation, but to revise that already existing, and have departed from it only where they disagreed with the translators of 1611, upon the meaning of a word or sen- tence. The terms of nsttursl history are only changed where it is certain that the authorized version is incorrect ; where it is doubted ; or there is an alternative render- ing given in the margin. In some words of frequent occurrence the authorized version being either inadequate or inconsistent, " haw! I don’t believe award of it. W y. they fairly date on each other." “But I heard her call him an old 1001 myself.” “ Why, bless you, that’s nothing.” “ It ain’t? ” “ La, no; that's only a way she has of being loving and cheerful.”â€"0hicagoLedger. I"phi Testament were given to the news- papers at midnight last night. All the papers this morning contain copious extracts from the work. This revision is the mostrimportant event in the history of theEnglish Bible since the publication or King James’ translation in 1611. It mvoivesno changes of. the Hebrew text; no older manuscripts than the Mesoretic havingbeen discovered, and the jam 0! the authorized version is most carefully preserved out of regard for the conservative ieeling of the Church in its attachment for the language or the old version. All the errors of translation, however, have been removed, and the revision will be pro- nounced by every competent Bible reader to be a very great improvement. It pre- sents the results of the combined labor of a large number of the best Hebraists and biblical scholars of England and the United States; most of them professors of Hebrew in universities and seminaries. It has, moreover, the advantage of the vast aqunces of the last fifty years in oriental philoiogy, biblical geography, history and antiquities, all of which were but imper- fectly: understood by the forty-seven translators ot the King James version. The new version is not a good version in placenta bad one, but a great improvement of a good version. The whole Bible, after twelve years of labor, appears in its revised English version before the people of Great Britain and America. The revrsed version is now A last (Friday) nigbh‘a London cable [Egy‘s‘quopl‘es‘of the revmed verslon of the SOME OF THE CHANGES MADE. The Issue of the THE TERM “ MEAT-OFFERING ” THE NEW BIBLEL A FACT 0F BISTDBY. of the Revised Testament. Old The [Kr-bola “’cre Poorly Equipped and flu: lutllflereul shots. Mr. David Mitchell, of Hamilton, has received the following letter from his brother, who is a staff-sergeant in the 90th (Winnipeg) Regiment, and a brother of Thomas Mitchell who is reported among the wounded at Batoche : FISH CREEK, Saskatchewan, April 30 .b. DEAR BROTHER DAVE,â€"Four weeks ago last Friday night I left Winnipeg for the front and reached Troy next morning and found the first half of the 90th Battalion, who had been there two days ahead. On the Monday following, the left half of the regiment proceeded north to Qu‘Appelle, where a week was spent again. On Mon- day, being reinforced by the right wing, the battalion continued their journey north. The marching would not have been so hard bad the roads been free from sloughs, but when one has to walk with soaking feet it makes them tender and subject to blis- ters ; then again we had at times to pitch our tents on wet ground and occasionally went into camp in a snow storm, and as often in the morning our boots would be frozen as stiff as sticks. I am certain that on several occasions the thermometer must have registered below zero. During our journey, and every night with hardly an exception, it froze. Notwithstanding all 1 these drawbacks our progress was uninter- rupted by sickness or casualty of any kind, and with the exception of two days’ rest on the road to enable the transport to catch up, our trip was continuous from day to day until we struck the river at Clark’s Crossing. Here a long delay took place. We got to the last named place on a Friday. Next day the Grenadiers came into camp and we welcomed them as best we could and 3 very soon the two regiments were on good 1 terms with each other. On the following Thursday the forces moved down the river towards Batoche’s Crossing, about 30 or 35 miles distantâ€"the 10th, supple- mented by the Winnipeg Field Battery and part of the scouts of “ A " Battery on the north bank, the 90th Battalion, “ A " Battery, “ 0” School and scouts on the south bank, each party numbering a little over 400 strong. Work from last Thurs- day may be said to have begun in dead earnest. On that night a strong outlying picket kept guard on three sides. I was sergeant of the rear guard. Nothing transpired during the night to frighten us except the bowling of wolves. About 8 o’clock next morning we were again on the march, F Company (90th) forming the hdl'muflu guard. (1 may say I had the honor to be sergeant of the three files ahead.) We had only proceeded about four miles when the sound of firing was heard ashort distance ahead and immediately the scouts fell back. We at once extended for skirmishing and the remainder of the company doubled up to support us. In less time than it takes me to write these lines we were upon the