Phillips arose near the close of the exer- cises to address the Sunday Schoolchild- ren, when Miss Baxter, who sat quietly a few feet away, suddenly rushed forward and, drawing a. rawhide whip from beneath her cloak, beat Phillips unmercifully about the head and shoulders. One of the ï¬rst blows was across his nose and eyes, and he stumbled forward blinded. Miss Baxter hit more severely then. Two men held her back and her cousin, Miss Lulu Young, snatched the whip from her hand only to beat Phillips the more. Phillips wasled away by his friends. There was great ex- citement in thehsll. Women and children screamed and everybody stood up. The Christmas tree was nearly overturned in the excitement. Phillips, )who could not see because of the injury to his eyes, was led out to his room, where a. physician applied liniment to the cuts and 151mm- tions about his face and neck. Missx s Baxter and Young were surrounded by the young women and left the hall in their company. Mr. and Mrs. Grass Secures a Severance in Less Than Three Hours’ Time. A Chicago despatch says : When Detroit boasted of a divorce case where J. B. Book and his wife Alice were made two within 24 hours after ï¬ling the bill, society was aghast at the haste of the case; but a divorce case in Chicago, in which even quicker time was recorded, has been kept secret for several 'manths. Although the divorce was granted some time ago it was never given out. John 0. Grass, who had reached the age of 65 years, married a girl of 14 two or three years ago, but the union was inharmonious, and in a few months Mr. Grass was after a divorce. He retained ex-Judge Barnum, who ï¬led his bill one morning, had a quiet hearing before Judge Sheppard, at which the bride said she was just as anxious for a divorce as Mr. Grass was, and that afternoon Mr. Grass was a free man. The actual time taken for the ï¬ling of the bill and getting the decree is said to have been between two and three hours. A College Graduate Publicly “’hippcd by a Girl Whom he Trmluced. A Seneca. Falls, N. Y., despatch says: For over a month the young people of Lodi have prepared for a grand Christmas cele- bration in the public hall. Marvin Phillips, :1. young school teacher in the place, a recent Harvard graduate and the son of Rev. W. P. Phillips, of Poughkeepsie. was chosen to conduct the exercises. On Satur- day the young ladies of Lodi chose MISS Jennie Baxter, a prominent society young lady and daughter of the oldest physician in the place, to assist ..at the exercises. Bhillipsdeclined her assistance, and told several people she did not have a correct moral ‘character. Miss Baxter heard of his words, but kept silent. At the Christ- mas tree exercises last night Phillips was the sole conductor.. The hall was crowded andrthe scene was a merrypne. All Paris Present to See the Divine Sara’s Sun Marry the Princess. A Paris cable says : Mme. Bernhardt constantly contrives to be the centre of a sensation, and to-day the slender, graceful lady, elegantly dressed, attracted more attention in the Church of St. Honore than a crownea head would have done. The occasion was the marriage of her son Maurice to Princess Jablonowski. From an early hour crowds surrounded the church, and when Mme. Bernhardnappeared she was given a grand ovation. The small church was ï¬lled to the doors, and had it been as large as tte Place de la Concorde, the space would have been insufï¬cient, as all Paris desired to be present. The wedding cards were delicately cnâ€" graved on parchment. On one Her Highâ€" ness Princess Louise Jublonowski informs her friends of the marriage of her daughter Princess Zerka Jablonowski with M~ Maurice Bernhardt, and begs them to assist at the marriage ceremony in the 'Church of St. Honore d’Eylau on the 28th December. This reading is surmounted by a ducal coronet. On the other card are the arms of Mmo. Sam Bernhardt, the well- known mark of death crossed by a dagger and a. Jester’s bauble, the initials “ S. B.†and the famous motto “ Quand memo †and the same invitation. The envelope was of the same bis-parchment, and it was sealed with Mme. Bernhardt’s crest in red Wax. A man named Grieve died in the poor- houselut Glasgow. His friends agreed with an undertaker to bury him decently for £1 165. 6d, and £1 was handed over in part paymentâ€. The undertaker did not bury Grieve because the rest of the money had not been paid, and declined to return the £1 on the ground that it was due for the unused coï¬in and coach. The case was brought up in the Small Debts Court in ‘Glasgow and the Sheriff decided that the £1 must be returned. Latest from Scotland. A girl named Glen residing at Cotton Row, Irvine, drank vitriol in ' mistake for medicine and died in agony. The attempt to import Indian and Cey- lon tea. direct to Glasgow has proved very successfql. London, up till now, has had the entire monopoly of the tea trade. One day recently While Samuel Cowan, brakeman, aged 26 years, residing in Gles- gow, was working in the Steel Company of Scotland’s Works at Blochairn at a. weigh- .ing machine, one of the employees in a. joke ignited the {use of a. detonating cap and threw it on the ground. Cowan, hearing a cry of “ï¬re,†and not knowing that the matter was a. joke, picked up the cap, which exploded in his hand, blowing off a portion of several of the ï¬ngers of his right hand and cutting and scorching him about the eyes. Goat Island. Being Washed Away. A Buffalo despatch says : In his annual report Superintendent Welch, of the Nia~ gum reservation at the Falls, says : “ It has been found by examining the shores of Goat Island that the river has worn it away for a. distance of 1,800 feet, and as the island is composed largely of gravel and quicksand a plan has been formed for saving the rest of the island. This protec- tion consists of cribs ï¬lled with stone, the cost of which, exclusive of the stone, is estimated at $3.15 per running foot. The Three Sisters Islands are also found to be gradually wearing away. †An Amateur French Scholar. Two lads who were standing a few days ago beforea. store window, in which the ~sign “ Ici on parle Francaise †was dis- ‘played, were overheard trying to decipher the legend. Finally the younger of the boys, with an accent that would make ordinary hotel menu French seem classic, read the line over aloud and said. in a superior conclusive way: “I tell you, Billy, it’sakinaer French skatin’ parlor they keep in there.