rebels. They were strongly placed behind a ridge that fell suddenly below the level and sloped down into a ravine or coulee. As soon as we came out of the bush we were within 75 yards of their fire and suffered some damage, but our first rush forced them to seek, without delay, the better and far safer refuge of the coulee. During the first rush the hiss, hum, ping and zip of the various kinds of bullets they were firing at us were well sustained, and the fire was promptly returned by the 90th. Capt. Clark was wounded a short distance from where I stood, but I did not know of it for quite a time, as I was industriously engaged and bad no thoughts but what were called into play by the work on hand. In fact I cannot remember any- thing, until I reached the edge of the ridge, of the others‘ movements and very little of my own. On getting there I had alittle time to look about me and saw some dead and wounded horses and the wounded being taken to the rear. To the extreme right a hot engagement was in progress in which the “0" School fought a gallant fight. The enemy set fire to the prairie, trying to smoke us out, and also with the intention of outflanking us, but after an hour’s hard work they retreated into the heavy bush. All this time a constant fire was kept up on the coulee and returned, the enemy being entrenched in an almost impregnable position. Very soon the “A” Battery had their guns on them. I don’t think that outside of Hades itself were men placed in so hota place. Along with the shells a constant stream of rifle bullets were [cured in, and the war-whoops of the Indians and the ” Courage, mon braves l" of the breeds were completely silenced. During the afternoon the Winnipeg Field Battery and part of the 10th made their appearance; but, much to their annoyance, they found the battle almost over. They extended for attack and approached the coulee in the rear, almost within whispering distance; but, with the exception of a few shots from the pits, the firing had ceased. About 5 pm. the 90th re-formed and were I marched towards the river, a distance of, perhaps, a mile and a half. A safe camp ground was found, and here we have been ever since. 0n visiting the scene of the engagement a dreadful scene of blood was witnessed. About 50 horses. most of them in the coulee, were found lying in their blood, and traces of human blood were seen in the pits and in the bush. The whole place was literally cut up with shells and bullets. Only two dead Indians were found, from which fact I deduct the following, which I suspected during the fight: “ The Indians left in a hurry." We have no means of telling what their losses were, but I think it must have been very great. They fought desperately, but from the first it was plainly seen that only their instinctive ability to take cover and their strong posi- tion enabled them to stand as they did. From my experience of “ rifle cracks" and shooting in particular I think they are poorly equipped, and must before long, if they mean fighting, have to completely succumb; but I rather think they will try to get out. It is pity, too, for they are not abad people; only ign )rant, and have had their minds played upon by cunning and designing men. Our total loss has been nine killed and about forty wounded. We are now all in our camp: and will proceed together. I em or opinion that the march to Prince Albert will be con- tinued tomorrow, as the wounded are to be moved from here to Saskatoon. Then I need not conjecture what may happen on the road as you will have the news sooner than this can reach you. I had intended writing you before, but sent all my letters home. Tom and I are standing the cam- paign well. We both agree that we were HIS IDEAS OF HALF-BREED WARFARE Stafffergeani Mitchell, a Farmer Hamiltonian, Relates His Experience. FISH CREEK STRUGGLE. VOL XX VI. THE ‘ HERALD.” An Erie, Pa... despatoh says : In the second trial of the case of Louis Roseneweig against the Lake Shore & Michigan South- ern Railway for $100,000 damages for injury to his person by being ejected from a. limited New York express, near Cleveland, 8. year ago, Colonel Reyse, the Lake Shore attorney, startled the court with a motion to compel Rosensweig to be put under the influence of anesthetics for the sake of making experimental tests of the alleged paralysis of plaintiff’s lower limbs. Rosen- eweig offered to submit, but his family doctor demurred and testified that he would not be responsible for the patient’s life it he was chloroformed. The Court ruled that the motion was preposterous and ordered the case to go on. A gentleman driving a little bay horse attached to a buggy left Folsom the other morning for this city at the same instant that the train pulled out for Sacramento. He arrived just five minutes after the train. The animal he drove wasaoom- mon mustang, but evidently had consid- erable speed and lots of bottom. In con- vereation he said: “ I turned him out about two weeks ago on a field near White Book. All he could find to eat was grass- hoppers, and I think for giving animals speed, limbering up their stiff joints, giv- ing them a kind of a Maud S. style or a Jey-Eye-See gait grasshopper can’t be beat. Allow that horse to feed on grass- hoppers tor one month andeill speed him for 100 miles against the best 1000- motive Stanford has got.”