†Billy seemed entirely satisï¬ed. Heron Allen has just completed a. navel entitled “ Ashes of the Future.†We warrant they will be just as hard to siiu as the ashes of the present. A Valuable Communication. Assistant Editorâ€"Here is a letter from a. correspondent, who writesregarding a mat- ter of no earthly interest to anybody. He says: “While loath to encroach upon the very valuable space of your brilliant and Wigely influential journal â€"†:._ (11.1,: TAL :L "A :“ 17mm, WEdftor-in-ChiefLLet it go in.~â€"Fq~om Epoch. Judge to piqkpoeketâ€"Who are your accomplices ? “ Your Honor, you would not have me divulge a professional secret !‘ THE BERNHARDT \VEDDIJ. BLINDED BY A COWHIDING. CUT IN T‘VO. In walking over the battleï¬eld of Bodyke the other day, and seeing its results every- where in the form of breaches newly rc- built, roofs propped up and fragments of broken furmture, I entered one house which was known as “ the Castle," from the desperate defence it had made against the invading enemy. To my surprise I found among its inmates a stout young woman, with a comely, goodâ€"humored faco,who was dressed in a new gown of plain blue cloth. I inquired how she got it, and was told that she was the girl who had animated the garrison in the defence of her father’s house, and when it was breacth and taken by assault had only succumbed after u. hand-to-liand struggle with three crowbar men. She had undergone a month’s im- prisonment in jail, and on her liberation had received a donation of £5 and a silver medal, which she produced ' with as much pride as if it had been the Victoria Cross. For, strange to say, these hardened offend ers are not in the least penitent, and any allusion to hot water invariably produces a broad grin. I askrd this girl if it was true that she had thrown hot' water over the bailiffs. She replied, “ Shure, sir, I never threw a dhrop of water at all; it was the boiling meal.†The priest suggested that, as she was bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, it was a ï¬ne chance for some young fellow to marry her, as he would be safe of a quiet life for the ï¬rst nine months. She blushed up to the roots of her hair and disclaimcd any matri- monial thoughts. But the blush changed into a smile that lightened up her whole face when I suggested that, as she was a redoubtablc warrior, it would only be a prudent precaution for any young man to take. There were, perhaps, half a dozen other girls, with their new gowns and medals, and what impressed me was the utter imbecility of supposing thatthe popu- lation of two-thirds of Ireland could be converted or coerced by such proceedings. Why, there is hardly a girl in Ireland who is not envious of the fame of those heroines of Bodyke, and who would not be only too glad to imitate their example. Only last month I read the report of a case in which two little boys and a respectable young girl of 14 were tried before a resident magis- trate for the crime of intimidating a man who swore that he was not a bit intimi~ dated. The magistrate, who was evidently a kindly man, suggested that she should be discharged on giving security not to repeat the offence, so as to avoid what he called the stigma of having been sent to jail. But the little girl ï¬red up, and said she would give no promise not to “boo†at an Emer- gency man, and would go to jail rather; and to jail she accordingly went as a com- mon criminal for a fortnight. This illusâ€" trates not only the strength of the popular feeling, but also another thing which has greatly impressed me~the utter want of touch and sympathy of the justices and magistrates, which makes them blind to the most obvious facts going on before their eyes. Here was evidently a kindly man in the seat of justice, and yet he actually believed that being sent to prison in such a cause would afï¬x a stigma on the little girl for life, whereas it was perfectly obvious to any outsider that the danger was all the other wayâ€"that the girl’s head might be turned by being placed on a. pedestal of fame by her a'dmiring neigh- bors. I may recall an anecdote which made a great impression on me as illus- trating the want of sympathy between the governing classes and the people, which is one of the worst evils in the administration of law in Ireland. I was talking to a resi- dent magistrate who had been an ofï¬cer in the army, and was a perfect gentleman and rather popular than otherwise in his dis- trict, and I happened to let fall some ex‘ pressions which implied that I took him for an Irishman. He ï¬red up at once, and said, †Surely you don’t take me for Irish?†I replied, “ Why, I thought you were one of an old Irish family.