â€" Sacramento Record Union. A Quinqurtollale Strawberry. Mr. I. Lovell. en English botanist, announces in Nature the interesting fact at Driffield there has been successfully cultivated a. variety of strawberry many petioles of which will bear five leaflets, while the fruit is symmetrical and of rich flavor. The ordinary strawberry is trifolinte and the Duchesne strawberry uniloliete. but the excellent variety described by Mr. Lovell is unique and suggests still further possibilities of development in the genus to which the “ fragrant berry " belongs. The strawberry has become so important a. factor in our fruit supply that every improvement and extension of its cultiva- tion will be welcomed by many millions. Generally, you will find one male and one female. The male goes into the wash- room, bathee his worthless carcass from daylight until breakfast time, walking on the feet of any man who tries to wash his face during that time. He wipee himself on nine different towels, because when he gets home he knows he will have to wipe his face on an old door-met. People who have been reared on hey all their lives generally want to fill themselves full of pie and colic when they travel. The female of this same mammal goes into the ladies’ depsrtment and remains there till starvation drives her out. Then the reel ladies have about thirteen seconds apiece in which to dress. The Farmers’ Review (Chicago) says “ Winter wheat prospects are the poorest ever seen. The apt-mg wheat is not all needed. Oats are not all in and the corn is yet to be planted. The only fevorebie feet that we can mention to day is that there is no present proepeete of s drouth. The most serious fact is the failure of the winter wheat crop. Its magnitude is not yet fully realized." in the morning is a good fiimerto find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train who ought to be in the stock car. canouonoum son A LITIGANT. other to Test a Plainlifl’s Claim by the Use M an Anesthetic. The Governor of Georgia dines in state on possum and potatoes. In the dining car, while eating do not comb your mustache with your fork. By all means do not comb your mustache with the Iork of another. _ It is better to retrain altogether from combing the mustache with a fork while travelling, for the motion of the train mightjob the fork into your eye and irritate it. If your dessext is very hot and you do not discover it until you have burned the rafters out: of the root of your mouth, do non utter a. Wild yell of agony and spill your coffee over a. total stronger, but: connrol yourself, haying; to lmow more next time. Ladies and gantlamen fishérurld guard agamsb travelling by mil while in a beastly state of intoxication. If you are prone to drop to sleep and breathe with a: low death rattle, like the exhaust of abath tub, in would be a good plan to tie up your head in 9. feather bed and then insert the whole thing in the liven closet; or, it you cannot secure that, you might stick it out o! the window and get it knocked off against a. tunnel. The stock- holders of the road might get mad about it, but you could do it in such a. way that they wouldn't know whose head it was. If you have been reared m extreme poverty and your mother supported you until you grew up and married, so that your wife could support you, you will pro- bably sit in four seats at the same time, with your feet extended into the aisles so that you can wipe them off other people while you snore with your mouth open, clear to your shoulder blades. 'On retiring at: night on board the train do not leave your teem in the ice-water tank If every one should do so it would occasion great: confusion in case of wreck. Experienced tourists tie a. string to their teem and retain them during the night. In travelling by rail, on foot, turn to the right on discovering an approaching train. If you wish the train to tum out give two loud toote and get in between the mile 50 that you will not muse up the right of way. Many a nice, new right of way has been ruined by getting a. pedestrian tourist sputtered all over its first mortgage. Bill Nyo’s Advice to People Who Travel on the Railroad. Many people have travelled all their lives and yet; do not know how to behave them- selves when on the road. For the benefit and guidance of such, these few crisp, plain, horse sense rules of etiquette have been framed. never in better health. You should see the chunks of fat pork and the dishes of beams that I can eat ; it would horrify you. I don’t think I would like to live here. It is a fine-looking country; the scenery is very nice and the land grand, but, oh, in ie a cold place. Winnipeg is tropical oom- pered with here. When I look about me here at the gigns of prosperity amongst ignorant haltbreede, how much more oom- forteble could we make ourselves in e. Uhriatiau climateâ€"Yours affectionately, COULSON. A Grnushopper Die-,1 [or Horses. Crop News Nol Encouraging. lllN 0N TRAVELLING. M Teefy RICHlVION D HILL THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885. The