†“No, sir,†he said ; “ I am English. My ancestors came over with Cromwell." I could not help think- ing how Scotchmen would feel if their 1 resident sheriffs were taken from a class who, after their ancestors had lived in 3 Scotland for more than two centuries, ‘ thought it an insult to be taken for Scotch. To return to the Homeric combat at Bodyke, it would not be complete without adding that our heroine was defending her father’s house, built with his own money, and for which he paid more than its value to the landlord in the form of excessive rent beyond any fair valuation for twenty years. The only difference I see between her and the “Maid of Saragossa †is that the one was ï¬ghting against a writ of evic- tion served on her native city by the King of Spain, Joseph Buonaparte, backed by a French army, and the other in defence of her father’s house against a. writ backed by British soldiers and policemen. If the poor girl acted wrongly, I suppose it was because she had been taught the command- ment, “ Thou shalt not steal,†as it reads in the Bible, and not with the additionâ€" “ except in the case of an Irish tenant whose improvements a landlord may con- ï¬scate, and it is a sin to resist him.â€â€" London Society. Scenes and Incidents in the Great Struggle Against Landlordism. A LONDON JOURNALIS'I‘S DISCOVERIES Sheâ€"I cannot marry you, George, bu’n I will always be a sister to you. Herâ€"Always ‘3 Sheâ€"Yes; always. Heâ€"You are very kinfl, but I’m afraid it wouldn’t do. The man you marry might object to it and make things disagreeable for both of us. I know I wouldn’t like to have my wife playing the role of sister to an old been of hers. Indeed I should decid- edly object to her having any brothers of that kind. You can be a. sort of second cousin to me or something like that, but a sister is out of the question; it is too risky, altogether too riskyâ€"ABosion Courier. AN IRISH MAID 0F SARAGOSSA. A little girl was teasing her mother for more indulgence, and was put off with “ Wait till to-morrow.†The following day she renewed her teas- ing, and was reminded that she had said the same thing yesterday. “ But, nmmma,†said the child, earnest- ly, “ this isn’t yesterday ; it’s to-morrow.†This reasoning was successful.~â€"Dviroit F700 Press. WMAWWWWLCMIW The wife of Jehn Bradford, of Wilmingâ€" ton, Del., left her bed While fast asleep, WMde from the chmnber into the hull and fell downstairs, breaking: her nose. and sus- taiuirg other swew injnrics. Shohad b91311 dreaming at the time of a similar accident which had occurred to an acquaintance, a lady, a year ago. VOL XXX Sisterhood Too Close. A Child's Logic. The strained relations that have existed between the Greenock School Board and some of their teachers culminated on the 5th inst. in a display of popular feeling against the majority of the Board, on the occasion of the formal opening of the new Highlanders’ Academy. Mr. Wilson, the head teacher, who has been superseded, marched to the school at the head of his scholars headed by three Highland pipers and a kettle-drummer, and followed by an immense crowd (about 8,000) of the public. An attempt to keep the processionista from entering the school building was frustrated, and the crowd literally took possession, the majority of the School Board and the new head teacher they had appointed locking themselves into a side room, which was further guarded by a body of police. Sub- sequently an indignation meeting was held in the playground, when resolutions were passed protesting against the action of the School Board in wantonly disregarding the popular wish in regard to the transference of the teachers. Professor Blackie and “The Dcil Ran Awa’ “‘i’ the Excisemanâ€â€"~Extra- ordinary Doings in Greenockâ€"l)euth of a Daughter of Dr. Chalmers. Lord Shand, one of the Judges of the Court of Session, has been seriously ill at his home in Edinburgh. At Dunbar,Haddingtonshire,the captain of a Lowestoft vessel has been sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment for hoisting a. boy to the mizzen-mastheud and leaving him hang there for an hour. Private D’Iulligan, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, who shot two of his comrades at Rangoon recentlyâ€"one of them being a. son of the lute Mr. James. Christie, Saltcoatsâ€" has been sentenced to death. A meeting of the subscribers to the memorial proposed to be erected to the memory of the late John Elder, of Fairï¬eld shipyard, Glasgow. was held at Govzm 0n the 5th inst, when it was agreed that the memorial should take the form of a. statue by Boehm to be placed in Elder Park. A newly placed country minister entered a bothy Where a number of ploughmcm were busily engaged at dinner, which con- sisted of brose. “ ‘Vlmt do you generally take for breakfast?†he inquired. “Brose,†was the ready reply. “ And for dinner ‘2†“ Brose, of course.†“ And for supper ‘2†“Brose.†“,And do you never tire of brose ?†he asked, kindly. “ Goverdick, boat the man,†exclaimed one of the ploughmen. “ Does he think we tire o’ 001' meat ‘2†The Earl of Galloway, it; is S.l.l(l, will probably; receive the K. T. vacant by Lord Dulhousie’s death. He is married to Lord Salisbury’s sister. There died at 75 Leamington term ce,EG in- burgh, on the 2nd inst, Helen, aged (31 years, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D., D.C.L. Three still sur- vwe. The directors of the Clydesdale Bank in Scotland have appointed Mr. David Wilson general manager of the bunk. Mr. Wilson has been assistant manager for the last seven years. The accounts in connection withlast year's International Exhibition at Edin- burgh show that there remains on hand a surplus of £5,564 over the expenditure, which amounted to £104,803. Mr. H. E. )rum Ewing, late Lordâ€" Lieutenant of the county of Dumburton, has left personal estate amounting to up- wards of £116,000. The new railway station at Gilmour street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, was opened for trafï¬c on the 5th instant. The cost is estimated at £100,000. Some Banffshire folk having recently objected to Burns’ song of “ The Deil Ran Awn’ wi’ the Exciseman,†the matter was brought under the notice of Professor Blackie, who then wrote to a gentleman there as follows: “ I am sorry you should have people in your neighborhood so desti- tute of the Scotch virtue of humor as to call Burns’ comic song about the Excise- man ‘ blasphemous.’ Such language tends to make religion ridiculous and Scotsman contemptiblo. As for persons in ‘ fashion- able society,’ who despise their native Scottish songs, and prefer to soak their stomachs with the sentimental syllabubs of the most recent London market, one can only pity them, and pray for their conver- sion to a. better mind. It is a sad fact that the upper classes, whom the crowd are fond to imitate, are often the most de- naturalized and (lenutionized part of the community; but men of sense should know that the real value of Scottish national song, acknowledged by all the greatest poets and musicians of Europe, cannot be permanently affected by the squeamish conceits of a. few provincial worshippers of the gilded idol called‘fashion.†His Pedestrian Tripsâ€"The Baronet's In- come and Views. The eleventh baronet of the house of Esmonde (who spoke in Hamilton the other day) is a great pedestrian, and when at home walks eight Irish miles daily for his mail. He and Mr. O’Connor while in Buf- falo refused utterly to have anything to do with hackmen. Sir Thomas represents Dublin county, and formerly received as high as £50,000 in rents. This year they have been so out that he does not expect his income to exceed half that amount. He supports his two younger brothers, both of whom are now in school, and gets along nicely with his people, taking such amounts of rent as he can get, Without turning the screws. He and Parnell are the only heavy land-owners of the Irish party, and it was considered a great victory when Sir Thomas chose his stand with the people. He says he believes that men should stand and fall with the people among whom they live at * any sacriï¬ce. If he had lived in the south he thinks he should have been a rebel in 1861, and if in the north he would have taken his musket in the ranks with the boys in blue. His mother was the great granddaughter of Thomas Grattan, the tribune of the College Green Parliament. He says that the Irish party demands the return of the same Parliament, wrested from the people by force and bribery, and that if there are any improvements to be \ made they can be considered a[terwards.â€" I Buffalo Courier. August Sllielzis, of Hunt county, Texas, is seven feet ten inches tall and is still growing as we go to press. He comes from a. high bred family, having six brothers, two of whom are taller than August. There are about a mile of the boys, considered from a linear point of vie.,w.#Fargo Argus- Leader. Lady Granville Gordon, of London, is the only titled milliner of the metropolis. LATEST SCOTTISH NE‘VS. SIR THORIAS ESBIONDE. RICHI‘IOND HILL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12.,- 1888. Boys to look Up To. m '1‘; mem‘ What Causes Them and the Only Way to Prevent Their Recurrence. Probably one of the most common head- aches. if not the most common, is that called nervous. The class of people who are most subject to it are certainly not your out-door workers. If ever my old friend and gardener had had a. headache, it would have been one of this description. Nor does Darby, the ploughman‘, nor Jarvoy, the ’busman, nor Greatfoot, the granger, suffer from nervous headache, nor any one else Who leads an outdoor life, or who takes plenty of exercise in the open air. But poor Mattie, who slaves away her days in a stuffy draper’s shop, and Jeannie in her lonesome attic, bending over her white seamâ€"stitch, stitch, stitchâ€"till far into the night, and thousands of others of the indoor working class, are martyrs to this form oi headache. Are they alone in their misery ? No; for my Lady, onhnmme, who comes to have her ball dr s ï¬tted on, has often a fellow-feeling with.‘Jeannie and Mattie. Her, however, we cannot afford to pity so much, because she hasgthe power to change her modus vivendi whenever she chooses. a A partial settlement of Ryan & Haney’e claims in connection with the Red River Valley Road has been effected, Haney receiving a. cheque from the Government for $89,226 and immediately purchasing therewith Provincial bonds to the amount of $89,200. 1 H. ,g UL magnum ‘ 1‘ ;7 Although thu one-mun-oï¬eâ€"vote prili‘ciple was passed last session it is claimed that it cannot come into effect till new voters’ lists are prepared. The Government, fearing the outside votes would defeat their candi- dates in Assiniboia. and St. Francois Xavier, are preparing new lists for those constituencies. Hough 65 Campbell have been appointed city solicitors to succeed Solicitor D. Glass. The sale of school lands throughout the Province, to commence January 10th, is already being, advertised. Sales take place at Manitou, Winnipeg and Minnedosn. Mrs. McBean, of ‘Vinnipeg, is one of the nearest heirs to the immense XVeber estate, which comprises sixty acres in the heart of New York city, and which has been in litigation for the past fourteen years. Weakness or debility of body, however produced. This can only be remedied by proper nutriment. Nervousness, however induced. The excitement inseparable from fashion- able lif‘e. A party to go to the Yukon next spring is being organized at Edmonton. The idea is to go down the Athabasca. and Mackenzie and up either the Lizard or the Peel River to reach the waters of the Yukon. It was 40 below zero this morning. The Bishop of Rupert’s Land has appointed Rev. 0. Fortin, rector of Holy Trinity Church, to the Archdeaconry of Winnipeg. What are the symptoms '0! this oom- plaint that makes your head Mime so? You will almost know it is coming, tom a dull, perhaps sleepy feeling. You have no heart and little hope, and you are restless at night. Still more restless, though, when it comes on in full force, and them for nights, perhaps, however much you may Wish to, scarcely can you sleep at all. " How my poor head does ache l†This you will say often enough ; sadly to your- self, and hopelessly to those near you, from whom you expect no sympathy and get none. And yet the pain is bad to bear, although in is generally conï¬ned toonly one part) of the head. ’1 he worst of this form of headache hes in the fact that it is periodic. Well, as it arises from unnatural habits of life or pecu- liarities of constitution, this periodicity i no more than we might expect. ‘ Oveeron indoors. -i . Overstudy. Neglect of the ordinary rules that con- duce to health. “font of fresh air in bed-rooms. Want of abundant skin-exciting exercise. Neglect of the bath. Over-indulgence in food, especially of a stimulating character. ixciting passion, anger and jealousy in particular.