redemption of women’s health, I am more and more convinced, depends on their taking to out-door life and activities. Reading high class memoirs, which are in every one's hands now-a-days, of the Carlyles, the Sterlings and F. D. Maurice, one is distressed to hear the continual story of weak health and women who, brought face to face with the realities of life, im- mediately droop, languish, and are a long time dying. If they have a house to keep. and a share of the actual work, like Mrs. Carlyle, at Craigenputtook and Chelsea, they sieken mysteriously. and their life is a time of wrestling with household affairs, alternating with refuge on the sofa, or months in the doctor’s hands, in that wretched, unimprovable state which justi- fied the sigh of a muchvtried husband who “ wished his wife would get better. or something 1 ” Have I not, through the ignorance of my day and generation, wasted life enough in attacks of the familiar household demon, nervous postm- tion, which only vanishes on turning the patient out of doors? Twice and again. friends have looked pityingly on me as good as gone, but taken out of doors ten hours a day, as good for nothing else, sun and wind wrought their spell of healing, and health came again. Henoeforth no more in-door life than must be for me, and I would urge other women to fashion their lives so as to spend them in the open air. â€"From “ How to Dress for the Garden,” in Vick's Magazine for May. ‘ What ls Expected ot fierâ€"Aflpr all her Place is In her Home. Canada Presbyterian) , There is a lively discussion going on at present in the Interior on the duties of that important personâ€"the minister’s!r wife. Reading the lines and reading between the lines one can easily see that there is a great deal expected of the minister's wife over there. a fact which we command to the attention of Censdian ministers’ wives whose husbands may be casting wistful glances at the fer-away green fields on the other side of the lines. Happiiy, we have a sound public opinion on that a‘lestion .in the Presbyterian Church in Gent Is. "There may be a few congregations that“. ',::3‘: :- minister’s wife to neglect-her duties to her family and “ take the lead” in various kinds of church work, but the great majority expect nothing so unreasonable. They know they never called the minister’s wile. They know they don’t pay her any stipend. They know she has her own house- hold duties to attend to. and they neither ask not expect that she should do more church work than any women in the con- gregation who has equal opportunities. If she can do more, and does more of her own accord, good and well ; but no respectable congregation demands it. It does not, by any means, follow that because a woman happens to be a. minister’s wile she ought to be a. leader in everything, any more than it follows that the elder’s wife, or the deacon‘s wile, or the manager’s wife, or any other man’s wife, should occupy that position. I! there is any leading to be done, let the woman lead who can lead best. It may often happen that the woman who cenleau best has no husband at all. The tools for the men that can best use themâ€"and the woman. too, no matter who her husband is, and even if she hasn’t a husband, the motto should hold good. That is the way the question should always be settled. Eighteen years ago, while in good health, which has still not failed him, Joseph Lilly, a. wealthy farmer of DaViBSE County, Mo., went to bed, where he has since remained, under the hypoehondrineal delusion that should he get out of his bed he would die. During all this time neither ridicule nor entreaty could prevail upon him to leave the bed for a single moment. Before the development 0! this singular idiosyncraey he was very active and ambitious to sue- oeed in life. He still conducted his farming while lying in bed, his wife seeing to the execution of his orders. Once his house took fire, but even the peril of being burned alive did not shake his faith in his delusion. He passes his time in convers- ing with friends and in reading the papers. â€"St. Joseph (ll/10.) Gazette. There is an immense rocking stone in the woods about seven miles from Halifax, N. S., which can be rocked almost as easily as a cradle. It has but few visitors. not many Haligoniane ever having seen this natural curiosity, although situated in their immediate vicinity. Don’t Experiment with the Disease, but Let a Deep 1- do That. Pneumonia is infltmmation of the lungs. When the inflammation is on the lining of the chest it is pleurisy. says Dr. B. V. French in the Boston Journal. The two may be combined. Pneumonia is a danger- ous disease and requires prompt action. It is preceded by a chill, from which it some- times is diflicult to restore the natural heat. This chill is followed by a high fever. in which the heart beats rapidly. Chills may come from other causes than pneumonia, but unless sure of the cause and sure that it is not dangeronn, it is safe to suspect a coming pneumonia and to send at once for a physician. Un no ac- count attempt to manage the case without one. The disease is too serious to warrant such an attempt. Until he arrives do what you can to equalize the circulation and temperature. Keep in bed between wool- len blankets or sheets, increase the temper- ature oi the room, apply to the affected parts old soft cottonâ€"not linenâ€"â€" clothe wet in hot water, in which has been mixed one-half of a teaspoonful of mustard ‘ to a quart of water, and to this apply heat from tins or bottles of hot water or hot bricks; rubber water bags are best; apply heat in the same way to the feet. Do not increase the quantity of mustard. The object is to excite action in the skin, but to avoid an irritation that would hinder or destroy action. As these cool replace them at once by others. not allowing the tem- perature to reduce at all. On no account must the patient get out of bed. For medicine give aconite, four globules, every half hour; this is homoeipathic. When the perspiration returns and the patient’ can sleep. let him sleep ; contim 3 heat for atime. and when it is reduoeu let it be done with great care. If the patient needs food let it be of a plain,simple kind. Avoid cold drinks until the natural condition of the skin is restored. If asked what medi- cine should be given by those who prefer allopathy, we reply that we do not know. The question can better be answered by a physician of that school. 'l‘llE MINISTE B’s WIFE. Out-door Lite tor Women. A Drooplug Lillv. PNEIJJIONIA. The new bonnets are high in front and pinched in as closely at the sides as the formation of the head will allow. Gold appears upon nearly every one in some shape or other, but chiefly in that of tinsel crowns on gold wires. Bright poppy color is in great favor to: trimmings as well as for whole bonnets and hats. Asweet little bonnet 0t poppy-red crepe, arranged with narrow tucks all over the crown, is dotted with small straw bobs. A thick rushing of the red crepe surrounds the edge, and a. bunch of elderberries, set in their ewn leaves, terms the high trimming. Skirts are made very simply, either plaited in round plants or merely gathered on to a. band. The jockeb-bodioe is much worn, but by no means exclusively soâ€" that which comes down only a little below the waist) at the sides, being curved in over the hips and peaked in front and at the back, is also very tashionable ; and, on the other hand, many costumes are made with the backâ€"out princess fashion, while For ladies’ dressy toilets the fashionable mantle is the smell mantelet, bridling the shoulders and well curved in at the waist, of fancy stamped velvet. brooadsd or rib- bed silk, trimmed with lace and passemen- terie, bonded with Jet and pretty grelot fringe tipped with jet: bugles; for jet: is very fashionable this season. and is used for trimming not only black dresses and mantles, but: also colored ones. Colored beads are also in great vogue. and are com- bined with embroidery in silk and velvet applique. The straight bang is still worn by a few' but since the little cash girls in fancy stores have adopted this style, this fashion is on the wane. Fashionable hairdressers‘ stores are filled with different styles otorna- mental hair goods, all intended to save the [ ladies the trouble of arranging their own .hair. Never was additional hair so much worn as at present, although it does not appear so, as it is not fashionable to Wear bulky chignons. But the front eoiflures which oltenyover almost all the head are so artistically made that no one would suppose that they are merely conveniences, removable at will. A fashionable lady can thus appear as a blonde or a brunette, or with golden auburn locks,as it may please her fancy,as many do. Black is always much worn in Paris, in summer as well as winter; black lace toilets are extremely fashionable; the bodice and foundation skirt: are of lace tulle, and all the trimmings formed of lace flounoee. For little girls, the American style still prevails ; the loose plaited frock with sash about half way down the skirt. or the jacket opening in front to show a. full plastron and a. fully plaited and very short skirt. They generally wear the long paletot,while their elders, young girls in their teens, wear the short cloth jacket. Fancy printed or brocaded woollen ma.- terials of light: texture are very prettin arranged in combination with self-colored tissues of the same style. These arrange- ments 'are much less elaborate than they were last year. Thus, over a perfectly plain dress of self-colored material a wide scar! of brooaded tissue made of one entire width of the fabric is draped across the top of the skirt and brought up very high over the hips to the back. where it is tied into a. loose bow with long drooping loops and ends. There is a. iashion of wearing moonstones for bridal jewels. The moonstone is a lucky stone. Fine moonstones are somewhat rare and expensive. Those of fine quolity have a luminous beauty which is exquisitely soft. The Gladstonej soket is a stylish double- hressteé garment made with two rows of buttons in the from running down in V shape from the shoulders to the waist-line, then widening again. It is made of striped and checked cloths, and also of the tufted bourette cloth. It is usually without trimming, but it may have a border passing