-Cassell’s Magazine. A sectionman named Nelson was stabbed in three places last night at Cassil’s Station by_a. Hungarian. It is~r1ilmored that the new Government of Manitoba. will ask the Legislature for p0_\\:er _to _exprop?iate Dominion lands; Manitoba grain men propose sendingn strong deputation to Toronto to uphold the new grain standard in the event of a. meeting of the Dominion Grain Board being held before the new standard comes into force. The municipalities and towns along the line of the Manitoba 85 Northwestern Rail- way have appointed a. number of resi dents to visit; points in Ontario with the View of assisting immigration to Manitoba. Senator Schultz has been appointed to succeed 1\Ir.Aikins as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, on the expiration of the Iatter’s term next May, and Mr. Royal, M‘ P. for Provencher, will succeed Mr. Dewdney as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories. Mr. Richard Hardisty, Hudson’s Bay factor at Edmonton, will be appointed to one of the two Northwest Senatorships. The New Westminster British Columbian has the following : Mr. E. Greyell, one of Chilliwhack’s most enterprising and wealthy farmers, called at this ofï¬ce and laid a package of prunes, grown by him, on our table. It is only a few days since the Columbian called the attention of fruit- growers in this Province to the fact that prunes could be successfully grown along the coast, and now the assertion has been practically demonstrated. The prunes grown by Mr. Greyell are of the Russian variety ; they are large, Well formed, fully ripened and equal in flavor to any cooking prunes on the market. The tree which bore them is eight years old, and stands the climate fully as well as the plum tree. A frost which occurred in the earlier part of the season damaged the plums on the neighboring trees, but did not injure the prunes in the least. Mr. Greyell is making l arrangements to plant ï¬ve acres of prunes l next spring. An Irish paper mentions the general dimensions of the uninentionubles that were smuggled to William O’Brien to Show that a suspected friend of O’Brien’s couldn’t have been the man who wore them in, as he couldn’t possibly inhabit them. The Association of Grand Works of Panama has nmde {L contract with n busi- ness house of Haiphong for the supply ,of 1,200 conlies, who wille put to work on the Panama Canul. They are to receive $20 a, month and free board and lodging. The Prune in British Colulnbia. THE ,COMI‘ION HEADACHE. The Canadian Northwest. Lord Luiisdowne, while skating near Rideau Hall the other day, fell, inflicting painful injuries to his head. One eye was also unfortunately blackened. It is Said to be Capable of Performing a Great Many Remarkable Things. Planters in tropical clinics are recom- mended to cultivate the kola tree, the nut of which seems to possess some marvellous qualities. 1f the prophecies regarding the beneï¬cent services of certain preparations of it are realized an unspeakable boon will be conferred on millions of the human race. For many years it has been extensively used as an excellent beverage. and sacred symbol in the interior of Africa, but now its properties have ’every reason to be far more entensively utilized. There is no doubt from what is already known that it has the extraordinary property of counter- acting the influence of alcohol, of giving a stimulant in wasting diseases, of acting as apowcrful tonic in cases of deep-seated injuries on the digestive. organs. of purify- ing foul water, of overcoming the sense of fatigue, and of exciting to arduous work with the least injury to gthe frame. It appears that kola nuts were originally found in the western territories of Africa, and that soldiers stationed along the ceast were the ï¬rst white men who became aware of their peculiar property. They found, for instance, that the chewing of these nuts prevented a drunken headache. Not only so, but some who have used the nut paste as a “pickâ€"me-up†assert that, while removing the nausea, it gives them quite a “ skunner †at the smell of whiskey and removes the irritating desire for a “morning†to keep the stomach hearty. If the paste be mixed with coCoa paste, which it resembles closely, it producesa much ï¬ner and more nutritive chocolate. It has been shown by repeated experiments that the nerve energy produced by par- taking of the chocolate made with kola paste is ten times greater than that pro- duch by an equal quantity of ordinary cocoa chocolate. So nutritious is this kola that with a single cup of it a laborer can undergo a day‘s work without any sense of weariness. Though it may‘not directly feed the muscular system, it has the property of preventing the rapid waste of the tissues. So much have the manufac- turers of chocolate, .both in this country and abroad, become alive to the excellent properties of the new paste that they are making arrangements to procure it for mixing purposes as soon as its price be- comes reasonable. The British Govern- ment, too, has gone the length of making experiments upon the paste in a pure state, so as to ascertain the saving which would be made in the transit of provisions in time of war by giving this beverage to the army. It is of great service for purifying the foul water which is so prevalent in hot climates; this will be the preventive of many diseases, especially to Europeans. It has also been found very useful in clarifying beer and spirits, acting much like the white of an egg or isinglassâ€"Scotsnmn. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain arrived in To- ronto from Ottawa. last, night, and is the guest of Sir David Macpherson at Chestnut Park. A number of the employees in the To- ronto Custom House have been granted increases of salaries, and two have retired on account of ill-health, receiving the usual gratuities. The Government has commissioned Mr. Simeon Jones, ex-M.P., of St. John, N. B., to visit South America. and the West Indies with a View to working up closer trade rela- tions with Canada. The dispute between the Canadian Paci- ï¬c and Grand Trunk Railways over the former’s eastern entrance to Toronto has been decided by the Railway Committee of the Privy Council in favor of the Canadian Paciï¬c. The ï¬fteenth annualmeeting of the Com- mercial Travellers’ Association of Canada. was held in Toronto yesterday. when ofï¬cers were elected for the ensuing year. A by-law to exempt transportation com- panies from liability for baggage was de- foated. Certain statements seriously reflecting upon the Toronto City Auditors, regal-fling grave irregularities in the Waterworks De- partment, were made by the Chairman of the Executive Committee yesterday, unfl a special committee is investigating the matter. V ‘7‘ Yes, I'suppose so,†5913 the travelling man to whom these remarks were addressed. †No, sir,†said a; pompous little mer- chant, "' Ican’t be trifled with. I know the world ; I’ve been through _it.â€â€˜ 711-713};th self-made man; entirely self- made. What do you think qf_ t_h_a.t, Hi} ‘2†“ It strikes me hat you might have done a good deal better to let out the contract.7 Wife (at breakfast)â€"You came in very late last night, John.†Husbnnal (Who plays p0ker)â€"â€"Yes, I was er-er at the‘ ofï¬ce. Wife (anxiously)â€"Ren11y, John, I’m afraid to have you work so hard. You are over-taxing your strength. Can you let me have twenty dollars this morning? “ Why, how is this, Mr. Beat? I hear you’ve got the nerve to go around telling people that you’re doing a. better business that you ever did before; and yet you know you haven’t paid me a. cent of rent in the past six months.†1 . .. u “ Well, I think that’s doing pretty Well. You’re the ï¬rst man I‘ve struck who’d let me get into him more than three weeks. That’s the reason I’m making such a long stay with you.â€â€"Puck. Mother (to Bobby, who is slightly under the weather)â€"Papa will be sorry to hear that his litgle boy is s_i(3k1 B_0bby.m Bobbyâ€"Do you think he will give me anything, nmâ€"a. penny, perhaps? Motherâ€"I shouldn’t be surprised. Bobbyâ€"Then -I hope I won’t get well un- til he cémes home Knew His Verse. “I know my verse,†said a small Sun- day school scholar to his teacher one Sab- bath when it came to his turn to recite a. verse from the Bible. “ It; is a. bully one too ; I was so afraid some Oihel‘ felle would say it bt-foru me.†“ Let us hear it, then, James.†At the top of his voice the little boy shouted ; “ Meany, meany, tickel up his shin.†(Mane, mane, tclccl, 11pharsin.)â€"â€"Bazar. HusBrindâ€"Certainly, my dear THE ‘VONDEKFUL KOLA NUT. Might Have Done Better. Work ing Ilim Nicely. A Youthful Financier. Fresh News Notes. Rewarded . WIIOIJL" N0 1,535 NO.‘ 28. M Teefy Back to CovcntGurden, where no misery is to be seen. No sleepers here, but men standing shivering under archesâ€"a mother yonder munching some garbage picked from the refuse of the street. Hunger in WLWâ€"Wofhondon 1 But In every doorway of the side streets of the thoroughfare single misery has taken refuge. Misery in company is here in Trafalgar sQuare. A curious sight, indeed, the “ ï¬nest sight,†as I then saw it. It was all dark, with acouchant mob of home- 'less vngnbonds taking their rest on the stone. Not all in rags there, much black coated misery was here. Such was he who presently tells me he was a. city clerk, and who, to judge from his tongue and manner, may indeed have once done clerkly work. His pillow is a. Daily Telegraph. This paper bedding affords a curious study. Most have such furniture to their resting place, and as I walk round I take notice what papers are most in use. rI‘he Echo pillows most of those who are in rags. Black- eonted misery takes its bed-ï¬ttings from the Conservative press. One is a starving and homeless outcast, but one respects the institutions of one’s country. Four hun- dred sleepers, men and women promiscu- ously side by side, I count in the shadows of the ï¬nest hotels in the world. High up on his column stands over all one who spoke once of England and her expec- tation. That 400 men and women and their children should thus be fl ung on the ptvementâ€"starving, abandoned in the very heart and centre of the luxury of tho worldâ€"who has frlilell in his duty ? For off gleums the light high up that tells us that the people of England are even now being cared for. Her Majesty’s Commons are at work, and provision is being made for the commonwealth. It is a sorry bea- con, seen from it sorry sea. one lives bmm‘bâ€"YWB'S’W antithesis. "’ A penny, sir, for a pup of coffee. It’s terribly cold.†How often do I hear those words as I pass a. now open coffee house, ï¬lled with prosperous market- men. “ Cam one get soup anywhere here?†“ No, sirâ€"coffee, cocoa and ginger beer. 1 “ Are there no soup kitchens open now ? j “ They don’t have none, save in winter.