around the hips, made of loops of half- inoh braid placed lapping and lengthwise, separated by two straight rows of the braid. Jetted Zouave jackets, very short, and headed in small designs, are worn over waists of house dresses 0! black silk, satin or aurah. Rough straw sailor hate, with 9. large, many-looped bow of velvet ribbon in front, are furnished by English tailors to wear with summer woollen dresses. A new Tam o’ Shanta: cap fer tennis and for country wear is made of straw in lace- lake open design or in braiding patterns, and is mounted over a satin crown of suit- able color for the dress with which in is to be worn. Dividing the honors with Spanish lace, we find the Marquise. which is especially {sinker and coma in vazioue new and ahnraotive patterns. Linen collars and cuffs will be more generally worn this season than for many years. ‘ . - Shell pins, plain, are used altogether for arranging the loops of hair. Fancy shell pins, silver and Rhine stone ornaments in endless variety, are worn in the back hair. For evening wear, puffs of floWers and feathers; For young ladierknoba of flow- ing ribbons. . Theré are Spanish laces in all colors to match the silken fabrics now so populgr, and these will be used in great profusion. _ Black fans are appropriate with almost any costume or for any tune or place. A black silk remains the most useful and convenient of toilets. Fashion for Hair Dressing for 1885. (Agreed on by the Hair Dealers' Association.) The spring and summer fashions for ladies’ hair dressing will not change materi- ally from the styles which have prevailed during the winter ; the hair continues to be worn high, the bow knot on the crown of the head, with a few waves and short curls tapering toward the neck, being almost universal for ordinary wear. The front hair is worn very flufly in Pompadour shape, a perfect nest of short waves and ring curls ; many ladies use a small Pom- padour roll to heighten the front hair, and pin their front coiffures. These styles are worn by young ladies also, but there are many ladies, particularly those whose hair is turning gray, who do not think these curls are dignified, and who prefer to wear the hair parted in the centre, and waved in large waves at the sides, ‘f_Madonna style.” SOMETHING ABOUT GARDENS AND LAWNS‘ Fashionable Gossip for Young ~ and Old. THE HOUSEHOLD. Ep'rlug Fashion Notes: WHOLE N0 1,401 NO. 51. A Continental paper says that England‘s wars in remote regions at least promote the study of geography. Sixty-eight thousand miles of submarine cables are now in use. Never No Smart us the Boy. “ Yes,” said Jones. “I’ve travelled a.“ over the world. In fact. I may say I’ve seen, 9ve1jything." ” Met lots ot people. I suppose, that you’ve talked with ‘1’" said Smith. “ Yes, sir, couldn’t begin to count ’am." “ Lots of old people ‘2" “ Thousands." “ There’s one man you never met.” " Who is he ?" “ The old gray-headed father who is half as smart as his son." " No," replied Jones sadly, “ I never met him ; he doesn’t exist. I know how it is myself." “ And so do I," said Smith. And the two shook hands warmly and went up street together. Most American housewives would be in- terested in a Cuban kitchen and I suppoee dumbfounded at its primitiveness. I don’t think there is a. chimney in Havana, with the exception, 0! course, of factory chim- neys. The nearest approach is to be found in the large hotels, where a slight opening in the well of the kitchen permits the escape of smokeâ€"through a. tile perhaps. The “ stove” consists of a. series of basins about a. foot square. in which charcoal is burned. The ashes fell through the grating to the floor or into receptacles provided for the purpose. The fumes rise to poison the air, and escape as best they csn, except there be the small opening referred to. Pies and cakes are unknown practically. but everything else except the very largest roasts is cooked on these simple fires. If a pig is to be roasted whole or 9. number of large birds, they are placed in a tight stone or plaster oven, the air in which has pre- viously been heated to the roast point by means of blocks of wood, the embers of which are removed before baking. The heat will be retained long enough to accom- plish the bakingâ€"Letter in the Concord Monitor. I Some Advantages ol the South American Bleeping Arrangements. Beds are occupied night after night, year after year, by divers parties in sickness and in health. in summer’s heat and win- ter's cold, and as to when the bedding is remade and purified, each one can-judge by his own‘ experience, says a traveller in the Lancet. Compare this with the use of the South American hammock, which requires only a stout blanket inside, and in Winter a woollen sleeping dress as well of suitable make, 71. (2., drawers, socks and a loose jacket, _s.ll periodically washable. The san- itary diflerence becomes at once startling to those who have never considered the sub- ject before. The Suuth American ham- mock is made of the fibres of the young leaves of the ita palm, Muritia flexorus, so woven that it yields to every movement and projection of the body in every direc- tion, except lengthways, in which direction