†It is true one is hungry in the winter only ; the other nine months one is not, or should not be. In Paris one can always and at any hour buy for a penny a. good bowl of soup, nourishing and com- forting. Often at the Halles, where chiefly the soup merchants ply their trades, have I thus breakfasted. It is inï¬nitely better than coffee, tea. or cocoa, and it is a. matter of wonder that the minor industries of London do not number soup stalls. In Paris these pay very well, and are greatly appreciated by the customers for whom they enter. Some of the Hundreds who Spend Their Nights in London’s Streets. \Vhen they told me at the railway sto- tion the lust train to the suburb Where I lived had gone, I determined, mindful of the pleasures of night wandering in Paris, to seek shelter in no hotel, but to see what sights the streets of the sleeping city might afford. It lay in the gutter of that narrow street there, where any passing cub or yon- der fruit-laden dray might, without blame to the driver, have crushed its life out. It was a little child, so light in my hand as I picked it up that for a. moment I wondered whether indeed it was a. living thing. Had it learned at so early an age to suffer and be still? 7 It seemed so, for it made no cry. Not an abandoned belie, moreover ; for there, coiled up asleep in a doorway, lay its mother. The child liml (iroppml from her relaxing arms and had rolled into the ken- ncl. 1n the Strand now, vacant of all trafï¬c, save of the walking lepers of tho street, insolent grown since a piqued police curtails not their so repulsive aggressions. “ Our new instructions bid us leave them alone,†said a constable to me ; “ and very glad we are to be relieved of the trouble of ohivying them about.†There is that clan- ger in applying the rebuke of Talleyrandâ€" 'that‘he to whom you forbid over-zeal will sink into inaction. As the day dawns I am back in Trafalgar square. where the silent reveille of a. cold wind has waked the sleepers. Some are sitting staring at the world ; others are occupied over their sad toilets ; a. woman there with a. needle and thread; and a man here with a. tooth brush and the water of the fountainmit is my ex-oity clerk. To what another day are these arising ? As I stand on Westminster bridge the thought of that line comes to me which speaks of the lying still of all this mighty heart. Lie still, the werme bedded and the well fed. As for the others ? Well, for them Still there elin gs The old question : Will not God do right ? THE DIINOR DIISERY OF LONDON. As I was ascending the bridge steps to take a train for New York the other after- noon, I noticed just ahead of me a woman leading a little boy by the hand. The boy, who appeared to be about 4 years old, was trying to hold back and crying bitterly. “ I don’t want to go on the bridge,†he yelled, while he tugged away to get back to the street. It was with great difï¬culty that the woman got him on the train. When she sat down he climbed into her lap, and throwing his arms around her neok,moaned and cried most piteously. “ I don’t want to go on the bridge,†he kept repeating all the way over. I asked the mother why the boy was afraid to go on the bridge, and she replied that there was only one way to account for it. “The boy,†she said, “ was born a few menths after the great accident on the bridge just after the opening in 1883. My husband was killed in the crush that day. I was with him but by some miracle I escaped. Very early in life my son evinced great fear of the bridge, and always cried when crossing it. I generally use the ferry, as I hate to make a scene, but I am in a hurry today and so came over this way. I hope he will recover from this fear as he grows older, but I am beginning to think otherwise. He has no idea how his father died, and no one has ever spoken of the bridge accident in his hearing.â€â€" ‘ Rambler †in Brooklyn Eagle. “ Say, Bigsby, do you know how to get rid of a. bore ‘2†“ No. I regret to say that I don’t. If I knew a. good plan I would utilizeitimmedi- ately.†Timely Warning. Persons intending to make New Year’s calls will register their names at the Bureau of Police. This is to secure proper attention in case of accident or intoxica- tionâ€"Philadelphia Times. Husbandâ€"My dea’r, do you think that I am conceited about my personal appear- ance? Wifeâ€"Well, yes, John, a. little. Most homely men are, you know. The Boy and the Big Bridge. He Didn’t Know. ~â€"Pall Mall Gazette t-o satin forï¬Ã©â€˜i/énmg wear. enflf :5 no nothing is so handsome, but its vulgariza- tion a. year or two since by cheap qualities made it: fall into disfavor. ‘ ‘ The dancing-gown grows shorter, rather than longer, as the season advances, and there is more and more a tendency to make it full and undraped in the skirt, low or V-shaped in the neck and sleeveless. De- butantes, however, and brides wear their gowns high, or half-high in the neck, with half or three-quarter length sleeves, and debutantes, like brides, wear white, cream and ivoryâ€"tinted fabrics. White and gold is the popular combina- tion for evening wee-r. White tullea have their crisp voluminousness held in place by thiek gold braid that comes made up in patterns. White satins and silks ere em. broidered in gold upon the material and some charming London gowns 'of silky white cashmere are richly edged above their hemmed borders with deep gold thread embroideries in embesquu designs. One handsome opera cloak is of a heavy white cloth broeeded with gold leaves. The bor- der is of white curled Persian lamb, and it is lined with yellow silk. One of the most charming of these White and gold gowns hes a foundation slip of golden yellow feille Franceise, and over it is draped many yards of white Indian tissue. Very many of th newest tailor gowns show two colors of the some