the weight of the body establishes its own support, the same as in chairs with the loose canvas backs. Hammocks are very easy to get into and out of, and one cannot fall out of them when asleep. They should be swung the same distance from the ground as the seat of a chair. They form an excellent seat. Sitting down, one draws the back of the hammock up as high as one may desire. The proper way to get mto a hammockâ€"~ tor there is a proper wayâ€"is first to sit down on it and then throw the legs up and the back down, wrapping yourself up in its soft, elastic and ample folds. The best way to lie is crossways. The position can be varied in three or four ways. The writer has passed several nights in such a hammock and blanket, exposed to the damps of a bouth American forest, and risen perhaps more refreshed than if he had slept in a bed. For bed-ridden people their use would be invaluable. Those who have been confined to a bed or water-bed for three or four months know how fatiguing and disgusting they become. In many cases in hospitals such hammocks would be real sanitary appliances. The hammock I have comes from the Essequiho Indians in British Guiana. I do not know why a similar mode of open weavingâ€"more like weaving without the knotâ€"o! some material having the mellow feeling of the rush used in rush-bottomed chairs could not be managed in this country. White Worms in Flower Petaâ€"Com- plaints are frequent about these. We know of two remedies, but both of which should be applied with care. The one is : A tablespoonful of wood ashes for a six-inch pot, spread over the surface, and then mixed up with the soil to a depth of half an inch. The little worms cannot stand the lye, While the potash proves stimulating to the plants. With a smaller or a larger pot, there must be a proportionate variation in the quantity of ashes used, for this is a point one cannot be too careful about. The other remedy calls for a slight sprinkling of red pepper over the surface of the soil. The next watering or two afterwards will carry its strength downwards, and the intruders Will succumb. Heavy Soil for Flowers.â€"â€"Beoause you may have none other. don’t think you can- not make it fit for flowers. A good dress- ing of sand, ooal ashes and manure. will assist is wonderfully in the way of plant development. Good drainage is also of first importance. These points attended, and you may have a strong and first-rate soil for all kinds of flowers. If it Will not: be quite as early as a sandy loam, on the other hand there will be less liability of suffering from drouth in the summer. Plant out winter flowering carnationa and violets; alight frosts will not hurt: these plants. while the gain that comes from their getting well established before hot weather is imp )rtant. There is no better remedy for greenfly on house plants than tobacco dust or snuff sprinkled on the insects. Evergreens can be safely planted several weeks later than deciduous trees. the front is finished into one or two small points. There is also the full bodice, either plaited in a. plastron or with the fronts gathered and crossed one over the other ; some are peeked and some have a round waistband, so that each lady may choose that which suits her figure. Flowers and lhe Lawn. Start the lawn-mower. Petunias thrive in hot places. Plant in clumps rather than in lines. Pond lilies may be grown from the seed. Salviae need plenty of pot room until planted out. .,_ HALVIMOUKS vs. nuns. Kllchcns in Cu lm . THE demand for gum cemphor has sud- denly greatly increased in the States. It is recommended by homoeopethio physicians as e. oholeremedicine, and is worn in little begs suspended over the chest. The camphor comes chiefly from J span. For- mosa. and Borneo furnish some. It is obteined by cutting up the cemphor plants, leaves and all, and distilling them. There is another kind found in the heart of an enormous tree which grows in the moun- tains of Borneo. The trees are cut down and split open, and the gum is picked from the centre. Sometimes lumps a yard long and three inches thick are found. but twenty pounds is a good quantity for the average tree. The Chinese have a great liking for this quality, and have been known to pay as high as $30 a. pound for it, though the difference between it and common cemphor is most imaginary. The crude cemphor has to be redistilled before it can be used- The holder of a Dominion liquor licenae am So. Thomas has been fined $20 and costs or selling without a. hcense. First, let your plot of ground, or such of it as you have set apart for your future roses. be trenched and manured by some man who knows how to do it. If your soil is a hungry oneâ€"gravelly or sandy, or mere brick rubbishâ€"dig into it as much silkyâ€" i e., adhesiveâ€"loam as you can get. Don’t spare it, and don‘t buy the stuff called loam in the neighborhood by the jobbiug gardener. If you can’t get silky loam,send for clayâ€"never mind how stiff it is and how much the mind of your gardener rebels against it;it is the natural food 0! the dog rose. and only wants the admixture of a little manure. 