cloth, the darker. strange to say, forming the acces- soriesâ€"collar, cuffs and so onâ€"and the brighter the body of the gown. Pinde edges are becoming very popular on tailor gowns of heavy cloth. . There is mi ever-growing tendency to have everything to match in eVening dresses. Gloves are shown in every possi- ble tint, and of late in all the shoe shop windows‘ have appeared satin shoes of varied colors. Women of a pronounced typo have for a. long time hadu leaning toward scarlet satin shoes, but now they are quite universally worn with the poppy red tulle dresses that are so frequently seen this season, Beside these are Louis XV. slippers in pale blue, pink, bronze, copper, green and yellow satin, and silk stockings come to match them in every shade. The feather or gauze fen repeats the colors of the dress, shoes and gloves. “ for the fact is well-established that American women have lost the reproach of scrawniness. Go where you will, at least among the leisure classes, and you will ï¬nd the large proportion of women broad shouldered, well-developed and agenerous overflow of ï¬gure. And we areworth [con- sidering. There is a fortune in avoirdupois for whoever is far enough sighted to per- ceive it. Send out the prospectus ‘ A. La Jolie Embonpointe ’ or the ‘Fat VVoman’s Journal’ and see how quickly we will rally to its support from every part of the land.†â€"Ncw York Sun. . _ i » Cost of a “ Coming Out†Dress.‘ Next to the bridal dress of a young girl, her “ coming out †costume is the crucial test of task and income. Miss Morris’ “ sweet simplicity†of costume was . example. The foundation was a low- necked, no sleeved-slip of what one would call rose white. If yellow igiite. 'lgeiiyory, or cream, then pinkish white is rose white. The material was corded silk, heavy and lustrous. .About the walking-length skirt was a box-plaited row of Valenciennes four inches deep at $5 a. yard. In each plait of the lace hung pendant an artiï¬cial hali- blown blush rose. Up one sidelike a panel went row , after row of lace and buds. Draped over the silk was a mass of ethereal silk gauze, with satin stripes in .pure white. Opposite the panel, on the right side, was a big pocket arrangement made of satin folds interlaced like basket work, and springing out of the top was a splendid cluster of blush roses, ha’lfâ€" blown and buds. The girlish chest of the debutant admitted of the upper half the oorsage being made of overlapping rows of Valenciennes and. intermingling buds, and a hip-corset of satin, laced behind, showing the slender waist. There were certainly ï¬fty yards of lace on the dress, and 500 roses. The material that formed the over- dress was $100 for ï¬ve yards, the slip cost $50, the roses and the making were $100, and so the simple rosebud dress eta miss in her teens, without any jewellery or dis- play, cost $500.~Fr0m Clam Belle’s New York Letter. Gloves with evening gowns are‘ not Worn much above the elbow, and they are not as heavily wrinkled, but aned up. plain and smooth if the arm is plump enough to admit of it. New and lustrous French failles are imported, striped or plaided, with fancy velours or plain velvet. These materials come in exquisite evening shades of Nile green, cameo, pale golden, terra cotta‘, apricot, baby blue and the rosy lilac that does not grow gray and dull by candle- light. There are others in deep, rich tones for dinner and carriage gowns in golden bronze, fawn color, shot with russet brown; olive, venetian green, “winter- sky†and heliotrope. Another novelty is an India silk broche, with pompadour designs in pale shaded velvet upon its rich surface, the patterns being borrowed from ancient Gobelin tapestries and iron-1 Oriental designs. The Latest Princess. The Musical Herald furnishes a poem in honor of the recently arrived member of a royal family, the Princess of Battenberg. The last stanza. is especially pathetic and realistic: ’ “ There is a fortune for anyhpdyï¬w‘ho will start a ‘ Fat Woman’s Journ‘a‘i,‘ †said a. woman who weighed more, than200 pounds, “ or if you want to be; more euphemistic and euphonious, a'ifaehio‘n magazine, and ehristenit “A la. Jolie Em- bonpointe.’_ .In this there -“shouldn’t be a. fashion oru. fashion plate thithdidriljlï¬t pertain to a. woman weighing‘ at least ‘ 175 pOundsrand upward, as they say,in the cheap stores. At present you can’t ï¬nd a. fashion plate that acesnot represent a. slender, long-waisted woman. For_ this sylph 'everything is designea=â€"gowns, wraps, bonnets. It is impossible to ï¬nd anything intended 'for large women. Ap- parently nobody gives us any consideration, and we clothe ourselves, as it were,.,by faith. It is absurd,†continued the may, A Hoary Old Time Server. “Ma,†said Bobby, after a. thoughtful silence, “do you know that I don’t believe Santa Claus is really as good as he is cracked up to be?†"TVWhnyobby, what makes you think that?†Managing mammal to eligible bachelorâ€"- “ Your parlors are beautiful, Mr. Balsaam, but your domestic melange, yourâ€"yourâ€" my dear, sir, who clams your stockings ‘2†Old bachelor (emphatically)â€"â€"“ I do.â€â€" Boston Globe. 7; Because he gives his nicest presents to little boys and girls that have rich pas.†A young man named Swank, of Beaver Falls, 1%., a. student; at Geneva College, ran at full speed against a. clothes-line while chusinga goat out of a. yard. Theline caught him just under the nose, tearing out his upper teeth and splitting the mouth from ear to ear. “fag: rigor/4w ,Thm'e THE LADIES! COLUMN. ~ She has a. dimple on each cheek, And one below the chin. At balmy eve she go: 3 to bed; The nurse than tucks her in. H01" little nose is some times pink, Occasionally blue ; And who shall paint her tootsicums ? Oh, bless the baby new l A Fat Woman’s Complaint. The Retort Courteous. Fashion Notes. return