0! course, it you have a spare corner, and can heap up your clay there for a. month or two, and sprinkle it heavily with sand, and occasionally turn it over before digging it in, so much the bet- ter; it Will be rendered more permeable to the rootlets of your plants, and by exposure to air be richer in chemical salts and humus. Let all this be done now. It you can do it yourself, you will save money, and you will come in to breakfast with a good deal more color in your cheeks than you have seen for many a day. Now, it you have a friend who really grows good roses. ask him to step in and see if it is all done rightly, and what he would advise as to placing your roses. Avoid the drip of trees and sloping banks exposed to the south- west for your rose stations. Draughty corners, angles down into which dust and smoke have a wretched habit of descend- ing, are obviously bad; the more exposed to the open air and sun the better for your roses.â€"Amatcur Gardening. The Way '1th Do It In France. “ Ah, Monsieur, why do you look at me ? " “ Pardonnez me, Madamoiselle, but my eyes were very weary.” “ Weary, Monsieur ? " “ Oui, Madamoiselleâ€"a beautiful face always rests hhem.”â€"Pittsbwg Chronicle. The Baron von Stookmar, son of the late Baron von Stockmar, who was the moat intimate friend and ndvissr of the Prince Consort. and the Crown Princess’ rather, earnestly requested the Queen in a. letter to put all her influence in the scales against war, as he could not believe, by reason of circumstances well known to him, in Eng- land’s ability to achieve victory. He called to mind that the Prince Consort, in his political bequest, denoted Russia. as the greatest enemy of Europe. and especially of England. Baron von Stoekmar is para.- lyzed, and lives in Berlin. enjoying the friendship of the Crown Princess and of Queen Victoria, as did his father. It is well for England that feminine influence has been so successful. The Work of the l zm-inn, the Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess. A Dermstadt cable says: When the diplomatic history of the Afghan incident comes to be written it will be seen how muoh the part of peace Winners women have played. The fair and noble Women who played the most important part in bringing about a peaceful result were the Cmrins and her sister. the Princess of Wales, whom the Crown Princess of Ger- many has called the “ Goddess of Peace." The Crown Princess herself did not inter- !ero. Indeed, she is in the highest degree, being English born, dissatisfied with the present condition of things. It must not be understood, however, that this tender- hesrted princess wished war; but she regards the part that Gladstone has taken as bringing about the humiliation of his country. Ilisteu’d Witli yarflt‘fitzéufibkjv‘eégt ; Its tones caught my heart and enthrall'd it, And bound in in chains to her feet. ’Twas 01115! a. dream, fellow-workers. A rest from the world's round of strife, A respite from some of its troubles, A glimpse of another fair life. What was it ? â€"the dream of a. workerâ€" The echo, perchance, of a. prayer; A picture whose colors are fmleless, 011 whose hopes were too fair! What; was it ?â€"the dream of a. wnrkerm A picture whose tints were too bright A vision that cheer’d While it: lasted. Bun faded too soon into night I A dream of a face amnngat others, More sweet than the fairest: one there, With eyes like the stars in the heavens, And glittering gold waves of hair I A gi‘eam _9f :i Voice, to whose music Eyes right! Guide canfire i Forward march 1 Dress where the colon fly 1â€" Six feet: of ground, or triumph’s arch- My stout: old heart and I I On honor, tellrfiieifihatrfiéru JV“ ‘ You're daunted yet ‘?â€"“ To arms 1" beats he, " Retreat is for another I" My stout old heart an 11 1 11mm fought Some bitter fights to ending; And if or not we’ve victory got, We've not been hurt past mending! The wounds are 9.11 in front we've caught, And easier for the tending. My stout old heart and I, you see, We understand each otherâ€" Old comrade true, my hglnd to you I n» L ..... A“. W, , My stout old heart and I are friends, Two bivouac friends together ! Nor daily wars, nor daily blows, Have called out our White feather. We’ve ‘lieted till the campaign endaâ€" For calm or stormy weather. My slout old heart and I have been Through serious scenes of trouble. We've been denied ; ourhopee have died ; Our Ioad‘s been more than double. And yet we've lived. And we have seen Some griofs in Lethe bubble. PRINUESHEH 0F PEACE- Bones in a Small Garden. TheDreama 01 a Worker. My Stout 01d Heart and I. Put them back, Jenny, Put them away, They have been there This many aduy. I was to give them back \Vhen we next metâ€"- Fifty long years agoâ€" I have them yet. They were a. small gift, Trifling, I know; But they were given me Lung years ago. Down in the shadows Of the old yew He and I pin-ted ; There‘s where they grew. One would not guess That once they were blue, They are so fadedâ€" Ah, I am too! Changes have come. love, Since they were given; They are dead ; I am here; He is in heaven. Only some violets! Lay them uwnv In the old book again ; Dear, let men] stay. What is it. Jennv, Dropped from the book- Down on the carpet ? Ihero it; isâ€"look! In an old Book.